Tell Our Senators to Do What Is Needed to Protect Our Right to Vote

From Common Cause (http://www.commoncause.org):

This is big.

Majority Leader Schumer just announced that next week will be the first major procedural vote for the Freedom To Vote Act.

This will mark a new phase of our campaign to pass this transformative pro-democracy bill — and we expect that, thanks to your advocacy, 50 senators will vote in support.

But once Mitch McConnell filibusters it — and as we’re expecting, most or all Republicans join him — it’ll show how clear our choice is. Either we protect the freedom to vote, or protect the filibuster, an antiquated Senate loophole that lets McConnell block crucial legislation.

Reforming the filibuster is the clearest path forward for voting rights, and it all comes down to these next critical few weeks. No matter where you live, can you call your Senators at 1-833-497-4273 and tell them to do what it takes to protect our right to vote at https://actionnetwork.org/forms/log-your-call-senate-pass-for-the-people-act?

You and I both know that our freedom to vote is under attack. In the last year, we’ve seen numerous racist, anti-voter laws like those recently passed in Texas and Georgia go into effect.

If there’s anything we learned from the January 6 insurrection, it’s that our democracy is fragile and cannot be taken for granted. So, we can’t sit back and let our voting rights be stripped away from us.

That’s why we desperately need the Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The Freedom to Vote Act would ensure access to the ballot box, protect free and fair elections, and end partisan gerrymandering. The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act would restore the review process set forth in the Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court gutted in 2013 — a critical safeguard against letting racially discriminatory voting laws take effect — and bolster the landmark Voting Rights Act in other important ways.

Can you call your senator at 1-833-497-4273 and ask them to do whatever it takes to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act? Log your call and let us know how it went!

Every eligible voter deserves to cast their ballot free from obstruction and intimidation. But without the protections of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act, voters must overcome discriminatory laws and needless barriers just to have a voice in our democracy.

We can’t sit back and let our democracy crumble. Can you call your senators today?