The current state of voting rights in America is worse than when the Voting Rights Act was passed. A movement seeks to recreate conditions akin to 1865 rather than 1965. The integrity of the democratic system is undermined by purged voting rolls and restricting laws that impact access to voting, healthcare, jobs, and home ownership. Donald Trump's influence exacerbates these issues, fostering voter disenfranchisement and empowering a judiciary that systematically dismantles civil rights. The fear of retaliation creates a chilling effect on voter participation, deepening the crisis.
Those of us fighting to protect the right to vote find ourselves against a movement that doesn't want to take us back to 1965. They want to create an America that more closely resembles the one of 1865.
The erosion of our rights is playing out before our eyes. Purged voting rolls have helped to install a regime that arrests undocumented people and American citizens alike.
Empowering states to create restrictive laws has yielded less access to not only the right to vote, but to healthcare, jobs and home ownership.
Trump's campaign against voting rights marches on, as he fills the courts with judges who will continue to kill civil rights through a thousand cuts.
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