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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
December 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM

The USPS Postmark Change

Fox 7 Austin: New Postal Service guidance on postmarks could affect ballot, tax deadlines    The day you mail something may no longer count as the actual mailing date, John. Legally speaking, the date stamped on your mail is when it counts as being sent, from your bills to your taxes to your ballot…
  Ohio Voter Action Project · [email protected]
December 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM

Another front in the attacks on mail-in voting

Bolts: Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes   The worst part of this new law? The Ohio legislature wrote and passed this bill without any input from the officials across the state who actually run the elections. “It’s a solution to a non-existent problem,” said Warren…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
December 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM

“There’s never been an attack on voting rights out of Congress like this”

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 …
  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]
December 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM

Time to move on from it

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-…
  Voter Registration Team @ Voter Action Project · [email protected]
December 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM

A wave of new voter registrations

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…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
December 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM

Stripped of a critical right

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…
  Voter Action Project Ohio · [email protected]
December 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM

Ohio just made it harder to vote by mail

Bolts: Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes   Ohio just made it harder to vote by mail, John.  Senate Bill 293, which was recently signed into law, repeals Ohio’s practice of counting mail ballots that are postmarked prior to Election Day but that arrive up to four da…
  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]
December 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM

A vital public service

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…
  Voter Action Project Electoral College Team · [email protected]
December 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM

A number of ways to get it done

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…
  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]
December 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM

Disinformation and conspiracy theories

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…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM

The ability to protect our fundamental right to vote

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…
  Voter Action Project Registration Team · [email protected]
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM

A long way to go

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 a while ago, John, but there is a long way to go to accomplish our goal of increasing voter participation in our elections. Help keep th…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
December 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM

Dangerous decisions

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…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
December 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM

The last leg of the VRA

@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 …
  VAP HQ · [email protected]
December 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM

Unconstitutional and authoritarian

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…
  Team Voter Action Project · [email protected]
December 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM

Trump and MAGA want to kill 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 …
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
December 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM

Voter registration across the board

Help register a new tidal wave of voters ahead of the next election   John, We kicked off our end-of-year voter registration campaign at the beginning of December simply because we have no time to waste to make every voice heard in our elections. If "voter registration campaign" was all you needed …
  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]
December 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM

The stakes around the midterms

The Atlantic: Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way   There are 312 days until the midterm general elections. Way less than that until primaries start early next year. And some state legislative sessions are right around the corner in January, where suppressive bills are …
  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]
December 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM

This would mean a complete dismantling of the Voting Rights Act

@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   The i…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM

This bill isn't just going away

Truthout: House Passes Chilling “Nonprofit Killer” Bill   John, there is a bill that would give President Donald Trump broad powers to target his political foes which passed in the U.S. House of Representatives last Congress and is likely to come up again.The bill, last known as H.R. 9495, would em…
  Research Team [VAP] · [email protected]
December 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM

Poll: Protecting 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 "provide states with the resources to recruit and train election workers and ensure these workers’ safety, while also i…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
December 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM

A political ploy to suppress legitimate votes

DemDocket: SCOTUS to Hear GOP Lawsuit That Could Radically Restrict Mail Voting  The lawsuit the Supreme Court agreed to hear isn't about fairness. It's not about so-called "election integrity," because millions of taxpayers' dollars have been wasted on state investigations looking for mail-in bal…
  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]
December 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM

Rudy'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…
  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]
December 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM

Shaving the edges of the electorate

TPM: Inside the GOP’s Assault on Youth Voting Rights   Any voter suppression -- based on skin color, location, age, or otherwise -- is worth fighting against. Full stop.Our fundamental right to vote needs to be inviolable to fulfill the promise of our democracy. RUSH $25 or more right now to make e…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM

MAGA is already subverting the midterms

The Atlantic: Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way   John, that headline from The Atlantic says it all.  Donald Trump already promised last year that “we’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.” Watching his actions after he lost in 2020 -- lies, denial,…
  Voter Action Project Courts Watch · [email protected]
December 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM

Another case to watch in the Supreme Court about mail-in ballots

DemDocket: SCOTUS to Hear GOP Lawsuit That Could Radically Restrict Mail Voting  John: Mail-in ballots are under attack again. The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in RNC v. Wetzel, a lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s law allowing a five-day grace period for late-arriving ballots mailed by E…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
December 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM

More attacks on another segment of voters

TPM: Inside the GOP’s Assault on Youth Voting Rights   John, we'll be blunt: The lies about a “stolen” 2020 election are still being used to justify “election integrity” efforts that are stripping Americans, particularly certain vulnerable populations, of their fundamental democratic rights. We've…
  Voter Action Project Voter Research · [email protected]
December 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM

Trump's 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…
  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 …
  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…
  Voter Action Project Research · [email protected]
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…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
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…
  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…
  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 …
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
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…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
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…
  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]
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…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
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…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
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…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
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…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
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…
  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 …
  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…
  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…
  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…
  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…
  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]
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…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
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…
  Voter Action Project · [email protected]
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…
  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…