On Tuesday night the USA Freedom Act failed to move forward.

While this bill would have helped rein in key parts of the government’s surveillance programs, not all is lost.

At a moment like this it’s important to remember how far we’ve come. In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations in June 2013, members of Congress across the political spectrum have gone on the record against surveillance. Activists around the country have demanded that our government do more to protect our privacy — and less to invade our devices and track our keystrokes.

And the pressure is on at phone and Internet providers like Verizon that cooperated with the government and enabled surveillance on this scale. These are the same companies that want to create fast lanes online and take over more of the Internet by buying up their competitors.

These companies are powerful players whose lobbyists are all over Capitol Hill on any given day — which is all the more reason that we need to keep up this fight.

Free Press will continue to fight alongside our allies for your rights to connect and communicate. We’ll push to end government surveillance practices that chill our constitutional rights to free speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of the press.

To win, we have to bring this fight out of the Beltway and into our communities. It will take all of us working together to create a world where we can go about our daily lives without having to worry about NSA analysts listening in on our phone calls, reading our personal emails and peeking into our online searches.

The dragnet surveillance program conducted under section 215 of the Patriot Act is set to sunset in June 2015 — and it’s time to end this violation of our privacy once and for all. This is a goal that all civil liberties and digital rights advocates share.

If we work together we can push Washington to stop spying on us.