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Today's guest hosts are Edwith Theogene and Emily Leach, Organizing Director and Communications Manager for Generation Progress.

They’ve discussed voting rights a lot on this show over the past year—states across the country have introduced and passed restrictive voting laws that threaten to reduce participation in democracy and meanwhile advocates have pushed Congress to pass federal legislation protecting voting rights.

Two of those bills, the For The People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, have now been passed by the House of Representatives and now face a decision in the Senate. The For The People Act has already met considerable opposition at the Senate level, but Majority Leader Schumer has indicated that passing that bill and the Voting Rights Advancement Act will be priorities once the Senate returns from recess in September.

Despite the fact that moving this legislation forward has been slow work, advocates are working harder than ever to make sure that voting rights are protected, and in many ways the momentum behind this movement is only building.

This Saturday (August 28th), many people will be marching in Washington, D.C. and other cities across the country to demand action to protect voting rights as part of the March On For Voting Rights. To talk with Edwith and Emily more about this march, the role that young people play in the voting rights movement, and how people can get involved, they’re joined by two expert guests:

Yasmine Guedalia, the March On for Voting Rights National Partnerships Coordinator with the Future Coalition, and Azalea Danes, the Director of Communications for the Future Project.

Generation Progress' website is GenProgress.org and their Twitter handle is @GenProgress. Edwith Theogene's Twitter handle is @WhoIsEdwith and Emily Leach's handle is @emilyfleach. The website for Future Coalition is FutureCoalition.org and their Twitter handle is @FutureCoalition.

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