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John —

This is a long email about the Senate filibuster. I hope that by the time
you’re done reading it:

 1. You’ll be as convinced as I am that we should do away with this
archaic Senate rule that appears nowhere within the Constitution, and
 2. [ [link removed] ]You’ll chip in a few dollars to my Senate campaign to help me get
rid of it once and for all.

The difference between the progress we made and the progress we should
have made when Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress in Joe
Biden’s first two years was the filibuster.

Overturning Citizens United. Ending partisan gerrymandering. Guaranteeing
voting rights. Curbing gun violence.

Why? Because of the ridiculous Jim Crow relic that says when a vote is
59-41, the side with 41 wins. It is a relic of the ugliest part of our
history, used to deny civil and voting rights – the filibuster.

The filibuster is not written in the Constitution and has historically
been rarely used. Throughout the filibuster’s history, Southern senators
have used it to block civil rights bills and anti-lynching legislation.
That’s the real filibuster in action.

Nowadays, the filibuster is used to stop anything that can’t get 60 votes
or pass through the budget bill.

Like the John Lewis For the People Act. Or the Freedom to Vote Act.

The GOP is abusing the Senate filibuster to ever more startling degrees.
It is blocking what overwhelming majorities of Americans want from their
government.

It’s damn wrong. And I intend to do something about it.

As a United States Senator, I will fight from within the chamber to do
away with this archaic tool on day one.

[ [link removed] ]I hope you’re convinced that the Senate filibuster has to be abolished
for the sake of our democracy and the good of our country. Please, chip in
$10 or
anything you can spare to help me make it happen.

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The simple truth is that as long as the filibuster remains, we will not
make progress quickly enough on the many compounding crises our country
faces — from gun violence to reproductive freedom to the climate crisis to
our very democracy.

We need to act. Thanks for joining me.

— Adam

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