latosha, i'll start with you. >> i think you hit the nail on the head.a war supposedly in the name of democracy. here it is, we have democracy being attacked right here domestically and we're going to something like the filibuster to stand in this space? i think we have to deal with the elephant in the room. we're going to have to end the filibuster. anything that starts and creates a barrier for democracy, we've got to end it. we also have to organize and create good trouble. we're going to have to organize around this and we need this federal legislation. people will have to rise up to make sure that it is so. >> bishop barber, it falls to you to explain to me there are about nine republicans, that don't want to end the filibuster. how do you get them to change their mind? >> let me say my sister, latosha, is exactly right. we fought a war there, we have to fight here. we have to have mass pro action protests in d.c. and in the states. we need mass litigation with our best lawyers. we need to have massive federal legislation. we have to have hr-1 and h

latosha brown, co-founder of black voters matter leading the make good trouble rally and says federal intervention is needed to protect minority voters. >> we're going to need both of those pieces of legislation to ensure that voters in this nation have access to their democratic right to vote. >> reporter: the john lewis voting rights act now heads to the senate where it faces hurdles. republicans have blocked it before reigniting calls by those on the left

. >> latosha, are all of the newer civil rights groups going to hang together on this? >> all of the civil rights organizations that i've worked with and connected with, many of them have literally stood in this space for weeks. all summer we've been getting arrested and we've been protesting. yes, we're standing in the space and we see protest as part of our power. we will stand and continue to protest until we get voting rights. >> latosha, bishop brown, ari, thank you. "all in with chris hayes" starts now. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> we'll do as much as we can for as long as we can. >> the taliban tightens its grip on afghanistan and the u.s. scrambles to get people out. >> the speed of evacuation will pick up. >> tonight the venomous backlash against afghan refugees. >> so first we invade and then we're invaded. >> and a reminder of who started this terrible 20-year war. >> america and afghanistan are now allies against terror. we'll be partners in rebuilding that country. >> then another reversal in health policy. just who could get a covid booster shot and when?

latosha brown, co-founder of black voters matter, spoke at the make good trouble rally in front of the lincoln memorial. >> jt a moment press to say how are we going t protest? this is a moment press to really think about how are we going to transform this nation and the transformation starts with us. where we decide that all human beings deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. amy: in southern yemen, at least 30 soldiers were killed and 60 others injured sunday after houthi rebels fired missiles from a drone at a saudi-led coalition air base. the attack struck dozens of soldiers on morning military exercises. it came as u.n.-brokered peace talks between the saudi-led coalion and the houthis have stalled. since 2015, saudi-led coalition air strikes in yemen have killed nearly 1500 civilians per year on average, a quarter of them children, while sparking the world's worst humanitarian crisis. saudi arabia is backed by the united states. israel launched another round of air attacks on gaza over the weekend. the israeli military claimed it struck hamas sites in response to incendi

latosha brown, co-founder of black voters matter leading the make good trouble rally and says federaloing to need both of those pieces of legislation to ensure that voters in this nation have access to their democratic right to vote. >> reporter: the john lewis voting rights act now heads to the senate where it faces hurdles. republicans have blocked it before reigniting calls by those on the left to end the filibuster. >> will they abide by the filibuster or choose democracy? it's one of the two. ♪ which side are you on ♪ [ crowd chanting ] >> reporter: as the marches continue naacp president derrick johnson says the work to strengthen voting rights for all americans must also move forward. >> we're going to go back to all of the communities across the country and continue to make the right type of noise, to hold elected officials accountable. this is a constitutional matter, not a partisan consideration. >> reporter: now, senate majority leader chuck schumer has indicated that the senate will take up this issue when they return in september. whit. >> all right, ike, thank you so muc

women in particular like stacey abrams, latosha brown, deb law scott, all of whom you have met on this in 2020. democrats could sense it. they leaned on it. so one would assume after all of that, the democratic lawmakers would spare no effort to protect that constituency from the numerous injustices that routinely come their way. a thank you of sorts for showing up when the country, when democracy itself, in fact, needed them. but that's not exactly how it's going. according to the brennan center for justice, 18 states have enacted 30 laws this year that restrict voting in american states, and most of those laws disproportionately suppress the vote of people of color and others who live on the margins. that's bad news for black voters. the good news is that fighting for voting rights is not new for them. they have waged a centuries-long battle. that's why when you have seen acts of civil disobedience from black lawmakers and activists like joyce beatty and sheila jackson lee, the reverend jesse jackson jr., and our friend dr. william barber, who have all willingly been taken away in ha

by the way, the people who said that, that was called a trash take as latosha brown would say literallyout how the legislation ought to be structured in your view. you know, the right is already coming out and calling this everything from socialism to marxism. we know those are meaningless terms. they just say them. what do you think legislation should look like that would protect americans in this first world country from becoming homeless during a pandemic? what do you want that legislation to look like? >> you know, so we started sending letters to the cdc months ago. some even as far as january other progressives were sending letters and probably some moderates maybe. but we started sending letters months ago to the cdc. our office has been saying, along with representative gomez, representative pressley, have been saying strengthen a moratorium. have the moratorium go through the course of the pandemic. that is what we need to see right now. when we think about how this pandemic has hit homes, hit families, we have people who were the one bringing home the majority of the money or