LISTEN: Fred Wertheimer On Biden’s Speech, McConnell’s Threats, And “Decision Time” On Voting Rights
Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer on Background Briefing With Ian Masters on January 11, 2022. (18 minutes)
Press Releases Archive
Sen. McConnell’s Latest Threats Against Modifying The Filibuster Rules Give New Meaning to “Chutzpah”
|Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Filibuster McConnell Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellStatement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s latest threats against modifying the filibuster rules give new meaning to the word “chutzpah.” McConnell reportedly said today that if Democrats “nuke” the filibuster, Republicans will act “in ways that are more inconvenient for the majority and this White House then anyone has seen in living […]
UPDATE: D21 Report — The Senate Filibuster, 1806 – 2021
|Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Filibuster Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellView & Download This Report As A PDF By: Fred Wertheimer, President, Democracy 21 | UPDATED: January 2022 The United States Senate is facing a decision of historic consequence with the fate of our democracy at stake. Will 50 Senators plus the Vice President be able to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and override […]
The Atlantic: It’s Time For Democrats To Break The Glass
|Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Filibuster Voting Rightsby Jackie Howell“Democracy is at stake this month, and that is not hyperbole.” – D21 President Fred Wertheimer in The Atlantic “The next few weeks will likely answer the most crucial question that emerged from last year’s insurrection by supporters of Donald Trump: Can one political party defend American democracy on its own?” Ronald Brownstein, senior editor of […]
Wertheimer/Eisen Op-Ed In The Washington Post: Fixing The Electoral Count Act Is No Substitute For Real Election Reform
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Election Interference Electoral Count Act Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellNo one should fall for the Electoral Count Act “bait & switch,” D21 President Fred Wertheimer and Norman Eisen, President Obama’s ethics czar, write. With the Senate finally scheduling action to address the national epidemic of voter suppression and election hijacking laws, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other Republicans have suddenly found an alternative they […]
E.J. Dionne Jr. In The Washington Post: Real Accountability For Jan. 6 Requires Political Reform
|Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Jan. 6 Voting Rightsby Jackie Howell“The Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was an attempt, through force and violence, to overturn the will of the majority expressed in a free and fair election,” Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. writes in a new op-ed. “In a well-functioning democratic republic,” he writes, “its anniversary would engender a commitment across party lines to protecting and enhancing […]
D21 Vice President Matt Keller Discusses Status Of Voting Rights Legislation And More In New Interview
|Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Filibuster Freedom To Vote Act Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellThe Surreal News | Friday, December 17, 2021 “We’re on the cusp of passing the most transformational reform and voting rights legislation since Watergate,” Democracy 21 Vice President Matt Keller tells Lew Lorini, host of The Surreal News, on his program last week. The Surreal News airs weekly on WSLR-FM in Sarasota, Florida […]
Op-Ed: Catholic Sister Quincy Howard, Arrested For Voting Rights Protest, Explains: “Our Democracy Is Worth It.”
|Press Releases |Voting Rightsby Jackie Howell“We have a national responsibility.” – Dominican Sister Quincy Howard, O.P. In October, Dominican Sister Quincy Howard, O.P., along with other civil rights activists were arrested in Washington, DC for their non-violent protests urging passage of voting rights legislation – the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. “Despite the […]
E.J. Dionne Jr. In The Washington Post: President Biden, Push The Voting Bills Now
|Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Filibuster Voting Rightsby Jackie Howell“It’s time to make it all about democracy.” – E.J. Dionne Jr. “Precisely because the dangers to democracy often don’t become obvious to everyone until it’s too late, Biden needs to make raising the alarm his priority. ‘We are in a battle for the soul of this nation,’ he said in 2019. We still are,” […]
Democracy 21 Report: A Timeline Of The Senate Filibuster, 1806 – 2021
|Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Filibuster Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellView And Download This Report As A PDF By: Fred Wertheimer, President, Democracy 21 | December 2021 The United States Senate is facing a decision of historic consequence with the fate of our democracy at stake. Will 50 Senators plus the Vice President be able to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and override […]
