Rep. Elijah Cummings Launches True the Vote Investigation
by Brentin Mock on October 5 2012, 4:03PM
True the Vote will have difficult time harassing voters with Congress watching them at the polls.
Brentin Mock
Reporting Fellow
New Orleans, LA
Brentin Mock is a New Orleans-based journalist who serves as Colorlines.com's Reporting Fellow on Voting Rights, covering the challenges presented by new voter ID laws, suppression of voter registration drives, and other attempts to limit electoral power of people of color. In his previous position as senior editor at The Loop 21, Brentin also covered electoral politics with a significant amount of reporting on voter ID issues.
In New Orleans, Brentin also works as web editor for the online, citizen-journalist driven blogsite Bridge the Gulf and helped launch the New Orleans online investigative news site The Lens. He previously worked at The American Prospect as a reporter and blogger covering environmental justice issues through a fellowship awarded by the Metcalf Institute for Environmental Reporting. Brentin also served on the staff of the national magazine Intelligence Report, published by Southern Poverty Law Center, investigating hate groups and anti-immigrant nativist extremists.
Brentin's professional career began in his native city of Pittsburgh, working as managing editor of the African-American community newspaper Renaissance News before joining the staff of the alternative newsweekly Pittsburgh City Paper. His work has been published in GOOD, The Root, The Daily Beast, Newsweek.com, The Grio, The Atlantic, Next American City, Truthout.org, Alternet, Vibe.com, XXL, The Source, and Religion Dispatches.
Follow Brentin at @bmockaveli.
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The 2012 Attack on Voting Rights Isn’t Racist—Just Ask Artur Davis
by Brentin Mock on October 4 2012, 10:13AM
The black former congressman has emerged as the tea party’s new best friend, because he insists his colleagues in the southern Black Belt are the real threat to voting rights.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Pennsylvania GOP Leader Insists Voter ID Opposition Is About ‘Lazy’ Voters
by Brentin Mock on October 3 2012, 10:18AM
Rep. Daryl Metcalfe says judge who blocked the state’s voter ID law yesterday enables the “entitlement mentality” and people who live off others’ labor.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Pa. Voters Won’t Have to Show ID, but Poll Workers Can Still Ask For It
by Brentin Mock on October 2 2012, 10:52AM
The situation’s still complicated in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Argues Voters Are ‘Frustrated,’ Not ‘Disenfranchised’
by Brentin Mock on September 28 2012, 10:43AM
Pennsylvania’s attorneys have found a new argument to defend the state’s voter ID law: We all share the same burdens and frustrations equally, regardless of race or class, and that’s not disenfranchisement.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Florida’s Felonious Voting Trap
by Brentin Mock on September 27 2012, 10:28AM
When it comes to determining who can and cannot vote, misinformation reigns. The tea party movement is eager to exploit that fact.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Politics
How the Mayweather-Pacquiao Saga Reminds Us of the Voter ID Game
by Brentin Mock on September 21 2012, 10:06AM
In both boxing and voting, the strategy is the same: keep the opponent away.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Pa. Supreme Court Doubts State Can Comply With Its Own Voter ID Law
by Brentin Mock on September 19 2012, 11:16AM
From the voters’ perspective, the Court’s unresolved issue is rooted in the age-old conundrum best expressed by Mos Def: “Why do I need ID to get ID? If I had ID, I wouldn’t need ID.”
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Pa. Supreme Court Leaves Voter ID Law in Limbo
by Brentin Mock on September 18 2012, 3:10PM
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court just issued a 4-2 ruling on the state’s voter ID law saying that the matter should be kicked back to the lower Commonwealth Court for further review.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, /NOW Blog, Politics
The Racial Burdens Obscured by Voter ID Laws
by Brentin Mock on September 14 2012, 9:48AM
The burdens of voters of color in Pennsylvania continue to be overlooked by the state’s lawyers.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Why You Should Be Very Afraid of This Year’s Ballot Bullies
by Brentin Mock on September 10 2012, 2:59PM
The scrutinization of True the Vote, and their voter-stalking Tea Party co-signers across the nation, is growing. Today, Common Cause and Demos released a report called “Bullies at the Ballot Box” that raises awareness about groups who determined to challenge…
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The Racial Politics Behind the Right Wing’s Poll-Watching
by Brentin Mock on September 5 2012, 9:58AM
A new report from the Brennan Center for Justice spells out the hyper-partisan and racially charged impact of efforts to police the polls in November.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Republicans Boast About Voter Suppression in Tampa, but the Ground Is Shifting
by Brentin Mock on August 30 2012, 12:20PM
Republicans aren’t running from their record of voter suppression.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Ohio’s Jon Husted, the New Bad Boy on the Voting Rights Block
by Brentin Mock on August 29 2012, 9:36AM
In a state already plagued by voting problems, the secretary of state is working hard to close, rather than open access to the polls.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
How the Tea Party’s Building a ‘Poll Watcher’ Network for November
by Brentin Mock on August 23 2012, 9:43AM
True the Vote began as a small outfit in Houston three years ago. Now, its agenda for intimidating voters reaches all across the country.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Politics
What’s Ahead in the ‘Voting Wars’? Certainly Not Peace.
by Brentin Mock on August 17 2012, 10:00AM
A conversation with election law expert Richard Hasen on the true scope of voter fraud, the power of the ACORN myth and John Roberts’ scary interest in the Voting Rights Act.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Judge Allows Pennsylvania Voter ID Law to Move Forward
by Brentin Mock on August 15 2012, 11:09AM
Civil rights groups vow appeal, arguing that hundreds of thousands may be disenfranchised in November.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, /NOW Blog, Politics
I Have Photo ID, Therefore I Am
by Brentin Mock on August 2 2012, 10:27AM
Ten Pennsylvania residents have spent the past week explaining in court that they do, in fact, exist and ought to be able to vote.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Why the Voter ID Faceoff in Pennsylvania Is Crucial
by Brentin Mock on July 25 2012, 9:52AM
Ten voters will attempt to show in court that the law has clear and racially biased impact on Pennsylvanians’ right to vote.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Texas’ Road To Victory in Its Decades Long Fight Against Voting Rights
by Brentin Mock on July 12 2012, 10:14AM
In 1944, a landmark Supreme Court decision over Texas’ Jim Crow laws changed the arc of voting history. This week, the case that’s expected to change things again began its trip to the Roberts court.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, History, Politics
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