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57 years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. One of the most impactful pieces of legislation in American history, the VRA prohibited voting discrimination on the basis of race. Finally, all Americans could exercise the fundamental right to vote.
We feel an obligation to carry on the work of the civil rights leaders who helped to pass the VRA. We constantly fight against maps that limit the influence of people of color in elections. The VRA should be the beginning, not the end, of powerful voting rights legislation.
If only everyone believed this.
Far-right Supreme Court justices ravaged key aspects of the VRA in Shelby County v. Holder, far-right Congressmen all voted against the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and now voter suppression and election denial are common ideologies amongst the far-right.
Democracy is on the ballot and on the docket, this much is clear.
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