“It can’t be that easy.”
John, those are the words of a former Trump official who now leads the right-wing Heritage Foundation. During a closed door meeting she was bragging about suppressing the vote to their big-money donors. And there’s a video to prove it.
In battleground states like Georgia, Arizona, Iowa, Texas and Florida, the Heritage Foundation has hand-drafted voter suppression laws to restrict mail ballot drop boxes, prohibit distribution of mail ballot request forms, and usher us into a new Jim Crow era.
Donald Trump’s Big Lie and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election have enabled and emboldened conservative zealots to attack our democracy — but that doesn’t change this one simple fact:
People are on to them and are sick and tired of their antics. We see the corrupt effect their big money has on our elections. And this purposeful voter suppression is the newest attempt to further silence voters.
Above all else, they are afraid. Democracy reform is immensely popular. And that’s why groups like the Heritage Foundation are fighting so hard to keep us from achieving it.
The Heritage Foundation has committed to spending over $24 million during these next two years to gain control of state legislatures, shut out voices, and defeat Democratic members of Congress to stop us from passing H.R. 1.
Billionaire donors like the Koch network want to rig the system in order to take back the House and the Senate and install permanent minority, authoritarian right-wing rule.
So let’s make ourselves clear: Join me and demand the Senate abolish the filibuster and bring H.R. 1, the For the People Act, to the floor. We cannot let the Heritage Foundation and Koch network dismantle our democracy.
We can and must defeat this craven attack on our system – and protect our democracy in the process. Thank you for continuing to stand by my side in this fight.
— Adam
