Dear MoveOn member,

Friday was the anniversary of the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights legislation that put a stop to state and local laws that barred Black Americans from casting a ballot. But now, 56 years later, Republicans are erasing the work of civil rights activists and leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis and sending us into a new Jim Crow era of voter suppression and white supremacy.

This is a five-alarm fire for our democracy, and the Senate must immediately pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act to put a stop to the blatantly racist assault on our right to cast a ballot.

We urgently need your help to spread this message, which is why MoveOn just printed a big batch of these John Lewis "Protect Voting Rights" stickers and are giving them away for FREE while supplies last. Click here or on the image below to order yours now.

In 1965, John Lewis, Dr. King, and hundreds of other marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL, were beaten and gassed by Alabama state troopers when they nonviolently protested segregationist laws that blocked Black people from exercising their constitutional right to vote.¹

The troopers beat John Lewis so badly that they fractured his skull.² But he never gave up his struggle for suffrage.

Representative Lewis often said that the vote is "the most powerful nonviolent tool we have in a democratic society." And he's right.³

But right now, the GOP is trying to take away our power and silence our voices. We won't let them get away with it.

Rep. Lewis's fight is not over, and it is now up to us to continue his work. So if you're willing to get into some good trouble, click here and order your free "Protect Voting Rights" sticker now.

Thanks for all you do.

–Kelly, Oscar, Nita, Eric, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Selma 50 years later: John Lewis's memories of the march," CNN, March 6, 2015
https://act.moveon.org/go/155015?t=5&akid=303661%2E40999114%2EOLo9w8

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid.

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