Democrats’ 2024 postmortems keep neglecting the effects of voter suppression As the party diagnoses its 2024 losses and charts a path to lasting electoral victories, it seems voting rights are being given short shrift.

June 5, 2025, 6:17 PM EDT

By Ja'han Jones

The hottest topic in the mainstream political press these days seems to revolve around theories of what Democrats must do to “win back” voters they “lost” during the 2024 presidential race. And yet, it’s odd that few, if any, of these takes refer to what was arguably the biggest impediment to Democrats last year and what could arguably be the biggest roadblock to Democratic victories in the years ahead: voter suppression .

Politicians and pundits haven’t exactly been shy about offering up their diagnoses for what truly

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