Daily Kos and MoveOn both launched VoteAmerica’s voter tools on their websites! Anyone who visits either one can now use our registration, ballot tracking, and election reminder tools directly. VoteAmerica doesn’t only run our own turnout program. We build the software that other organizations plug into theirs, for
Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday’s briefing, and to everyone who requested the recording. If you missed the briefing, you’re in luck: we recorded it and uploaded it to YouTube. I began by dispelling some persistent voting myths. These are talking points promoted primarily by progressive orgs,
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the U.S. Postal Service's proposed rule implementing President Trump's executive order on mail voting, and told you the federal government wants to decide who receives a ballot in the mail. It’s worse than that: New reporting in The
You may have seen The Atlantic cover story last month about the growing movement to disenfranchise the majority of Americans by repealing the 19th Amendment. Prominent pastors are saying it out loud, a tech billionaire wrote that extending the vote to women made democracy unworkable, and a Cabinet member shared
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Today, the U.S. Postal Service released a proposed rule to implement Trump’s executive order attacking mail voting. The plan: USPS will only deliver ballots to voters on a federal government-approved list. If your name isn’t on the list, you don’t get a ballot. Let me
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I’m Sandhya Anantharaman, Director of Mobilization at VoteAmerica. We just finished a permanent absentee voting (PAV) recruitment program in Michigan’s 35th State House district ahead of a special election on Tuesday, May 5. Michigan will be one of the most important states in November. You’re already hearing
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I wrote to you this week about the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act. Everyone has a role to play right now. Some groups will sue. Some will organize protests. But because of supporters like you, we get to do something different: give away our best-in-class GOTV
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I’m Brenna Cully, VoteAmerica’s Director of Communities. I wanted to share some good news with you today: It’s National Pre-Registration Day, and VoteAmerica is in the middle of it! We built FutureVoter.com to walk teens through the pre-registration process step by step, and today
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Some massive good news for once: the SAVE Act failed in the Senate yesterday. The bill would have required every American to present documentary proof of citizenship in order to register to vote: a passport, a birth certificate, or a REAL ID that indicates citizenship. This is the second time
I want to talk to you about the executive order Trump signed on March 31st targeting mail-in voting. I know it’s alarming. I also know that a lot of the coverage is making it sound scarier than the legal reality warrants. I want to give you the facts,
ICYMI: We hosted a donor briefing last week. I talked for too long, as usual, but there was one part that I keep coming back to, and I want to share it with you. It’s a math lesson. I gave it at the briefing, and my friend, who has
It’s been a minute since we sent a proper update, and a lot has happened. I want to walk you through what we’ve been building, because I think you’ll be impressed. I’m impressed, and I work here! The team grew. We brought on four new people:
This message, like all my messages, will contain a lot of numbers. Bear with me. The numbers are the point. VoteAmerica just launched our permanent absentee voting (PAV) recruitment program in Michigan. I want to tell you why Michigan, what PAV actually does, and why this is the single most
I want to tell you about a part of VoteAmerica that doesn’t get enough attention: our software. We build voter engagement tools. Register to vote, request an absentee ballot, find your polling place, pre-register before you turn 18, sign up for permanent absentee voting, track your ballot, add
Last Tuesday, nearly 4.5 million Texans voted in the March 3 primaries. That’s about 24% of registered voters, up from 17% and 18% in the 2018 and 2022 midterm primaries. It was the highest midterm primary turnout in the state’s recent history. The Texas Senate race became
I’ll be honest: you haven’t heard from us in a while. That’s going to change. You’ll be hearing from me more often this year, with real updates about what we’re working on and what we’re learning, because I think the people who fund and/
If you’ve supported VoteAmerica for any length of time, you know we’re relentlessly focused on turning out voters. That focus explains a few things about the linked 2023-2024 Annual Report. It’s dense with meaningful programs. It’s candid about what worked and what didn’t. And
Across 2024, there was a steady stream of commentary insisting young voters were “shifting to the right.” Even at the time, the data didn’t support that. My read of the data pointed to a collapse in participation, not an ideological realignment. Now, just weeks after the 2025 elections, we
America’s youngest voters are getting left in the dust. In 2024, turnout among 18- and 19-year-olds was 41%. That’s not just 20 points lower than the 2024 national average (63.7%), it’s also a full 6 points lower than even their slightly older peers, ages
It’s been a minute since you’ve heard from me. Or about 7 months, if we're being precise. This isn't because I haven't had anything to say. It's because I have been heads down, thinking, trying to make sense of what
At VoteAmerica, we know that reducing obstacles to voting drives participation in our democracy. And one of the best ways to reduce obstacles is to send voters a ballot in the mail for every single election. For instance, in universal vote by mail (UVBM) states, where all voters are sent
