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

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People For Member,

THANK YOU for your amazing support this past month and for the past year.

We just reviewed our numbers for June and thanks to the thousands People
For the American Way supporters who stepped up to contribute, renew their
2021 membership, or become Defenders of Democracy with a monthly gift, I’m
happy to report that we beat our goals.

As we close out the first half of 2021 and head into the July 4 holiday
weekend, we are also coming up on the six-month anniversary of the Trump
insurrection. It's a good moment to take stock of how far we’ve come as a
movement of likeminded progressives dedicated to the promise of democracy.

Yesterday’s 6-3 Supreme Court decision in [ [link removed] ]Brnovich v. DNC guts the
Voting Rights Act. It was even worse than the Roberts Court's damaging
2013 Shelby County ruling.

The Supreme Court's conservatives are part of the Republican Party's war
on democracy. And that makes our work even more urgent.

I'm proud to report that People For made a massive impact this month in
building the movement to defend the vote and save our democracy. You
should be proud too, because we can only do this important work with your
support. 

People For’s African American Ministers In Action program helped mobilize
Black church communities across the South to resist the Far Right’s racist
voter suppression. 

We were thrilled to help support an incredible group of Black clergy who
came to D.C. for a march, press events, and Senate lobbying visits to push
for passage of the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights
Act. 

The [ [link removed] ]voice of the Black church is so important in this movement. It has
a unique moral authority on issues of civil rights and racial justice and
its deep ties to the communities most targeted by voter suppression.

We led a petition delivery of more 330,000 signatures to the Senate to
pass the For the People Act and hosted an accompanying [ [link removed] ]rally on the
steps of the Supreme Court with Senators Raphael Warnock, Elizabeth
Warren, Amy Klobuchar, and many other members of Congress.

We also continued the vital work of our [ [link removed] ]Defend the Black Vote campaign.
People For partnered with our amazing friends at Black Voters Matter for a
[ [link removed] ]Freedom Ride bus tour. It started in Mississippi and ended in
Washington, D.C. with rallies in [ [link removed] ]southern cities along the path of the
original Freedom Riders. The grassroots energy on the ground and the buzz
we were able to build on social media and in the local press with videos,
pictures, and incredible earned media supercharged our shared movement to
protect the vote and pass the For the People Act.

More of our top-line items from a busy June were covered in our
[ [link removed] ]American Way newsletter, but I wanted to acknowledge a few more here:

* On June 1, with the help of 737 People For members who chipped in to
make a difference in this important race, progressive Democrat Melanie
Stansbury won the special congressional election to fill Interior
Secretary Deb Haaland’s seat in New Mexico – keeping the seat blue as
the Far Right began its push to flip control of the U.S. House in
2022.

* People For was proud to endorse civil rights champion [ [link removed] ]Maya Wiley in
the New York City mayoral race. The votes are still being tallied but
I’m confident that People For supporters in New York helped provide a
surge for Maya in the homestretch.

* People For’s Right Wing Watch released an in-depth, two-part [ [link removed] ]report
on the Far Right’s attacks on trans people’s right to exist in public
spaces and, specifically, their hateful attacks on trans youth and
their participation in sports. As we celebrated Pride Month, our Right
Wing Watch team met the clear need to keep a spotlight on the Far
Right’s anti-gay bigotry as we continue our efforts to pass the
Equality Act to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ people.

* We were inspired to see two very important Biden judicial nominees
confirmed by the Senate: [ [link removed] ]Ketanji Brown Jackson to the D.C. Circuit
Court of Appeals, and [ [link removed] ]Candace Jackson-Akiwumi to the 2nd Circuit.
Both are brilliant Black women whose fair-minded approach to the law
will benefit their courts and improve the quality of justice for the
American people.

In addition to being an incredibly busy month of organizing and movement
building, June also marked my one-year anniversary as president of People
For the American Way. I’m excited all we have done together to defeat
Trump and everything else we’ve accomplished in the past year. And I am so
grateful to you and our more than one million supporters nationwide for
being such a vital part of our progressive movement.

Stay tuned for much more in July as we redouble our efforts to hold
insurrectionists accountable on the six-month anniversary of the siege on
the U.S. Capitol, fight for voting rights legislation like the For the
People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and celebrate our
co-founder Norman Lear entering his 100th year of life!

On behalf of the entire board and staff at People For, thank you again,
for everything.

Sincerely,

Ben Jealous, President

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