John,

Broken machines. Ridiculously long lines. Untrained poll workers. Closed polling locations. Absentee ballots that never arrived. Not enough provisional ballots.

On Tuesday in Georgia, voters who wanted to vote in person were forced to wait, 3, 5, even 7 hours or longer in line to cast their ballot. After midnight, there were still voters in line who had yet to vote. Many polling locations ran out of provisional ballots. And it's no surprise that once again, Black and brown communities were the ones most impacted.

This was no mistake — it was voter suppression by design.

And we know Republicans nationwide are going to try to run the same voter suppression playbook in November that we saw in Georgia, that we saw two months ago in Wisconsin, and that we see every election cycle across the country.

In the midst of a pandemic, we need to do everything in our power to make it easier — not harder — to vote. That's why WFP is launching our Vote at Home initiative to fight for policy changes to make it easier to vote-by-mail, contact voters directly, and ramp up our trainings and support for our endorsed candidates.

We need to be ready for more of this. Will you chip in $3 so we can fight back against Republican attempts to suppress the vote and elect more WFP candidates up and down the ballot in 2020?

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There is a real hunger for transformative change right now.

We're all seeing it in the streets — and we're seeing it at the polls too.

Despite the massive voter suppression in Georgia, we saw a surge of new primary voters, a historic early-vote turnout of 1.2 million, including a 2,500% increase in absentee ballots. And WFP candidates scored big wins in Georgia as well as West Virginia — adding to a string of under-the-radar WFP victories over the last two weeks.

WFP challengers are defeating big money candidates who are trying to scaremonger on the issue of defunding police budgets, like in DC where we helped power Janeese Lewis George to victory in her city council race as one of the first candidates to be backed by Black Lives Matter DC.

We're even electing entire slates of candidates ready to transform the balance of power — like in New Mexico, where NMWFP-backed challengers took down several corporate Democrats backed by Big Oil, including the leader of the State Senate.

We can win even more in November, but only if we go all out to fight back against voter suppression, and make sure voters have everything they need in order to vote safely.

Will you chip in $3 so we can fight back against Republican attempts to suppress the vote and ramp up our work to elect WFP candidates up and down the ballot in 2020?

In solidarity,

Team WFP

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