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[[link removed]]Dear friend and fellow sojourner,

Voter suppression is real, and the threat of an illegitimate election is more
real than it has ever been.

Even given the pandemic, some states have prioritized enacting voter ID laws,
closing polling sites in Black and brown communities, and purging voters from
voting rolls.

These tactics directly impact the elderly, students, immigrants, and Black and
brown voters. They are modern-day forms of voter suppression. And sadly, use of
these tactics is growing.

Sojourners has been working to protect every voter and every vote in 2020, and
we need your help to do it. Donate to Sojourners today to protect the vote this November.
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More than ever, we need every leader to take a stand and ensure that we have a
safe, free, and fair election. That’s why Sojourners, Skinner Leadership
Institute, and the National African American Clergy Network have partnered to
create Lawyers & Collars , a voter protection effort designed to mobilize historic African American
turnout and to protect at-risk communities from voter suppression tactics.

With your gift to Sojourners, we will hold secretaries of state and election
officials accountable, recruit and deploy pastors and church-based lawyers to
protect the election, unite with poll workers to increase capacity at polling
sites, and educate churches and church leaders about what is at stake in this
next election. Will you stand with us?
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Help ensure that every vote is counted

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[[link removed]]The right to vote in this nation was won through struggle, and it must be
preserved through struggle because inequity persists. We still see structural
barriers to housing, health care, employment, education, and other vital quality
of life services. People of color face a crisis in the criminal justice system
that has decimated communities. Horrifying acts of racial violence and police
brutality continue.

This is why we all must vote – and why we must protect the vote.

Many things can go wrong in November. We know this because many things have gone
wrong in the past. And in 2020 we face an unprecedented challenge as the
COVID-19 crisis further jeopardizes the election. Medical experts anticipate
that the virus will not be eradicated before the fall, which poses additional
barriers to the ballot box and could be leveraged by bad actors seeking to
manipulate the election.

Never before have we needed the faith community to come together as we do now,
to make sure that every person created in the image of God can participate in
our democracy.

Help us ensure that every American has a say and every vote is counted. Click here to give to Sojourners today.
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In solidarity,

Beth Cooper-Chrismon, Sojourners

P.S. Your gift supports voter protection and all of our work to articulate the
biblical call to social justice – and trains others to do the same. Thank you!

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