democratic senators, we were unable to pass the freedom to vote john r. lewis act which would ve solved so many of the problems we are now seeing, including putting an end to some much of the voter suppression that has been enacted. last year in at least 19 states. and of course, over 400 voter suppression bills were introduced last year in state houses across the country. congressman, you, know we started with this story about the catfish guy. it s a ridiculous story. but that sort of the point of the story. it s ridiculous, but there are people entertaining these ridiculous ideas of voter fraud because they don t exist. and yet, it is working, it is making some people say, well we have to make sure that voting is safe in this country, we have to take away any possibility that it wouldn t be safe, and to the extent that people don t understand that these restrictions are eroding democracy, what argument do we make to right minded people to say, stop listening to the bs?
us out tonight. i appreciate your time. this is heavy, this is big stuff. you are writing to the attorney general of the united states to basically say, we are running out of options, we are running out of time. democracy is being undermined, you might be the last hope. always good to be with you. this is of existential importance. the question before us is whether we will continue to have a democracy moving forward. you already noted that because of the unanimous obstruction of my republican colleagues over at the senate, and, of course, the obstruction of just two democratic senators, we were unable to pass the freedom to vote john r. lewis act which would ve solved so many of the problems we are now seeing, including putting an end to some much of the voter suppression that has been enacted. last year in at least 19 states. and of course, over 400 voter suppression bills were introduced last year in state houses across the country.