This article by Daniel Uria is published by UPI. Here is an excerpt:

Activist groups and unions gathered in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to call for lawmakers to pass voting rights protections and end the filibuster.

Tuesday’s demonstrations, led by the National Council of Negro Women, kicked off a two-day event seeking to push President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats to fulfill their promises to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

They also hope to push lawmakers to vote to abolish the filibuster, a Senate tradition allowing unlimited debate that can be deployed to prevent or delay a vote on a measure brought before the chamber.

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