Hi,

The House GOP and right-wing judges on the Supreme Court are attacking
voting rights.

Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and the other conservatives on
SCOTUS recently rubber-stamped the South Carolina GOP’s new Congressional
maps. The NAACP was challenging the maps for racist gerrymandering, but
the right-wing court rejected the challenge.^1 That could open the
floodgates for more Republican-led partisan, racist gerrymandering.

The House GOP held a recent hearing to spread disinformation about voter
registration and voter fraud, targeting the nonexistent problem they call
“noncitizen voting.”^2 The true purpose of the hearing was to gut the
National Voter Registration Act, which would make it much harder for
people to register to vote.

These GOP tactics hurt democracy and could ramp up voter suppression.
Congress must pass new, landmark voting rights legislation immediately.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Tell Congress to fight voter suppression by passing
the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and Freedom to Vote Act!

ADD YOUR NAME

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, the House GOP, and
right-wing SCOTUS justices are willing to do to upend the principles of
democracy and stop people from voting. We’ve seen what Republicans and
then-President Donald Trump were willing to do to try to steal elections.
It’s critical that Congress protects our democracy and our voting rights
by passing the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights
Advancement Act.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name: Tell Congress to stop voter suppression with new
landmark voting rights legislation!

Thanks for taking action,

Joey and the team at Demand Progress

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Sources:

 1. Salon, “Expert says SCOTUS ruling subjects Black voters to 'abuse.'
Clarence Thomas wants to go even further,” [ [link removed] ]May 25, 2024.
 2. The American Prospect, “A Voting Disinformation Snapshot,” [ [link removed] ]May 28,
2024.

 
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