Dear Friend,

An Arizona legislator just admitted the point behind the wave of
voter-suppression bills coming from his state and dozens of others:

"There’s a fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans,”
Rep. John Kavanagh told CNN. “Democrats value as many people as possible
voting. . . . [Republicans] don’t mind putting security measures in that
won’t let everybody vote—but everybody shouldn’t be voting.”^1

Passing H.R. 1—the For the People Act—is the most important thing Congress
can do right now to protect the right to vote from right-wing state
legislators like Kavanagh and others like him across America who are
determined to undermine our democracy.

[ [link removed] ]The For the People Act, to expand and protect voting rights, just
passed the U.S. House of Representatives. Now we’re fighting with
everything we have to get it passed in the Senate. Will you chip in?

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Iowa just joined the more than a dozen other states that made it more
difficult to vote, and its new measure is preposterous.

The state’s new law cuts early voting by nine days and closes polling
places on Election Day an hour earlier than before, making it
exponentially harder for people in overcrowded districts and those in
low-wage jobs to vote.^2

Republicans are trying to roll back voting access laws in 43 states,
including Georgia—reducing or eliminating early voting and mail-in voting,
instituting racist voter ID laws, and more.^3,4

The For the People Act was always important. Now, because the GOP is
working overtime in so many states to suppress the vote, passing H.R. 1 is
critical to our democracy.

H.R. 1 implements automatic voter registration, restores voting rights to
felons who’ve done their time, ends partisan gerrymandering, and curbs the
influence of corporate money in our elections. It also protects early
voting and mail-in voting, both essential in the age of COVID-19. Congress
has the power to override state election laws when it comes to federal
elections, which makes H.R. 1 crucial to resisting right-wing attacks on
voting rights.^5

We know that not a single Republican senator is going to vote for H.R. 1.
Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee even said it was "written in hell by the
devil himself."^6

So we’re doubling down on every single Senate Democrat to end the
filibuster and send H.R. 1 to President Joe Biden’s desk.

[ [link removed] ]H.R. 1, the For the People Act, will protect and expand voting rights
at a crucial point in American history. Will you chip in to demand that
the U.S. Senate send it to President Biden’s desk?

Thanks for standing with us.

Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress

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Sources:

1. Intelligencer, "‘Everybody Shouldn’t Be Voting,’ Republican Blurts
Out," [ [link removed] ]March 11, 2021
2. Des Moines Register, "Latino civil rights group sues over Iowa's new
election law, which cuts early and Election Day voting," [ [link removed] ]March 9, 2021
3. Pew Research Center, "Turnout soared in 2020 as nearly two-thirds of
eligible U.S. voters cast ballots for president," [ [link removed] ]January 28, 2021
4. Brennan Center for Justice, "State Voting Bills Tracker 2021,"
[ [link removed] ]February 24, 2021
5. Slate, "Unpacking the Fight Over H.R. 1, the Massive Voting Rights
Bill," [ [link removed] ]March 8, 2021
6. Business Insider, "Republican Sen. Mike Lee says Democratic voting
rights bill was 'written in hell by the devil himself'," [ [link removed] ]March 10,
2021
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