• Home
  • Opinion
  • Quizzes
  • Redistricting
  • Sections
  • About Us
  • Voting
  • Independent Voter News
  • Campaign Finance
  • Civic Ed
  • Directory
  • Election Dissection
  • Events
  • Fact Check
  • Glossary
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Subscriptions
  • Log in
Leveraging Our Differences
  • news & opinion
    • Big Picture
      • Civic Ed
      • Ethics
      • Leadership
      • Leveraging big ideas
      • Media
    • Business & Democracy
      • Corporate Responsibility
      • Impact Investment
      • Innovation & Incubation
      • Small Businesses
      • Stakeholder Capitalism
    • Elections
      • Campaign Finance
      • Independent Voter News
      • Redistricting
      • Voting
    • Government
      • Balance of Power
      • Budgeting
      • Congress
      • Judicial
      • Local
      • State
      • White House
    • Justice
      • Accountability
      • Anti-corruption
      • Budget equity
    • Columns
      • Beyond Right and Left
      • Civic Soul
      • Congress at a Crossroads
      • Cross-Partisan Visions
      • Democracy Pie
      • Our Freedom
  • Pop Culture
      • American Heroes
      • Ask Joe
      • Celebrity News
      • Comedy
      • Dance, Theatre & Film
      • Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
      • Faithful & Mindful Living
      • Music, Poetry & Arts
      • Sports
      • Technology
      • Your Take
      • American Heroes
      • Ask Joe
      • Celebrity News
      • Comedy
      • Dance, Theatre & Film
      • Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
      • Faithful & Mindful Living
      • Music, Poetry & Arts
      • Sports
      • Technology
      • Your Take
  • events
  • About
      • Mission
      • Advisory Board
      • Staff
      • Contact Us
Sign Up
  1. Home>
  2. Newsletter>

In this issue: the fight over voting rights in Georgia, engaging with Congress, a packed Supreme Court and the meaning of Christmas

The Fulcrum
December 16, 2021



TOP STORY

Georgia is ground zero for the fight over voting in 2022, and women of color are on the front lines

Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th

Originally published by The 19th.

Bee Nguyen said she watched with alarm as the lies began trickling in about alleged widespread voter fraud in Georgia after the 2020 election. What the Democratic state representative heard behind closed doors from Republican lawmakers, she said, was different from what they said publicly.

They sowed doubt, she said, even as they privately “admitted that they didn’t believe the election was stolen, but went along with everything that was being facilitated in Georgia and across the country.”

Nguyen challenged those false assertions, including at a highly publicized legislative meeting late last year about election results. One day after polls closed on a pair of close U.S. Senate races in Georgia that gave Democrats control of the chamber, the January 6 insurrection became a physical manifestation of the flawed fears of a rigged election. Soon, Georgia’s Republican-led legislature was introducing bills with a host of changes to the state’s election system.

Keep Reading...

DEBATE

Our democracy requires more than voting

Kathy Goldschmidt

Wouldn’t it be great if we could engage with Congress in ways that help us better trust, understand and guide what they’re doing, and that make us feel like our voices really make a difference? Asks, Kathy Goldschmidt, director of strategic initiatives at the Congressional Management Foundation and co-author of "The Future of Citizen Engagement: Rebuilding the Democratic Dialogue."

PODCAST

Podcast: How Lincoln packed the Supreme Court

Our Staff

Americans expect the Supreme Court to be nonpartisan, but was that always the case? In this episode of You Don't Have to Yell, historian Rachel Shelden discusses how Lincoln appointed his campaign manager to the Court, later expanded it for a pro-Union justice, and how voters thought this was all normal.

Listen now

POP CULTURE

What is the meaning of Christmas? It’s a season of generosity.

David L. Nevins The Christmas spirit is a feeling of generosity. When we can relax into our shared humanity and focus on the needs of others, this spirit becomes joyful. When we give up the competition for the perfect gift, the perfect party, etc., we stop to notice the beauty of each person we encounter, writes David L. Nevins, co-founder and Board Chairman of the Bridge Alliance, and Debilyn Molineaux, president, and CEO of the Bridge Alliance.

Want to write
for The Fulcrum?

If you have something to say about ways to protect or repair our American democracy, we want to hear from you.

Submit
Get some Leverage Sign up for The Fulcrum Newsletter
Confirm that you are not a bot.
×
Follow

Support Democracy Journalism; Join The Fulcrum

The Fulcrum daily platform is where insiders and outsiders to politics are informed, meet, talk, and act to repair our democracy and make it live and work in our everyday lives. Now more than ever our democracy needs a trustworthy outlet

Contribute
Contributors

What if neither party can govern?

John Opdycke

The case for the 4th, from a part-time American

Flora Roy

How to critique a Schedule F revival

C.Anne Long

Overrule Tuberville

Stephen E. Herbits

Jim Jordan, House Republicans and the urgent need to bridge divides

Richard Davies

Ousting of Speaker McCarthy helps prove country not polarized

Dave Anderson
latest News

Myra Jackson's American future

Debilyn Molineaux
6h

Lessons on being a good teammate, building community, and strengthening democracy

Lisa Kay Solomon
7h

Tapping the common sense on net neutrality

Steven Kull
Evan Charles Lewitus
JP Thomas
7h

Reducing gun violence requires differentiation of mass shootings

Allan Jiao
7h

Luke Combs: The healing power of “The Great Divide”

David L. Nevins
17 November

Mapping accountability power relationships

Kevin Frazier
17 November
Videos
Who is the new House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson?

Who is the new House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson?

Our Staff
Video: Jordan bully tactics backfire, provoke threats and harassment of fellow Republicans

Video: Jordan bully tactics backfire, provoke threats and harassment of fellow Republicans

Our Staff
Video Rewind: Reflection on Indigenous Peoples' Day with Rev. F. Willis Johnson

Video Rewind: Reflection on Indigenous Peoples' Day with Rev. F. Willis Johnson

Our Staff
Video: The power of young voices

Video: The power of young voices

Our Staff
Video: Expert baffled by Trump contradicting legal team

Video: Expert baffled by Trump contradicting legal team

Our Staff
Video: Do white leaders hinder black aspirations?

Video: Do white leaders hinder black aspirations?

Our Staff
Podcasts

Podcast: Dr. F. Willis Johnson in a rich conversation with Patrick McNeal

Our Staff
14 November

Podcast: Better choices, better elections

Our Staff
23 October

Podcast: Are state legislators really accountable to their voters?

Our Staff
06 October

Podcast: What does it take to “do democracy?”

Debilyn Molineaux
David Riordan
05 October
Recommended
Myra Jackson's American future

Myra Jackson's American future

Big Picture
Lessons on being a good teammate, building community, and strengthening democracy

Lessons on being a good teammate, building community, and strengthening democracy

Big Picture
Tapping the common sense on net neutrality

Tapping the common sense on net neutrality

Big Picture
Reducing gun violence requires differentiation of mass shootings

Reducing gun violence requires differentiation of mass shootings

Big Picture
Luke Combs: The healing power of “The Great Divide”

Luke Combs: The healing power of “The Great Divide”

Contributors
Mapping accountability power relationships

Mapping accountability power relationships

Big Picture