Friend,

One year ago, we launched our Ballot Measure Rescue Campaign (BMRC), a $5 million effort dedicated to fighting back against attacks on one of the most democratic and powerful tools we as voters have available to us: ballot measures. When we launched this campaign, we pledged to protect direct democracy and the power of voters, and since then, we’ve done just that.

One year after the launch of our Ballot Measure Rescue Campaign, will you make a donation to power our fight to protect ballot measures for years to come?

In 2021, 87 bills were introduced in state legislatures to harm the ballot measure process. And this year, the attacks haven’t stalled — extremists are even using ballot measures to try and restrict the power of ballot measures (!!)

In South Dakota, Amendment C went up for a vote in June. If passed, it would have raised the threshold to win any future measures to a 60% supermajority; a move that the extremists backing the measure even admitted was an attempt to block the passage of Medicaid expansion in the state this November. We used our BMRC to fight back and protect democracy in South Dakota, and won.

But let’s be clear: South Dakota isn’t the only place where we’re seeing these attacks happen in real-time: In November, Arizonans and Arkansans will be voting on their own copycat amendments to bump up the approval threshold for ballot measures to 60%.

We will not stand by as extremist officials attack one of our most powerful, most democratic tools just because they’re scared of the progress we as voters have been able to achieve.

Our Ballot Measure Rescue Campaign is locked and loaded — ready to fight to preserve direct democracy however that may be. Where we need to bring litigation, we will litigate. Where we can stop bad laws from being passed, we will run aggressive campaigns to stop these anti-democratic bills. And where the legislature refers suppressive measures to the ballot, we will fight to win those ballot campaigns.

To continue this critical work we need your support, friend. Will you continue to power our Ballot Measure Rescue Campaign, one year later with a donation today?

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Thank you,

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Kelly Hall
Executive Director
Fairness Project
 
      

Thanks to grassroots supporters like you, our team at the Fairness Project has won 24 people-powered ballot measure campaigns since 2016, changing over 18 million lives by expanding health care, raising wages, guaranteeing paid leave, and ending predatory lending directly at the ballot box when politicians refuse to act. Your support allows us to make this progress possible.

 
 
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