Resources to Energize the Vote
If you would like to join others to help elect candidates who support positive social change, racial justice, fair elections, climate action and wealth disparity please consider any of the following worthy organizations or projects. Whether it is by volunteering your time and expertise, or by contributing financially, you will be working to make a positive difference in our country and the world. THANK YOU!
Purchase Planting in a Drought
- Until November, all proceeds from the sale of my new album Planting in a Drought – New songs of struggle, protest and encouragement will benefit Movement Voter Project (see below).
“These are the seeds that will keep us surviving!” ~ Matt Smith, Club Passim
“… songs that will help us get angry when we need to get angry, feel pain when we need to feel pain, and find hope when we need to find hope.” ~ Mally Smith
- “Movement Voter Project works to strengthen progressive power at all levels of government by helping donors – big and small – support the best and most promising local community-based organizations in key states, with a focus on youth and communities of color.”
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“Indivisible is a movement of thousands of group leaders and more than a million members taking regular, iterative, and increasingly complex actions to resist the GOPs agenda, elect local champions, and fight for progressive policies.”
- “We can win the Senate by flipping just four seats, so we’re targeting the most competitive races where Democrats have the best chances, and where our dollars will have the biggest impact.”
Black Voters Matter
- “Increasing voter registration and turnout is an important aspect of building power, but this is just the beginning of our work. We advocate for policies to expand voting rights/access, including expanded early voting, resisting voter ID, re-entry restoration of rights and strengthening the Voting Rights Act. We also advocate for policies that intersect with race, gender, economic and other aspects of equity.”
- Join with thousands of other volunteers to write letters and post cards to encourage voters in key states.
- Working to end gerrymandering, build progressive power by getting Democrats elected to state legislatures.
Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action
- “The Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action is devoted to engaging the community in promoting civil rights, protecting civil liberties and achieving social, economic, environmental, and racial justice.”
- The League is proud to be nonpartisan, neither supporting nor opposing candidates or political parties at any level of government, but always working on vital issues of concern to members and the public. We encourage informed and active participation in government, work to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influence public policy through education and advocacy.
Thank you for your active support for overwhelming participation and victory at the polls in November 2020! Certainly, our success is important but only a single step in the right direction. It will not end racism. It will not unify the country. It will not make civil discourse the norm. We have a lot of work ahead of us.
Steady on!
~ Tom Smith