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Thousands March in Washington to Defend Voting Rights, in Photos – WTOP News
Organizers said the rally aimed to counter voting-rights rollbacks as speakers warned that protections are being weakened in statehouses and by federal policy.
- On Friday, thousands gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the "March on Washington 2026: Defend the Vote," organized by the National Action Network and the Drum Major Institute alongside more than 90 community partner organizations.
- Organizers aimed to "confront the systemic rollback of civil rights," referring to President Donald Trump's efforts to curb mail-in voting, following a Supreme Court decision earlier this year that weakened the Voting Rights Act.
- U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Democratic Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Yvette Clarke of New York addressed the crowd, retracing the path of Martin Luther King Jr. from 63 years ago.
- Republican-Led statehouses moved quickly to redraw congressional maps across the South following the Supreme Court ruling, while civil rights leaders warned the right to vote is being chipped away in statehouse after statehouse.
- Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King described the event as a moral call to protect democracy, emphasizing that "when the vote is weakened, every other right grows fragile with it.
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