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The Supreme Court’s Gutting of the Voting Rights Act is Mobilizing Black Voters. Look at Alabama.

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The Supreme Court’s Gutting of the Voting Rights Act is Mobilizing Black Voters. Look at Alabama.
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Twelve days before the midterm elections, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and former Montana Senator Jon Tester traveled down to Alabama to campaign in one of the country’s most unexpected battleground districts. They trekked to Dothan, Alabama, the “peanut capital of the world,” which sits in Houston County, where Donald Trump won 73 percent of the vote in 2024. It’s now part of the state’s second congressional district, which Republicans redrew to oust first-term Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures

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