John xxxxxx,

Fifty-six years ago today, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

For decades, this landmark legislation has worked to guarantee the right to vote for Black and Brown Americans and stop racial discrimination at the ballot box. It’s one of the most effective tools this country has had in the fight to dismantle Jim Crow.

But since the Supreme Court gutted key provisions of the bill in 2013, Republicans have led a systematic effort to restrict the right to vote.

Just this year, radical Republican lawmakers in states like Georgia, Texas, and Arizona have advanced new laws that restrict voting hours, place new limits on early voting, and bring new barriers to the ballot box that make it harder for Black and Brown people to exercise their right to vote.

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s may have buried Jim Crow, but he still has nieces and nephews who are alive and well today.

So today, 56 years after the people mobilized to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and guarantee voting rights for Black and Brown Americans across the country, we must renew the fight to save our democracy.

Join me in calling for the urgent passage of the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to stop the nationwide attacks on the right to vote. Our democracy hangs in the balance >>

I will not rest until we have defeated this resurgent attack on voting rights and ensured everyone can safely exercise their voice in this democracy.

Keep the faith,

Hakeem