Civic institutions are essential for empowering citizens to engage with and influence the state effectively.

The civil rights movement built power not by capturing the state but by building institutions that formed citizens capable of acting on and with the state when the moment came. The Voting Rights Act ratified that capacity. It did not create it. That capacity is what needs rebuilding now. https://www.texasobserver.org/supreme-court-vra-decision-civic-infrastructure/ #voting #democracy #history #activism #HumanRights #law #SCOTUS

The civil rights movement built power not by capturing the state but by building institutions that formed citizens capable of acting on and with the state when the moment came. That capacity is what needs rebuilding now. https://www.texasobserver.org/supreme-court-vra-decision-civic-infrastructure/ #politics #democracy #USpol #law