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  Fair Fight Action · [email protected]
September 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM

FWD: Do you have a question for an expert on tracking and stopping autocracy?

Fair Fight We’re about to send the list of questions to Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat.        Team, we’re about to send Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat this community’s list of questions about defeating autocracy — and we wanted to make sure you had a chance to add yours. Submit a question t…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
August 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM

FWD: 10 steps to becoming an autocracy

Fair Fight This work is how we push back against rising autocracy.        Did you see this message from Stacey Abrams about the 10 steps that lead to autocracy?  To prevent America from going down this path, we must be able to recognize and thwart each stage along the way. We mus…
  Stacey Abrams · [email protected]
August 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM

The Trump Regime is dismantling democracy

Fair Fight Did you know there’s a 10-count for witnessing a democracy become an autocracy?                    1270 Caroline Street | Suite D120-430 | Atlanta, GA 30307 ©2025 Fair Fight - All rights reserved. Emails like this one are the best way to c…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
August 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM

Four reasons why we have to keep fighting back for our democracy:

Fair Fight We need to know we’ll have the resources to keep pushing back in full force for the months to come.        August has been full of attacks on our democracy — here’s a quick, partial recap: 1. A far-right group filed a baseless IRS complaint against our sister organizat…
  Lauren Groh-Wargo, Fair Fight Action · [email protected]
August 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM

Do you have a question for an expert on tracking and stopping autocracy?

Fair Fight This is part of informing our collective fight for democracy.        You might not think it’s calming to read about autocracy. But I’m here to tell you that when I read the work of Ruth Ben-Ghiat — a Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University, and …
  Esosa Osa (via Fair Fight Action) · [email protected]
August 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM

Misinformation and disinformation = voter suppression

Fair Fight         Hi there, First of all, I want to thank you for everything you do to support this team. As a former deputy executive director of Fair Fight Action, I know that grassroots activists like you are the engine that drives this organization’s vital, democracy-strengt…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
August 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM

Did you see what Trump said about mail-in voting?

Fair Fight We’ve seen this coming, and we know how to fight back.        It’s no secret that Donald Trump admires, envies, and takes marching orders from Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Now he’s following Putin’s lead on how to run elections and trying to impose a federal takeov…
  Jon Ossoff · [email protected]
August 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM

Let me lay this out

Fair Fight This is not a drill and it’s not a bad dream        Let me lay this out, clear as day: I am the only Democratic senator up for reelection in a state Trump won in 2024. This Senate race in Georgia will be the most competitive and most expensive in the nation. If you’re …
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
August 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM

Re: A far-right group’s IRS complaint against us

Fair Fight Did you see this note?        Hey, did you see this note below about how a far-right group filed a bogus IRS complaint against Fair Fight Action? They want to keep our movement from defending the freedom to vote. But we won’t stop standing up for free and fair election…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
August 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM

TODAY’s deadline to protect Georgians from a new voter purge

Fair Fight Black voters are most at risk of being removed from the rolls.        Team, Georgia Republicans are trying to pull off one of the largest voter purges in U.S. history — and Black Georgians are most at risk. But voters who are wrongly on the purge list can still maintai…
  Fair Fight: Together · [email protected]
August 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM

RSVP: A much-needed conversation

Fair Fight They’ll discuss healthcare and what it means for our democracy.        Knowledge is power. Community is power. And right now, we need to build as much power as possible — to fight for democracy and make a difference on issues that touch people’s daily lives. That’s why…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
August 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM

The GOP is suppressing votes because they’re scared

Fair Fight Will you chip in to help stop GOP voter suppression?        The GOP knows that their far-right agenda is unpopular. But instead of trying to earn votes by changing the way that they govern, they’re doing everything they can to cling to power by bending the rules.   Wan…
  Georgia Senate Dems (via Fair Fight) · [email protected]
August 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM

Big news

Fair Fight The date is set for this crucial Special Election        The freedom to vote is on the ballot in 2025 and beyond, and Fair Fight is teaming up with the Georgia Senate Dems to help flip this seat from red to blue. Winning races like this one is vital to stopping Geo…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
August 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM

A brand-new example of MAGA authoritarianism in action

Fair Fight We won’t be intimidated.        Team, our movement is the target of a brand-new example of MAGA authoritarianism in action. Earlier this week, a discredited far-right group with ties to Donald Trump filed a baseless IRS complaint against our sister organization, Fair F…
  Fair Fight Action · [email protected]
August 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM

Update on the SAVE Act

Fair Fight The Tea Party Patriots are pressuring senators to pass the SAVE Act.        Team, with the SAVE Act already having passed the House and now looming in the Senate, a far-right activist group just launched a new pressure campaign to try to ram through this massive voter …
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
August 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Texas Republicans should be ashamed:

Fair Fight What Texas Republicans are forcing through should alarm all of us. Here’s why:        Team — It’s simple: Republicans are scared of losing power in next year’s midterm elections, so they’re trying to cheat. Look no further than the Texas GOP’s new gerrymandering scheme…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
August 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM

We’re building a long-term grassroots plan, and we need your help.

Fair Fight We’re breaking down why we are preparing NOW for fights yet to come:        Team, Every day, the news is full of the Senate’s latest destructive and cruel decisions. Now that the Republicans hold a majority, the Senate is simply a rubber stamp for the Trump Regime’s mo…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
August 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM

FWD: A massive new voter suppression effort in Georgia 🚨

Fair Fight She’s asking if you can fight for the freedom to vote with a donation today.        Did you see Stacey Abrams’ message on Wednesday? She’s raising the alarm about the Georgia GOP’s latest voter suppression scheme — an attempt to throw nearly half a million people off t…
  Stacey Abrams · [email protected]
July 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM

If you’re able, chip in to Fair Fight and fuel the fight to defend democracy.

Fair Fight I’m urgently asking if you can fight for the freedom to vote with a donation today.         As Republicans prepare to cancel nearly half a million Georgians’ voter registrations, Fair Fight is racing to help as many people as possible stay on the rolls — but they need …
  Eric H. Holder, Jr. · [email protected]
July 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM

This is a blatant power grab

Fair Fight The Republican agenda is deeply unpopular. So they’re trying to cheat to win instead.         Shameful. Just shameful… Team, Republicans are conspiring right now to steal the 2026 midterm elections.   They know how unpopular their agenda is, especially after passing a …
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
July 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM

Re: Georgia voter purge

Fair Fight More attacks on voting freedom are coming, and we need our grassroots movement to help fight back.         Hey Team, Right now, Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is preparing to purge the voter registrations of nearly half a million voters, and he’s backe…
  Finance Department, Fair Fight Action · [email protected]
July 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM

Re: Fundraising update

Fair Fight We can build a movement that keeps Congress from passing more Big Ugly Bills. Here’s how.        Hey team, it’s Fair Fight Action’s Finance team reaching out with an important end-of-month fundraising update.  We’re all still reeling from the passage of the horrible “O…
  Fair Fight: Together · [email protected]
July 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM

Be our guest: Join Sherrilyn Ifill, Nana Gyamfi, and Sarah Rich for a conversation on immigration and democracy

Fair Fight Can you join us next Thursday?        Team, Immigration has been filling the headlines — and it’s time for a conversation that cuts through the chaos, calls out the extremist tactics used to divide us, and gets at the heart of what this issue means for our country’s fu…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
July 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM

The U.S. is getting further and further away from democracy

Fair Fight         “At step seven, you have to blame someone. You have to blame people for the broken government, for the broken promises, so you go after DEI [Diversity Equity & Inclusion]. You go after the vulnerable, the dispossessed. You go after any community that doesn’…
  Lauren Groh-Wargo, Fair Fight · [email protected]
July 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM

Re: Autocracy

Fair Fight Here’s how we build power in the face of autocracy:        This month, our team has done a lot of reflecting on what it means to confront the rise of autocracy under the Trump Regime.  From ICE abductions and the terrorizing of immigrant communities to court rulings ro…
  Stacey Abrams · [email protected]
July 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM

One of the largest mass purges in US history

Fair Fight Georgia’s about to make history — but not in a good way.         Today, I want to talk to you about what’s happening in my home state.  Georgia Republicans are preparing to cancel the voter registrations of nearly half a million people across the state — that will be t…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
July 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM

One of the largest purges in U.S. history

Fair Fight Let’s break this news down:         Hey team, By now, you may have heard that Georgia Republicans are preparing to purge nearly 500,000 voters across the state. But don’t worry if this is your first time hearing about it, team. We’re here to break down what this means …
  Fair Fight Action · [email protected]
July 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM

Helping our family in Texas

Fair Fight It’s on us to show up for our communities in times of need.        Hey team,  At Fair Fight Action, we know firsthand what it looks like when Southern communities are left to fend for themselves. We’ve seen it time and again — the systems meant to protect us fail in th…
  Fair Fight Action · [email protected]
July 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM

Good Trouble

Fair Fight Today and every day, we remember the lifelong work of John Lewis to protect the right to vote.         Hey friend,  Five years ago today, we lost a Georgian trailblazer who paved our country’s path toward justice and freedom — and fought tirelessly to protect the sacre…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
July 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM

The voter suppression playbook is expanding

Fair Fight Republicans know they’ll lose their power if every American claims their own.        Hey friend,  Did you know that states enacted more restrictive voting laws in 2024 than in any year in the last decade except for 2021?  It’s true. Republicans are coordinating on the …
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
July 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM

The Trump Regime’s at it again

Fair Fight The Trump Regime’s Department of “Justice” centers anything but justice.         Hey team,  We knew long before Donald Trump became president (again 🙄) that it would mean bad news for voting freedom and our democracy.  We didn’t know just how aggressively and blatantly…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
July 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM

Not surprising, but alarming

Fair Fight Your grassroots support will help us fight back against Republicans trying to restrict voting freedom.         Hey friend, Every day, there is new evidence of the GOP’s anti-voter, anti-democracy agenda. Just look at this headline from last month:  Time and ag…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
July 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM

56 years ago

Fair Fight Right here at home in in 1969:        Friend — Fifty-six years ago, Georgia Governor Lester Maddox urged state officials to shut down public schools rather than comply with federal integration orders.  This was beyond a simple policy disagreement. This was about uphold…
  Fair Fight Action · [email protected]
July 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM

This Independence Day, here’s what we’re thinking about:

Fair Fight 249 years later:         It’s been 249 years since the United States declared independence.  249 years later… We’ve yet to achieve equal access to the ballot; We’ve yet to achieve equality for all;  And, we’ve yet to achieve freedom for all.  Team, on this Fourth of …
  Max Flugrath, Fair Fight Action · [email protected]
July 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM

These pieces of legislation have a common denominator

Fair Fight Here’s why we’re watching these bills so closely:        Hey there,  The Senate just voted to pass the latest reconciliation bill, otherwise known as the “big, beautiful bill.”  But here's the thing, we know this bill is anything but beautiful. From cutting Medicaid sp…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
July 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM

TY ♥️

Fair Fight Thanks to you, Fair Fight is 100% people-powered.         Hey friend, We wanted to take a moment to express our gratitude to you. We’re starting the second half of 2025 in a strong place, boosted by your generosity and the growing power of this movement for voting righ…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
June 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM

A few hours

Fair Fight We have just a few hours left to meet our end-of-quarter fundraising goal        Hey friend, we’ll make this quick.  Below is an urgent message from our Finance Team. There are just HOURS left to hit our end-of-quarter midnight fundraising goal. Donate to Fair Fight be…
  Finance Team, Fair Fight · [email protected]
June 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM

We’ll make this quick

Fair Fight We have just a few hours left to meet our end-of-quarter fundraising goal        Hey friend, it’s Fair Fight’s Finance team reaching out with an important end-of-quarter update. We already know that MAGA is aggressively attacking our freedoms like never before…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
June 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM

The request from Stacey Abrams

Fair Fight She asked you to make one of the 200 new donations we’d need to hit our end-of-quarter goal by the June 30 deadline.         Hey there, can you take a look at this note from Stacey Abrams by Monday? She asked you to make one of the 200 new donations we’d need to hit ou…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
June 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM

The Trump Regime

Fair Fight We are unapologetically pro-democracy and anti-authoritarianism        Team: What we are witnessing is authoritarianism by the Trump Regime.  Since June 6, protesters have peacefully taken to the streets in Los Angeles in solidarity with Black and brown communities imp…
  Stacey Abrams · [email protected]
June 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM

I’m grateful you’re on this team

Fair Fight With just four days left until the end-of-quarter deadline, will you pitch in right away?        Fair Fight’s work to protect voting rights takes a great amount of grassroots support, and I know the team is grateful to see donations flooding in from all across the coun…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
June 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM

Roe v. Wade was overturned three years ago

Fair Fight Restricting abortion access and reproductive freedom was never going to have positive outcomes.        Trigger Warning: Mentions of Abortion, Maternal Mortality, and Death Hey team, Three years ago today, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitut…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
June 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM

18 election deniers overseeing elections in 24 states

Fair Fight Grassroots support makes it possible to fight back.        Team, Twenty-four election deniers now serve in statewide offices overseeing elections in 18 states — ten governors, four secretaries of state, two state elections board members, and eight attorneys general. Th…
  Dr. Carol Anderson, Fair Fight · [email protected]
June 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM

Juneteenth 2025

Fair Fight It’s Freedom Day.        Happy Juneteenth, friends! 160 years ago to the day, Black Americans in Galveston, Texas became free — nearly two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Although the Civil War ended months earlier, enslavers in Texas c…
  Fair Fight Action · [email protected]
June 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM

Our vision for the 🍑 state includes everyone

Fair Fight Have you heard about our friends at Georgia Equality?         Friend, Pride Month honors the LGBTQ+ trailblazers who bravely fought for our rights throughout history. While Pride is for celebrating the joy, authenticity, and freedom that every LGBTQ+ person deserves, t…
  Stacey Abrams · [email protected]
June 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM

Have you ever changed your address with the U.S.P.S.?

Fair Fight I’m proud that Fair Fight is still making this case in court.        Let’s go back in time for a moment. After the 2018 elections, I founded Fair Fight — an organization dedicated to combating voter suppression and protecting voting rights.  And Georgia’s 2021 runoff e…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
June 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM

Did you see Stacey Abrams’s note?

Fair Fight She explains why Fair Fight has returned to court in a case against True the Vote.        Did you see this note from our founder, Stacey Abrams? She explains why we returned to federal court in our case against True the Vote — and she lays out our commitment to defendi…
  Stacey Abrams · [email protected]
June 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM

Let’s go back in time

Fair Fight I’m proud that Fair Fight is still making this case in court.        Let’s go back in time for a moment. After the 2018 elections, I founded Fair Fight — an organization dedicated to combating voter suppression and protecting voting rights.  And Georgia’s 2021 runoff e…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
June 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM

Let’s talk about True the Vote

Fair Fight Let’s play true or false.        Hi there,  We know that anti-democracy extremists advance their agenda through fear-mongering and spreading misinformation. So today, we’re going to set the record straight by playing a little game of true or false with you!  We’re call…
  Fair Fight · [email protected]
June 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM

Meet our speakers for the next ‘Fair Fight: Together’ conversation

Fair Fight Are you ready for another ‘Fair Fight: Together’ conversation?        Friend,  We’re back with another 'Fair Fight: Together' virtual conversation on June 17, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. EDT!  Our speakers will bring you up to speed on all relevant issues and explore how we can …