Voter Action Project · [email protected]

June 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM

The truth of the matter

Opponents of voting rights are betting we'll ignore certain states  Fighting in every state that's trying to suppress voters doesn't mean we're going to ignore the big purple states that get all the attention, John. But the truth of the matter is that the time and resources spent to protect voting r…

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

June 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM

Tracking poll: "Election integrity"

ABC: Election integrity concerns fade after resounding Trump victory   Joe Biden addressed the nation after the 2024 election, stating "I hope we can lay to rest the question about the integrity of the American electoral system. It is honest, it is fair, and it is transparent, and it can be trusted,…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

June 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM

Disenfranchising millions

The SAVE Act would suppress votes to "address" a made-up problemWe MUST stop this bill in the Senate and more like it but we need to unite and fight now, before opponents of voting rights in the Senate start checking voter suppression bills off their to-do list. Why? Listen to Senator Richard Blumen…

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  Voter Action Project Research · [email protected]

June 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM

Voter survey: Increase in drop box availability?

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 fo…

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June 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Foxes in the hen house

DemDocket: DOJ’s New Top Voting Lawyer Worked for Leading Anti-Voting Law Firm  We wish there was a hero riding over the hill at full gallop to come save us, John. Real life isn't the next binge-worthy series on TV, however, and it's up to us, our movement, and our supporters to fight back when we l…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

June 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Their unacceptable desire for control

Des Moines Register: Iowa is changing when candidates can request a recount — and who conducts them. Here's how. Iowa's legislature isn't making these changes for fairness, for efficiency, or for a better democracy. It's to protect their power and shave the edges off our democracy so they stay in co…

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  Voter Action Project Georgia · [email protected]

June 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM

More purges?

Fox5 Atlanta: Georgia set to purge nearly half-million inactive voters this summer John: Another 500,000 Georgians are at risk of having their voter registration “purged” this summer.  What happens? Partisan election officials conduct mass registered voter removals, as required by recent Georgia vot…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

June 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM

A fifty state battle

Opponents of voting rights are betting we'll ignore certain states John -- Opponents of voting rights have made a strong bet. They've doubled down on it the last few years, too. Their bet was that we'd only care about certain states. That as long as we were focused on the swing states like Arizona, …

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  [email protected] · [email protected]

June 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM

Tracking poll: Shuttering the FBI's foreign election interference unit

CNN: Trump's Justice Department shutters specialized FBI team combating foreign election interference threats CNN is reporting that the FBI has disbanded a team of specialists charged with combating foreign threats to U.S. elections. The shuttering of the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force and reassig…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

June 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM

The suppressive lawyer appointed as “Acting Chief, Voting Section” at DOJ

DemDocket: DOJ’s New Top Voting Lawyer Worked for Leading Anti-Voting Law Firm  This seems like something out of a twisted novel, John, but the new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for y…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

June 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM

All about protecting their own power

Des Moines Register: Iowa is changing when candidates can request a recount — and who conducts them. Here's how.  John: Last year, Congresswoman Marianette Miller-Meeks won reelection in Iowa by just 0.19 points after a recount—the second-closest House race in the country.So what have the opponents…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

June 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The Senate must stop this before it's too late

The SAVE Act would suppress votes to address a made-up problemWe MUST stop this bill in the Senate and more like it but we need to unite and fight now, before opponents of voting rights in the Senate start checking voter suppression bills off their to-do list. Why? Listen to Senator Richard Blumenth…

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

June 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Survey: Minimum Wage

Should it be raised for the first time in more than a decade?   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…

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  End the Electoral College Team @ Voter Action Project · [email protected]

June 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM

A big priority

We can scrap the Electoral College The movement to end the Electoral College is making progress, John: Minnesota joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and Maine's state legislature is working to join as well.If you don't remember -- The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) …

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

May 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM

They want to cancel mail-in voting

Democracy Docket: With New Order, Trump Tries to Kill Off Vote By Mail   Trump’s order is the culmination of years of attacks on absentee ballots and vote-by-mail. In the months before the 2020 election, Trump repeatedly spread disinformation and conspiracy theories about the legitimacy of mail-in b…

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May 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM

Chilling

Reuters: Trump says violence against Tesla is domestic terrorism  We don't want to see any nonprofit bludgeoned and silenced for dissent -- especially not one dedicated to protecting and expanding our right to vote. This dangerous bill needs to be stopped before bad actors are empowered to weaponize…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

May 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Making their stand

The SAVE Act would suppress votes to address a made-up problem The Senate is standing up to stop the SAVE Act in its tracks, John. Defenders of voting rights know that non-citizen voting is already illegal, extremely rare, and that this bill is written in a way that could disenfranchise millions of …

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

May 31, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Keep moving forward

We can scrap the Electoral CollegeWe must keep the momentum in our fight to end the Electoral College, even with opponents of voting rights fighting back in these two states and elsewhere across the country. From the NPVIC to other movements to advance the popular vote, we've got to keep advancing i…

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

May 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM

States and their suppressive agendas

Brennan Center: 10 States Enacted Restrictive Voting Laws in 2024   This is what we're still up against: States have continued to execute an agenda of voter suppression, driven by partisan lies. Dark money and decades of work by opponents of voting rights have brought us here. It's scary and it show…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

May 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Executive order attacking mail-in voting

Democracy Docket: With New Order, Trump Tries to Kill Off Vote By Mail  We're going to keep hammering this home, John, because the mainstream media continues to ignore this executive order and how it will change our elections forever. President Donald Trump's massive anti-voting executive order has …

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  Voter Action Project Georgia · [email protected]

May 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Suppression without consequence

Atlanta Voice: Georgia seeks another Supreme Court showdown over Voting Rights Act It's simple: The Voting Rights Act was passed to outlaw racial discrimination in elections, including the drawing of districts in ways that effectively blocked minority groups from electing their preferred candidates.…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

May 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM

A dangerous precedent

Reuters: Trump says violence against Tesla is domestic terrorism  John: We must pay attention to President Trump's words, taking them literally and figuratively.Why? When we called out a frightening bill, last known as H.R. 9495, that already passed the House and would give President Donald Trump b…

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  Voter Action Project Electoral College Team · [email protected]

May 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Making progress

We can scrap the Electoral College The movement to end the Electoral College is making progress, John: Minnesota joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and Maine's state legislature is working to join as well.If you don't remember -- The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) …

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

May 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Can't lose sight of these facts

Brennan Center: 10 States Enacted Restrictive Voting Laws in 2024  John, we're not kidding: Ten states enacted new voting restrictions in 2024.In fact, according to the nonpartisan Brennan Center For Justice, "states enacted more restrictive voting laws in 2024 than in any year in the last decade ex…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

May 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM

Georgia vs. the Voting Rights Act

Atlanta Voice: Georgia seeks another Supreme Court showdown over Voting Rights Act  Bad news for everyone, John: The state of Georgia is seeking another Supreme Court showdown over the Voting Rights Act, asking a federal appeals court to interpret the 1965 law in a way that could make it much hard…

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  VAP Research Team · [email protected]

May 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Tracking poll: Seizing voting machines?

@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 v…

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  Voter Action Project Research · [email protected]

May 26, 2025 at 12:05 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 officials …

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

May 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM

A "must stop" kind of bill

CBS: Experts warn the proposed SAVE Act could make it harder for some married women to vote. Here's who could be affected. Sean Wilentz, a professor of American History at Princeton University, makes the stakes of the SAVE act clear: “It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American h…

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