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Kevin Morris

@kevintmorris.bsky.social
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Political scientist at BCJ studying American democracy and voting rights. Usually on a bike, beach, or backpacking trip. An American Problem (Princeton UP) coming October 2026: shorturl.at/Emjgo kevintmorris.com

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Princeton Audio @princetonaudio.bsky.social · 12h
The rise & fall of the Voting Rights Act, from the triumph of its passage in 1965 to its evisceration by the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder in 2013 An American Problem by @michaelgmiller.bsky.social & @kevintmorris.bsky.social arrives in audio on October 6! Preorder today: buff.ly/wCnAj3P
An American Problem: How the Country Built—and the Supreme Court Broke—the Voting Rights Act by Michael G. Miller and Kevin T. Morris. Read by Christopher Grove. Tantor Media
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Manhattan! Tuesday! Come hang out at the WNYC Greene Space and join us in conversation about the Voting Rights Act, and where we go from here:
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The Supreme Court's Backward March on Voting Rights
Brennan Center experts discuss a new book on the Voting Rights Act.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good piece here from @lilymasonphd.bsky.social: "The solution is not to reduce the animus between pluralists and far-right extremists, but to recommit to the project of pluralistic American democracy." muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One more time for the cheap seats in the back!
Screenshot of article which reads:  Democrats 
and Republicans in the 1950s could agree on many things, as long as 
they also agreed that Jim Crow oppression in the American South was 
acceptable and that women belonged in the home. Once they started 
disagreeing about these things, and especially once they were no longer 
the only people allowed in the room, U.S. politics became significantly 
more contentious. Not everyone wanted to peacefully extend power to 
previously marginalized groups.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Coming Tuesday.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 01/10/2026
Just over a month til Election Day! David and I will be streaming our podcast and the latest election forecast update here at 2:00 PM Eastern. Join in! Subscribers to Strength In Numbers or The Downballot can ask questions live. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE SOON: How much worse can things get for the GOP?
Starting Oct 1 at 2:00 PM EDT
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Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Join IPK and NYU's Brademas Center on Oct. 21 for a talk with @juliaazari.bsky.social. She will discuss her book Backlash Presidents with @kimberleynyc.bsky.social and @joelowndes.bsky.social. Moderated by @mikekoncewicz.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/3xd5f8ba
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bizarre framing to not note in the hed / dek that the bill includes voter ID requirements
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Journalists! Do you want access to more than 100 sources in elections: cybersecurity, former officials, lawyers, academics? Do you want to ask them on the record questions and get answers for your stories? DO YOU WANT ALL OF THAT FOR FREE?! GOOD NEWS.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
does ideology just mean woke now or
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Monday! Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn! Me, Ari Berman, and the coolest pro-voting kids around! greenlightbookstore.com/event/2026-1...
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Book Launch: Kevin T. Morris with Ari Berman at LAPC
Brooklyn independent bookstore
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good line from Frederick Douglass:
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Erin C. @erincikanek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Since January 6, 2021 is back in the news today, I want to share some substantive points from my paper on measuring the emotional environment of news.
News That's Madder: Measuring Emotional Partisan News in the Wake of the 2020 Presidential Election
Erin S. Cikanek
esc222@cornell.edu

Abstract: Monitoring the emotional signals media provides to the public may have important
implications for political attitudes and behaviors. This requires that citizens are able to
perceive the emotional signals which emanate from news programming. I demonstrate
members of the public perceive variation in the emotional intensity of words, concur-
rently validate that survey respondents provide similar emotional ratings for audio and
text news excerpts, and that emotional perceptions of news transcripts are invariant
to partisan predispositions. I then use perceptions of emotions in news transcripts to
analyze the emotions of partisan, prime-time news in the wake of the 2020 US Presi-
dential Election. Members of the public perceive Fox News as angrier than equivalent
programming on MSNBC in the weeks prior to the January 6 attack on Congress. I
also compare my results to a bag-of-words approach, revealing that using only word
counts may mask important emotional di!erences in news environments.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh great -- glad to see that this Open Access piece on why White Americans support democratic retrenchment is now in an issue (with some great other folks!) at Political Behavior: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I went ahead and added a list of all the scheduled events for AN AMERICAN PROBLEM this fall to my website. Come hang out and say hi! www.kevintmorris.com/events.html
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Events – Kevin T. Morris
Upcoming events and book tour dates for Kevin T. Morris and An American Problem: How the Country Built — and the Supreme Court Broke — The Voting Rights Act.
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JoAnne @joakev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Supreme Court is determined to break our entire democracy! This court must be changed. ASAP
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"You will see people staring at your fridge" buddy you got that right
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Next week! Get it while it's hot!
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Miss me with the gourds, it's lentil soup season mfs
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Peter Ellinwood @pellinwood.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good here in NH too
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BKNY right now. Looking good
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you live, like, anywhere in California come say hi next month at UCSD, LMU, UCLA, USC, Cal, Davis, the UC Capitol Center, or the McGeorge School of Law! And because those 7 days won't be busy enough, there will be a couple bookstores sprinkled in, too
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I like this discourse. Famously, I missed my first interview at a place called the Brennan Center when my subway was stuck for an hour, between stations and without phone service. Seemed like a cool job — imagine what could have been!
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just passed under the Appalachian Trail on the Amtrak and it's taking every bit off willpower to not run off into the woods right now
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I posted this yesterday but I'm posting it again. It is so worth your time. Understanding where we are today demands understanding that this playbook has been run before. It's the New Lost Cause, using the same tropes that killed the First Reconstruction www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I love when my friends’ books arrive! This is such important work and I can’t wait to read and cite it. @michaelgmiller.bsky.social @kevintmorris.bsky.social
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pema and @ariberman.bsky.social just skeeted out the heart of my new book project THE NEW LOST CAUSE 😆 So look out for that bad boy but WITH GRAPHS
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I can't say that launching one book, preparing to incorporate reviews into another, and prepping for our first baby was PERFECT timing. What I can say is that this fall won't be boring
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just arrived in DC for this conversation tonight. I can’t wait!
POLITICS AND PROSE PRESENTS
NIKOLAS BOWIE & DAPHNA RENAN
W/ SHERRILYN IFILL
SUPREMACY
HOW RULE
BY THE COURT
• REPLACED •
GOVERNMENT BY
THE PEOPLE
NIKOLAS BOWIE DAPHNA RENAN
FRI, SEPT 18 7PM
CONN AVE
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This Big Boi just arrived and I do have to say I'm pleased that the other contributors to this volume really came through. Some real up-and-comers like WEB DuBois, Karl Marx, and John Rawls. What a relief — you never know what you'll get when you agree to an edited volume!
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shout out to the student journalists at The Daily Iowan for reporting on the travesty that is Iowa's Center for Intellectual Freedom. With quotes from me dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Uncertainty in leadership, curriculum surrounds UI Center for Intellectual Freedom
In the barren walls of his Calvin Hall office, where the Center for Intellectual Freedom resides, interim director and University of Iowa economics professor Luciano de Castro shuffles a stack of pape...
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can't wait!
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In their new book, An American Problem, @michaelgmiller.bsky.social & @kevintmorris.bsky.social offer a sweeping history of the Voting Rights Act & the attacks it has suffered. Available October 6 (1 December UK pub). Learn more: buff.ly/Y1UGOMl #PoliSci #History #USHistory
An American Problem: How the Country Built—and the Supreme Court Broke—the Voting Rights Act by Michael G. Miller and Kevin T. Morris. The rise and fall of the Voting Rights Act, from the triumph of its passage in 1965 to its evisceration by the Supreme Court in their 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder.
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Blair Forlaw @blairforlaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Absolutely! Thinking about Frederick Douglass speaking to the Republican National Convention in 1876 (150 years ago). "The question now is: do you mean to make good to us the promises of your Constitution?" That remains the question.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy Constitution Day from your friends at BCJ. Keep up the good fight.
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Debbie Schildkraut @debbiejsr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy Constitution Day! Here are my thoughts on American identity and democracy: now.tufts.edu/2026/09/16/w...
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What Makes Americans American?
U.S. national identity is political, like everything else, and changes over time, says Tufts University political scientist
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Nina Jo Smith @njsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Got it. Started it. It’s great!
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just got word that the FIRST COPIES of the book are hitting mail boxes. You can still order a copy. After all, you don't want to be left behind on the greatest political thriller of the fall, do you? 😉
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Don't threaten me with a good time.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Major questions doctrine? "Even assuming the rule here is a regulation of elections, Congress may create such rules under the Elections Clause. And, by statute, it may authorize the Postal Service to issue such rules."
static.klipy.com
Mariah Carey: I Don't Know Her
ALT: Mariah Carey: I Don't Know Her
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What did we learn from the Supreme Court's three-sentence Monday night ruling leaving on hold the Trump administration's effort to interfere with mail-in voting? Quite a lot, as it turns out—and at least some of it is good: www.stevevladeck.com/p/250-what-w...
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250. What We Learned from USPS v. California
In refusing to put the USPS mail-in ballots rule into effect, the majority didn’t say very much. I still think there are three big lessons in Monday's ruling.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ding, dong // The witch is dead
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In the book, we talk about Galveston County as one of the most egregious examples of a locality taking advantage of Shelby County / the end of preclearance to discriminate against voters of color. This is good news:
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As the new school year gets underway (and people are thinking about studying the midterms), a reminder that I'm totally happy to talk about sitting on your students' dissertation committees!
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We love to see it. A reminder, too, that the election is already well underway!
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Folks, Trump's $5000 thing is dumb and transparent and whatnot. It's also never going to happen. But it isn't bribery. "Vote us into office and we'll do this policy thing you want" is the core of what political campaigns are. It would be a very bad idea to start criminalizing that.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is the important shit I need to hear, folks. Relatedly, is it a surprise that the very first gift I was given was a hiking baby carrier? In this house, we believe: back country is the best country, strollers and all.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
*Cracks knuckles* Let's learn about strollers. I'm a researcher; this can't be too complicated, right? *Dies*
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