As of April 9th, CBS 6 Albany reports that "The U.S. House of Representatives is setting the stage for a potential vote on the SAVE Act this week at the U.S. Capitol, the Republican-led Congress hoping to pass the legislation once again, this time potentially passing it on to a now-Republican led U.S. Senate."

The Native American Rights Fund highlights how this bill could effectively disenfranchise many Native voters, particularly those who live in rural areas; and how this bill could disenfranchise both old and young voters. The NAACP also released a press statement condemning the SAVE Act, though it curiously doesn't mention the potential impact on New Afrikan voters specifically, which is something other sources have highlighted. NY Daily News says, "Older Black people are particularly likely to have problems getting needed documents if they were born in the Jim Crow segregation era."

We should of course not become "fetishists" for the right to vote: voting is never going to liberate Natives, New Afrikans, women, trans people, the old or young, nor indeed diaspora Americans, as the whole electoral system was built by cismasculine landed slaver-settlers, and expansions in enfranchisement have only ever been concessions from this settler-bourgeoisie that would never really threaten its dictatorship. Voting represents, in other words, a civil-religious ritual, and we should take a wholesale attack on the right to partake in this ritual the same as we should take an attack on the right to partake in any other religion's rituals: it's an attack that highlights the tensions between different groups, attempting to define an in-group and an out-group, attempting to symbolically return to an earlier time.

The wiser among Natives and New Afrikans and indeed diaspora Americans would've already known long ago that their/our inclusion in the "American" nation was only ever a conceded "white lie": it would've already been very easy to criticize the electoral system as it stands for systemically devaluing the votes of these groups, so an attack as blatant as the SAVE Act is really just a more upfront form of the phenomenon which has in fact always existed.

If nothing else, I had personally already recognized the colony-diaspora contradiction at play here, and predicted that it would likely flair up during the course of this administration, already months before the 2024 presidential election had even happened... And look at that, it seems I was right.