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I’m writing to you from Atlanta, where moments ago I met with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The topic at hand was voting rights, and NAACP’s demand was quite straight forward:

We need to see outcomes.

For the sake of our democracy in 2022, there is absolutely nothing more urgent than passing sweeping voting rights legislation. And I say this now, directly to Congress: the clock has run out on excuses, partisanship, and the blatant disregard of American voters.

This is a pivotal midterm election year, yet across this nation, restrictive voting laws continue to block access to the ballot box for millions of Americans. Without changes to our current system, all voters face the danger of disenfranchisement. We’ve had our voting rights suppressed, continually threatened, and taken away.

There’s no more time for hopeful speeches. What we need now is a strategy to get the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act to President Biden’s desk for a signature.

We cannot afford to wait one more day to protect everyone's right to vote. The Supreme Court and legislatures around the country have already stripped us of these protections and the foundation of our democracy.

I hope you feel my sense of urgency because I need you to act now. Contact your senator today, and demand that they pass voting rights legislation. It’s the only thing that can save our democracy.