All set to vote? If not, be sure to find out what the mail vote options are in your state and register to vote by the deadlines. Do your research to vote your interests starting with my list of top advocacy groups. Each provides voter guides to help create change in the 2020 election. Find what’s important to you, then dig deeper into the issues. I like using a mail ballot because it makes it easy to take my time to carefully consider each choice, without the pressure of people waiting in line behind me. When you’re ready to take your commitment to the next level; join, organize and take action beyond the election. Action can mean anything from educating others to volunteering, letter writing, marching or donating.
The Future Is Female
League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters Education Fund works to register voters, provide voters with election information through voter guides as well as candidate forums and debates. LWV is an organization fully committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in principle and in practice.
Women’s March
The mission of Women’s March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change. Women’s March is a women-led movement providing intersectional education on a diverse range of issues and creating entry points for new grassroots activists & organizers to engage in their local communities through trainings, outreach programs and events.
NARAL
https://www.prochoiceamerica.org
The 2.5 million members of NARAL Pro-Choice America fight for reproductive freedom for every person in every state. Each day, we organize and mobilize to protect that freedom by fighting for access to abortion care, birth control, paid parental leave and protections from pregnancy discrimination.
Me Too.
https://metoomvmt.org/advocacy/voter/
The ‘me too’ movement supports survivors of sexual violence and their allies by connecting survivors to resources, offering community organizing resources, pursuing a ‘me too’ policy platform, and gathering sexual violence researchers and research. We want perpetrators to be held accountable and we want strategies implemented to sustain long term, systemic change.
Justice for Migrant Women
https://justice4women.org/our-work
Protects and advances migrant women’s rights through education, public awareness and advocacy. Justice for Migrant Women aims to ensure that all migrant women are guaranteed human and civil rights, including the freedom of mobility, the ability to live and work with dignity, and the right to be free of threats of violence against them and their families, whether they are migrating across borders, around regions or within states.
National Women’s Law Center
We are advocates, experts, and lawyers who fight for gender justice, taking on issues that are central to the lives of women and girls. We drive change in the courts, in public policy, and in our society, especially for women facing multiple forms of discrimination.
Equality For All
BLM
https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
ACLU
The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees. For nearly one hundred years, ACLU lawyers have been at the center of one history-making court case after another, participating in more Supreme Court cases than any other private organization. We handle thousands for those whose rights have been violated.
The National Domestic Workers Alliance
https://www.domesticworkers.org/about-us
NDWA is the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States.
The American Immigration Council
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/topics/immigration-101
Works to strengthen America by shaping how America thinks about and acts towards immigrants and immigration and by working toward a more fair and just immigration system that opens its doors to those in need of protection and unleashes the energy and skills that immigrants bring.
United We Dream
The largest immigrant youth-led network. We empower people to develop their leadership, their organizing skills, and to develop our own campaigns to fight for justice and dignity for immigrants and all people. This is achieved through immigrant youth-led campaigns at the local, state, and federal level.
Freedom for All Americans
https://www.freedomforallamericans.org/how-were-winning/
A the bipartisan campaign to secure full nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people nationwide. Our work brings together Republicans and Democrats, businesses, people of faith, and allies from all walks of life to make the case for comprehensive non-discrimination protections that ensure everyone is treated fairly and equally.
FFRF
https://ffrf.org/faq/state-church
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national membership organization with State Representatives selected by members and a governing Executive Board of Directors selected by the State Representatives. FFRF does critical work to promote nontheism and defend the constitutional separation between religion and government
Healthcare Is A Human Right
The Center for Medicare Advocacy
https://medicareadvocacy.org/fact-sheets-issue-briefs/
Our mission is to advance access to comprehensive Medicare coverage and quality health care for older people and people with disabilities by providing exceptional legal analysis, education, and advocacy. The Center is a non-profit, public interest law firm, staffed with attorneys, advocates, nurses, and technical experts.
I Stand With Planned Parenthood
https://www.istandwithpp.org/take-action
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund works to advance access to sexual health care and defend reproductive rights. The politicians behind those attacks have one goal in mind — to shut down Planned Parenthood — and are willing to take away access to things like birth control, sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment, and Pap tests in the process. They are trying to make safe, legal abortion even harder to access — and if people lose access to life-saving care in the process, so be it.
Doctors Without Borders
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/takeaction
Medical aid where it’s needed most—independent, neutral, impartial. MSF operates in over 65 countries around the world. As medical first responders, our teams of over 42,000 doctors, nurses, and logisticians are often the first on the scene—sometimes arriving in a matter of minutes to respond to the needs of people whose lives have been upended by emergency and crisis.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
https://www.cbpp.org/about/mission-history
CBPP was founded in 1981 to analyze federal budget priorities, with a particular focus on how budget choices affect low-income Americans. We began extensive work on budget priorities and low-income programs at the state level in the 1990s as Washington was shifting responsibility over many areas of low-income policy to the states. In the states, we also collaborate with non-profits — including the more than 40 members of the State Priorities Partnership — to build their capacity to conduct sound budget and policy analysis and participate effectively in policy debates.
I Believe In Science
Science Rising
https://sciencerising.org/challenge/
A nationwide nonpartisan movement fighting for science, justice, and equity in our democracy. We launched in 2018 with a series of actions, events, and activities organized by groups across the country. Now we fight for science in the run-up to the 2020 election.
Research!America alliance
https://www.researchamerica.org/polls-and-publications/fact-sheets
Advocates for science, discovery, and innovation to achieve better health for all. We urge Congress and the administration to increase funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Science Foundation (NSF) at levels that keep pace with scientific opportunity. We also advocate for federal funding for global health research and a legislative and regulatory climate that stimulates growth in private sector research and development.
STEM Votes
STEM is a huge community, with amazing groups representing different sub-fields, identities, and missions. Led by a team of graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, our plan is to register students nationwide to vote. STEMvotes is about engaging students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in the voting process and reminding politicians that STEM is an interest group with a collective vote worth pursuing.
Cannabis Freedom
Leafly 2020 Cannabis Voter Guide
https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/2020-marijuana-legalization-voter-guide
A total of 34 states now allow medical marijuana. Of those, 11 states plus Washington, D.C. have also legalized cannabis for adults 21 and older. It’s all you need to know about cannabis legalization on the ballot.
Cannabis Voter Project
https://www.cannabisvoter.info/
Want to know where elected officials stand on cannabis legalization in 2020? HeadCount.org’s Cannabis Voter Project makes it easy to find out and take action. Lookup where your Congressional representatives stand on cannabis reform, see which states have ballot measures related to cannabis in 2020, and learn how your vote can impact policy. Tell your lawmakers with just one click using their handy form.
The Last Prisoner Project
https://www.lastprisonerproject.org/
Cannabis criminal just reform. The Last Prisoner Project focuses on three key criminal justice reform initiatives: prisoner release, record clearing through clemency and expungement, and reentry programs. A core social justice focus is to release incarcerated cannabis prisoners. Data shows, however, that most released prisoners fail without the proper resources in place. Reentry programs reduce recidivism.
Radio Free Cannabis
https://www.stevedeangelo.com/radio-free-cannabis-podcast
A new podcast from Steve DeAngelo, subtitled in more than 195 languages, this is a gathering spot for the global cannabis freedom movement. Today, there are hundreds of millions of people around the world who have developed a personal relationship with cannabis. Some of us live in places where the laws have been reformed already; many more of us still live under the darkness of Prohibition. Tune in for weekly conversations with cannabis activists, inventors, and entrepreneurs from around the world.
Americans For Safe Access
https://www.safeaccessnow.org/advocacy
ASA’s mission is to ensure safe and legal access to cannabis (marijuana) for therapeutic use and research. ASA has brought together policy experts, public health experts, attorneys, lobbyists, scientists, industry associations and medical professionals to create the campaigns, projects and programs that have broken down political, social, academic, and legal barriers across the US.
The Cannabis Chamber of Commerce
https://www.thecannabischamber.com/
A multi-region non-profit trade association whose purpose is to function as the chamber of commerce for the cannabis industry. Our organization is comprised of local regional chapters led by top licensed operators and leading cannabis industry professionals. The chamber advocates “shop licensed” to support the legal marketplace. Use their tool to check a business for legal licensing.