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August 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Upcoming voter registration deadlines

Statewide elections in New Jersey and Virginia are critical in 2025   2025 may be an "off year" election as far as Congress goes, but that doesn't mean we don't have important elections this year or we can take a break with our voter registration work, John. Voter registration is open in New Jerse…

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

August 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM

We refuse to stand down

Opponents of voting rights are closer than ever to turning back the clock on your right to vote   It's clear that opponents of voting rights see the Voting Rights Act as the last wall between them and control of our elections. They want less participation, more eligible voters turned away, and for …

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  Voter Action Project NC · [email protected]

August 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM

They're going to push until we stop them

NC Newsline: NC House bill would allow elections board workers to be replaced with political hires   Every chip here, every little slice there, every restriction passed on our fundamental right to vote erodes our democracy. At a time when every level of government seems pushed and strained to stret…

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  Voter Action Project Louisiana · [email protected]

August 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM

The state of Louisiana is asking to gut the VRA

Politico: Louisiana asks Supreme Court to gut Voting Rights Act and ban use of race in redistricting   There's no way to sugarcoat this, John: Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to gut the central provision of the Voting Rights Act and ban any use of race in redistricting. In a legal brief filed…

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August 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM

This used to be the people's 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 …

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

August 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM

What's next? Expunging Trump?

Trump has pressured every Speaker for this   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]. House conservatives repeatedly pressured former Speaker Kevin McCarthy to hold a …

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

August 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM

More than any other time in the last 60 years

Opponents of voting rights are closer than ever to turning back the clock on your right to vote   There’s a simple, harsh reality, John:  Americans’ right to vote is in more danger today than at any time since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965.➜ We're watching a wave of racial gerrymanderin…

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August 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Your thoughts on mass voter eligibility challenges?

Rome News-Tribune: Eligibility of 364,000 Georgia voters challenged     Georgia and other states have an expansive legal statute that permits any voter to challenge the right to vote of any other voter in that county or municipality. Dark money voter suppression groups have allegedly used this lega…

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

August 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Radically altering our country

Courier: Trump's executive orders seem to be ripped right from the pages of Project 2025   The bottom line is that opponents of voting rights are on track to 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 …

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August 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM

More voter suppression bills in North Carolina

NC Newsline: NC House bill would allow elections board workers to be replaced with political hires   Get this, John: Opponents of voting rights in North Carolina have introduced a sweeping elections bill that, among other steps, would bar election officials from encouraging or promoting voter turn…

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  VAP Research Team · [email protected]

August 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM

Your opinion on mail-in ballots?

Mail-in balloting continues to be attacked   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]. Mail-in balloting continues to be attacked even after the 2024 election. Losing ca…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

August 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM

This is all part of MAGA's plan

Courier: Trump's executive orders seem to be ripped right from the pages of Project 2025   Remember when opponents of voting rights spent 2024 disavowing the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025", John? Now that they're in control, they are following that playbook line by line. Organized by the Heri…

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August 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM

Bet on it

Democracy Docket: DOJ Doubles Down on Demands for Maine’s Voter Data, Secretary of State Fires Back   What does the DOJ want with personally identifiable voter information? They won't specifically say, but given the history of the appointees involved, you can bet it has something to do with suppres…

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August 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM

Foreign interference in our elections?

Politico: Foreign influence efforts are circling the presidential election. Again.   The Department of Justice has previously seized websites linked to Russian disinformation campaigns. Federal authorities separately accused two employees of the Moscow-controlled media organization RT of being a …

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

August 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Texas did it

NYT: Texas House Approves Redistricting Maps, Just as Trump Wanted   After a filibuster, the Texas state Senate passed these extreme new districts this morning. This didn't need to happen, but vengeful partisans who want to restrict voting and protect their power are worried about next year's elect…

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

August 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM

An underreported danger

Democracy Docket: DOJ Doubles Down on Demands for Maine’s Voter Data, Secretary of State Fires Back   We’ll keep this short, John: The MAGA-ified U.S. Department of Justice has been demanding voter data from the states, requesting that election officials turn over unredacted copies of voter rolls …

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

August 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM

Even founding father James Madison regretted it

New Yorker: The Case for Dumping the Electoral College   Even after agreeing to the Electoral College, founder James Madison said the constitutional congress delegates were impaired by “the hurry­ing influence produced by fatigue and impatience.”Yes -- even the person who created it didn't like it …

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August 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM

So much more at stake than one case

Slate: The Supreme Court Is Determined to Turn Voting Into a Limited Privilege   The last two decades of U.S. Supreme Court rulings and the written opinions of the six members of the suppressive majority tell us all we need to know about where these voting rights cases are going.That's exactly why …

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  Voter Action Project Polling · [email protected]

August 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM

Does this worry you?

WaPo - The truth about election fraud: It’s rare    As the 2024 elections got underway, many Americans, in particular those who identify as Republicans, were increasingly fearful that the outcome would be affected or even determined by election fraud.  Thousands of poll watchers were dispatched. D…

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August 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM

Texas's extreme gerrymander will go through today

NYT: Texas House Approves Redistricting Maps, Just as Trump Wanted   John: As much as we wanted to stop them, Texas's new gerrymandered maps will pass the state legislature today and be signed into law shortly thereafter.President Trump pressured Texas legislators into "aggressively partisan congr…

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August 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM

The attacks have continued

ABC: Trump says he will lead 'movement' to end mail-in voting   The lies and attacks on vote-by-mail have only increased in the last 48 hours, John. Trump's statement has brought all the usual anti-voting, anti-democracy suspects out of the woodwork to ramp up the falsehoods we've heard for years. …

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  [VAP] Electoral College Team · [email protected]

August 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM

Stopping MAGA from gaming the system

New Yorker: The Case for Dumping the Electoral College   The Electoral College has been described as “a loaded pistol pointed at our system of government.” They warned that it created “a game of Russian roulette” because the way it distorts the will of the people could threaten our democracy. We've…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

August 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM

A chilling headline

Slate: The Supreme Court Is Determined to Turn Voting Into a Limited Privilege   At Voter Action Project, John, we believe that voting is a fundamental right, not a privilege or some test of everyone's endurance and ability to wait in a long line. We believe that our right to vote is the core bedr…

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

August 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM

Voter ID options at the polls

Many states are changing the types of ID they accept for voting   Ohio counties are grappling with the impact of their voter suppression law that enacts stringent voter identification laws.  Franklin County, home to the state capitol of Columbus and more than a million Ohioans, is among the counti…

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

August 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM

This is how MAGA is dismantling our democracy

The Guardian: Trump’s justice department appointees remove leadership of voting unit   When Trump took office, the voting section of the civil rights division had seven managers overseeing around 30 attorneys. Since then, one manager was detailed to a task force, one retired, and the other five wer…

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August 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM

Trump said it this morning:

ABC: Trump says he will lead 'movement' to end mail-in voting   Our time in the barrel has come, John.  President Donald Trump said just hours ago that he will lead a "movement" to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines, falsely claiming that they lead to voter fraud. Word for lying word: "…

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August 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Fighting suppression in every state

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

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  Research Team [VAP] · [email protected]

August 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Should we be doing more to protect election workers?

We need to know if you think Congress should take action   John: U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar introduced and is working hard to pass the Election Worker Protection Act, which would would "provide states with the resources to recruit and train election workers and ensure these workers’ safety, while …

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

August 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM

Rudy Giuliani's legal woes

Newsweek: Rudy Giuliani Faces Further Legal Woes After Failing to Turn Over Assets   John: Rudy Giuliani's role in the election conspiracies of 2020 is well known. Now he's facing an additional contempt of court charge for refusing to comply with his punishment for his role in the scheme to subvert…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

August 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM

Why we need to fight for ourselves

The Guardian: Trump’s justice department appointees remove leadership of voting unit   This speaks for itself, John. Straight from The Guardian: "Donald Trump’s appointees at the Department of Justice have removed all of the senior civil servants working as managers in the department’s voting secti…

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August 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Erecting obstacles between you and your fundamental right

The SAVE Act would suppress votes to address a made-up problem   We 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 Blume…

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August 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM

This is about every 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, …

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  Georgia Voter Action Project · [email protected]

August 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM

This progress is crucial

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 ri…

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

August 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM

A new political census?

The Trump/MAGA team is proposing a new mid-decade census based on 2024's voting data.     John: President Donald Trump is looking to change the way the U.S. Census Bureau collects data, posting on Truth Social that his new method would utilize "the results and information gained from the President…

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

August 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Stripping away our rights

Democracy Docket: New Ruling Cuts Off Key Tool to Protect Minority Voters Voters desperately need a "private right to action" to protect their rights. All that phrase means is that we, the people, can bring forward a lawsuit ourselves when we see wrongdoing in our elections. These 8th Circuit decis…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

August 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM

This bill was written to disenfranchise legal voters

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 …

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August 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Update from Georgia

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

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August 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM

Just a dangerous ruling

Democracy Docket: New Ruling Cuts Off Key Tool to Protect Minority Voters John: An update from the federal 8th Circuit on one of the most dangerous anti-voter rulings we’ve seen in years. A federal appeals court recently cut off a key avenue for private groups and individuals to bring racial discr…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

August 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Mail-in voting and so much more

WaPo - Opinion: A frantic warning from 100 leading experts: Our democracy is in grave danger   Seriously, John -- Privatizing the USPS doesn't help Americans, it will harm rural communities all over the country, and it will remove a vital public service from our everyday lives. In addition, it'll d…

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  Voter Action Project Research · [email protected]

August 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM

Your voting rights priorities?

We want to see if your biggest concerns have changed   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]. As more state legislative sessions begin, we need to know if your voting…

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  Voter Action Project Registration Team · [email protected]

August 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM

A tidal wave of new voters

We're trying to register a new tidal wave of voters ahead of the next election   We 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 $24 or…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

August 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM

This is a pivotal moment

WaPo - Opinion: A frantic warning from 100 leading experts: Our democracy is in grave danger   We’ll keep this short, John: those experts are right.The attacks of the last few years in our state legislatures across the country targeting the right to vote, especially minority communities, are an ass…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

August 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Clear now that it was a mistake

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.This is about stopping anti-…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

August 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM

Voter registration work

We're trying 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 helpi…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

August 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Gumming up the works in Texas

Texas is targeting minority voters in their latest round of partisan redistricting   The legislators who fled Texas to stop this extreme, highly partisan attempt at gerrymandering these districts are bravely standing up for our fundamental right to a democracy where our voice is heard.The maps belo…

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

August 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM

Would you ban Congressional stock trading?

We want to know what you think of recent proposals   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]. Straight from Politico: "A Senate committee voted to advance a bill that w…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

August 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Not an impossible fight

We can scrap the Electoral College  There are times this fight for a popular vote system feels impossible. But John, we can assure you it's not.   There are a number of ways it can be done. A constitutional amendment, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), and more.What we really nee…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

August 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Easy to see how they are suppressing voters

Texas is targeting minority voters in their latest round of partisan redistricting   John: Texas's new gerrymandered maps are so bad, it's easy to see why lawmakers from the Texas House of Representatives left the state to deny suppressive lawmakers the quorum (the number of legislators required …

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

August 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM

"The most extraordinary attack..."

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 America…

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  Voter Survey [Voter Action Project] · [email protected]

August 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Trump firing the nonpartisan economic statistics official?

NYT: Trump Fires BLS Commissioner, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Rigged’   President Trump unleashed his fury about weakness in the labor market recently, saying without evidence that the data were “rigged” and then firing the bipartisanly Senate-confirmed Department of Labor official responsibl…

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