John, when voters in Georgia delivered the White House and the Senate to Democrats last year, how did the Republican Party in Georgia respond?
With a harsh new voter suppression law that imposes burdensome new ID requirements on absentee voting and makes the simple act of handing out water to voters waiting in long lines illegal.
It's outrageous, and it is far from unique to just Georgia.
Over the last few weeks, Republicans in state legislatures from California to Maine have introduced hundreds of restrictive election and voting bills. They've given up on trying to persuade voters that their positions are right. Instead, they're participating in an all-out attack on democracy to try and keep the same Black, Brown, indigenous, Asian, and new voters who came out in massive numbers last year from turning out again in 2022.
We're not about to let that happen.
In Georgia and across the country, the Working Families Party is building the year-round infrastructure necessary to fight back against Republican attacks on voting, elect pro-democracy candidates, and make sure working people show up and vote no matter what obstacles Republicans try and put between us and the ballot box. Make a grassroots contribution of $5 or more now to help us keep up the fight in 2021 and 2022:
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John, we're used to Republicans attacking our right to vote. We're also used to adapting our strategy to meet whatever they throw at us — even during an unprecedented public health crisis.
As the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic sent shockwaves across the country last spring, the Republican-majority legislature in Wisconsin refused to postpone an election and forced voters in Milwaukee to wait in long lines at the polls instead of expanding absentee voting.
It was a not-so-secret attempt to suppress voter turnout enough to win them a hotly-contested state Supreme Court seat. And guess what? They failed, and progressives scored a huge victory to fill the seat.
A few weeks later, Georgia primary voters were forced to wait 3, 5, even 7 hours or longer in line to cast their ballots. And well... we saw a historic early-vote turnout of 1.2 million anyway — a clear preview of the even bigger results we'd pull off in the general election and the Georgia runoff elections.
We're clear-eyed about what these new voter suppression laws mean for elections ahead. And we know that we have to prepare for every single scenario.
That's why we need to continue organizing and making sure we have the resources to educate and turn out voters in 2021 and 2022.
The Working Families Party doesn't have corporate donors. We depend on grassroots supporters like you in order to get out the vote for progressive candidates nationwide, no matter what Republicans try and throw our way. Make a contribution of $5 or more today to be a part of what we are building and help power our voter turnout work in 2021 and 2022.
In solidarity,
Team WFP
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