Indivisibles,

It’s Meagan again! (You’re going to get sick of me soon -- let’s pass
democracy reform and I’ll stop emailing you at all hours.) 

Quick state of play on the For the People Act: Nine days ago, Joe Manchin
wrote an op-ed that said he’d “vote against” S.1, the For the People Act.
A lot of talking heads wrote that the bill was dead in the water. 

You and I knew better. Organizing works. 💪 Activists in West Virginia took
to the streets with a [ [link removed] ]Moral March on Manchin and [ [link removed] ]Light Brigades
across the state and what do you know, Manchin backed down. This week, he
[ [link removed] ]came back to the negotiating table with a list of things he’d like to
see included in the final bill. 🎉

That’s an encouraging sign, but the devil’s in the details here: we need
to make sure that the For the People Act doesn't get watered down, which
means keeping in incredibly important, and incredibly popular provisions
like public financing and same-day voter registration -- all things that
Manchin doesn’t mention in his proposal. (By the way -- the current
version of the bill, including those provisions, is [ [link removed] ]massively popular!
We don’t need to water it down, especially not to try and win over the
republican minority who will [ [link removed] ]never vote for it anyway.)

So that’s where we are, and here’s where you come in: 

Yesterday, Chuck Schumer took the first step towards a full-Senate vote on
the For The People Act, which means next week, the Senate will take their
first vote on the bill 👍, and Republicans will have their first chance to
kill it with the filibuster 👎. 

Here’s the truth: We are running out of time to get this bill passed. If
we don’t pass it by the end of July, election officials won’t have time to
implement its provisions before the midterm elections, and we’ll go into
2022 with too much money in politics 💰 and congressional districts
gerrymandered by partisans (among other things). Yikes. 

The best-case-scenario here is that we manage to get this bill past the
filibuster this week, as soon as Schumer brings it up. And we’d love you
to 📞[ [link removed] ]call your Senators 📞 and tell them you support the bill to try and
make that happen. 

But (this is a big but): that’s extremely unlikely to actually happen. 😔 
But that’s OK! What’s more likely is that the Republicans successfully
filibuster next week, and then the Senate goes on recess without moving
the bill forward. Then, when they come back in July, it’s a pell-mell rush
to get the bill passed before the end of the month. [ [link removed] ]That really will be
our last chance to meet the Deadline for Democracy. 

📣📣📣 That means that our best chance to get S. 1 / For the People passed is
to get loud -- really loud -- while our Senators are home during recess.
And that’s where you come in. We’re going to be spending the June 28-July
10 recess fighting hard to get the For the People Act passed. After you
call your senators, head over to [ [link removed] ]Deadline for Democracy and sign up to
host or attend an event. 📣📣📣

[ [link removed] ]A blue, white and yellow graphic. There is a photo of a person on on
each side holding protest signs. In the middle it reads Deadline for
Democracy June 28 - July 10. We must mobilize like never before to show
our Senators that there is overwhelming grassroots support for voting
rights. There is a red button at the bottom that reads RSVP now.

We’re going to get through this together, and we’re going to win. We’ve
done this before, when we saved Obamacare. When we all work together, this
team can do anything. 

In solidarity,

Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Director of Democracy Policy, Indivisible

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