who had the temerity to show up and use their power in 2020 and in georgia in the 2021 runoff elections. your group, fair fight action, has an initiative going on called hot call summer. talk to me about that. we know that the best way to move legislation is to show them that we re paying attention. this is such an urgent summer. we are proud that 40,000 phone calls were made during the first phase of hot call summer, so we re encouraging voters to get brach at it. call 888-453-3211. you ll be patched through to your two u.s. senators so you can share your information and demand they take action to protect our democracy. you know it s been one year since the death of congressman
in order to access what seems to be one of the most kind and sympathetic things we could offer, which is that the ease of voting from home should be made available. we know these targeted bills are looking at people of color, they re looking at the disabled, they re looking at young voters, and they re trying to eliminate access for inconvenient voters who have the temerity to show up and use their power in 2020 and in georgia in the 2021 runoff elections. your group, fair fight action, has an initiative going on called hot call summer, trying to get people out and thinking about their voting rights. talk to me about that. we know that the best way to move legislators, to move leaders, is to show them we re paying attention. this is such an urgent summer. we re proud that 40,000 phone calls were made during the first phase of hot call summer. we re encouraging voters to call 888-453-3211. you ll be patched right through to your u.s. senator, your two
folks to dial again, 888-453-3211. but here is the difference. the john lewis voting rights advancement act is designed to say for new bills that would be proposed after its passage, those bills cannot take effect without being pre-cleared by the justice department if you are in one of the states that s covered by the voting rights advancement act. that s an important piece. but before we get there, we have to undo all of the bad that s already been done, so the voting rights advancement act will stop new bad from happening once it passes, but we still have to clean up all of the terrible bills, the 28 bills that have already passed and any that pass in the interim, and that s what the for the people act does. it says that no matter where you live in the united states, you live in georgia, which has good laws but certainly rules and has now new laws that negate the effectiveness of our good rules, or you live in a state that s been allowed to suppress your vote for years, that we all h
to convince voters that it is not worth the effort, to your point, about being gotv. it s to convince those, who decided to show up for the first time. who, you know, decided they were going to push through those barriers, once more, that s not worth it and it s trying to convince those who want to believe the big lie that there is something in it for them, on the other side. that, if they break done democracy, they get something better on the other side. unfortunately, we know that is autocracy. it is not designed for their benefit and not designed for america s benefit. so what do we do? we talk on our calls when we do our calls like what is the plan? what is the pushback? what do we do? so, number one, go to stopjimcrow 2.com. but we are asking everywhere to call their u.s. senators, both of them. call them every day. the number is 888-453-3211. 888-453-3211. when you call that number,
and to what the congressman said, we have two weeks until leader schumer said it is coming to the floor. that s why we have launched a huge effort. i am hoping i will get to talk about to encourage folks to call all of their senators because we have two weeks and a lot could happen in two weeks here. we didn t fight so hard in georgia with raphael warnock and johns on off and stacey abrams and every single activist here, we did that fight so hard and deal with the threats, the meanness, the voter suppression, giving up our holidays, working around the clock. we did not give that up for america with expectations our senate was going to deliver for voters, and we are going to push and we are going to make millions of calls this june and we re going around the country from new england to the south and southwest to make the case to the u.s. senate and to the american people that we have got to pass this bill. so if folks can pull out their phone right now and program in phone number. it is