Happy 4th of July

🗽 People Power United champions progressive values and power to the people.

I want to take this opportunity to wish you a happy fourth of July! Our freedom should be cherished each and every day. I often share with folks my responsibilities as a mom include feeding, clothing, educating, and loving my child-but I also have a great responsibility as a mother-and that is to advocate for my child (and all children’s) rights and freedoms. I believe that too many have died for our freedom and we can and must continue to fight for others to enjoy a world without fascism.

"There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage." ~ Robert Adams

I want to wish you and your the family the best for the holiday and invite you to join me in championing the Freedom to Vote.

Together we can realize a democracy that represents, reflects, and responds to all of us. For far too long, special interests, ultra-wealthy donors, and vote suppressors have dominated our politics and attempted to silence the voices of everyday Americans, especially in Black and Brown communities. The Freedom to Vote Act would help shift power away from bad actors and transfer it to “we the people.”

Now is the time to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act

Can you take 1 (one) minute and send a letter to your member of Congress and ask them to co-sponsor and support the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act?

Specifically, the Freedom to Vote Act would:  

• Respond directly to new laws around the country aimed squarely at making it harder for people to vote--which will disproportionately impact communities of color--by setting commonsense standards for safe, convenient practices like early voting, automatic voter registration and vote-by-mail.

• Protect the integrity of our elections by adding new safeguards against election sabotage, such as partisan efforts to remove local election administrators and harassment of poll workers.

• Ban gerrymandering and prevent states from adopting congressional maps based unduly on voters’ political party or race.

• Reduce the power of special interests in our elections by shining a light on secret political spending and getting big money out of politics.

If enacted, the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act would be the most significant, comprehensive anti-corruption and voting rights bill in generations. This transformational legislation is also essential to counteract the many voter suppression and sabotage laws recently enacted in at least 20 states. Reforms contained in the bill are popular, and many of them are tried-and-true solutions that have passed in red, blue, and purple states.

Can you take 1 (one) minute and send a letter to your member of Congress and ask them to co-sponsor and support the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act?

Thanks for speaking up for our freedom to vote!