Friend, 

We have just 2 weeks left to submit over 25,000 valid signatures to get on the ballot in Illinois. This is one of our most difficult challenges on the road to nationwide ballot access - and we might not make it unless everyone pitches in now.

Whether you can collect signatures, make a donation, or help some other way, please let us know now!

We have a lot of work to do to clear the hurdle in Illinois - but I have some exciting news to share.

I’ve been campaigning in Illinois for the last few days, and the response has been incredible. One of the standout events in our jam-packed schedule was a meeting in Chicago with community organizers from Breaking Barriers Mentoring. After a lively conversation about the election, politics, and issues from universal healthcare and rent control to reparations, some of these powerhouse activists shared that they never actually felt they had a reason to vote before now - but now they’re ready to go all out for our campaign and help us collect the thousands of signatures we need!

Unlike some of the professional petitioning firms that do paid petitioning around the country for candidates and issues across the political spectrum, these are deep-rooted community activists representing working-class and low-income communities whose residents are mostly Black and people of color. They’re ready to put their formidable organizing skills to work collecting the signatures we need in their neighborhoods around Chicago. Now we just have to raise the money to offer them fair and just compensation for this critical work.

Will you pitch in whatever you can now to help us move forward with these powerhouse community organizers who are ready to get us on the ballot in Illinois?

On the campaign trail, we're hearing loud and clear that more and more people are done with the false choice of Biden/Trump, and there’s a growing understanding that ours is the one anti-genocide, pro-worker, climate action campaign with a realistic chance of being on the ballot in every state across the country. Earning ballot access nationwide would give us the power to make our challenge to empire and oligarchy as strong as possible - but it all depends on our ability to mobilize now to go all out in Illinois for the next two weeks.

Please do whatever you can now to make sure we get on the Illinois ballot and stay on track to give every single voter a real choice for people, planet, and peace!

Please share this urgent message with your friends, family, and fellow activists. We can do this if we all work together - but we need everyone to answer the call.

Thank you for everything you do to fight for an America and a world that works for all of us!

Gratitude and solidarity!

Jill Stein