Hi,

More right-wing federal judges are trying to gut the Voting Rights Act.
Last month, these judges made it much harder for people to challenge
violations to the cornerstone voting rights legislation.^1

This latest attack on voting rights could make it even easier for states
to engage in undemocratic voter suppression tactics and chip away at voter
protections with right-wing legislation. And this case could be headed to
the conservative-controlled Supreme Court, which first gutted an important
part of the Voting Rights Act a decade ago.^2

Congress must take action now to strengthen voter protections and ensure
state lawmakers can’t intimidate voters, pass voter ID laws, and engage in
other tactics to stop people from voting.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Congress must protect everyone’s freedom to vote by
passing the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act!

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The Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
are two transformative pieces of legislation that together would restore
and modernize the full protections of the Voting Rights Act, set national
standards to increase access to the ballot box, neutralize partisan and
racist gerrymandering, protect our elections from interference, increase
transparency in campaign finance to prevent dark money from buying our
politicians, and more.

We’ve seen what state-level Republican lawmakers are willing to do to stop
people from voting, upending the principles of democracy to try to gain
more power. We’ve seen what Republicans in Congress and then-President
Donald Trump were willing to do to try to steal elections. It’s critical
that, especially in the face of another potential Voting Rights Act case
going to SCOTUS, that Congress passes two landmark voting rights,
pro-democracy bills to protect our elections.

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Thanks for taking action,

Tihi and the team at Demand Progress

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Sources:

 1. Politico, “Federal appeals court ruling threatens enforcement of the
Voting Rights Act,” [ [link removed] ]November 20, 2023.
 2. Ibid.
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