Friend – Trump got into office on the promises of lowering costs and no new wars. He lied and Republicans know it will cost them at the ballot box in November.
Trump has been regularly and consistently pushing proven lies about rampant noncitizen voter fraud and false accusations of Democrats cheating to win. He's still trying to say that the 2020 election was stolen from him – which multiple courts found to not be true at all!
And now, he's ordered the Senate to make it harder for tens of millions of eligible citizens to vote in future elections – and make it easier for the GOP to interfere with results they dislike – by passing the most egregious voter suppression and surveillance bill in U.S. history.
Recently passed by the House, the SAVE America Act would require citizens to show in-person proof of citizenship, like a birth certificate or passport, to register to vote and photo ID to cast a ballot – effectively levying illegal poll taxes. It'd also force states to conduct monthly voter roll purges via a centralized DHS voter surveillance database, and take effect immediately – potentially stripping voting rights from:
Roughly 70 million married women and more whose names no longer match their birth certificates,
Millions of active-duty military, who will have to prove citizenship every time they re-register to vote after moving,
Families who've lost important records after natural disasters,
Older Americans, who have lost their original documents over the years,
Young and/or poor voters, who may not yet have or be able to afford a passport, which starts at $165!
– right on time for the midterms.
I've said since day one that the SAVE America Act was dead on arrival if it ever made it to the Senate. And for a while, it was. But after Trump called out Senate Republicans live on national TV, it could come to the floor for a real vote any day now.
So what we do at this moment will make all the difference.
In the days ahead, I'll be fighting tooth and nail in the Other Washington, demanding senators on both sides of the aisle block this shameful bill. But time and again, friend, we've seen that the only thing capable of cutting through Trump's primary threats and social media pressure campaigns is a nonstop, nationwide deluge of public outrage.
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