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July 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM

Are student IDs enough?

@taniel.bsky.social‬: Indiana already has stringent voter ID rules... & the GOP is advancing a bill right now to strip university IDs from the list of options you can use. This would make it much harder for students to vote. At polling site at IU Bloomington, 2/3rds of voters in November used th…

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July 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM

Most precious resource of our democracy

DemDocket: DOJ’s New Top Voting Lawyer Worked for Leading Anti-Voting Law Firm We can't wait for some hero to ride over the hill at full gallop to come save us, John. It's up to us, our movement, and supporters like you to fight back with vote-suppressors taking over the Department of Justice's Civi…

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July 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM

Voter survey: Trump's tariffs

How concerned are you about your personal finances?   John: President Donald Trump slapped sweeping tariffs on foreign imports again. Last time he did this, the stock market reacted with major losses as U.S. financial markets closed with their biggest one-day drop since the pandemic flattened the gl…

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  Georgia Voter Action Project · [email protected]

July 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM

Another way for them to ignore voters

Bolts: After a Judge’s Death, Renewed Scrutiny for a Georgia Loophole That Can Nullify ElectionsWe know this all just amounts to another way that opponents of voting rights can try and ignore voters and subvert the will of the people. We have to get this loophole in Georgia eliminated before the vot…

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July 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM

Help us say no to these nominees

We can't let Trump privatize the USPS. John, We've reached the next stage in our fight to protect the U.S. Postal Service from privatization. Donald Trump has nominated Anthony Lomangino and John LaValle to the USPS Board of Governors, two very wealthy Wall Street types with deep ties to Trump, zero…

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July 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Vote suppressors take over the Justice Department

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 yea…

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July 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM

Voter survey: Ballot initiatives

Democracy Docket: Lawmakers Look To Restrict Ballot Initiative Process in Florida, Missouri and Ohio  In state legislative sessions, suppressive lawmakers across the country have looked to curtail the ballot initiative process, which allows citizens to directly affect policy change by voting on prop…

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July 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM

Nearly two out of every three

PRC: Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College  John: When nearly two out of every three Americans agree on something, it's probably a good idea to do it. When it comes to the Electoral College -- a system that isn't equipped to handle the stress tests that opponents…

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  Voter Action Project Georgia · [email protected]

July 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM

A loophole to get around elections

Bolts: After a Judge’s Death, Renewed Scrutiny for a Georgia Loophole That Can Nullify Elections A quick story, John: After losing an election race last year, a Georgia State Court Judge turned to a loophole in state law that could have erased the result and blocked the winner from taking office.  W…

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  Voter Action Project Electoral College Team · [email protected]

July 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM

Are you with the majority?

PRC: Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College  As has been the case for over 200 years, the Electoral College determines the outcome of U.S. presidential races. Yet most Americans have long supported moving away from this system. More than six-in-ten Americans (63%)…

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July 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Fight these power grabs

Democracy Docket: Top GOP Map-Drawer and Right-Wing Law Firm Team Up to Target Texas Minority Voters We have to fight these power grabs whenever and wherever we can so that we don't obey in advance and let the vote suppressors get away with these dirty tricks to protect their power and silence the w…

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

July 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM

Tracking Congress: Rate Speaker Johnson

How would you rate his performance?  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]. John: GOP Leader Mike Johnson is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was r…

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July 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Poll: Term limits for the Supreme Court?

BCJ: Why Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices Make Sense  Judicial historians and other nonpartisan justice activists are restarting their campaigns for term limits on Supreme Court justices. They argue that lifetime appointments are misplaced in the common era and that a rotation of federal justi…

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  Voter Action Project Texas · [email protected]

July 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM

The vote suppressor's new gerrymander

Democracy Docket: Top GOP Map-Drawer and Right-Wing Law Firm Team Up to Target Texas Minority Voters The fight against gerrymandering never ends, John. The opponents of voting rights who run one of Texas’s biggest counties have recruited the top conservative map-drawer, as well as a leading Washingt…

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July 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM

Poll: Trump's awful bill

What are your thoughts?  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 One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Donald Trump’s signature second-term domestic legislative package, is w…

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July 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Now more than ever, we have to come through

We've been challenged to register a new tidal wave of voters ahead of the next electionWe can't stress this enough: For less than the price of a latte at your local coffee shop you can help cover the costs of registering a new voter. We have to start now to be ready for next year's elections. RUSH $…

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July 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM

Do you think we need a national vote-by-mail system?

Help shape our priorities with your response  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]. Mail-in balloting has been proven safe and secure after broad utilization in the last th…

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  Voter Action Project Georgia · [email protected]

July 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM

We'll win, one step at a time

AP: Georgia Supreme Court overturns some election rules, curbing State Election Board’s power Every journey starts with one step. Stopping the vote suppressors in Georgia won't happen overnight, but incremental progress like this is crucial. RUSH $25 or more right now to protect our fundamental righ…

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June 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM

Trump hates mail-in voting and is trying to kill it

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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June 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM

Voter registration efforts

We've been challenged to register a new tidal wave of voters ahead of the next election 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…

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June 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM

Silencing dissent

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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June 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM

It's all happening in plain sight

CNN: Inside Trump’s gutting of the Justice Department unit that enforces voting lawsOn her first day as attorney general, Pam Bondi penned a memo requiring DOJ lawyers to “zealously” advocate for administration positions or face disciplinary action and potential firing. It's clear we can no longer d…

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June 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Greats news from Georgia

AP: Georgia Supreme Court overturns some election rules, curbing State Election Board’s power  A great update from Georgia, John: Georgia’s highest court overturned four rules passed by the State Election Board just before last year’s general election, ruling the board overstepped its authority and …

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June 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM

Their visceral need 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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June 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM

This 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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June 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM

It goes deeper than just the federal takeover

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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June 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM

Trump will use this bill to silence all dissent as "domestic terrorism"

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 br…

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June 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM

A radical step backwards

CNN: Inside Trump’s gutting of the Justice Department unit that enforces voting laws   John, what's happening is so clear: Trump and his MAGA cronies are fundamentally transforming our Department of Justice and turning it into a tool for undermining voting rights, not protecting them. Under his watc…

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

June 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM

Are ID requirements just new poll taxes?

Suppressive clauses in recent laws have been compared to poll taxes.  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]. John, The Twenty-fourth Amendment, ratified in 1964, prohib…

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June 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM

Straight to the point --

Fox News: End of the Electoral College is in sight if Democrats keep getting their wayStraight to the point, John: The Electoral College is an outdated mess that political parties are using to game the system and perpetuate power for candidates who get less votes. It's simply a tool to use land mass…

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  Voter Action Project Iowa · [email protected]

June 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM

This is about controlling our elections

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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June 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM

🙌 It's on us

Opponents of voting rights are betting we'll let them run freeFighting 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 rights …

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June 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM

Ten more states

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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June 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM

Election poll: Appoint a special prosecutor?

Trump calls for special prosecutor to investigate 2020 election  John -- Donald Trump still can't let the 2020 election go, calling for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate. MAGA cronies immediately cheered and echoed this post. This baseless claim that the 2020 election was marred …

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June 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM

👉 Simple to understand

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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  Electoral College Team [Voter Action Project] · [email protected]

June 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM

This is about fairness and not partisan tipping of the scales

Fox News: End of the Electoral College is in sight if Democrats keep getting their way Fox News is wrong, John -- big surprise.   Our movement to end the Electoral College isn't about partisanship. It's not about gaming the system. Fox has spent decades drowning in their own rhetoric and can't under…

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June 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM

Can't ignore any state

Opponents of voting rights are betting we'll let them run free 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, Geor…

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June 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM

The Voting Rights Act vs. Georgia

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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June 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM

"Never been an attack on voting rights out of Congress like this"

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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