My friend,
We’re in the middle of a fierce fight for voting rights. But we need President Biden to put his all into this battle. The time for words, no matter how inspiring, is over – the time for action is now.
President Biden must let nothing stand in the way of protecting our freedom to vote and ensuring fair elections. We need the Senate to end the filibuster so that robust voting rights legislation can succeed in Congress, and we need it to happen with enough time for bills to be enacted before the 2022 midterms.
For the second time now, Senate Republicans have blocked critical voting rights legislation from moving forward. They have made it clear that they have no interest in negotiating and are actively trying to hold onto power by denying our freedom to vote.
With the Supreme Court having issued yet another disastrous voting rights decision this June, it’s clearer than ever that we will need both the voting rights protections in the For the People Act (S. 1) and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act (H.R. 4) in order to ensure that all eligible voters – especially the voters of color who are targeted by right-wing lawmakers – have access to the ballot box.
Recently, President Biden said that this onslaught of voter suppression is the most significant threat to our democracy since the Civil War. If that’s the case, President Biden needs to treat this threat with the urgency it deserves.
Your help to defend voting rights in the next few weeks will continue to be critical. Thank you for working with us to hold President Biden to his stated values.
In unity,
Ben Jealous, President
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