Fight passage of the SAVE act!
Read up on the act and then CALL your senator’s offices or WRITE a PERSONAL email (it does not need to be
As U.S. citizens, our national identity and our faith identity call us to honor and uphold the rights and mutual responsibility of all our fellow Americans.
The Founding Fathers could not or did not imagine a society in which all citizens would be equal under the law, and as a result, the U.S. Constitution did not originally give all Americans access to the same rights, such as the right to vote. But as our country matured, Constitutional amendments progressively expanded voting rights in the U.S. to black men, former slaves, women, indigenous persons, and eventually all people over the age of 18. These changes made the democratic process more inclusive and representative of the population.
President Lyndon Johnson used the power of his office to endorse and enforce this inclusion. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were both drafted in the conference room of the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism in Washington, DC, a powerful symbol of the religious imperative to move from freeing the oppressed to making the resources required for living a liberated life accessible to all.
Today we are seeing a reversal of the expansion of voting rights. In contrast to President Johnson, President Trump signed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) act to block tens of millions of eligible American citizens from registering to vote. Texas state law is founded on spurious assumptions about voter fraud, leaving voters, voter registrars, and election workers vulnerable to inquisition by the Attorney General.
Today Faith Commons co-convenes Dallas VOTES with the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas. Dallas VOTES is a nonpartisan, multi-sector coalition committed to making voting in Dallas
County safe, accessible, and efficient. Dallas VOTES seeks to secure a strong democracy through citizen participation in voting, and fair, transparent, accountable, and effective administration of the voting process. Faith Commons will continue to uphold the example and the promise of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act through co-convening Dallas VOTES and engaging in local, state and federal advocacy with other organizations engaged in this work.
Read up on the act and then CALL your senator’s offices or WRITE a PERSONAL email (it does not need to be
Become members of these organizations to stay up to date on the barriers to voting and what you can do to lower