Hear me clearly.

There’s an unfolding assault taking place in America today — an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections. An assault on democracy. An assault on liberty. An assault on who we are — who we are as Americans. ...

We’re facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War — that’s not hyperbole — since the Civil War. The Confederates, back then, never breached the Capitol as insurrectionists did on January the 6th.

I’m not saying this to alarm you. I’m saying this because you should be alarmed. ...

It doesn't have to be this way. ... We have the means, we just need the will — the will to save and strengthen our democracy.

That’s from a speech President Biden gave yesterday in Philadelphia powerfully condemning voting restrictions being enacted by Republicans in state after state. (Republicans have jammed through 28 voter suppression laws in 17 states just since Election Day, and they are pushing literally hundreds more in nearly every state in the country.)

President Biden eloquently and passionately identified the existential threat to our democracy. And he rightly called for all of us to take action in the face of this threat.

But, above all, the urgency of the crisis demands that President Biden HIMSELF act immediately, and with the full force of his powers, to secure passage of the For the People Act (H.R.1/S.1) and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — including an appropriate workaround to the Senate filibuster.

Please join me in sending this message to President Joe Biden:

Mr. President, you have eloquently and passionately identified the existential threat facing our democracy. The urgency of this crisis demands that you yourself act immediately, and with the full force of your powers, to secure passage of the For the People Act (H.R.1/S.1) and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — including an appropriate workaround to the Senate filibuster.

Add your name.

Thanks for taking action.

For democracy,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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