Take Action Now: Raise Your Voice in 2020

Take Action Now: Raise Your Voice in 2020

Take Action Now: Raise Your Voice in 2020

Stand up for voting rights, get your neighbors out to the polls, and help build a progressive movement.

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Voters in 14 states are heading to the polls today, the single most important day of the primaries. As the results start coming in, it’s more crucial now than ever that we work to ensure that November’s election is fair, democratic, and brings real change to our country.

This week’s Take Action Now gives you ways to stand up for voting rights, get your neighbors out to the polls, and support candidates who are committed to building a progressive movement.

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.

NO TIME TO SPARE?

With states across the country purging voters from the rolls, it’s up to us to make sure that we won’t be silenced at the ballot box. Check your voter registration status using Rock the Vote’s search tool and encourage others to do the same. Then, fight to make sure our democracy is protected from fraud and misinformation by calling on Facebook to stop airing Trump’s false advertising.

GOT SOME TIME?

Making real change in 2020 is going to mean getting everyone out to the polls. Click here to learn more about how you can participate in Get Out the Vote efforts in your community. These efforts are also essential to secure key seats in local and state elections. Make calls before the end of the day to get Texas voters out to the polls to elect Jessica Cisneros to Congress. She’s running against an anti-choice Democrat who voted with Trump nearly 70 percent of the time in the previous Congress and has received lavish donations from Exxon, the NRA, and the Koch brothers.

READY TO DIG IN?

Across the country, progressive organizations are mobilizing to build people power in the months leading up to November. Join MoveOn to learn how you can become a “Vote Captain” and commit to turning out 10 people in your social networks to vote in battleground states, or check out a People’s Action event to connect with other progressive voters in your community. Then, knock on doors with Let America Vote to get candidates who will stand up for voting rights into office, or sign up to host a voter registration drive with Rock the Vote.

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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