Protect the vote and give to Sojourners today

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.

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?

Help ensure that every vote is counted

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.

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!