We will continue to fight alongside progressives to make sure the Senate passes the reconciliation bill before final passage of a smaller infrastructure package.
We need the John Lewis Voting Rights Act signed into law, along with the For the People Act, as soon as is humanly possible -- without these bills, there will be no end to the GOP’s march towards authoritarianism.
The primary threat to the Supreme Court as an institution isn’t a mystery: it's the manipulation of the Court by partisan actors and external, dark-money organizations, including the theft of two seats in the last five years, to install six conservative justices who care more about Republican political outcomes than they do about upholding the law.
It is absolutely unacceptable that in the face of mass unemployment, racial injustice, a pandemic, a broken health care system, and the climate crisis these members are refusing to provide desperately needed recovery to people.
As we’ve said from the beginning, there is no democracy reform in the world that Senate Republicans will support. And early this morning, Republicans proved it again, by voting against bringing the For the People Act to the floor.
This budget resolution is the first step towards realizing the demands that Indivisibles and activists across the country have been fighting for: an inclusive recovery bill that invests in our communities and addresses the overlapping crises we face.
Once again, the For the People Act finds itself at a critical juncture. With the news that the Census data used in the congressional map-drawing process will now be released on Thursday, it is now more urgent than ever for the Senate to pass this bill into law, and ban partisan gerrymandering once and for all. If not, unscrupulous Republicans will draw themselves into a majority for the foreseeable future, despite regularly getting millions upon millions of fewer votes than their Democratic counterparts.