At around 4:30 a.m. yesterday, Senate Republicans used a procedural maneuver to block (for now) the landmark For the People Act.

The For the People Act would fight the Republican Party’s racist, undemocratic assault on our democracy by strengthening the right and ability to vote, ending partisan gerrymandering, getting billionaires and Big Business out of elections, and more.

Leading the charge *against* democracy was none other than Senator Ted Cruz of Texas — along with Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and others.

Back in March, Cruz — as Donald Trump and so many of his adherents are wont to do — said the quiet part out loud when he outright admitted that if Republican voting restrictions were ended by passage of the For the People Act, Republicans would basically never win another election.

Cruz is widely disliked even by other Republicans.

• John Boehner, the former Speaker of the House (who, along with Mitch McConnell in the Senate, is as guilty as anyone of stonewalling progress during the Obama presidency) called Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh” and said, “I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”

• Lindsey Graham, the senator from South Carolina — who knows a thing or twenty about being a sniveling weasel of a politician — once “joked” that “if you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.”

• And, of course, there’s the bizarre fact that Ted Cruz went full MAGA even after Donald Trump insinuated that Cruz’s father killed JFK.

None of that stopped Ted Cruz from doing something disgusting on the floor of the United States Senate in the middle of the night — namely, going on record as being *for* racist and undemocratic voting restrictions by preventing the Senate from even debating the For the People Act.

It’s time for Ted Cruz to take a hike.

Tell Ted Cruz:

You have made it crystal clear that you do not believe in real democracy, that you do not respect the Constitution, and that you will support racist, undemocratic voting restrictions if it helps Trumpists like you get elected. If you have so little regard for our democracy, why even bother coming back from recess? Why not just resign?

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Thanks for taking action.

For democracy,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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