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John, today we recognize the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday
in Selma, Alabama, when civil rights heroes including a then 25-year-old
John Lewis crossed a bridge named after a Confederate officer, U.S.
Senator, and Ku Klux Klansman named Edmund Pettus.

On the other side of that bridge, John and his colleagues were met by
officers of the state who beat them within an inch of their lives.

But in order to tell that story, we need to go many decades further back,
to 1890.

That was the year that Representative Henry Cabot Lodge introduced the
Federal Elections Bill to appoint federal supervisors in U.S. House
elections, to ensure that Black Americans could exercise their
Constitutional right to vote.

Segregationists filibustered and killed the Lodge bill, and just a few
years after the hope and promise of Reconstruction, Jim Crow became the
law of the land all across the American South.

When the activism of John Lewis and others brought the Voting Rights Act
of 1965 up again, segregationists again filibustered the bill for over two
months.

The history of the filibuster is not noble, or bipartisan, or even a part
of how our Constitution is written. It is a relic of Jim Crow, and we must
acknowledge that.

It has an ugly history of denying Constitutional rights, entrenching white
supremacy, and subjugating Black Americans to minority rule.

This is living history. In 2013, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting
Rights Act that John Lewis put his life on the line to pass, and ever
since then, Republicans have done everything they can to turn back the
clock.

In the last Congress, Republican Senators again used the filibuster to
deny passage of bills we passed in the House — H.R. 1, the For the People
Act, and H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

[ [link removed] ]The Senate filibuster has been the enemy of American democracy for over
100 years, and it is time we abolish it to pass comprehensive voting
rights legislation. That is how we can honor the sacrifice of John Lewis
and so many others. If you agree we must abolish the Senate filibuster and
pass voting rights, add your name today.

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I hope this bit of history gives you some perspective and renews your
commitment to our fight for justice and democracy. Thanks for doing your
part by adding your name today.

— Adam

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