Stand Up for Voting Rights: Tell the Senate to Pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

This legislation is a crucial step toward ensuring free and fair elections, protecting voters from discriminatory practices, and racist gerrymandering.

The Senate must act to protect the right to vote — tell your senators to support the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act without delay.

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%%FIRST NAME — this is BIG: Pro-democracy senators have just reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The bill honors the legacy of the late civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis and continues his mission to protect the right to vote for communities of color — and all Americans. Passage of the bill would serve as a safeguard against the far-right’s attacks on voting rights by:

Preventing racial discrimination in voting and redistricting;
Updating and modernizing the framework for ensuring states and localities with histories of voting discrimination have their voting policy changes approved by the U.S. Department of Justice or a federal court;
Instructing courts to block discriminatory election policies; and
Undoing the harmful impacts of far-right judges’ attacks on voting rights.

We need voting rights protections to stop racist voter suppression. When our courts greenlight state and local policies such as restrictive voter ID laws, closing polling places in communities of color, redrawing district maps to dilute the power of voters of color, and the denial of food and water in hours-long voting lines, marginalized voters are deprived of their fundamental right to an equal say in our democracy.

Congress has the power to secure the right to vote that’s under threat from far-right judges. Tell your senators: pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act right now. Help us deliver 5,000 signatures demanding action TODAY >>

You may remember our last message to you about the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which passed the House back in 2021 and was reintroduced into the House this past fall.

Since then, we’ve faced a major setback: MAGA judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued a ruling that would eliminate the right of individuals and groups to bring lawsuits under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. If this ruling stands, it will eviscerate the ability of minority voters to defend their right to vote in states that are determined to suppress those rights.

Worse yet, the Appeals Court’s ruling that only the U.S. Department of Justice can enforce the Voting Rights Act means that far-right insurrectionist presidents, like Donald Trump, would have free reign to abuse the power of the presidency to greenlight voter suppression and gerrymandering.

We can beat these attacks from the extreme MAGA right and protect the right to vote for all Americans — but we need your help to succeed. Tell the Senate to support the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act today >>

Thank you for standing with us.

Onward,

Doug Lindner
Senior Director of Judiciary & Democracy
League of Conservation Voters