Today, on the 57th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, we honor the generations of Americans and giants of the civil rights movement who marched and sacrificed so much—and even shed blood—for the right to vote. So many iconic figures come to mind… Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Medgar Evers. Diane Nash. Fannie Lou Hamer. John Lewis. Vivian Malone.

Today, I am thinking of my late sister-in-law, Vivian, who endured unimaginable hatred, racism, and vitriol as she integrated the University of Alabama in 1963.

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Exciting announcement: For the past year, I’ve been working with @SammyKoppelman on a book about the most important issue facing our country: The attack on our right to vote.

It’s out May 10th—and today, you can preorder it: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705040/o… I know this has been a very disappointing month in this fight. 

One of the lessons of this book though is that we only became a democracy in the first place because, at moments exactly like this one, committed people refused to give up. 

And that's the task before us today.