We witnessed a big loss for our democracy today, John.
Cori and House Democrats passed The For the People Act back in March to expand and protect voting rights. But today, Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans blocked The For the People Act from even being debated on the Senate floor.
Once again, the Jim Crow filibuster won, and our democracy lost.
It's plain and simple: White supremacy is the greatest threat to our democracy, and voter suppression is white supremacist violence.
Across the country, Republicans in state legislatures have introduced over 380 bills restricting voting rights in 48 states this year because their strategy for winning elections hinges on making it disproportionately difficult for Black and brown people, working people, and people with disabilities to vote.
Black people, and especially Black women, marched, fought, and bled to make our voices heard at the ballot box — and for the right to participate in this democracy, a right at first only afforded to property-owning white men. We cannot claim to be a just nation if we continue to disenfranchise our own citizens.
As long as the filibuster remains intact, our country will continue to fail to live up to its fundamental promise of one person, one vote.
Cori is leading the movement to end the filibuster and white supremacy in all its forms in this country, but she can't do it alone. Can you make a $5 donation today to show Cori there's a people-powered movement rising up with her in this fight?
Cori has a simple message for everyone who refuses to end the filibuster: Join us in saving lives or get out of our way. Because to refuse to abolish the filibuster under the guise of bipartisanship is to blatantly and naively ignore the dangerous state of our democracy.
It's voting rights or it's the filibuster.
It's LGBTQ+ rights or it's the filibuster.
It's at least a $15 minimum wage or it's the filibuster.
It's D.C. statehood or it's the filibuster.
It's our very survival or it's the filibuster.
Our end-of-quarter fundraising deadline is coming up next week, so we need your support now more than ever. Will you chip in $5 or anything you can today to help Cori as she works to end the filibuster and create a new kind of politics that puts people first?
In solidarity,
Team Cori
