This voting rights bill is critical for America’s democracy, but nowhere will it do more good than Texas. Through racial gerrymander, voter ID and hundreds of polling place closures we’ve become the most voter suppressed state in the country. 1/5 nytimes.com/2021/03/03/us/…
The only way we get real democracy in Texas, where more than 7 million eligible voters didn’t vote in 2020, is for the Senate to pass this & for President Biden to sign it. (It will also help the 42 other states where more than 250 voter suppression bills are pending.) 2/5
It picks up where the 1965 Voting Rights Act left off, eliminating gerrymandering, reducing the influence of dark money, mandating automatic voter registration & early voting, restoring voting rights to returning citizens and making it harder to delete voters from the rolls. 3/5
With the enfranchisement of tens of millions who are no longer left out of our democracy, everyone can be at the table when decisions are made. And that allows America to make progress on the biggest issues before us, like jobs, justice, climate, healthcare and immigration. 4/5
But it won’t happen if Senate Democrats fold in the face of Republican obstruction.
Reform the filibuster and allow for a majority vote.
If Senate Dems fail, we lose this last best chance at democracy and they will soon find themselves in the minority.
5/5
Reform the filibuster and allow for a majority vote.
If Senate Dems fail, we lose this last best chance at democracy and they will soon find themselves in the minority.
5/5
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