<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">As John Oliver said last week (sitting in for Jon Stewart) "There's a hole in the middle of<div>the Voting Rights Act that's exactly the shape of Justice Robert's middle finger."<br><div><br><div style="font-size: 10pt; "><span style="margin: 1em 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2748?t=1&akid=2982.1237097.QcKtCm" target="blank"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.colorofchange.org/images/infographic-2013_07_02-share_this_1.png" alt="It took just minutes for the right wing to exploit their victory. Immediately after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, right wing officials in five states began to dismantle voting protections."></a><a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2749?t=2&akid=2982.1237097.QcKtCm" target="blank"> <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.colorofchange.org/images/infographic-2013_07_02-share_this_2.png" alt="Throwing out [part of the VRA] when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet."></a><a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2748?t=3&akid=2982.1237097.QcKtCm" target="blank"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.colorofchange.org/images/infographic-2013_07_02-share_this_3.png" alt="Since we passed it the VRA blocked more than 1,500 laws
across the country, primarily in the South...and it was working."></a><a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2748?t=4&akid=2982.1237097.QcKtCm" target="blank"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.colorofchange.org/images/infographic-2013_07_02-share_this_4.png" alt="The VRA protected our freedom to vote — as Black people, women, young people and other people of color — and we were beginning to make a difference in elections"></a><a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2748?t=5&akid=2982.1237097.QcKtCm" target="blank"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.colorofchange.org/images/infographic-2013_07_02-share_this_5.png" alt="We were voting at record rates and building power. We're electing leaders who look like us, who fight for us, who inspire us; who pass laws our families need."></a><a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2748?t=6&akid=2982.1237097.QcKtCm" target="blank"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.colorofchange.org/images/infographic-2013_07_02-share_this_6.png" alt="And our progress scares the right wing."></a><a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2748?t=7&akid=2982.1237097.QcKtCm" target="blank"> <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.colorofchange.org/images/infographic-2013_07_02-share_this_7.png" alt="Right wing forces across the country are manipulating the rules to make it harder for people to register and vote."></a><a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2748?t=8&akid=2982.1237097.QcKtCm" target="blank"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.colorofchange.org/images/infographic-2013_07_02-share_this_8.png" alt="It's because they don't want us to keep rising."></a><a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2748?t=9&akid=2982.1237097.QcKtCm" target="blank"> <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.colorofchange.org/images/infographic-2013_07_02-share_this_9.png" alt="Support a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the freedom to vote."></a> <img src="http://act.colorofchange.org/o.gif?akid=2982.1237097.QcKtCm"></span><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-size: small; "><br></p><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>