The nightmare scenarios for 2024 are quite scary. But I know that what we accomplish in 2022 can lessen the chance that 2024 is a disaster.
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Elections Calendar for April 2021
A handy list of major elections happening in the United States in April 2021.
We Must Protect Voting Rights In Our Own States
Protecting voting rights needs to happen at both the federal and the state level. Here’s what’s happening in the states and how we can protect access to the ballot.
3 Reasons You Need to Pay Attention to the Republicans in Your Home State
Most of the national news focuses on politics in DC, but it’s really important to pay attention to what’s happening in your state legislature. Bad behavior by the GOP is growing there.
Is Your State In Danger of Losing Voting By Mail?
Every state expanded the options to vote by mail in 2020. But what happens now? How can voters insist that their state keep these options for future elections?
July 2020: Special Elections and Primaries
Is it Tuesday? Well then, there’s probably an election happening somewhere in America. Do you want to help boost turnout in 2020 and help to increase awareness of elections? If so, please vote if there is an election happening in… Read More ›
Battleground Arizona: Time to Flip the State Legislature
Do you want Republicans running your state government? As we see more evidence that Trumpism is showing its face in state legislatures, it becomes even more important that we gain control over the power to write and pass legislation. We… Read More ›
What Is Your State Doing Right Now About Policing?
The Black Lives Matter protests are into their third week, but have they produced any results? There are some initial, encouraging signs. Although not every state legislature is in session right now, there has been movement in some states. Some… Read More ›
Battleground North Carolina: Let’s Flip the State Legislature
We can agree that Republicans have no business governing anywhere in the country, right? It’s not just that Trumpism seems to have infected politics at the state level, it’s not even that the Republican party doesn’t seem to have any… Read More ›
A Fully Blue Virginia Just Massively Expanded Voting Rights
Oh, the power of voting locally. Since the 2016 election, left-leaning voters in Virginia have been fired up, and have been winning state legislative (and executive) seats. They made huge gains in 2017 and then finally flipped both chambers of… Read More ›
Can You Guess How Many Elected Officials There Are In Your District?
Let’s have a little fun this Friday. How many elected positions do you think there are for your district? Or, put another way, how many positions could you run for in your community based on where you live? You… Read More ›
Elections in October 2019
If it’s a Tuesday, there is an excellent chance that an election is happening somewhere in the country. Democratic enthusiasm has not been quite as high as in 2018, so I encourage you to help promote these elections wherever you… Read More ›
How to Help Prevent Climate Change
Upwards of 4 million people, led by young people, filled the streets all over the world last week to protest a lack of action around climate change. Today, the UN Climate Summit begins in New York City to tackle… Read More ›
How You Can Help Get Voters Registered in Arizona
If winning the White House is one of your goals for 2020, then winning the Electoral College is how you achieve the goal. As much as I’d prefer that we go by a national popular vote, the fact remains that… Read More ›
Do Trump’s Taunts Trigger Turnout?
It’s disheartening to hear the dangerous rhetoric coming out of the president’s mouth. It’s disheartening to see so many of his supporters chanting terrible, anti-American slogans. It’s disheartening to see that Trump’s approval went up with Republicans after the racist… Read More ›
Elections in August 2019
If it’s a Tuesday, there is an excellent chance that an election is happening somewhere in the country. So far in 2019, Democratic enthusiasm has dropped off compared to 2018. So, I encourage you to help promote these elections wherever… Read More ›
A Big Win for the Census: What Comes Next
Yesterday, the Commerce Department, in charge of the 2020 Census cried uncle. Yes, after a Supreme Court decision that didn’t go their way and staring down a big deadline to start printing questionnaires, the Trump administration decided to give up… Read More ›
Could Your State Make Registering to Vote Easier?
With the news that Colorado’s governor just signed a bill to expand their automatic voting registration program, I wondered how many other states in 2019 were looking at similar bills. And, wow. The Brennan Center for Justice keeps close tabs… Read More ›
Elections in June 2019
If it’s a Tuesday, there is an excellent chance that an election is happening somewhere in the country. So far in 2019, we’ve seen that enthusiasm for turning out to vote isn’t where it should be. I encourage you to… Read More ›
Why You Need to Pay Attention to Your State’s Politics
The recent rash of bills in state legislatures to ban access to abortions makes one thing very clear: If we only pay attention to national politics, we are going to lose a lot of ground. Now, I fully understand that it… Read More ›