Help keep the pressure on Senators Durbin and Duckworth to pass the most sweeping voter protection package since the 1960s. S.1 protects the right of every American to cast their vote, starting with the critical 2022 election. Add your name to this petition to let our Senators know you expect them to lead the fight to overcome Republican suppression tactics and protect your vote now!
Winning the election was only a first step
Republicans are responding to the Democrats winning control of the White House and Congress with a record number of state bills to limit our right to vote. Democrats need to seize the moment and ensure every vote is protected from these attacks.
What are YOU fighting for? It's all within reach, but only if Senate leaders are bold enough to grab it.
With House approval of the high-impact H.R.1 election reform package, the showdown is now up to the U.S. Senate. There is overwhelming public support for reforms, including modernized voter registration, updated public financing of elections through small donor matching funds, curbing partisan gerrymandering, and making campaign contributions more transparent.
Republicans want fewer votes cast, not an expanded electorate, and are preparing to kill these reforms by using the filibuster. Southern racists maximized this tool during the shameful Jim Crow era to block an anti-lynching bill and other civil rights legislation. Today, it's still a racist tool that can continue to limit rights for BIPOC voters. It is time for the Senate to consign it to the dustbin of history.
We know Senators Durbin and Duckworth support these election reforms. Now, they need to declare their commitment to doing whatever it takes to make them become law.
Add your name to the petition below to Senators Durbin and Duckworth calling for their leadership as our country arrives at this critical crossroads.
Citizens' petition
Senators Durbin and Duckworth: your leadership is critical.
Pass S.1 now, whatever it takes.
As your constituents, we are calling for the immediate passage of the democracy reform legislation, S.1, the For the People Act, to return power to all American voters.
H.R.1 will protect voting rights, end the dominance of big money in politics and fight corruption in our government. Along with the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act (H.R.4) and D.C. statehood bill, this legislation is urgently needed to combat the efforts of those who sought to overturn the 2020 election results, inflamed the January 6 insurrectionists and have introduced more than 250 voter suppression measures in 43 states. They say the quiet part out loud, affirming their goal to do whatever it takes to limit votes that would be cast against them. Without the protections of S.1, states will limit voters' access to register and cast their vote with the singular goal of stifling the will of the people. This tyranny of the minority can destroy our democracy if you don't stop it now.
We sign this petition calling on Senator Duckworth to declare her commitment to passing S.1, whatever it takes--even if it means ending the filibuster, and calling on Senator Durbin to use is position as Majority Whip to gather the votes need to either pass S.1 or end the filibuster. Our democracy depends on the passage of this bill, and we're counting on you to get it done.