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

December 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM

Voter registration work is a continual effort

Help register a new tidal wave of voters ahead of the next election   Here's the deal, John: Voter registration work happens all year long, not just in the lead-in to the deadlines ahead of Election Day. There's no better way to fix our democracy than by registering a ton of new voters and winning …

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

December 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM

Should we 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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December 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM

Poll: Your priorities as we look towards state legislative sessions in January

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 state legislative sessions begin soon, we need to know if your voting…

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December 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM

Races we have to win

These Secretary of State races are a key focus for next year's elections.  In each of these 26 states, the results from these Secretary of State elections will determine not just who holds those offices but how future elections are run and the shape of our democracy as a whole. We must make sure th…

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

December 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM

Riding 2025's momentum

Help register a new tidal wave of voters ahead of the next election   The 2025 elections showed us a valuable truth, John: Voter participation is increasing in all the right ways. Voter registration activity increased across the country. According to the team at National Voter Registration Day, Ne…

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  Voter Action Project Courts · [email protected]

December 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM

Sixty years backwards?

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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December 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM

26 races under the radar in 2026

These Secretary of State races are a key focus for next year's elections.  These types of elections always fly under the media's radar, John, but in 2026, 26 Secretary of State races will shape the future of our elections, redistricting in 2030, and the outcome of the 2028 presidential race.Opponen…

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December 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM

We use the word "fundamental" for a reason

Witchita Eagle: Kansas Supreme Court finds Kansans have no ‘fundamental right’ to vote You can't have a democracy without voting -- period, end of story, full stop. Saying that "voting isn't a fundamental right" is basically admitting that your state isn't a real democracy. Kansas said that with th…

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December 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM

Thank our postal workers this holiday season

Let’s deliver messages of gratitude directly to postal workers across the country   John, Postal workers have continued to deliver for us through a particularly brutal year. Their official motto is “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” will stop the Postal Service, but they also have…

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December 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM

SCOTUS and the VRA

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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December 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM

Attacks on mail-in voting in Georgia will become attacks everywhere

Georgia Recorder: State election panel recommends ending no-excuse absentee voting in Georgia   The attacks on mail-in voting are purely partisan and motivated by a visceral desire to win elections. Twenty years of mail-in voting in Georgia has been safe, secure, and accurate, but they're willing t…

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December 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM

Fundamental for our democracy

Witchita Eagle: Kansas Supreme Court finds Kansans have no ‘fundamental right’ to vote We can't forget this, John: The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that voting is not a fundamental right protected by the Kansas Constitution. It should go without saying, but this decision likely weakened legal challen…

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December 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM

So much we can do with your support

Axios - Scoop: GOP expects SCOTUS boost   We know that sometimes fighting the Supreme Court feels hopeless. But we don't have to just sit around waiting for their decision. All the recent election results show how, when we have the time and resources to organize, we can elect pro-voter candidates w…

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  Voter Action Project Georgia · [email protected]

December 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM

Georgia's election board wants to end mail-in voting

Georgia Recorder: State election panel recommends ending no-excuse absentee voting in Georgia   John, right to the point: Georgia’s State Election Board recently approved a proposal to recommend that state lawmakers ban "no-excuse" mail-in voting. The board has now officially recommended that the …

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

December 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM

Firing nonpartisan officials?

NYT: Trump Fires BLS Commissioner, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Rigged’   President Trump was angry about weakness in the labor market this year, previously saying without evidence that the data were “rigged” and then firing the bipartisanly Senate-confirmed Department of Labor official respons…

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  Voter Action Project Registration Team · [email protected]

December 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM

For less than a latte

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 midterm elections. RUS…

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  VAP Research Team · [email protected]

December 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Your thoughts on corporate profits and rising prices

We need to know if you think Congress should take action   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]. Everyday Americans are still feeling crunched by rising prices and i…

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

December 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM

The MAGA push for one-day voting

Do you think we should still have various ways to participate in elections?   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: Cleta Mitchell -- a Trump lawyer, anti-vot…

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December 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM

Bernie, AOC, and Pete seem to agree

The Hill: Buttigieg doubles down on scrapping Electoral College: 'It's undemocratic'   We'll keep this short, John: The Electoral College is an outdated disaster that gives too much power to low-population states. We desperately need a popular vote system in the United States. Support our work to e…

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December 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM

The Supreme Court bailing out MAGA?

Axios - Scoop: GOP expects SCOTUS boost   Straight from Axios, John: "President Trump's political team privately told big donors that the Supreme Court will soon issue rulings on voting rights and contribution limits that could tilt future elections their way."Two main cases are making the MAGA mov…

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December 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM

We have to do this ourselves

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

December 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM

The best way to increase participation in next year's elections

Help register a new tidal wave of voters for 2026   Our voter registration work doesn't ever 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 potential voters navi…

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December 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM

A nationwide problem

Democracy Docket: To Protect Gerrymanders, GOP Lawmakers Target Judges — and Voters   While the most egregious examples may not be the big-name swing states, rest assured that efforts to execute extremely partisan gerrymanders, attack judges for their decisions, and limit voter referendums are happ…

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December 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Pete's not wrong

The Hill: Buttigieg doubles down on scrapping Electoral College: 'It's undemocratic'   John - leaders like Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Robert Reich are leading the charge to ditch the Electoral College and switch to a national popular vote system. Why?➜ The Elector…

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December 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM

This is about 2026 and 2028

Democracy Docket: Trump Administration Snubs States Asking Why the DOJ Wants Their Voter Data   When DOJ won't specifically say what they want with personally identifiable voter information, especially given the history of the appointees involved, you can bet it is all about suppressing voters and …

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December 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM

They want unobstructed suppression

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 w…

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December 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM

This fight is about every elligible voter and their fundamental rights

@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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December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM

Targeting voters and judges

Democracy Docket: To Protect Gerrymanders, GOP Lawmakers Target Judges — and Voters   Vote-suppressing state legislators around the country have identified the biggest obstacles to their all-encompassing mid-decade redistricting efforts: Judges in the courts and the voters bringing those legal chal…

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

December 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM

Your view on voter I.D. laws?

Fox News: NC Supreme Court rejects voter ID law, state electoral map, claiming 'racially motivated purpose'    We want to hear from likely voters in your area about the Voter ID laws under consideration in several states. Will you take our one-question poll right away?  John: Do you agree that Vote…

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December 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM

DOJ's state voter data requests

Democracy Docket: Trump Administration Snubs States Asking Why the DOJ Wants Their Voter Data   John: If you didn't know, the MAGA-ified U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has been demanding voter data from the states since May, requesting that election officials turn over unredacted copies of voter…

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

December 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM

Do you approve of the performance of Pam Bondi as Attorney General?

How do you feel about her leading the Justice Department?   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: Attorney General Pam Bondi has been in office nearly a year, …

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December 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM

Defending our fundamental right to vote nationwide

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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December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM

Why MAGA is after 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.   This is th…

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December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM

The lies about mail-in voting don't stop

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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December 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM

Do you agree with the 85% who want this passed?

85 Percent of Voters Want Congress to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment     Fifty years after the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was initially passed in Congress, an overwhelming majority of likely voters want the provision aimed at guaranteeing equal rights for all genders to go into effect.  Recent p…

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

December 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Intimidating requirements and suppressive policies

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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December 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM

Yesterday was just the beginning

Help register a new tidal wave of voters ahead of the next election   Our voter registration and mobilization work for the 2026 midterm elections may have started with yesterday's appeal, John, but there is a long way to go to accomplish our goal of increasing voter participation in our elections. …

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December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM

We must be the counterpoint to their attacks on 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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December 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM

This Supreme Court case shouldn't be under the radar

@ariberman.bsky.social: SCOTUS decision killing what’s left of Voting Rights Act could cost Dems 19 House seats, eliminate every majority-minority district in South, eviscerate 14th/15th Amendments & fulfill John Roberts 40-year crusade against country’s most important civil rights law  While …

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December 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM

Your view on making ballots more accessible to citizens?

A federal law requires translating ballots, but not it all languages   Section 203 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act has required certain states and local governments to provide voting ballots, registration forms and other election materials in more than just English. But not all languages are covered…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM

Voter registration for Giving Tuesday

Help register a new tidal wave of voters ahead of the next election   John, We're sure your inbox has been packed with emails over the last few days, just like ours have. We're sorry to add another one to it, but it's Giving Tuesday and we're kicking off our end-of-year voter registration campaign …

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  Team Voter Action Project · [email protected]

December 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM

The "private right to action" is so important

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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