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ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE?
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"Casting a ballot isn't just something you do for yourself — it's for our collective future."
— Oprah Winfrey
KEY ISSUES
BUILD PROGRESSIVE POWER
END GERRYMANDERING
PROMOTE VOTER RESTORATION
GRANT D.C. STATEHOOD
FIGHT VOTER SUPPRESSION
+ PROMOTE ACCESS TO THE BALLOT
PUSH FOR A DEMOCRACY THAT LOOKS LIKE US AND REPRESENTS US
PROCEEDS BENEFIT ORGS FIGHTING FOR VOTING RIGHTS PROCEEDS BENEFIT ORGS FIGHTING FOR VOTING RIGHTS
DIVE DEEPER + ACT NOW
Immediate Actions To Take: +
- Start Here: Register To Vote
- Call Your Reps to Support H.R. 1, the For the People Act
- Call Your Reps to Support H.R. 4 the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
- Call Your Reps to Support H.R. 51, the Washington DC Admission Act
Organizations To Support + Follow: +
- 51 for 51
- ACLU
- All on the Line
- Black Voters Matter
- Brennan Center for Justice
- Campaign Legal Center
- Common Cause
- DC VOTE: National Coalition for Statehood
- Emily's List
- Fair Fight
- Higher Heights
- I Am A Voter
- Indivisible
- Running Start
- She Should Run
- Sister District Project
- Swing Left
- Vote Run Lead
- When We All Vote
- Working Families Party
Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up: +
- Articles —
- 2022 midterm election coverage shouldn't repeat this mistake when it comes to women — NBC
- Alabama’s New Electoral Lines are Racially Gerrymandered - Here’s Why — ACLU
- COVID-19 Changes How We Vote. It could also change who votes. by Mike Baker — NYTimes
- For Racial Justice, Employees Need Paid Hours Off for Voting by Sendhil Mullainathan — NYTimes
- How To Get Involved in Local Politics — Marie Claire
- If the Biden Administration Is Serious About Protecting Voting Rights, Here's What It Should Do Immediately — TIME
- It’s Past Time to Grant D.C. Statehood — CAP
- New York Moves to Allow 800,000 Noncitizens to Vote in Local Elections — NYTimes
- The Facts About Mail-In Voting and Voter Fraud by Mike Baker — NYTimes
- Voting Rights in the Era of Mass Incarceration: A Primer — Sentencing Project
- Voter Suppression Laws Cost Americans Their Voices at the Polls — CAP
- Washington, DC Deserves Statehood by Susan Rice — NYTimes
- Books —
- Democracy In One Book Or Less: How it Works, Why It Doesn't, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think by David Litt
- Give Us The Ballot: The Modern Struggle For Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
- Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne
- On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights by Lawrence Goldstone
- On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
- One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson
- Represent: A Woman's Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World by June Diane Raphael and Kate Black
- Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America by Erin Geiger Smith
- The Fight to Vote by Michael Waldman
- The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America by Bernard L. Fraga
- The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
- Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America by Gilda R. Daniels
- Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
- Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections, Stacey Abrams, Carol Anderson, Kevin M. Kruse, Heather Cox Richardson, and Heather Anne Thompson edited by Jim Downs
- Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
- Watch —
- 537 Votes — HBO
- All In: The Fight for Democracy — Prime Video
- John Lewis: Good Trouble — Prime Video
- Knock Down The House — Netflix
- Slay the Dragon — Prime Video
- Whose Vote Counts, Explained — Netflix
NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at info@the-outrage.com with feedback on our focus areas. We'd love to hear from you.
This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated Jan 16, 2022.