Voter Action Project Texas · [email protected]

October 27, 2024 at 6:04 PM

Anti-voting lawsuits in Texas

NYT: Texas Attorney General Sues to Stop Voter Registration Push in San Antonio  Texas is truly the new capital of voter suppression, John. Texas A.G. Ken Paxton sued Travis County (Austin) and Bexar County (San Antonio) over their plans to try and register unregistered voters. The suits seek to st…

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  Voter Action Project Research · [email protected]

October 26, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Poll: 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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  Team Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 25, 2024 at 9:03 PM

We must reach voters

CBS: Georgia judge invalidates controversial new state election rules, calling them "illegal, unconstitutional and void"  Opponents of voting rights in Georgia are willing to go to any length to make sure they gain more power and control. We must make sure voters know to vote early and turn out in …

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  Voter Action Project Turnout Team · [email protected]

October 25, 2024 at 6:03 PM

GOTV falling behind?

Turnout is going to determine how this election goes  John -- we'll be blunt: Our fundraising is falling behind what we need for our GOTV operations.This election is going to come down to who turns out their voters, and the reality is that the future of voting rights, abortion, and more are still i…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 25, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Their goal is totally clear

Ohio Capital Journal: Ohio Sec. of State LaRose proposes eliminating ballot drop boxes, changes rules ahead of election Why do opponents of voting rights keep trying to make it harder to vote? Why are they trying day after day to limit pathways for you to submit your ballot? It's simple -- they kno…

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  Voter Action Project Georgia · [email protected]

October 24, 2024 at 6:18 PM

The ruling we deserved

CBS: Georgia judge invalidates controversial new state election rules, calling them "illegal, unconstitutional and void"   Great news out of Georgia, John: After the MAGA-run Georgia State Election Board passed a bunch of last-minute rules -- like requiring ballots to be hand-counted -- over the o…

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

October 24, 2024 at 3:06 PM

1-click survey: Barriers to voting

Newsweek: How Trans Voters Could Be Excluded From the Election    Nearly 210,000 transgender Americans who are eligible to vote in the 2024 general election face barriers to voting because of stringent voter ID laws, according to new research. The study shows that roughly 414,000 voting-eligible tr…

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

October 24, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Don't let them shake our faith in our elections

WaPo: Pennsylvania presidential election results could again take days to count   Pennsylvania state lawmakers had four years to change the law and allow pre-canvassing, but they didn't. The Democratic-led Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill to begin pre-canvassing mail ballots seve…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 23, 2024 at 6:22 PM

Earn this

We must turn out every voter   We can earn the result we need: Protecting mail-in ballots, increasing voter engagement, driving same-day registration, and much more. We just have to keep working these next 13 days, John, and we need your help to reach every potential voter. John: RUSH $25 or whatev…

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  Voter Action Project Ohio · [email protected]

October 23, 2024 at 3:11 PM

Changing the rules on short notice

Ohio Capital Journal: Ohio Sec. of State LaRose proposes eliminating ballot drop boxes, changes rules ahead of election Drop boxes are threatened in Ohio by the very elected official whose job is to run the election, John. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has asked leaders in the Ohio state leg…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 23, 2024 at 12:02 AM

No more "later"

Mail-in ballots are going out and people are voting  There's no more waiting, there's no more "later". States have started voting and it won't stop until November. We have to maximize every opportunity we get to register and turn out pro-democracy voters. We can get this done, $3 at a time. RUSH $2…

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  Voter Action Project Pennsylvania · [email protected]

October 22, 2024 at 6:10 PM

Delays counting our votes

WaPo: Pennsylvania presidential election results could again take days to count  John: Do you remember all the cries to "Stop the count!"? When the polls closed on election night in 2020, one candidate appeared to be winning Pennsylvania. But over the next several days, as officials counted mail-in…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 22, 2024 at 3:05 PM

14 days

We must turn out every voter   This is a short message, John, because there's so much going on. We just wanted you to know how hard we're all still working right now to register voters where we still can and turn out as many supporters of voting rights as we can on November 5th. We've put blood, sw…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 22, 2024 at 12:02 AM

His word

MSNBC: Trump tells supporters they ‘won’t have to vote’ again if he wins   Four years of Donald Trump as president taught us to take him at his word. We could never assume we knew whether he was being hyperbolic or stating his true intentions. It's the same right now -- we have to assume the worst …

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

October 21, 2024 at 9:04 PM

Survey: Local government election funding

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 Action Project · [email protected]

October 21, 2024 at 6:04 PM

States are voting

Mail-in ballots are going out in key states and many other key dates are on the horizon  John -- Check out this map from Axios, because all the states that are dark green, blue, or black are already voting:We're just 15 days from Election Day. From registering citizens in the states with registrati…

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  Registration Team [Voter Action Project] · [email protected]

October 21, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Super short on time

Voter registration is the key to protecting voting rights John -- our campaign to register 1 million new voters as a coalition --along with turning out all these voters -- are the two most important things we're doing over the next 16 days.Vote-suppressing state legislatures are gearing up to pass …

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 20, 2024 at 9:04 PM

A fountain of anti-democracy nonsense

MSNBC: Trump tells supporters they ‘won’t have to vote’ again if he wins   “Christians, get out and vote!” yelled Trump. “Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine! You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love y…

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  Voter Research // Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 20, 2024 at 6:05 PM

Supporter Survey: Minimum Wage

   Straight from Axios, John: "The federal minimum wage has basically become an outdated relic: It last went up to $7.25 on July 24, 2009 — 15 years ago." The even more stunning fact -- "in inflation-adjusted terms, the federal minimum wage is worth less now than at any time since 1949."We would l…

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  [email protected] · [email protected]

October 18, 2024 at 9:18 PM

Quick 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 an…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 18, 2024 at 6:09 PM

More than just Georgia's problem

CBS: Eligible voters are being swept up in conservative activists' efforts to purge voter rolls   This isn't just a Georgia problem, John. As with all the shady tactics that opponents of voting rights use, once they find success with something in one state they export it for use in other states aro…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 18, 2024 at 3:02 PM

Run through the tape

Voter registration is the key to protecting voting rights this year Time is running out, 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 t…

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  Team Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 18, 2024 at 12:03 AM

Worth it

It's worth taking a moment to remember what we're fighting for Anything worth fighting for is going to leave some bumps and bruises. But at the end of the day we'd rather have these scars from our work defending our right to vote than sit idly by and watch as our voices are silenced. John: Fight wi…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 17, 2024 at 6:08 PM

Grassroots pressure for a critical bill

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 · [email protected]

October 17, 2024 at 3:04 PM

Partisan voter purges

CBS: Eligible voters are being swept up in conservative activists' efforts to purge voter rolls  John: Up to 500,000 Georgians were at risk of having their voter registration “purged” before Election Day. Untold numbers were removed. Partisan election officials conduct mass registered voter removal…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 17, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Crunch time

20 days to turn out every voter   It's crunch time, John -- there's no other way to put it. With so many critical elections for offices that impact voting rights, like Secretary of State and Attorney General, and in important states like Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and more... the fate of our rights …

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  Michael Kanick, Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 16, 2024 at 6:08 PM

Why we do all this

It's worth taking a moment to remember what we're fighting for John, Some days the reasons we fight for voting rights and our democracy are self-evident and directly in front of us in the news. Other days we are reminded why we work so hard by a kind word or a shared moment. It's in that spirit tha…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 16, 2024 at 3:06 PM

Voter Survey: USPS Ballot Division

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 special division to handle election m…

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

October 16, 2024 at 12:03 AM

This is a turnout election

An update on our GOTV operations   Turnout is the whole ballgame this year, John. We either help turn out the countless new voters that we've helped register as part of the pro-democracy coalition -- along with millions of voting rights supporters -- or we watch the wave of voter suppression contin…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 15, 2024 at 9:05 PM

This Congress or the next

BCJ: Pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act John: We've repeatedly highlighted a key fact: The landmark John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement has been stuck in the U.S. House of Representatives. Supporters of voting rights from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris to Stacey Abrams have calle…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 15, 2024 at 3:56 PM

Three weeks from today

21 days to turn out every voter  We're banging this drum because it's so important, John: We've got 21 days until Election Day. That gives us just three short weeks to register voters where we still can and turn out voters for early voting and Election Day.We've been working all year for voting rig…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 15, 2024 at 12:02 AM

This plan would radically alter our country

We must stop Project 2025 before it's too late   The bottom line is that opponents of voting rights could easily enact many of the proposed policies from Project 2025. We're focused on the changes to voting and our elections, but there's no doubt that this plan would radically alter our country and…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 14, 2024 at 6:09 PM

We use proven tactics

An update on our GOTV operations  John, We are past the pivot point. Voter registration has been our number one priority all year -- starting with reengaging lapsed voters and attracting new voters to our outreach on the ground and advertising online. Now that we've put in all that effort, our focu…

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  Election Research Team [Voter Action Project] · [email protected]

October 14, 2024 at 3:08 PM

Tracking poll: Biden's decision

How do you feel about Joe Biden's decision to step aside?   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]. Earlier this year, President Joe Biden chose to step aside and end h…

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  Wisconsin Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 14, 2024 at 12:01 AM

This is about increasing turnout

Kenosha News: Wisconsin Supreme Court reverses previous decision, allows absentee ballot drop boxes 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... this Wisconsin…

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  Project 2025 Alert [Voter Action Project] · [email protected]

October 13, 2024 at 9:06 PM

Harming voting rights and so much more

Vox - Project 2025: The myths and the facts  There's been a lot of talk about the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025", John. It's time for the truth. Project 2025 is a detailed and specific plan for what the next Republican president could (or in the eyes of some, should) do with his power, includ…

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

October 13, 2024 at 6:04 PM

1-click poll: Grade Joe Biden

How do you think President Biden is doing?   You are invited to join our one-click response poll. For data integrity purposes, please do not complete this survey if your email address is not [email protected]. Throughout his first term, we have kept track of how our supporters feel about Joe Biden …

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  Team Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 11, 2024 at 9:09 PM

They want to silence us

Rolling Stone: These Swing State Election Officials Are Pro-Trump Election Deniers  We can't let these vote suppressors and their inside-the-beltway supporters, fueled by dark money millions in a decades-long campaign, to silence our voices. Our country and our future are too important to give up n…

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  Arizona Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 11, 2024 at 6:05 PM

Let's be real about this

AZ Mirror: More than 75% of voters use early ballots. Every AZ House Republican voted to take that away.   Let's be real about this: Shameless partisan opponents of voting rights want to roll back early voting in Arizona because they think that if fewer people participate in Arizona's elections the…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 11, 2024 at 3:04 PM

Great news in Wisconsin

Kenosha News: Wisconsin Supreme Court reverses previous decision, allows absentee ballot drop boxes To quote the president, John: This "is a big f-ing deal". The Wisconsin Supreme Court made a key pro-voter ruling and reversed its previous two-year-old decision banning absentee ballot drop boxes. T…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 11, 2024 at 12:01 AM

Our actions are our answer

Opponents of voting rights want you scared of our elections  Our answer to these brainwashed, willfully ignorant, wannabe-cultists can't be just words. It must be through our actions: expanding access to the ballot, increasing voter participation, and swelling the voter rolls with newly registered …

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 10, 2024 at 6:10 PM

They could make a giant mess

Rolling Stone: These Swing State Election Officials Are Pro-Trump Election Deniers  It's about power, John. It always is. Rolling Stone has found that nearly 70 MAGA conspiracists are election officials in key battleground counties — and they are poised to make a giant mess on Election Day.They're …

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  [email protected] · [email protected]

October 10, 2024 at 3:06 PM

Quick survey: Voter's Bill of Rights?

Does Congress need to pass a national version?   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]. Several states, including California, have passed a "Voters Bill of Rights" to …

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 10, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Choosing our fundamental rights over a Senate rule

WaPo: Democrats signal voting rights bills will top the agenda if Harris wins We've heard a lot this year about our democracy and the future of our country, about the road we're on and the paths we can choose. A challenge to defend voting rights lies in front of us next year and we can't let anyth…

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  Voter Action Project Arizona · [email protected]

October 9, 2024 at 6:14 PM

Partisans want to end our mail-in voting

AZ Mirror: More than 75% of voters use early ballots. Every AZ House Republican voted to take that away.  This headline says it all, John. Arizona made "no-excuse" early and mail-in voting legal back in 1991. For decades, Arizona's mail-in voting laws were the model of ballot accessibility, making …

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 9, 2024 at 3:10 PM

Nothing is ever good enough for them

Opponents of voting rights want you scared of our elections  Nothing is ever good enough for opponents of voting rights. If the ballots are counted quickly and efficiently, reporting the results in a timely manner? "Oh it's rigged, no way they could have gone that fast."If precincts take their time…

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  End the Electoral College (VAP) · [email protected]

October 9, 2024 at 12:03 AM

It was a tired compromise

We can scrap the Electoral College!   The Electoral College was a compromise that tired delegates made without truly understanding the future implications. Now we can see the whole system is a disastrous mistake that could lead to the end of true democracy in this country. The Jan. 6th Committee he…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 8, 2024 at 6:08 PM

Bypassing the filibuster for voting rights

WaPo: Democrats signal voting rights bills will top the agenda if Harris wins John: HUGE news came from the Democratic Party's convention in Chicago.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would be willing to set aside the filibuster to pass legislation that would protect and defend Americans'…

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

October 8, 2024 at 3:05 PM

Quick Poll: Gerrymandering

We need to know how you feel about this important issue   Opponents of voting rights across the country used their newly gerrymandered seats and new maps to redraw the balance of power in Washington. That's because these vengeful partisans have total control of the process without regard for fairne…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 8, 2024 at 12:01 AM

Less than a month

29 days to turn out every voter  At this point all the chips are going down on the table. 2024's elections are less than a month away and opponents of voting rights are all-in. Now the press, the pundits, and the political strategists are all watching to see if we -- along with our pro-democracy pa…

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