Thread by @RepTerriSewell

Today, with enormous pride and endless gratitude for those who marched here before me, I will be standing at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to announce the introduction of #HR4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, in the 117th Congress.

I know I don't stand here alone. I stand on the shoulders of the countless brave men and women who fought, bled, and died here before me so that every American, regardless of their background, could enjoy the most sacred and fundamental right our nation offers—the right to vote.

As history teaches us, progress is elusive. Today, old battles have become new again as we face the most coordinated effort to restrict the right to vote in generations & a Supreme Court keen on destroying our nation's most consequential civil rights law, the #VotingRightsAct.

Passing the #HR4 means restoring critical provisions of the #VotingRightsAct gutted by SCOTUS. It means restoring the FULL promise of our democracy by ensuring that states with a recent history of voter discrimination are once again subject to federal oversight.

We must #RestoreTheVote and I will not stop fighting until we do. Today and tomorrow and the day after that until #HR4 is signed into law.

Tune in today at 12pm CT: facebook.com/RepSewell