A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.

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People For Member,

The New Yorker just reported this week on a secret phone call between Koch
network operatives and an aide to Mitch McConnell on their campaign to
STOP the overwhelmingly popular – and desperately needed – For the People
Act! ^[ [link removed] ]

Acknowledging the popularity, even among Republicans, of this landmark,
once-in-a-generation legislation to secure our elections and protect
voting rights, Koch-backed dark-money groups and right-wing congressional
offices are plotting an “under the dome” strategy to kill the bill. They
know they can’t win the debate for hearts and minds on the issue so
they’ll resort to sneaky procedural tricks and backroom arm-twisting to
deny the will of the American people.

We can’t let them. Not with how urgently this bill is needed, with
far-right state legislators working to advance more than 250 bills in 43
states that will restrict voting rights.

Those bills – like the Jim Crow law just signed by right-wing Georgia
Governor Brian Kemp that shamelessly tries to make voting more difficult
for Black voters and even makes it a crime to provide water to voters
waiting in long lines outside of polling places – would almost universally
be thwarted by making the For the People Act the law of the land.

That’s why we’re working around the clock to ramp up pressure on key
senators to follow the House’s lead and PASS the For the People Act (S. 1
in the Senate) before it’s too late and millions of voters are denied
their most precious democratic right.

As I write this, we’re still almost $9,000 short of our first-quarter goal
to fund this critical work.



[ [link removed] ]So I’m asking that you join us in this fight with your most generous
end-of-month donation, before our midnight deadline, to pass the For the
People Act and save our democracy.

[ [link removed] ]Please renew your support by donating anything you can right now>>



What we are seeing across the country is an all-out attack on our
democracy more brazen than anything we’ve seen since the Civil Rights Era…

Atlanta pastor and People For board co-chair Rev. Timothy McDonald – who,
with People For, founded the Black Church’s “Souls to the Polls” Sunday
voting program 23 years ago – told CNN in an interview this week:

"Black folks are not stupid. We know their tricks. We know their
motivation. They are the [Ku Klux] Klan in three-piece suits." ^[2]

It’s up to every democracy-loving American of conscience to stand up to
these attacks.

We’re mobilizing People For’s Defend the Black Vote program and the full
weight of our national leadership networks of Black ministers and young
elected officials behind this fight.



And I know we can count on People For members like you to be part of this.
Right now, I need you to let us know that you’re with us in the fight with
an [ [link removed] ]urgently needed donation before tonight’s midnight deadline.

[ [link removed] ]Renew for 2021 by donating as generously as you can to defend our
democracy>>



Thank you for being part of this historic effort to protect the right to
vote and make the promise of an inclusive democracy real for all
Americans. We can’t win this fight without you.

Let’s go, fight, win.

-- Ben Jealous, President



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Sources:

[1] The New Yorker, “[ [link removed] ]Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the
Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century,” March 29, 2021

[2] CNN, “[ [link removed] ]Georgia Republicans made two big mistakes when they attacked
voting rights,” March 28, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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