John, On Wednesday night, 52 US Senators used a Jim Crow relic to block passage of federal protections for voting rights. In filibustering the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, all 50 Republican Senators, along with Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, showed that they were unwilling to protect the very bedrock of our democracy. The fight in Congress to protect the right to vote will continue. But there is more that can be done right now to stop the attack on voting rights in the states. Just this week, Texas made headlines for rejecting nearly half of its mail-in ballot requests, as well as rationing voter registrations due to a lack of paper. Attempts to suppress the vote in states across the country following the 2020 election have led to a rollback of decades of progress on voting rights. On this, our 12th anniversary since our founding, Free Speech For People remains committed to protecting a democracy that provides every American with an equal voice and an equal vote. In Arizona, we have filed a lawsuit to challenge two voter suppression laws recently passed by the legislature that will disproportionately disenfranchise Black, Native American, and Latino voters by removing 150,000 people from the state’s Permanent Early Voting List and by drastically reducing the time available for voters to fix a mail-in ballot that is missing a signature. We have also filed a federal lawsuit to challenge Texas’s SB 1, which entails wide-sweeping voting restrictions and greenlights methods of voter intimidation. These laws are unconstitutional. They are in direct violation of the First, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. While Congress fails to protect our most basic democratic rights, we must do everything in our power to block these laws in court. For twelve years, we have fought to restore our democracy to we, the people. And we’ll keep fighting for as long as it takes. Thank you for continuing to stand with us. In solidarity, John Bonifaz
President, Free Speech For People | 
