As the COVID-19 pandemic began to wreak havoc in the United States, Republicans and other bad actors were busy on social media promoting bogus conspiracy theories about Black immunity that dangerously infiltrated communities of color, NBC News reports. Meanwhile, the Black community was being ravaged by COVID-19 and we now know it is among the most […]

Republican attacks on ACA take center stage during COVID-19 While millions of Americans face the impacts of COVID-19 — some uninsured or underinsured — and nearly 30 million Americans find themselves unemployed, Washington Republicans continue their never-ending assault on Americans’ health care. Here is what the AP reported over the weekend: COVID-19 could have stamped a […]

Friday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, and South Carolina Democratic Party filed suit in a U.S. Federal Court in Columbia, South Carolina seeking to remove four restrictive and unconstitutional barriers to accessing an absentee mail-in ballot. The federal suit filed today follows a South Carolina Supreme Court lawsuit Democrats filed in April. […]

Today, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Nevada State Democratic Party, and Priorities USA filed suit in the Eighth Judicial District Court of Clark County seeking to expand voting access for Nevada’s primary on June 9. The suit is also being brought on behalf of several Nevadans whose right to vote is being infringed under […]

Yesterday, Governors from twelve states across the nation urged the Department of Health and Human Services to open a special Affordable Care Act enrollment period in the face of a global pandemic that is leaving millions of Americans uninsured and under-insured.  In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema […]

Today, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) will launch a historic, exclusive column series in ESSENCE Magazine to feature Black women members of Congress and Black women candidates for Congress in the influential magazine’s “In Her We Trust” column series. Rep. Karen Bass (CA-37), Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, kicked-off the series touting the legislative accomplishments of her caucus, the importance of a complete Census Count and the role […]

As Republicans across the country double down on their voter suppression crusade, the Washington Informer is reporting on the DCCC and DSCC’s eight-figure investment in protecting voting rights and the DCCC’s multi-million dollar field effort to place organizers in battleground regions across the country. The Washington Informer:  “Bustos notes that when it comes to the litigation, winning ballot […]

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, and Kansas Democratic Party today challenged Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab in court over his refusal to implement Kansas’s new election law, passed in 2019 with bipartisan support, that improves access to the ballot for Kansans. The law allows counties to let […]