Thanks for a great 2022!



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Last week, our team spent time in the beautiful Colorado mountains for our
annual end-of-year retreat. Team members joined to collaborate in person, team
build, reflect on the past year, and plan for 2023. As we’ve seen from this
year's successes, the Voters First Movement is gaining momentum, and there is
much to plan for as we look ahead to the next year and beyond. And part of this
planning means hearing from you!



Here are there things to think about this week:





We’d love for you to participate in our end-of-year survey!
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To close out the year, we’re asking our readers to answer a short survey about
their experience reading our Three Things Thursday newsletter. We appreciate
your feedback and will use your responses as we plan for next year!

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Voters in Georgia are feeling election fatigue
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Georgia taxpayers were once again on the hook for a U.S. Senate runoff
election this December, meaning thatGeorgia voters statewide were voting in
their third election this year (the primary, general, and a runoff). ‍It’s
quite simply a lot to ask even the most committed voters to turn out for a
third or fourth time in a single year, especially during the busy holiday
season —Time magazine reported that voters were exhausted
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more to ask overworked and under appreciated election workers to administer
another election so soon after a busy general election. But, as we said in a
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save time and money while maintaining high voter participation, Georgia should
modernize its election system by moving on from old-fashioned two-round runoffs
to implementing instant-runoff voting, which ensures the winner receives
majority support and general-election voters make only one trip to the polls.
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‘Tis the season to be united
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Keeping with holiday tradition, the White House is adorned with festive
decorations this December. This year, First Lady Jill Biden chose the theme “We
the People” for the seasonal decorations, with each room of the White House
highlighting what brings us together as Americans — our democracy, and our
shared civic identity.Author Nicole Bibbins Sedca writes
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that this is “in essence, our ‘American democratic identity’ [that] unites us
under longstanding democratic values, institutions, and processes.”



President Joe Biden and Jill Biden speak to this sentiment in their holiday
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gathers for the holidays, traditions may vary, but our shared American values —
a belief in possibility, optimism, and unity — endure season after season.”



We know that the American people are capable of such unity — but we also hope
that the country’s polity, citizens and elected officials alike, will enter the
new year in a the spirit of putting country over party. Making such a change
more possible is the reason we do what we do at Unite America.
 


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We’ll be back with Three Things Thursday in the new year. Until then, happy
holidays to you and yours!


Regards,



Alana
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Alana Persson
Unite America

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