Jack, the combined voting rights and election reform bills, the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, are hanging on by a thread in the Senate with few options left to pass the bills into law. These two bills would nationalize voting standards and protections, put an end to gerrymandering, and block many of the strict voter suppression that have recently passed in 19 states.
Without these protections, the upcoming elections just became even more challenging for Democrats. Since it is unlikely that we will be able to overturn the Republican-produced barriers to the ballot box, our only real option to protect the vote is to invest more money and volunteer time turning people out in critical states. At Daily Kos, we will not shy away from this challenge. Can you donate $5 a month to help us cancel Republican voter suppression and turn out every Democratic voter in 2022?
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It's true that the party that controls the White House typically tends to lose seats in the Senate and the House. However, there is some hope 2022 could be different, as there are numerous, vulnerable, Republican-held U.S. Senate seats up for election.
We are engaging in the fight to keep–and expand–the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate on every level. We have already raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for nominee funds for the eventual Democratic nominee in every key state–money that will go directly to the Democratic nominee the day after the primary. We are also providing crucial financial assistance to dozens of frontline community organizations who are working to educate and turn out voters targeted by Republican voter suppression laws.
Daily Kos is also prepared to take on this uphill battle by signing up more Get Out the Vote volunteers than ever before. Over the years, Daily Kos has utilized innovative tools like Vote Forward and Mobilize to connect our grassroots audience to a wide variety of statistically proven get out the vote opportunities: writing letters and postcards, making phone calls and sending texts, knocking on doors, contacting friends and family, becoming poll workers and assisting with election protection efforts. We do this at a scale few other organizations can match. In 2018 we recruited nearly 38,000 volunteers to help get out the vote, and in 2020 that jumped to over 100,000!
In 2022, we are going to go big on GOTV -- bigger than we went in our successful 2018 effort, and hopefully even bigger than we went in 2020. Quite frankly, we have no choice but to go even bigger, because Republicans in many states keep making it harder for people to vote.
With the new voter suppression laws, it will be more difficult and more expensive to turn people out to vote, but we have no other choice. This is now our only option to defend democracy, and there's a lot at stake in the 2022 elections: from the balance of power in Congress to Republican control in state houses across the country. Help us cancel Republican voter suppression in the 2022 elections by donating $5 a month to Daily Kos.
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Keep fighting,
Amanda McKay, Daily Kos
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