| Dear Friend,
We’ve won the election and officially have a Democratic president seated in the White House! Now is the time to strengthen our democracy, so we can avoid having another despotic president like Donald Trump ever again.
That’s why the newly elected Congress is prioritizing H.R. 1 -- the For the People Act -- a once-in-a-generation democracy reform package. The For the People Act will clean up our political system, expand and protect voting rights, get big money out of politics, hold elected officials accountable for corruption, and create a democracy that values the voices of all Americans.
With a Democratic majority in the Senate, we have a real chance of passing this unprecedented piece of legislation. But we need to put public pressure on every senator to let them know that we want to live in a country that centers real democracy.
Join us in the fight for democracy reform by sending an email to your senators, urging them to pass the For the People Act.
The For the People Act(1):
- Protects and expands access to the ballot, breaking down barriers to exercising the right to vote through reforms including automatic voter registration and blocking racially discriminatory voter purges.
- Makes representation in government more fair by ending partisan and racial gerrymandering.
- Amplifies the voices of ordinary Americans in our politics, now overwhelmingly dominated by a wealthy few, by establishing a small donor matching system for federal races.
- Fights corruption by enacting new ethical standards for elected officials.
Sixty-seven percent of Americans support this bill -- including 56% of Republicans!(2) The main reason for its failure last year was Mitch McConnell’s blocking of all progressive legislation and the Republican Party’s authoritarian agenda.(3) McConnell framed the bill as a “power grab,” when it’s really a bill to undo the GOP’s suppression of voter power after President Obama’s election.(4)
But with a Democratic administration and majorities in Congress, we can finally make sweeping reforms to get money out of politics and make voting easy for everyone. That’s why we need you to email your senators and get your friends and family to email their senators now. We went out to the polls in record numbers in 2020, and now we need to show up at the same scale to put pressure on our elected officials to make it easier for all of our votes to be counted and our voices to be heard. We can’t let the GOP try to steal take our voting power from us for the 2022 election.
Send an email to help pass the For the People Act.
Yours in the fight for democracy,
LisaMarie, along with Angela, Annie, Caitlin, Deepthi, Irene, Jay, Lindsay, Molly, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team)
Footnotes:
- https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1/text
- https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2021/1/22/majority-support-hr1-democracy-reforms
- https://www.vox.com/2019/1/18/18188150/mitch-mcconnell-house-democrats-anti-corruption-bill-hr1
- https://www.npr.org/2016/11/02/500088540/apocalypse-or-racial-kumbaya-america-after-nov-8
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