 Hi team, Our team at The Fairness Project has won 20 ballot initiative campaigns since 2016, improving over 17 million lives by winning progressive change directly at the ballot box. We’ve faced our fair share of attacks, but what we’re seeing now is unprecedented:
The New York Times reported that just this year, extremist politicians have “introduced 144 bills to restrict the ballot initiative processes in 32 states.” Our successes have painted a target on our back. They’ve seen us win ballot initiatives that raise wages and expand health care, so now they’re changing the rules and attacking democracy. They want to protect their special interest friends, while silencing the will of the people.
Here’s what our team at The Fairness Project is doing in response to these desperate, anti-democratic attacks: First, we’re going to keep planning, advising, and running ballot initiative campaigns to win real change in red and blue states across the country. We’ve launched a campaign to expand Medicaid in South Dakota next year, and we’re getting ready to launch more campaigns to raise wages, guarantee paid leave, curb predatory lending, and change lives in the months to come. But we’re also ready to fight back against these attacks on voting rights. We’re ready to fight back in courts, in the streets, in the media -- whatever it takes to protect democracy. Too much is at stake.
Thanks so much, we’re so grateful for your support, Ben Zimmermann
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