Editor's Note: If you're reading this, you care about the environment. Whether your chief concern is clean air, clean water, clean energy, or protecting wildlife and wild places, one overarching goal beats all others at this moment in time: We must ensure that Joe Biden is elected and Donald J. Trump is a one-term president.
The single most important thing you can do right now is vote and help make sure other like-minded people can cast their votes. If you’ve already done so, thank you! |
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From coast to coast, in every Sierra Club Victory Corps state, our dedicated staff and special team of volunteers will be continuing to work with our endorsed candidates to get out each and every vote. Today, if you have any energy left at the tail end of this draining election season, plug in to a campaign you care about and help us get across the finish line!
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There’s a lot we don’t know about what the election will bring. What we do know is that social change has always been powered by people, and it’s going to take all of us—prepared, connected, and giving it everything we’ve got—to meet this moment. Join us on Thursday for a mass live-streamed call hosted by Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune to hear from the national staff leading our work to defeat Donald Trump and defend democracy.
RSVP now and we'll follow up with more info and a link to join the livestream. |
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Our "Plan to Win" outreach this election season is the largest political mobilization in the Sierra Club’s history, and the largest grassroots mobilization in the environmental movement. Our Plan to Win has been focused on netting pro-climate, pro-environment votes for Joe Biden and Democratic senators in five key battleground states. Some 35,000 volunteers wrote more than a million letters, sent almost 20 million texts, and are now closing in on our goal of 5 million phone calls.
Join us in our last big push to reach swing state voters. |
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Voter suppression, which by design affects voters of color the most, has a long and shameful history in the United States. On average, it takes Black and Latino voters nearly 50 percent longer to cast their ballots than white voters, and voters of color are being subjected to intimidation from Trump supporters who have been emboldened by the president himself. Today’s election will test the resilience of our democracy in the face of steadily eroding voting rights set in motion by the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act in 2013.
Can we use our democratic power as citizens to protect democracy itself? |
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During Donald Trump’s first term, his administration succeeded in rolling back more than 125 environmental safeguards. Among the most recent and potentially consequential was stripping Alaska’s Tongass National Forest of Roadless Rule protections, effectively opening it up to clearcut logging of old-growth trees. “It’s senseless, autocratic vandalism,” says Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune.
How did the administration reach the decision to revoke the Roadless Rule in the Tongass—and why do so now? |
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Given the historic importance of today’s election, the Sierra Club is committed to the ensuring that we #counteveryvote. To that end, we have partnered with Protect the Result, a bipartisan network of over 100 grassroots groups concerned about Donald Trump’s efforts to sow doubt about the election and his ongoing refusal to say he’ll accept the results. Learn more about how you can help protect the integrity of today’s election—and stay safe! |
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Donald Trump calls the climate crisis a hoax, and his rejection of science puts our planet and communities in harm's way. The Sierra Club is proud to support Joe Biden because he understands the existential threat of the climate crisis. He follows science, and he has a bold vision to ensure a liveable future for.
Read about the Biden-Harris Clean Energy Plan. |
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Between a pandemic that Donald Trump has lied about, to Republican officials seeking to suppress your voice through gerrymandering and last-minute rule changes, to fears about whether Trump will leave office when he’s defeated, this really is an election unlike any other. But that hasn’t stopped Sierra Club Independent Action and millions of people across the country from working around the clock to make sure every single voter can access the polls and that their votes be counted. A record number of voters have already cast their ballots, and people haven’t even gone to the polls yet! We know what the polls are saying, but the collective trauma felt from election night in 2016 still lives on in our minds. So today, if you haven’t already voted, please bring three
friends who have not done so either and, safely, vote.
Find out how to plug in and make a difference right up to the last minute. |
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| Paid for by Sierra Club Independent Action and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. |
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| The COVID-19 crisis has not passed and continues to
disproportionately harm Black, Indigenous, and Latinx people and other communities of color. The pandemic has revealed how the communities hardest hit are often the same communities that suffer from high levels of pollution and poor access to healthcare. The fight for environmental justice cannot be separated from the fight for racial justice. |
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