Democracy 911: This man is walking 600 miles to fix our Democracy
Channel: RepresentUs
Date: 2019-08-02

America is facing a corruption emergency -- but politicians aren't acting like it. Voters rate political corruption as America's biggest crisis, and yet strong anti-corruption laws are mired in partisan squabbling and major presidential candidates have unveiled no plans to fix it.1

It's time to do something about it. On August 6th, RepresentUs is launching Democracy911, a 600-mile walk from Atlanta to Washington, D.C. to declare a state of emergency and demand action. 

Democracy911 will begin on Tuesday, August 6th — the 54th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act — in Atlanta, Georgia. Fifty days later, we'll arrive in D.C. on National Voter Registration Day. 

There, we will sit on the steps of the Capitol building until:
1) All major presidential candidates pledge to act on reforms to #UnrigTheSystem; or 
2) The U.S. Senate passes a bi-partisan alternative to HR1 (the For the People Act) implementing reforms to protect the right to vote, make elections secure and competitive, and end political corruption.