Black voter turnout in North Carolina is up 70 percent over the same point in 2022, while nearly a third of Louisiana’s first-day early voters were Black. Southern voting rights groups are working to sustain that engagement through Election Day.

Parties at the polls. Voter empowerment hubs. Early voting Halloween block parties. The past few weeks have been jam-packed with efforts to mobilize Black voters, getting them to the polls in the hopes that they can overcome attempts to erode their voting power. Already, these efforts seem to be paying off. Voter…

Early-voting numbers suggest the GOP redistricting spree may have helped mobilize the voters it was meant to marginalize.