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Friend,

Martin Luther King Jr. devoted his life to promoting and protecting civil rights and global human rights by ensuring justice is available for all people. Yet today, everything that he fought for is at risk. Democracy itself is at risk.

Since January 2021, more than 19 states across the country have enacted voter suppression laws that restrict the freedom to vote, undermine fair voting districts, and create pathways for future attempts to sabotage fair elections. After voters turned out in record numbers during the 2020 elections, democracy opponents systematically created more barriers for people ? especially people of color, who have been historically targeted for disenfranchisement ? to vote. In MLK Jr.'s home state of Georgia, the legislature created a plethora of additional ways to limit ballot access and confuse voters with a 98-page voting law [link removed].

What's more, archaic Senate rules from the Jim Crow era that have been used for decades to block popular bills to stop lynching, end poll taxes, and oppose workplace discrimination, are now being used to block voting rights. The weaponization of the filibuster is racism cloaked in procedure and it must go.

Today, our leaders have a historic opportunity to restore and protect our right to vote by passing comprehensive voting rights legislation at the federal level and codify the right to free and fair elections. Bills that have already passed the U.S. House but are being blocked in the Senate include the Freedom to Vote Act, Protecting Our Democracy Act, and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Washington, DC Admission Act. These bills would protect and strengthen the freedom to vote for all Americans.

This year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 17th, we are taking to the streets and focusing on action [link removed]. We're calling on Congress to reform Senate rules and deliver on voting rights now. Our right to vote can't wait. We need everyone to demand free and fair elections now. Join us, friend.

We must demand voting rights legislation now. We should not have to march once again for the same basic voting rights that Dr. King and civil rights leaders secured in the 1960s. But as Dr. King would have, we will continue to use our voices to call for what is right, what is just, and what is equitable. The power to make change lies in our hands, and we will not give up until we see the reform this country so desperately needs.

Join us to honor Dr. King with action [link removed].

Thank you,

Justin Kwasa
Voting Rights Program Director
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