A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.

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[ [link removed] ]Chip in immediately to pass the For the People Act and save our democracy!



People For Member,

Two important things happened this week in the fight to save our democracy
and the right to vote.

The House of Representatives passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Act – on
a party line vote, with every single Republican voting no.

At the same time that the House was taking up the vote, People For and our
DC area members along with the League of Women Voters led a civil
disobedience protest event outside the White House. This was just the
first in what will be a series of escalating actions demanding that
President Biden LEAD in getting desperately needed voting rights
legislation, including the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the For the
People Act, passed in the Senate.

It’s become crystal clear that we need the president to use the awesome
powers of his office and his deep knowledge of the Senate (from being part
of that body for 36 years) to push for eliminating the filibuster as a
barrier to protecting the right to vote.

And the party-line vote against a measure so fundamental – and, until very
recently, bipartisan – should be just the latest wake-up call to President
Biden that we cannot rely on any Republican in Congress to abandon their
party’s assault on democracy in their efforts to steal future elections.
The Senate must remove the filibuster and get this done with Democrats
alone if that’s what it takes.

We need you, our dedicated members, to join us in this historic fight to
save our democracy every step of the way. That’s why I’m asking that you
chip in any amount you are able to right now to power this work – we need
another $31,000 in member donations now to keep this campaign, including
civil disobedience actions, going so we can get this done.



[ [link removed] ]Please chip in now >>



When the League of Women Voters, People For the American Way, and a host
of religious and civil rights leaders from around the country show up at
your doorstep to demand greater action by you to protect voting rights
bills, you clearly at risk of being on the wrong side of history. That’s
our message to President Biden.

And speaking of history…

Until it was gutted by far-right majorities on the Supreme Court, the
Voting Rights Act was reauthorized and even expanded by Congress
repeatedly, always on a bipartisan basis. Those extensions were signed
into law by Republican presidents like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
Bush effusively praised the bill and efforts to protect the right to vote
when he signed it.

Now, even the few “anti-Trump” Republicans who spoke out against Trump’s
Big Lie about the 2020 election when it fueled the white supremacist
insurrection at our Capitol refuse to support legislation aimed at the
racist state-legislative attacks on the right to vote that are fueled by
the same Big Lie.

A little more history…

Republicans were fine when President Trump demanded that the Senate remove
the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees, so he and Mitch McConnell could
stack our Court with extreme far-right justices. Surely President Biden
can make the same demand of this Democratic majority in order to preserve
our precious democracy.

The Senate reconvenes in just over 2 weeks and Majority Leader Schumer has
committed to making the For the People Act one of the very first orders of
business. So we need to make all of our efforts over these next several
weeks count like never before.



[ [link removed] ]Please keep standing with us by donating whatever you can right now to
save our democracy and protect the right to vote >>



The good news is that we’re getting their attention.

We had a ton of amazing press coverage of our event and our message,
including Rachel Maddow inviting me on her show to discuss our efforts.

The next morning, in the daily White House press briefing, journalist
April Ryan (who covered our event) grilled White House Press Secretary Jen
Psaki on the administration’s seemingly low-priority approach to trying to
move this legislation.

Biden has talked some tough talk on the need to protect voting from the
attacks we’re seeing in states like Georgia, Arizona, Texas, and others …
he gave a speech in Philadelphia calling it the “test of our time” and a
“national imperative.”

Now it’s time that he walks the walk. So, in addition to our ongoing
effort to keep pressure on senators, we’re going to keep pressing the
president to join us in this fight.

But we can only do it with your help.



[ [link removed] ]Please donate whatever you can right now to save democracy >>



Thank you for everything you do and for standing with People For to defend
democracy.

Onward,

Ben Jealous, President



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