John, the Electoral College coup was an attack on Black voters.

Ratified in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment ensures the right to vote regardless of race.

 

In the nearly 100 years between the Reconstruction Amendments and ratification of the Twenty-fourth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, white supremacists smothered the Black vote—with poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests, and any other method they could concoct.

 

Today, voter suppression efforts continue to plague the country—but earlier this month, we saw a new strategy for disenfranchising Black voters:

 

Just don’t count them.

 

That’s what Ted Cruz tried to do. Josh Hawley and Rick Scott tried, too. 

 

After the Trump legal team failed to specifically throw away votes from dense, Democratic-leaning urban areas in states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, the new Jim Crow Caucus opted to exclude entire slates of electors.

 

Just hours after domestic terrorists attacked Congress, Cruz, Hawley, Scott, Kevin McCarthy, and dozens more pushed forward in their attempt to throw out Black votes.

 

This is today’s Republican Party.

 

This is the legacy of Trumpism.

 

John, we must continue to fight until every seditionist and every white supremacist is vanquished from our nation’s political discourse.

 

Can you pitch in $100, $50, or $13 right now to help make the rest of Ted Cruz’s, Rick Scott’s, Josh Hawley’s, and Kevin McCarthy’s careers as politically painful as possible?

 

There must be accountability: for violence, for sedition, and for white supremacy in the halls of Congress.

 

Help us keep up the fight.

 

— Reed

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