Team Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 30, 2024 at 9:04 PM

Supporters like you

Time is short and our need to register voters is strong We know you hate these "goal" emails, and we don't like sending them. But our grassroots movement is 100% dependent on supporters like you to fuel our voter registration campaigns and the rest of our work. There's a little more than a day lef…

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  Voter Action Project Wisconsin · [email protected]

March 30, 2024 at 3:12 PM

This raises huge concerns

Wisconsin Public Radio: Republican bill would abolish Wisconsin Elections Commission   John: First, Opponents of voting rights gerrymandered Wisconsin. Then they lost critical elections for Governor and State Supreme Court. Then they tried to fire the nonpartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission Ad…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 30, 2024 at 12:01 AM

They've already got the blueprint

WPRI: Movement seeks to remove Electoral College, elect president by popular vote  CNN laid out the danger clearly: “Trump had blueprints that the Republicans tried to use to prevent Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's clear and genuine victory, in the form of a memo that laid out a plan …

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 29, 2024 at 9:02 PM

Mail-in ballot attacks continue

Mother Jones - Leaked Video: Dark Money Group Brags About Writing GOP Voter Suppression Bills Across the Country   John, Opponents of voting rights are geared up to swing this year's election, dumping millions into ballot initiatives, vote-suppressing candidates, and spreading lies about mail-in b…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 29, 2024 at 6:05 PM

We can be the democracy we deserve

Our friends at Democracy Docket have exposed something important It's true: Our country hasn't seen a political party lean into voter suppression like this in the modern era, and at few comparable times in our country's history -- which were often our most shameful periods.We cannot hesitate to ac…

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  Voter Registration Team @ VAP · [email protected]

March 29, 2024 at 3:03 PM

The key to increasing voter participation

Voter registration is the key to protecting voting rights this year   John: Our 2024 voter registration campaign needs your help. If "voter registration campaign" was all you needed to hear to support our work, please click right here to fuel our efforts. The math is simple: It only costs us about …

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  Team Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 29, 2024 at 3:01 AM

Less than takeout coffee

Our ability to register voters depends on supporters like you  We can't stress this enough: For less than the price of a latte at that coffee shop you see on every corner, you can help cover the costs of registering a new voter. This year more than ever, please, RUSH $24 or more right now and help u…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 29, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Alabama's new voter suppression

AL.com - Secretary of State Wes Allen says Alabama’s new absentee voting law in effect for November election   There's no way to sugarcoat this, John: Alabama recently made it harder to vote by mail. Alabama lawmakers recently passed SB1, a bill that opponents of voting rights said would stop so-ca…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 28, 2024 at 9:03 PM

Drastic change

Our friends at Democracy Docket have exposed something important   This is a terrifying statistic, John. We all know about the wave of voter suppression, fear, and lies that has washed across our country since the 2020 election. We've been highlighting and fighting these bad bills and suppressive …

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  Michael Kanick, Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 28, 2024 at 6:06 PM

Our goal for Q1, our goal for the year

I sound like a broken record, but we've just got to have more voters register and participate  John, I wish I had fanfare our trumpets or something, but this announcement is probably blindingly obvious -- we cannot increase voter participation in this country without registering more voters, so ou…

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  VAP Texas · [email protected]

March 28, 2024 at 12:01 AM

Sad indictment of our state

Votebeat: It took me three tries to register to vote — and I’m a voting reporter   This shouldn't have to be said,  John, but it shouldn't take anyone anywhere 3 tries to register to vote. However, this is the world opponents of voting rights are trying to build -- one where their votes and their vo…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 27, 2024 at 6:08 PM

Important work that never ends

Our ability to register voters depends on supporters like you   Our voter registration work doesn't end, John. Despite vote-suppressing state legislatures making it harder to register to vote -- Passing bills to stop organizations like ours and our partners on the ground from helping potential voter…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 27, 2024 at 3:05 PM

Supporter survey: Availability of drop boxes

Iowa Capital Dispatch: States target ballot drop boxes in fight over voting rights     We want to hear from likely voters in your area about the election proposals under consideration in several states. Will you take our one-question poll right away? John: Should there be more drop boxes available f…

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

March 27, 2024 at 12:01 AM

We know all the bad things these threats mean

Axios: 🗳️ Election officials see new threats We know precisely what these "election threats" mean, John -- Opponents of voting rights pulling out all the stops to make sure they pick and choose which vote counts and which do not in this critical election. We must mobilize and stop them. RUSH $25 o…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 26, 2024 at 3:08 PM

This is the movement

WPRI: Movement seeks to remove Electoral College, elect president by popular vote   It’s simple, John. Defenders of voting rights like Cory Booker, AOC, Robert Reich, and Stacey Abrams recognize that the Electoral College is harming our democracy and needs to go. It’s the biggest tool the opponen…

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  Texas Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 26, 2024 at 12:04 AM

Emblematic

Votebeat: It took me three tries to register to vote — and I’m a voting reporter   John: The problems this reporter had are exactly what we've been talking about for years in Texas.She became a naturalized U.S. citizen at a ceremony last year. After she took the oath of allegiance with around 50 …

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 25, 2024 at 9:03 PM

New threats to this year's elections

Axios: 🗳️ Election officials see new threats John -- Election officials see a growing list of threats from foreign and domestic sources ahead of the 2024 election. Whether it's from cyber attacks, poorly funded election equipment breaking down, or anti-voting activists trying to skew the results, t…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 25, 2024 at 12:03 AM

We've got to turn out these voters

These elections will determine who controls Michigan's state house  Michigan's state legislature has to be a win next month. Defenders of voting rights have made too much progress and achieved too much in the last year or so for us to risk sliding backward in the fight for fair districts, expanded b…

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  VAP Research Team · [email protected]

March 24, 2024 at 9:05 PM

Presidential power poll

@NorahODonnell: The January 6th committee shows a draft executive order from Dec. 2020 that would direct the Secretary of Defense to seize voting machines immediately.    The January 6th committee showed evidence in a hearing that President Trump was going to order the Department of Defense to seize…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 22, 2024 at 9:04 PM

Voting survey: Runoff elections

Fox 5 Atlanta: Georgia secretary of state calls for end of general election runoffs     Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has said that he wants the Georgia General Assembly to end the Peach State's use of general election runoffs. In a statement, Raffensperger called on Georgia official…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 22, 2024 at 6:05 PM

Ongoing attacks in these states

Their election laws are a threat to our democracy Recently, a federal court rejected Georgia’s attempts to summarily dismiss a claim by the Department of Justice in a lawsuit challenging the state's 2021 voter suppression law, Senate Bill 202. The DOJ claims that S.B. 202 violates Section 2 of the…

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  Voter Action Project Michigan · [email protected]

March 22, 2024 at 3:03 PM

Next month

These races will determine who controls Michigan's state house   Two districts in Michigan have two general election dates this year, John, with a critically overlooked one coming up next month.  The Michigan state House of Representatives is currently tied, 54-54. Two special elections happen on Ap…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 22, 2024 at 12:03 AM

Serious efforts

This is the kind of change that makes a difference  Minnesota joining the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) was a great step and Maine's progress brings some needed momentum to our fight to end the Electoral College. State legislatures in Michigan, Nevada, and several other states als…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 21, 2024 at 6:10 PM

Decades of dark money

538: 16 States Made It Harder To Vote This Year   This is what we're still up against: Sixteen states executed an agenda of voter suppression in 2023. Dark money and decades of work by opponents of voting rights have brought us here. It's scary and shows just how far the vote suppressors are willing…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 21, 2024 at 3:07 PM

Two critical states

Their election laws are a threat to our democracy Election laws on the books in Georgia and Texas remain a threat, John. Texas's SB1, passed into law in 2021, has made it harder to vote in the elections since, with increasing number of ballots thrown out. It's harder to get a mail-in ballot, hard…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 21, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Call to action

AJC: VP Harris visits ‘ground zero’ for voting rights battle in Atlanta  More from V.P. Harris: "Yet we have seen in the state of Georgia, by example of what is happening in the country, anti-voter laws — laws that have limited drop boxes, have made it illegal to even provide food and water to peopl…

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  Electoral College Team (VAP) · [email protected]

March 20, 2024 at 6:08 PM

Progress is being made

This is the kind of change that makes a difference   The movement to end the Electoral College is making progress, John: Minnesota joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact last year and Maine's House of Representatives has passed a bill to join! If you don't remember -- The National Popu…

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  Research Team (Voter Action Project) · [email protected]

March 20, 2024 at 3:05 PM

Tracking survey: Voting barriers

The Hill: More than 200K transgender Americans face barriers to voting in midterm elections     As many as 203,700 transgender Americans who were eligible to vote in the 2022 general election faced barriers to voting because of stringent voter ID laws, according to new research from the Williams Ins…

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  Voter Registration @ VAP · [email protected]

March 20, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Clock is ticking

Voter registration is the key to protecting voting rights John -- this campaign to register 1 million new voters as a coalition is the most important thing we're doing over the next 230 days.Vote-suppressing state legislatures are gearing up to pass more restrictive laws. Congress is paralyzed. Be…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 19, 2024 at 9:05 PM

All the new restrictions

538: 16 States Made It Harder To Vote   John: This headline is from December, but it's worth emphasizing how new voting restrictions were passed in 16 different states in 2023. Driven by many opponents of voting rights' false belief that lax voting laws allowed the 2020 election to be stolen, near…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 19, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Truly "ground zero" this year

AJC: VP Harris visits ‘ground zero’ for voting rights battle in Atlanta   Straight from Vice President Kamala Harris during her recent trip to Georgia, John: "Leaders here who have a continuing conversation — a conversation that many of us have been having for years — around the significance of figh…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 18, 2024 at 6:10 PM

This year of all years

Voter registration is the key to protecting voting rights this year John -- In 2022 Former First Lady Michelle Obama challenged a coalition of voting rights organizations to be a part of her efforts to "register more than a million new voters across the country" as part of that year's elections. W…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 18, 2024 at 3:05 PM

Supporter poll: Automatic voter registration

Would you be in support?   You are invited to join our one-click issue response poll. For data integrity purposes, please do not complete this survey if your email address is not [email protected]. Former President Barack Obama has said "Let's make automatic voter registration the new norm across…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 18, 2024 at 12:01 AM

Over 90% of pro-voting lawsuits are brought by private citizens

AP: Federal appeals court deals a blow to Voting Rights Act, ruling that private plaintiffs can’t sue  We desperately need a "private right to action" to protect voting rights. All that phrase means is that we, the people, can bring forward a lawsuit ourselves when we see wrongdoing in our elections…

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

March 17, 2024 at 6:05 PM

Election funding poll

NPR: Private funding saved the 2020 election. Now, some GOP-led states are banning it     Private sector companies and nonprofit charities often donate money and provide grants to communities across the country to help administer voting.This includes mail sorting machines in Philadelphia, nonpartisa…

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  Voter Research (Voter Action Project) · [email protected]

March 15, 2024 at 9:03 PM

Benchmark Poll: Minimum Wage

@RBReich - Federal minimum wage: 2009: $7.25 2021: $7.25 The crisis here isn't a labor shortage. It’s a living wage shortage.    We often benchmark our activists on important issues not related to voting rights. Today we'd like to know your thoughts on the economy and current minimum wage.We are aim…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 15, 2024 at 6:06 PM

Expanding the use of drop boxes and so much more

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is revisiting a controversial decision Easily accessible drop boxes, clarifying the tricky witness signature requirement, more time to cure valid ballots with tiny errors so that they count instead of getting thrown out... if the Wisconsin Supreme Court rules the right …

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 15, 2024 at 3:04 PM

Powerful voices

MSNBC: Jamie Raskin thinks the Electoral College threatens democracy. He's right.  Jamie Raskin, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren -- with more and more powerful voices throwing their weight behind abolishing the Electoral College, we are on the verge of a breakthrough! We deserve a popular vote syst…

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  Voter Action Project NC · [email protected]

March 15, 2024 at 12:01 AM

They're targeting these folks because they think they can get away with it

DD: Disenfranchising Rural North Carolina Is By Design There's no code to break down when we say "rural". We're not talking about voters who are likely to vote one way or another. This is about the working poor and struggling middle class that are continually targeted by opponents of voting rights…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 14, 2024 at 9:04 PM

A threat to pro-voting lawsuits against suppressive laws

AP: Federal appeals court deals a blow to Voting Rights Act, ruling that private plaintiffs can’t sue   The recent 8th Circuit ruling is one of the most dangerous anti-voter rulings we’ve seen in years. In the eight states impacted by the ruling, voters and voting rights organizations can no longer…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 13, 2024 at 9:03 PM

Breaking news in Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is revisiting a controversial decision Remember this from way back in 2021, John? Back then, in response to conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, Wisconsin’s then-conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled that absentee ballot drop boxes may be placed only in ele…

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  [email protected] · [email protected]

March 13, 2024 at 6:09 PM

Poll: Voter data verification

CNN: Florida, West Virginia and Missouri withdraw from bipartisan effort aimed at maintaining accurate voter rolls    The Electronic Registration Information Center, also known as ERIC, is a nonprofit system that helps participating states keep their registration rolls accurate and up to date by ana…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 13, 2024 at 3:05 PM

Jamie Raskin has a good point

MSNBC: Jamie Raskin thinks the Electoral College threatens democracy. He's right.   Congressman Jamie Raskin knows the score, John. Here's what he had to say: “I think that the Electoral College now, which has given us five popular vote losers as president in our history, twice in this century al…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 13, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Top, top priority this year

Voter registration is the key to protecting voting rights  Our voter registration campaign made a huge difference in 2022 and 2023. We've got no choice but to keep it going for 2024 and stop any chance of losing more of our voting rights to cynical conspiracy theorists spreading lies. John: RUSH $24…

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  North Carolina Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 12, 2024 at 9:04 PM

Sneaky suppression

DD: Disenfranchising Rural North Carolina Is By Design   One of the sneakiest things about North Carolina's 2023 voter suppression bill, S.B. 747, is how it disenfranchises rural communities across our state. The North Carolina state legislature, along party lines, passed a sweeping package of chan…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 12, 2024 at 6:04 PM

Opportunity to eliminate the filibuster

Sinema's retirement opens a window to change archaic Senate rules We all know it, John: We need federal protections for abortion access and voting rights. We need common sense gun control to protect lives. We need immediate climate action to tackle the global crisis. We need all of that and more, …

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 12, 2024 at 12:01 AM

Answering Biden's call to action

BCJ: Pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act is groundbreaking federal legislation that will protect the rights of millions of voters across the country. That's why President Biden called for Congress to act on this bill during his annual S…

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  Voter Action Project Voter Registration Team · [email protected]

March 11, 2024 at 6:07 PM

Defending the right to vote one registration at a time

Voter registration is the key to protecting voting rights this year   John: Our 2024 voter registration campaign needs your help. If "voter registration campaign" was all you needed to hear to support our work, please click right here to fuel our efforts. The math is simple: It only costs us about …

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 10, 2024 at 9:08 PM

Chuck was right

Chuck Todd is asking key questions about the Electoral College  Chuck Todd is right -- nobody is happy with the current Electoral College system and our country deserves better. The American people deserve a system where their votes directly count and their voices aren't muffled.We can end the Elect…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 10, 2024 at 6:05 PM

Need your opinion on the USPS

Do you feel like they're equipped to succeed?   You are invited to join our one-click issue response poll. For data integrity purposes, please do not complete this survey if your email address is not [email protected]. The United States Postal Service created a division to handle election mail is…

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