As Senate Republicans use the filibuster to block debate on the most sweeping voting rights bill considered by Congress in decades, DN looks at what is in the bill and the next steps forward.

Elizabeth Hira, an attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice's Democracy Program, describes the For the People Act as "a massive democracy reform package" that seeks to address systemic flaws in U.S. elections.

"This bill creates a wholesale opportunity for us to fix all of the things that have been wrong in our democracy." We also speak with Reverend William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, who says Republican opposition to the bill exposes their cruelty. "They are committed to keeping alive voter suppression that started with the Southern Strategy. They are today's Strom Thurmond," says Barber.

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