TO THE BALLOT BOX! OUR VOTE, OUR VOICE: RESOURCES

CALLS TO ACTION

• Support JusticeAid - 100% of proceeds go to Black Voters Matter

• Learn more about Black Voters Matter Fund here

• Join Black Voters Matter volunteer team for “Texting Tuesdays” and other volunteer opportunities 

• Get involved with ClassACT HR73’s voting initiatives! Voting: Our Constitutional Rights and Responsibilities 

• Call or write your Representatives about the Freedom to Vote Act

• Call or write your Representatives about the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act 

• Create a personal “Democracy Survival Kit” with three key elements:
• • “Arrive with five”, reach out to five people in your life you can register to vote.
  • Support organizations that are doing the work.
  • Find your voice and be active on social media.

• Read Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America, by moderator Joy Reid 

HOW TO HELP: COMMUNITY RECOMMENDATIONS

In our post forum salon, we had a few good recommendations from forum attendees - here they are!

• Democracy Docket and Demcast USA help with knowing what is being voted on across the states AHEAD of time. The easiest way (although it’s not 100% complete) to see how reps voted is with Dems Lab or the Tell Them App

• A voting resources page that’s based on an attendee’s great grand-uncle who was killed for organizing residents to vote in 1940 Tennessee 

• The Our Together We Vote Coalition in Santa Clara County is focused on registering and educating voters specifically disinvested and marginalized Black and Brown residents. They are nonpartisan. Their leaders come from nonprofits, community based and grassroots organizations. They hold an annual Voter Block Party to celebrate voting. They want to make voting part of the DNA of Santa Clara County. Learn more about them here.

• Report Disinfo, a site for spotting disinformation

• Movement Voter Project, which funds grassroots groups around the country, and seeded Black Voters Matter in 2017.

BLACK VOTERS MATTER

• Learn more about Black Voters Matter Fund here

• Join Black Voters Matter volunteer team for “Texting Tuesdays” and other volunteer opportunities 

• Learn more about We Fight Back, a new Black Voters Matter initiative

VOTER SUPPRESSION IN THE UNITED STATES

• Joy Reid turns to The Washington Spectator to explain the weaknesses in the elections system, and how they are likely to be exploited by bad faith actors, MSNBC

• Growing Racial Disparities in Voter Turnout, 2008–2022, The Brennan Center 

• Brennan Center on Voter Suppression laws enacted by state legislatures, The Brennan Center 

• Black Women’s Roundtable and Essence Poll

VOTING TODAY: GENERATION Z

• Gen Z might finally turn young voters into a political power, The Washington Post

• Gen Z: How young people are changing activism, BBC News

• Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images, BBC News