Republican voting laws are unfair. Democrats need to explain how.

Skylar Baker-Jordan
5 min readJul 14, 2021
Joe Biden speaking to a crowd in Iowa in 2019. Photo: Gage Skidmore (used under a creative commons license)

“We’re facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War,” President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday, speaking at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Republican officials, who have enacted a spate of voter suppression laws in dozens of states, are “not only targeting people of color, they’re targeting voters of all races and backgrounds” who did…

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Skylar Baker-Jordan

Skylar Baker-Jordan has been writing about UK and US politics and culture for more than a decade. His work has appeared at The Independent, Salon, and elsewhere