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| 2026-08-28 |
| [True The Vote Newsletter] Today we’re doing something we’ve never done before. We’re building something new — and we’re asking you to help build it with us. But first, let me name something we all already feel: the distance between the American people and Washington, D.C. It’s real, it’s grown for decades, and no speech from either party has closed it. We all know the truth in our bones — government will not fix itself. It never has. Renewal in this country has only ever come from one place: the people. And when the American people decide to build something together, it gets built. A collection of farmers and shopkeepers stood up to the most powerful empire on earth — and won. A generation of ordinary Americans retooled their factories in a matter of months and became the arsenal that saved the free world. And when we decided to put a man on the moon, we did it in less than a decade — with slide rules and shirt sleeves. EQUIP: Catherine shared something else in that letter that matters even more for what comes next: “We’ve spent fifteen years raising awareness, and now people are aware, but that was never our ultimate goal. Our goal was to help correct the brokenness in our electoral process: the plumbing, the paperwork, the unglamorous software and machinery that decides whether an election can be trusted.” Awareness was never the finish line. So we built the tools — the platforms, the data, the capability to check a roll and document what’s there. All of it is now open to any aligned, engaged citizen who wants to use it. You don’t need our permission and you don’t need to be an expert. You need the tools and someone to show you how they work. That’s what your membership funds first: putting those tools in the hands of everyone who asks. MOBILIZE: One person with a public records request is easy to dismiss — but 10,000 requests across eight thousand county offices is not. That’s the strategy. Not one organization litigating alone — a distributed movement of citizens doing lawful, documented, unglamorous work in their own counties, at the same time, on the record. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |