Anonymous ID: f61680 July 19, 2021, 3:59 a.m. No.14153706   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1414238348294729730

 

Such a joy to celebrate these two special people, and their incredible bond, yesterday in Georgia.

Happy 75th anniversary, Jimmy and Rosalynn!

Anonymous ID: f61680 July 19, 2021, 4:01 a.m. No.14153714   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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>https://www.democracydocket.com/2021/07/the-fight-for-voting-rights-is-the-fight-for-our-democracy/

The Fight for Voting Rights Is The Fight For Our Democracy

July 7, 2021

By Hillary Rodham Clinton

 

When Democrats in the Texas Legislature walked out of the capitol in May to stop a suite of anti-democratic voting laws, they cast a spotlight on a crisis that extends far beyond the Lone Star State. Since the 2020 election with its historic turnout, lawmakers across the country have introduced nearly 400 bills making it harder to vote: purging voters from the rolls, making it more difficult to register, cutting back on early and absentee voting, getting rid of ballot drop boxes, even banning giving out food or water to people waiting in line at the polls.

 

Each of these proposals disproportionately prevents people of color from casting their ballots, and each is egregious in its own right. (They also pose a question: If your best strategy for winning elections is to block huge swaths of the electorate from voting, what does that say about the strength of your candidates and policies?) Combined, they add up to an even bigger problem โ€“ one that encompasses redistricting, Trumpโ€™s โ€œBig Lieโ€ and the anti-majoritarianism weโ€™re seeing from todayโ€™s Republican Party. We are witnessing a concerted attempt to destabilize the democratic process and delegitimize our multi-racial democracy, carried out in full view of the American people. As Democrats, itโ€™s not enough to push back one law, one court case or even one election at a time. We need to fundamentally change the way we think about and fight back against this blatant, sweeping effort.

 

The fight to ensure that every citizen can vote and have their vote counted has long been the defining struggle of our country. This historical thread runs from the Civil War to the Thirteenth and 19th Amendments to the Civil Rights Movement. The Voting Rights Act, and the laws interpreting it, have been at the core of much of the progress weโ€™ve made since its passage โ€“ a view that, until recently, was shared by Democrats and Republicans. I was in the U.S. Senate when we voted 98-0 to extend this landmark piece of legislation. We sifted through thousands of pages of evidence and heard hundreds of hours of testimony that showed just how desperately the Voting Rights Act was still needed. After our unanimous vote, the law was signed by a Republican president, George W. Bush.