A Message from Chuck Schumer About Voting Rights
The fight for our democracy is a grueling one, but it's one worth having.
Republicans know they’re on pace for a catastrophic defeat this November. But instead of changing course and trying to win back the trust they’ve forfeited, they’ve decided to try to rewrite election rules for their own benefit.
Recently, Trump’s Supreme Court majority destroyed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. For more than 60 years, the VRA has protected our most fundamental constitutional freedoms -- but now, a 6-3 decision allows Republicans to gerrymander their congressional and legislative maps to purposefully disenfranchise Black voters.
All of this was only possible because Senate Republicans pushed through three of Trump’s handpicked, extremist nominees for the Supreme Court. Make no mistake: Trump’s strategy to attack voting rights is intentional, and it’s been years in the making.
Trump has proven he’ll stop at nothing to undermine our democracy. We must continue to stand up to defend our most sacred rights.
Trump wants us to give up -- but no matter what, we’re going to keep up the fight. All he is doing is motivating us to fight harder.
Trump’s already told me to “go to hell.” I wear that as a badge of honor.
Republicans’ latest obsession is infringing on the rights of Americans to cast their ballots, including those who vote by mail, so that they can control who gets to cast a ballot. They want to force states to follow along with this scheme, but we are not about to let that happen. When Trump signed this unconstitutional Executive Order, the DSCC immediately sued to block it. Why? Because the fight for our democracy is a grueling one, but it’s one worth having.
Trump wants to wear us down and make us so used to his power grabs that we ignore them. He’s trying to convince us that we’ve already lost the fight, that any resistance is a waste of time. He wants us to believe that subverting our democracy is acceptable. You and I both know that we can never let him have that victory.
Every time we challenge Trump in court, every time we raise our voices to protest his actions, and every time we work to defeat another one of his allies, we are doing our part to stop Trump from achieving his ultimate goal of unlimited, unchecked power.
Each individual action may seem small, but together they add up to send a message that Trump’s attacks on our rights won’t stand.
If you’re looking to get involved, now’s your chance. The DSCC is leading the fight against Trump’s anti-voting-rights crusade, and they’re also the only party committee solely working to flip the Senate blue and unseat some of Trump’s most loyal enablers. They need the resources to win this fight, so if you can, please consider donating anything you can.
What I want more than anything is for Trump and his Senate allies to face devastating defeat at the ballot box in November. It’s why each of us, in whatever way we can, must be even more unrelenting than he is. He won’t give up his power willingly, so we have to take it from him this November.
Thank you for joining me in this fight,
Chuck Schumer
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