While these groups have worked closely together for years.

Stephanie Young

We spent all 2021 really fighting for federal voting rights legislation. Over 20,000 people took( advocacy) action with us( last year), and we knew going throughout this year, and seeing that Congress was not acting, and that the filibuster was getting in the way, we realized that we really had to take matters into our own hands, we know at the end of the day, we're not going to be able to out-organize when it comes to fixing our voting system and modernizing it, and replacing the federal legislation, and that's why it's twofold.

Stephanie Young