We can have democracy, or we can have the filibuster. We can’t have both.

It’s really that simple, John.

Last week Senate Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act using the mere threat of a filibuster.

They’re threatening the same action against a host of legislation deadlocked in the Senate. The For the People Act, the PRO Act, the Dream Act, The Equality Act, and so much more all hang in the balance because of the Jim Crow filibuster.

With Republican-controlled state legislatures racing to pass a tsunami of voter suppression bills, we need an assertive response at the federal level to protect our most crucial right: the right to vote.

It’s not just voting rights at risk. It’s all the things that won’t get passed if we can’t turn out enough votes for progressive candidates.

Every year that we don’t have Medicare for All is another year that 45,000 people die because they can’t get the healthcare they need.

Every year we don’t pass the Green New Deal is another year of increasingly extreme storms, flooding, and droughts, destroying people’s homes and disrupting our food supply.

 

Every year that we don’t pass a living wage, millions of families slip into poverty and fall into risk of becoming unhoused.

If people can’t vote, they can’t hold their elected leaders accountable, and they can’t elect the kind of leaders who will look out for their interests.

That’s what we’re working to change at Brand New Congress, and we need your help. We have 22 candidates on the ballot for 2022, and three of them are Senate candidates.

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Everything we’re fighting for is on the line. Living wages, stopping the climate crisis, racial justice, worker power, universal healthcare, voting rights -- all of it hinges on ending the filibuster.

We can’t afford to be cynical and give up on a gridlocked Congress. We have to break that gridlock by getting people’s champions like Brand New Congress candidates elected.

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Let’s get some work done.

Adrienne Bell
Executive Director
Brand New Congress