Stacey Abrams

What Senator Manchin is putting forward are some bake building blocks that we need to ensure that democracy is accessible no matter your geography.

I am endorsing the fact that we now have a list of priorities and that Joe Manchin is at the table and he’s part of the conversation. It’s an important step forward as we tried to protect the freedom to vote and protect access to the vote…

What Senator Manchin is putting forward are some basic building blocks that we need to ensure that democracy is accessible, no matter your geography. And those provisions that he`s setting forth are strong ones that will create a level…

Voter suppression began with the inception of this nation. But what has happened in the 21st century is that it`s been digitized.

The insurrection is continuing and we`ve got to stop it in its tracks with the For the People Act though hot call summer.

The challenge is, to the extent we have secretaries of state, who support and suborn this behavior, they are hastening the demise of our democracy.

These laws do things. One, they`re anti-voter. They are designed to stop voters that the Republicans found inconvenient in this last election.

So, insurrection is continuing and we`ve got to stop it in its tracks with the For the People Act through hot call summer.

We have to remember that politicians are often motivated by money, peer pressure, or attention.

We know there are a number of U.S. senators who stand to lose their elections in 2022 if we do not protect our democracy.

Insurrection is continuing and we`ve got to stop it in its tracks with the For the People Act through hot call summer.

Well, I`m -- I`m deeply concerned because it`s worked before. We keep forgetting that voter suppression isn`t new. And these are variations on the theme.

We need a hot call summer because they need to know that they cannot withstand the force of the American people when we decide to protect our democracy.

We’ve got to amplify this so this is a national conversation. They are successful when they convince us it is parochial, only happening to some people. It’s only happening in the South. It’s only happening to black people. No. This is…

The Republicans have said to themselves, we may not like the outcome so we`re going to wrest away the power that we have invested in our election workers, people who are putting their time and their talent and their lives on the line…

We cannot afford to be distracted by one or two or three attacks, we`ve got to realize that this is a fuselage and they are attacking every vestige of the system, because they want the entire thing to either be so broken, that we no longer…

I think it`s an important step to take. We do need to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act because it is the only way to preclude new laws that will erode access to the right to vote.

It is dangerous to America to lose our democracy.

This is a coordinated attack on our democracy by Heritage Action, by the Republican National Committee, by the big lie and all these purveyors, and this is their next attempt to undermine our democracy.

I think it's important that the voting rights standards that are embedded in the For The People Act that they pass.

I object to the provisions that remove access to the right to vote that shorten the federal runoff period from nine weeks to four weeks.

We have to protect the right to vote not to defend a party, but to defend the ideals of our nation.

Either they're lying, then or they were lying, or they're lying now.

It's a continuation of the big lie. But more importantly, and more concerningly, it's a continuation of the insurrection of this attempt to descend, descend franchise voters and dismiss the legitimacy of our elections.

you know what, when you don`t go to a meeting for a while, you don`t lose your right to assemble.