Today, on Juneteenth, we celebrate the official end of slavery in the United States.
This week, the Biden Administration and Congress established Juneteenth as an official federal holiday to acknowledge our history and honor the past and ongoing struggle for Black liberation in our nation.
There is still so much work to be done in the fight for our collective freedom. That is why Alexandria proudly supports H.R. 40, a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals, and H.R. 1, the For the People Act, to expand and protect the right to vote for all.
H.R. 40 would allow us to begin to research the best ways we can build a path toward economic equity for the descendants of the generations of Black people this country stole free labor from.
And H.R. 1 would expand and protect voting access by expanding practices that have proven to increase voter turnout — including prohibiting deceptive practices, interference with voter registration, voter intimidation, and expanding automatic voter registration.
Alexandria believes that elected leaders have an obligation to do the most they can to pass meaningful legislation that advances equity and justice for all with the power people have entrusted to them. And that’s why she won’t stop fighting to lift up all of our voices — to protect the right to vote, to advance economic, social, environmental, and racial justice, and to demand liberation for all.
Happy Juneteenth!
In solidarity,
Team AOC
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