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: Tell the Senate to protect our democracy. Pass the For the People Act (S. 1) now, even if it means abolishing the filibuster.
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.
Keep fighting,
Ro
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