After Senate Democrats approved the $3.5 trillion budget resolution, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer brought up a Motion to Discharge S. 1, the For The People Act. The Motion to Discharge S. 1 was also a party-line vote of 50-49. The anti-democratic insurrectionist Sedition Party remains committed to destroying American democracy with GQP Jim Crow 2.0 voter … Read more
Apparently there has been some progress on the negotiations for revised voting rights legislation. The New York Times reports, Schumer is said to tell senators to expect votes on voting rights legislation within days. Senate Democrats will make another, likely futile [60 votes for cloture], attempt to take up voting rights legislation in the coming … Read more
Democratic lawmakers, including more than 100 state legislators, rallied Tuesday outside the U.S. Capitol to urge the Senate to delay its summer recess until passing the For the People Act. The Washington Post reports, Democratic lawmakers rally in D.C. to demand the passage of voting rights legislation: The state lawmakers at Tuesday’s rally traveled from … Read more
Prominent civil rights leaders, the Revs. Jesse L. Jackson and Bishop William J. Barber II, were among about 200 people arrested outside the U.S. Capitol on Monday while protesting for Congress to end the filibuster, protect voting rights and raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. The Washington Post reports, Jesse Jackson among … Read more
Saturday was the fourth and final day of the Poor Peoples Campaign’s Georgetown-to-Austin Moral March For Democracy. Hundreds of marchers made their way to Austin, TX, on Saturday as thousands more joined them at a protest for voting rights. At Saturday’s rally, country music legend Willie Nelson led more than a thousand spectators in singing “vote … Read more