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article from issues and impact title. You can help protect the vote by Amanda menace. Voter suppression is not only a part of our history. It is an ever present part of American history today. While poll taxes, literacy tests and violence at polling stations become illegal with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, they have been replaced with other insidious threats to the right to vote. Modern tactics include requiring voters to show identification drastically reducing polling stations in black and brown neighborhoods, barring early voting, illegally purging voter rolls and launching campaigns of intimidation and disinformation. In recent years, republicans in Congress have been orchestrating the rollback of federal laws protecting voters. Their actions have given states permission to hack away at their citizens access to the voting booth. Changes that have disproportionately impacted black brown and indigenous voters as well as young voters and voters with disabilities nationwide. We are witnessing a massive coordinated attack on voting rights the likes of which we have not seen since Jim Crow Right any a president Becky Pringle in an op ed published in the Hill a Washington, D. C. News source, More than 500 anti voting bills have been introduced in state legislatures And more than 30 have been enacted into law. Some states have rolled back early voting, adding unnecessary requirements to vote and even prevented the distribution of food and water to voters waiting in long lines. In June 50 Republican members of Congress floated against the for the People Act the most comprehensive democracy reform bill in decades. The proposed legislator aimed to establish automatic voter registration limit, partisan gerrymandering and expand early voting options, but voting rights continue to be a priority for the biden administration and democrats are working to revise the bill and give it new life. Educators speak out every day, educators across the United States are introducing our students to the principles of democracy. There are also speaking out about the need for federal law that will protect voters, helping any a rally members of Congress to pass the democracy reform legislation. Why teach about citizenship and democracy and define those terms in concept and action when suppression is being normalized and accepted, says Justin Johnson, who is a secretary Treasurer of the Georgia Association of Educators. As trusted members of the community. Educators must speak up to defend voter access and call out elected officials who threatened those rights.