We gotta continue John Lewis' work. Especially in Wisconsin

America lost a true national hero yesterday in John Lewis. And while there are a lot of tributes pouring in, I want to choose this statement from a white Milwaukee Brewer for giving the right tone.

RIP John Lewis, a giant of a man who helped make this world a better place for everyone. May we honor his legacy with how we go from here https://t.co/77vnBC70tP

— Brent Suter (@bruter24) July 18, 2020

"How we go from here" is the real way to honor John Lewis. And there's one simple way to do that, if Ron Johnson, Mitch McConnell and the rest of the Senate GOP would simply do their jobs.

In December John Lewis presided over House vote to restore Voting Rights Act. Bill has been sitting on McConnell's desk for 225 days. Best way to honor Lewis is for Congress to revive law he devoted his life to & call it John Lewis Voting Rights Act pic.twitter.com/bayhHCjAso

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) July 18, 2020

And few places have turned back the clock on voting rights and legitimate representation than Wisconsin, as Berman accurately broke down last year.

How Wisconsin became most rigged state in the country:

Extreme gerrymandering

Voter suppression

Lame duck legislative couppic.twitter.com/xLUB4oCUbo

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) July 2, 2019

Former One Wisconsin Now leader and Dem operative Scot Ross pointed out that the WisGOPs that allowed this election-rigging must be held responsible for what they've done to voting rights in this state.

For not one second should anyone here forget today Wisconsin Republicans, led by @scottwalker, @repvos & @SenFitzgerald and aided and abetted by its state legislators, used their power to attack the voting rights the late John Lewis gave his blood for.

— Scot Ross (@rossacrosswi) July 18, 2020

To those guys' "credit", they didn't say anything about John Lewis yesterday. Vos tweeted and retweeted whiny, cultural BS (in fairness, it's all they got at this point), and Fitz was showing himself at some Waukesha County GOP event (a place where the work of John Lewis was likely not discussed).

I'll leave you with the words of the young John Lewis himself, where he describes problems that are no different now than in 1963 (and this clip doesn't mention Lewis calling out police brutality against people of color in this speech).



We gotta do better.