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.

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!

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.

Add your name: Congress must protect voting rights and our elections now!

Thanks for taking action,

Tihi and the team at Demand Progress

Sources:

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

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