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Stand With Protesters Fighting for Black Voting Rights

Thousands of people gathered in Alabama to defend voting rights, fair representation, and the future of democracy — and they need our support.

After recent court decisions weakened key protections in the Voting Rights Act, communities across the South are mobilizing against efforts to redraw maps in ways that dilute Black political power and silence voters.

From Selma to Montgomery, people marched, organized, and raised their voices in the spirit of the civil rights movement that transformed this country generations ago.

This movement is about protecting a fundamental promise: that every community deserves an equal voice and fair representation at the ballot box.

For decades, civil rights leaders fought, marched, and sacrificed to secure voting rights. Now, a new generation is carrying that fight forward and refusing to let those hard-won protections be erased.

Democracy is strongest when every voter can participate freely and every community is heard.

Add your name to stand with the protesters, advocates, and communities fighting to protect Black voting rights and defend democracy across the South.
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