Let's be honest about what's happening to the right to vote in this country.
I've spent my entire career in Congress fighting to expand it. I authored the Help Students Vote Act to make sure young people could register and cast a ballot without jumping through hoops designed to discourage them. I helped pass the For the People Act through the House — the most significant expansion of voting rights in a generation.
I have believed, every single day I've served, that our democracy gets stronger every time we make it easier for people to participate, not harder. That belief is under direct attack right now — and I need you with me. Will you chip in $25 or $50 to Equal Opportunity Now today to help us fight back against this assault on the right to vote?
The SAVE Act would require Americans to produce a passport or a birth certificate just to register to vote. Think about that for one second. Millions of Americans — students, seniors, married women whose names don't match their birth certificates, working people who have never needed a passport because they've never needed to leave the country — would suddenly find the ballot box locked, and the key is a document they don't have.
Utah just conducted one of the most exhaustive citizenship reviews of any state in this country's history — more than two million registered voters — and found exactly one confirmed case of a noncitizen registering. Zero instances of a noncitizen voting.
So let's call this exactly what it is:
It is not election security. It is election engineering. It is a deliberate, calculated effort to decide the outcome of elections before a single vote is cast — by making sure fewer of the "wrong" people get to cast one.
I did not run for Congress to watch that happen. I built my career trying to open the door to democracy wider, not slam it shut on the people who need it most.
That is exactly why Equal Opportunity Now exists. We are fighting for leaders who understand that democracy isn't real unless everyone gets to participate in it — and who will stand up against every single attempt to rig the rules before the game even starts.
Will you chip in $5, $10, or $25 to Equal Opportunity Now today to help us elect them?
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