Earlier this month the Supreme Court launched another in a series of attacks on the voting rights of all Americans.

The court allowed Texas’s controversial new voter ID law to stand, a decision that will restrict the voices of African Americans, Latinos, seniors, the poor and students.

Since the Supreme Court overturned a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the Shelby case, there has been a systematic and coordinated effort to impose restrictive and discriminatory laws and practices to suppress voter participation amongst minorities and the socio-economically disadvantaged.

As the heirs of the civil rights movement, we cannot allow these assaults to stand.

We must be defiant.