Dale E. Ho: “The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy.”

We call for the U.S. Congress and also the international community to monitor this regime--that is, the Xi Jinping regime--because we in Hong Kong are protecting these values that we all believe in.

Everything here smacks of a bargain: dismissal of the indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions.

What we`re seeing with these audits, these voter suppression measures are efforts to make those kinds of undemocratic efforts in future elections more plausible.

Congress has a duty to take strong action to fulfill the promise of the Reconstruction Amendments, that all Americans should be free to participate in our democracy on equal terms, free from racial discrimination.