The fear among critics is not simply that Republicans may win more seats in 2026. It is that the machinery now being built at the state level could eventually produce enough institutional power to permanently alter how American democracy functions.

Sounding the alarm in 1998, Camille Cosby warned that the Voting Rights Act, which President Lyndon B. Johnson signed in 1965, was set to expire in 2007. Now, the high court has completed gutted the law.

The resolution, introduced by Ghana and backed by African and Caribbean nations, calls for acknowledgment of slavery’s lasting damage and identifies reparatory justice as a step toward addressing centuries of forced labor, displacement, and exploitation.

Economic strain is central to voter sentiment. Fifty-nine percent of Black voters surveyed in October 2025 said Trump’s policies had hurt them personally, up from 47 percent in April 2025.

Jackson’s life traced the arc of modern civil rights history. Born October 8, 1941, in Greenville, he would become founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and one of America’s most recognizable civil rights, religious, and political figures.

According to the survey, 76 percent of patients did not complete all their prescribed at-home physical therapy sessions, a lapse that clinicians say can slow strength gains, prolong pain, and delay a safe return to normal function.