Idaho Democrats stand with Texans to defend democracy » Sandpoint Reader

Idaho Democrats stand with Texans to defend democracy » Sandpoint Reader

By Lauren NecocheaReader Contributor Sixty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. It was a promise: no citizen would be denied the right to vote because of race or color. It dismantled generations of discrimination, intimidation and bureaucracy built to block people from the ballot box. That progress was earned through marches, sit-ins, beatings, arrests and the courage of ordinary Americans who believed in…