Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.

It takes a lot to surprise me during these dark days of the Trump presidency but today somehow delivered two eye-poppers with one stone. On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down the congressional map of North Carolina, ruling that it unconstitutionally used race to determine districts. Perhaps even more surprising is…

In just eight short years, North Carolina has been transformed from a moderate battleground state with a relatively robust public education system—for a Southern state, at least—to into a Randian fever dream that, according to one group of political scientists, no longer qualifies as a democracy.

As Donald Trump made his final appearance in North Carolina on Monday afternoon, the state Republican party gloated in a press release that turnout is down among black voters and up among white voters in early voting: “The once dynamic Obama Coalition [is] crumbling and tired.” From the release:

Some good news for voters in the state of Florida: a federal judge has made it so that voters sending in their ballots by mail will now have a chance to fix them to make sure that their vote actually counts.

With every election, the stakes have never seemed higher, and given the intensity of last night’s first Presidential debate, well, that feeling seems even more acute this year, particularly for women voters. That’s why Jezebel has teamed up with over 50 other women’s media properties working with Rock the Vote in…

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe issued an executive order Friday restoring voting rights to people convicted of felonies. In Virginia, the law barring felons from voting dates back to the Civil War; the governor said today that the state “cannot achieve its full potential until all men and women are eligible for…

Update: This post is based on a law that, while awesome, has been in place for one year. However we can report, via the Associated Press, that 4,300 new voters have joined Oregon’s registration rolls thanks to the new motor law.

Matt Bevin—a far, far-right Tea Partier and political novice who loves cockfighting, voting against the Violence Against Women Act, and uninsured constituents—is now, because no one fucking voted, the governor of Kentucky. Things are not going great!

Mavis Leno, a board member of the Feminist Majority Foundation and Jay Leno's cooler half, spoke on Tavis Smiley last night about a political awakening involving jockeys and suffragettes.