We are calling to invite you to join our interactive teletown hall taking place in just a few moments. Please just stay on the line and you'll be automatically connected or press 1 on your telephone keypad to join right now. Please note that this call may be recorded. Hi, this is █████ with Mississippi Engaged. We are calling to invite you to join our. Sam. Good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening. Welcome to the State of Voting Rights act hellotown Hall. And let me tell you, if you're on this call tonight, you are exactly where you are supposed to be. My name is ██████████████████ and I am the Mississippi State Director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. And tonight I'm honored to serve as your host for what I believe is one of the most important conversations happening anywhere in the country right now. I need you to hear me when I say this. We are not gathered tonight because things are fine. We are gathered tonight because the fight of our lives is upon us and we refuse to be silent. The Supreme Court of the United States has spoken and now it is our time to speak. What they, the few, decided for we the people is unconscionable. It is a slap in the face of every tear that was shed and every blood stained banner that was born in our quest for freedom and equality in this country. It is a spit in the face of sacrifice. It is a taunt in the face of triumph. What was decided in █████████ vs ██████ has sent shockwaves throughout every black, brown, marginalized and every working class community across this nation. When I think about the sacrifice and fight, and I do mean fight, that was had just to have our voices heard and counted at the ballot box. That isn't abstract, that isn't a hypothetical. That is ███████████. That is our people. That is our right. Now, our ancestors, our foreparents, mothers and fathers, marched, fought and bled for these very wrong.