Voter Action Project Electoral College Team · [email protected]

October 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM

Another reason to get rid of the Electoral College

Politico: Trump targets states that voted for Harris in shutdown fight   There's never been a clearer reason to get rid of the Electoral College, John. We're watching in real time as those in control of the federal government are using it to exact revenge on states that didn't go their way in the …

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October 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM

What do you think of this potential ruling?

NPR: Supreme Court seems poised to further undercut the Voting Rights Act   The Supreme Court seems headed for another ruling that undercuts the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act.Once considered the jewel in the crown of the civil rights movement, the Voting Rights Act has been largely dismembered s…

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

October 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM

The consequences are clear

Mother Jones: Republican Justices Appear Poised to Destroy What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act   Knocking out this leg of the Voting Rights Act -- by weakening Section 2 -- would almost certainly reconstitute state legislatures, city councils, judicial districts, and every other type of political …

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October 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Let Congress know we won't let working people be political pawns

Sign a letter demanding Congress make sure federal workers get the pay they deserve   John, We can't believe it either, but President Trump announced furloughed federal workers may never get the paychecks they lost during his shutdown. He thinks some “don’t deserve” it. That’s right — the people wh…

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October 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Silencing nonprofits

Truthout: House Passes Chilling “Nonprofit Killer” Bill   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 the ta…

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October 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM

A small action with big impact

Help 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 $12 or more today…

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October 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM

State court elections impact everyone

Bolts: Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court   Whether you live in Pennsylvania or not, this election will impact you. A potential suppressive state Supreme Court could mean redistricting to unfair maps, leading to skewed representation in Congress.Just like we've seen…

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October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Yesterday's Supreme Court hearing was telling

Mother Jones: Republican Justices Appear Poised to Destroy What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act   We'll hand this straight to Mother Jones, John: "The Supreme Court, with its six-to-three Republican-appointed majority, appears ready to kneecap what remains of the Voting Rights Act’s protections for…

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October 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Registering more voters can be the whole ballgame

Help 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 helping potentia…

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October 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM

Do we need to focus on increasing 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 f…

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October 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM

Cracking down on nonprofits they disagree with

Truthout: House Passes Chilling “Nonprofit Killer” Bill   We've got to let you know, John, that a bill that would give President Donald Trump broad powers to target his political foes passed in the U.S. House of Representatives last Congress and is sure to come up again.The bill, last known as H.R.…

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October 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Do you agree with shuttering the FBI's foreign election interference unit?

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

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October 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM

Every restriction erodes our democracy

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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October 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court in the balance

Bolts: Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court     John: We'll keep this short. Supporters of voting rights currently hold a 5-2 majority of Pennsylvania's state Supreme Court. That majority has been crucial in protecting voters' rights for the last few years, making sur…

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October 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM

The fairness all voters deserve

Politico: Louisiana asks Supreme Court to gut Voting Rights Act and ban use of race in redistricting  Though a long and winding fight, Louisiana's voters got the fair map they deserved last year. Now the Supreme Court is not only going to try and take that away, but also try and knock out the last …

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

October 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM

Should we be raising the minimum wage?

It has not been raised 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 is worth les…

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  Voter Research Poll ([email protected]) · [email protected]

October 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM

Partisan ownership of voting machines?

Axios: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official    Axios recently broke news that Dominion Voting Systems — makers of voting machines used in 27 states for elections across the country — has been sold to a Missouri-based company run by a former Republican election official. S…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM

No longer the DOJ's "crown jewel"

CNN: Inside Trump’s gutting of the Justice Department unit that enforces voting laws   On 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 long…

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October 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Fulfilling the promise of our democracy

Voter Action Project is dedicated to expanding ballot access and increasing voter participation nationwide.   Whether it's driving new voter registration, helping bring lapsed donors back to voting, or informing regular voters about threats to our fundamental right to vote, we're going to work ever…

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October 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM

The right to dissenting free speech

Add your name today to defend our rights   John, On September 25, 2025, the President released National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 (NSPM-7), titled “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.” This memo contains broad and vague language that could allow government agenc…

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October 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM

We cannot ignore what's going on 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 introduced a sweeping elections bill that, among other steps, would bar election officials from encouraging or promoting voter turnout. …

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October 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM

One voter at a time

Meeting our voter participation goals for next year's elections takes a lot of resources   Our mission boils down to one thing: Increasing voter participation across the country.A participation rate for eligible voters that hovers below 70% in most elections is abysmally low. That means millions of…

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October 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM

The Supreme Court's new term just started, including an important voting case

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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  VAP Research Team · [email protected]

October 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Presidential power to seize 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 sei…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM

"Gutting of the Justice Department unit that enforces voting laws"

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 watch…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM

We have a simple goal

Voter Action Project is dedicated to expanding ballot access and increasing voter participation nationwide.   John, Voter Action Project has an easy-to-understand mission: To increase voter participation across the country. We have several goals to help guide us in accomplishing that mission -- exp…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

October 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM

The mission is simple:

Meeting our voter participation goals for next year's elections takes a lot of resources   John, We're gearing up to engage voters across the country ahead of next year's crucial midterm elections. That means meeting voters where they are, from young voters to voters of color to disabled voters who…

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October 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM

The attacks aren't stopping

BCJ: State Bills Would Require Passport or Birth Certificate to Register to Vote   Whether it's these 27 different state bills, John, or the SAVE Act in Congress, it's abundantly clear that opponents of voting rights are only ramping up their attacks on our fundamental rights. We have to put pressu…

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October 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM

Your thoughts on the new Postmaster General

NPR: David Steiner of FedEx is tapped to be the U.S. Postal Service's new leader    President Donald Trump and the USPS Board of Governors have named former Waste Management CEO David Steiner to lead the Postal Service. Steiner was most recently the lead independent director at FedEx, a USPS compet…

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  Voter Action Project Research · [email protected]

October 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM

Poll: Undermining trust in our elections?

Non-citizen voting was a prominent talking point in the run-up to the 2024 elections   You are invited to join our one-click issue response poll. Please do not complete this survey if your email address is not [email protected]. Alleged non-citizen voting became a talking point during the 2024 ele…

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October 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Advancing in the right direction

We need a national popular vote   We must keep the momentum in our fight to move to a popular vote system, 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 advanc…

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October 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM

It's clear why they are attacking vote-by-mail

@JeffMerkley: Why does Trump want to ban Vote by Mail? Because it blocks Election Day interference: closing polling places, long lines, voter suppression. Vote by Mail is the best tool we have to put power where it belongs—in the hands of the people. I'll fight like hell to protect it.   Donald Tru…

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October 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM

States moving the wrong direction

BCJ: State Bills Would Require Passport or Birth Certificate to Register to Vote   John, We've told you that voter I.D. laws are unfairly biased against people of color, young people, and unmarried women. However, across the country, states are introducing bills to make these laws even MORE restri…

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

October 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Do we need to try to remove these barriers to voting?

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

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

October 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM

The most meaningful and precious right we have

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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  Voter Action Project Electoral College Team · [email protected]

September 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM

This is progress

We can scrap the Electoral College   The movement to end the Electoral College is making progress, John: Minnesota and Maine are just the latest states to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. If you don't remember -- The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreemen…

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

September 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM

Must do everything we can to register voters

Statewide elections in New Jersey and Virginia are critical in 2025   Whether you live somewhere with elections in 2025 or not, voter registration is critical work to protect our democracy. We have to do everything we can to bring in new voters, lapsed voters, and voters who have moved and make sur…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

September 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM

The best tool to put power in the hands of the people

@JeffMerkley: Why does Trump want to ban Vote by Mail? Because it blocks Election Day interference: closing polling places, long lines, voter suppression. Vote by Mail is the best tool we have to put power where it belongs—in the hands of the people. I'll fight like hell to protect it.   This is th…

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  Team Voter Action Project · [email protected]

September 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Stripped of our fundamental 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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September 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM

A few weeks until 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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September 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM

Help fight his lies and attacks on voting

ABC: Trump says he will lead 'movement' to end mail-in voting   The lies and attacks on vote-by-mail have only increased from MAGA, 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. But we've a…

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September 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM

This bill will disenfranchise elligible 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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September 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Hugely 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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September 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM

From 30 attorneys down to 3

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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September 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM

Trump ending mail-in voting

ABC: Trump says he will lead 'movement' to end mail-in voting   Our time in the barrel has come, John.  President Donald Trump said 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: "I am going to l…

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September 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM

Vengeful partisans are behind this

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

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

September 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Go back to paper ballots?

Ohio Capitol Journal: Trump executive order on voting machines puts many Ohio counties in limbo    President Donald Trump has continued his crusade to radically reform how we vote, targeting the machines we use around the country to cast our ballots and calling for a return to paper ballots that ar…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

September 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM

MAGA's Justice Department is suing for voter data

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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  Voter Action Project Research · [email protected]

September 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Should we still have 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 officia…

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September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM

A dramatic escalation

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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