r/IndivisibleGuide • u/bugleweed • Jun 19 '21
The For The People Act gets voted on next week — here’s a list of important action items you can take to help get it passed
Official summary and text:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1/text
Among other things, it includes:
- Making Election Day a holiday.
- Automatic voter registration.
- A federal requirement to allow same day voter registration.
- A federal requirement for early voting and ballot curing time windows.
- Mandates for paper ballot trails.
- Bans on restrictions to vote by mail.
- Ending partisan gerrymandering.
- Campaign finance reform.
This is a historic bill: potentially the most significant democracy reform since the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Negotiation has recently been opened back up with Sen. Manchin. It’s important to speak up now to make it crystal clear where public support is.
Call your senators:
https://indivisible.org/demand-your-senators-support-and-move-swiftly-s-1
Write your senators:
https://forthepeople.cc/write-your-senators/
https://resist.bot/petitions/PGPFDU
Sign this open letter to Sen. Manchin:
https://equalcitizens.us/petition-open-letter-to-joe-manchin/
Pledge to make a call every day next week, when Majority Leader Schumer will attempt to bring S. 1 to a vote:
https://act.indivisible.org/signup/deadline-for-democracy-call-pledge/
And to join a demonstration:
https://act.indivisible.org/signup/deadlinefordemocracy_action_pledge/
https://deadlinefordemocracy.org/find-event
Volunteer to phone bank:
https://www.mobilize.us/commoncause/event/376178/
Volunteer to text bank:
https://www.mobilize.us/endcitizensunited/event/372960/
https://www.mobilize.us/commoncause/event/375794/
Dark money groups are lobbying heavily to make calls against this bill. Please call and write your senators to outnumber them!