[1]Ro Khanna



56 years ago today, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the 1965 Voting
Rights Act into law, expanding the right to vote to millions of
disenfranchised Americans.

Today, we are faced with more than 100 top political scientists and
democracy scholars who issued a joint statement to express their “growing
alarm” about “the recent deterioration of U.S. elections and liberal
democracy."

They all agree: Trump’s crusade to delegitimize the 2020 presidential
election, combined with the GOP’s state-level efforts to suppress voting
in state legislatures across the country, “call into question whether the
United States will remain a democracy."

These aren’t the words of online pundits or partisan talking
heads. Leading experts on
how democracies survive – and how they fail - are issuing an urgent call
to action to the Senate: Do whatever is necessary to pass federal voting
rights protections.

Add your name to my petition now: [ [link removed] ]Tell the Senate to protect our
democracy. Pass the For the People Act (S. 1) now, even if it means
abolishing the filibuster.

[ [link removed] ]SIGN THE PETITION

It is easy to take for granted that we live in a nation where the
candidate or party who receives the most votes wins the election,
especially since we’ve had 56 years of democratic elections due to the
Voting Rights Act. But the fact of the matter is, Republicans are openly
subverting this cornerstone of democracy.

It’s also true that once democracies break down, the downward spiral is
difficult to reverse.

We can’t sit back and hope for things to improve. The stakes are simply too high. We must
amplify this urgent new warning from the academic community and do
everything in our power to fight for the For the People Act.

My fellow members of Congress and I already voted to pass the For the
People Act, but now the Senate must act.

[ [link removed] ]Sign my petition now to demand the Senate take action on S. 1 before
Republicans damage our democracy beyond repair.

Keep fighting,

Ro


 


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