This email just serves to remind you what day it is
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We did it, Friend, we made it to April.
Time is relative, after all, and March felt like a lifetime.
At the beginning of this month, we were talking about the spoiled ballots from
early voters in Super Tuesday states.
Now, we’re just trying to make sure the rest of states can actually hold their
primaries.
So we’ve got a lot to cover. Here are three things to think about this week:
How are republic survives a pandemic
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For a few weeks now, we’ve been talking about how vote at home is the most
critical policy that states must adopt in order to ensure that our elections
can be held in a way that’s both safe and representative. In just the last
week, a number of states have already moved to adapt their absentee ballot
program to allow all voters to request an absentee ballot.
This week, the Unite America Institute released a white paper to help policy
makers and election officials understand best practices they can adopt to
ensure that their elections are seamless and secure. Vote at Home: How our
Democracy Survives a Pandemic
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studies, expert testimony, and case studies to help all Americans understand
how to stay safe this election cycle.
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Remember, the enemy is the virus
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If history has taught us anything, it’s that periods of great tumult and
tragedy can either unite us or divide us. The after effects of World War I gave
rise to Nazism; while World War II brought Americans the idea of a united home
front. As we face a new, invisible enemy, the most important thing we as
Uniters can do is toremember not to blame one side or another
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Already, partisanship has shown to be a deciding factor in how Americans are
interpreting the dangers of COVID-19. As NYU psychology professor Jonathan
Haidt says: “In fact, a marker of our political sickness is that taking the
virus seriously has become itself a marker of tribal identity.”
We must remember that this isn’t a fictional pandemic, and blaming one side or
another solves nothing. It’s going to take all of us to fight coronavirus, and
it’s going to take all of us to recover from its impacts.
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The internet might finally be the benevolent superhighway we need
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In a time of social distancing, quarantine, and isolation, human connection
would seem to be (literally) unreachable. Yet the internet, long derided as a
toxic cess-pool, filled with political trolls and Russian bots, may finally be
turning a corner, providing the creative tools and outlet for the millions of
Americans at home.
Whether you’ve been holding virtual happy hours with coworkers (like we’ve
been doing here at Unite!) or sharing homeschooling tips with your friends on
Facebook, our ability to connect with one another in a constructive way online
has never been more palpable.
Just because our lives outside are on hold doesn’t mean that our ability to
create and to work towards something greater has to stop. For those of us who
care about reform, this is a great time to do somereading about the issues
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, or reach out to legislators, oreven lay the groundwork for a future campaign
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to put voters first.
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Stay safe, my friends. We’re in this together.
Brett
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Brett Maney
Senior Communications Manager
Unite America
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