Join the Critical Last Push Before the Midterms

Join the Critical Last Push Before the Midterms

Join the Critical Last Push Before the Midterms

Help elect progressives by pledging to vote, joining phone-banking teams, or door knocking in person this week.

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The 2018 midterms are in less than a week. There’s no better way for progressives to rein in the horrors of the Trump administration than by taking back one or more chambers of Congress. Next week also offers a chance to take back state legislatures that have been in a Republican vise grip and to vote on ballot initiatives about things like rent control and voting rights. Given the enormously high stakes, it’s critical that we mobilize as energetically as possible these last few days.

Take Action Now gives you three meaningful actions you can take each week whatever your schedule. You can sign up here to get these actions and more in your inbox every Tuesday.

GOT NO TIME TO SPARE?

Early voting has already started in many states, and voters from both parties are turning out in unprecedented numbers for a midterm election. Simply making time to vote is the biggest way you can have an impact this election cycle, and it’s less daunting when you make a formal commitment and a voting plan beforehand. Need to Vote will help you find your polling place and send you reminders as November 6 approaches.

GOT SOME TIME?

If you have a few free hours this week, you can phone bank from the comfort of your home and give candidates in tight races the extra support they need. Indivisible is coordinating phone banks this week for candidates in tight races, and signing up couldn’t be easier. Just enter your contact information and availability, and an organizer will reach out with instructions. You can also join like-minded people phone banking in groups, which can be more fun than working alone.

READY TO DIG IN?

There’s no better way to get involved in the final days of a campaign than by canvassing and door-knocking. Swing Left, an organization founded to take back Congress after the 2016 election, has created a campaign called The Last Weekend that shows you high-impact canvassing opportunities near you. Whether you’re in a red or blue state, chances are there’s an important race nearby where you can make a difference by showing up in person.

Support independent journalism that does not fall in line

Even before February 28, the reasons for Donald Trump’s imploding approval rating were abundantly clear: untrammeled corruption and personal enrichment to the tune of billions of dollars during an affordability crisis, a foreign policy guided only by his own derelict sense of morality, and the deployment of a murderous campaign of occupation, detention, and deportation on American streets. 

Now an undeclared, unauthorized, unpopular, and unconstitutional war of aggression against Iran has spread like wildfire through the region and into Europe. A new “forever war”—with an ever-increasing likelihood of American troops on the ground—may very well be upon us.  

As we’ve seen over and over, this administration uses lies, misdirection, and attempts to flood the zone to justify its abuses of power at home and abroad. Just as Trump, Marco Rubio, and Pete Hegseth offer erratic and contradictory rationales for the attacks on Iran, the administration is also spreading the lie that the upcoming midterm elections are under threat from noncitizens on voter rolls. When these lies go unchecked, they become the basis for further authoritarian encroachment and war. 

In these dark times, independent journalism is uniquely able to uncover the falsehoods that threaten our republic—and civilians around the world—and shine a bright light on the truth. 

The Nation’s experienced team of writers, editors, and fact-checkers understands the scale of what we’re up against and the urgency with which we have to act. That’s why we’re publishing critical reporting and analysis of the war on Iran, ICE violence at home, new forms of voter suppression emerging in the courts, and much more. 

But this journalism is possible only with your support.

This March, The Nation needs to raise $50,000 to ensure that we have the resources for reporting and analysis that sets the record straight and empowers people of conscience to organize. Will you donate today?

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