The For the People Act:
Talking points and resources you can use
to add greater detail to your letters

Key talking points to include in your letters/postcards
to congressional reps or letters to the editor

Americans deserve fair elections. Fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy.
Every aspect of the voting process — from registration to casting a ballot — must be accessible to all voters.
The more people who vote, the better. Democracy is a participatory system!
All levels of government should strive to make voting easier for citizens, not harder.
States should not be able to make voting more difficult for some groups of voters than others.
Racial discrimination must not be permitted to play a part in voting rights.
Redistricting should be conducted by fair, independent agencies, not by politicians who want to manipulate districts to their own advantage.

Elected officials must represent the people of this country — not corporations and wealthy donors.
The 2010 Citizens United SCOTUS decision gave corporations and the ultra-wealthy enormous power over our elections — and took power away from voters.
Campaigns financed by the ultra-wealthy and corporations (1) encourages corruption, and (2) lets elected officials disregard the needs and values of their constituents.
We must use all available legislative avenues to rein in corporate influence, and restore power to actual voters and constituents.

Voters should choose their elected officials; elected officials shouldn't get to choose their voters!
Partisan gerrymandering disenfranchises voters.
Redistricting must be a fair, impartial, and transparent process, with clear criteria and independent citizen commissions.

Our democracy depends on the citizens' ability to TRUST the outcome of an election.
We must safeguard our elections from interference from outside parties, domestic or foreign.
To guarantee secure elections, we must replace paperless voting systems, promote robust audits of election results, and conduct responsible oversight of election-system vendors.

Citizens should be able to trust that leaders in all three branches of government care about democracy and will follow basic ethical guidelines.
The previous administration’s flaunting of long-standing traditional ethical standards has demonstrated that ethical behaviors must be encoded into law.
Tax returns must be disclosed; the Office of Government Ethics must be strengthened; conflict-of-interest rules must be strengthened; the revolving door between elected positions and lobbying must be stopped; and a code of ethics must be implemented for the Supreme Court.

Congress Must Pass the 'For the People Act' — from the Brennan Center For Justice

Annotated Guide to the For the People Act of 2021 — from the Brennan Center For Justice

Resources (scroll down to the section “What does the For the People Act (H.R. 1) do?") — from Declaration for American Democracy

Senate Prioritizes Safeguarding Democracy by Designating For the People Act as First Senate Bill (S. 1) — from Common Cause
Making Democracy Reform a Priority: the For the People Act and DC Statehood — from Indivisible

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