Jack, sign the petition to Sen. Sinema: End this charade. The filibuster endangers our democracy.

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On July 1, the Supreme Court further undermined the Voting Rights Act, ensuring that voter suppression against Black, Latinx, and Indigenous voters will continue unchecked. This is a terrible blow to the freedom to vote, but the U.S. Senate can do something about it.

But due to a couple of Democratic senators, they won’t.

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema should have a vested interest in ending the filibuster—if not for democracy itself, then for her constituents, who just saw their discriminatory voting rights laws reach the highest court in the country. She has the power to end this archaic, undemocratic practice. She’s just choosing not to.

Click to AUTOMATICALLY sign the petition to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema: You are one of the 100 people in the entire country who has direct power to do away with the filibuster. For the sake of our democracy, end it now.

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Sarah Hogg, Daily Kos

P.S. Below, you can read a previous email from my colleague Paul Hogarth with more information about Sen. Sinema and the filibuster.

Jack, the U.S. Supreme Court just upheld Arizona's GOP voter suppression law—a crushing blow to our freedom to vote. This will have dire effects on the whole country, but especially in Senator Kyrsten Sinema's home state of Arizona.

In order to restore and protect our democracy, we must pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Act. But both bills are blocked in the Senate due to the filibuster—an archaic rule that Senator Kyrsten Sinema still defends.

Sign the petition to Senator Kyrsten Sinema: End this charade. The filibuster endangers our democracy, and your own Arizona constituents. We need you now.

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The Arizona law that the Supreme Court just upheld throws out the votes of legitimate voters who cast a provisional ballot in the wrong precinct, and makes it even harder for Arizonans to vote by mail. If the courts won't even save us from voter suppression, the U.S. Senate must.

On June 22, the U.S. Senate voted to advance S.1 the For the People Act—crucial legislation that would stop partisan gerrymandering, curb the flow of dark money and block some of the most outrageous voter suppression laws like the ones in Arizona. But despite support from all 50 Senate Democrats, it failed because the filibuster requires 60 votes to proceed.

Senator Sinema claims she supports the For the People Act, but then refuses to do anything for it to become law. She even said that the Senate filibuster "protects democracy," that it "encourages bipartisanship" and that we all just need to "change behavior" to get things done.

Sign the petition to Senator Sinema: Your own house is on fire. End the filibuster.

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A law that would protect democracy from voter suppression in Kyrsten Sinema's own state has been blocked because of the filibuster. And the partisan split on the Senate vote proves that the filibuster certainly does not encourage senators to find bipartisanship. All it does is empower the Republican minority to obstruct legislation that would protect our democracy.

Sinema has kept up her defense of an archaic Senate rule (which is not in the constitution), while her own constituents are losing their freedom to vote. It is time for her to recognize that the filibuster stands in the way of the freedom to vote, and must be repealed.

Click to AUTOMATICALLY sign the petition to Senator Sinema: End this charade. Protect the freedom to vote for your own constituents, and end the filibuster.

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Our message to Senator Kyrsten Sinema:
The filibuster does not encourage bipartisanship, actively hurts our democracy and only further encourages bad behavior. We have had enough of your charade.

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Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos