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Voting rights

State of Play:

As Republicans move to restrict voting rights, and Donald Trump appears to be preparing for another confrontation about election results, a wide range of organizations are pushing back.

Top guidance in the run-up to Election Day

  • Ben Wikler, a political organizer who was chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin from 2019 to 2025 says, “The very most powerful thing you can do as a volunteer in politics is to talk to your actual friends and family who are fence-sitters.” 
    • He quotes Abraham Lincoln, who wrote in a letter to a campaign committee in 1840: “Keep a constant watch on the doubtful voters, and from time to time have them talked to by those in whom they have the most confidence.” 
    • The place to put our energy, Wikler says, is on the people whose votes will matter most because they live in a place with high-stakes, very close elections, as well as the people where we live.
  • ACLU: Know your voting rights  |  How the ACLU is safeguarding the election
  • Report intimidation, at the polls or elsewhere, immediately to the Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE or 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (en Español).

American Civil Liberties Union: Defending our vote

Indivisible: Join our midterm election protection program

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Ways to support voting rights

Election Protection (866ourvote.org): Everything you need to know about voting in your state

Free DC: Non-cooperation theory 2.0: election protection edition

National Bar Association: Election protection initiative

Common Cause: Stopping voter suppression

We the Action — Connecting Lawyers with Causes: Find your project

Move On: Protect our voting rights!

No Kings: Vote early

League of Women Voters: Take action

Voto Latino: Take action

NAACP: Democracy & voting

50501: 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement

Skye Perryman: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: How to Reclaim Your Power, Fight for Freedom, and Reimagine Democracy

Ben Wikler: This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy

Ballotpedia: The encyclopedia of American politics

Cook Political Report: Senate race ratings | House race ratings | Governor race ratings

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