NAACP announces its largest-ever spending on a midterm election

The group plans a $20 million campaign to mobilize Black voters following a Supreme Court decision expected to reduce the number of nonwhite members of Congress.

The NAACP is launching the biggest midterm spending campaign in the civil rights group’s history as a way of marking the country’s 250th anniversary and as a response to the Supreme Court weakening the Voting Rights Act.

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