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SUMMARY:Vote Forward and BigTentUSA Letter-Writing to Voters!
DESCRIPTION:BigTent is thrilled to launch our letter writing partnership with Vote Forward! Mark your calendars for Tuesday\, March 12\, at 12pm ET\, as we launch our partnership! \nWe’re working together to increase civic participation by sending letters to voters. Writing letters to voters is one of the most effective ways to help increase election turnout. And you can do it right from home! Our plan is to send out over 100K letters by October 2024! \nDuring this event\, we are honored to welcome Catherine Vaughan\, Emily Wasserman\, and Nia Bentall from Vote Forward. They will dive into the impact of letter-writing and explore its effectiveness in creating positive change.  \nHere is link to what letter writing entails! ???? \nIf you can’t make event but just want to request letters use this link! \nAbout Vote Forward: \nVoteForward is dedicated to empowering grassroots volunteers to send handwritten letters encouraging fellow Americans to vote. Their flagship voter contact program trains and supports volunteers in writing personal\, heartfelt letters to potential voters with an easy-to-use online platform. The majority of Vote Forward letter writing campaigns are 501(c)(3) nonpartisan (“Social”) campaigns\, which focus on mobilizing potential voters in historically marginalized communities\, including people of color\, women\, and young voters\, to ensure that every voice is heard in the democratic process.
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/launch-voteforward-bigtent/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:Tent Talks,BigTent Action Opportunities,BigTent Events,Preserving Democracy
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SUMMARY:Protecting the Right to Vote: One ID at a Time with Lauren Kunis\, CEO VoteRiders
DESCRIPTION:BigTent is thrilled to host a Tent Talk with VoteRiders’ CEO and Executive Director\, Lauren Kunis. \nWe will also be writing letters to North Carolina voters who have very strict voter ID laws and we need your help to ensure that every voter in North Carolina has the ID they need as they prepare for the upcoming election season. \nEach letter we send delivers essential information and assistance to the voters most likely to be disenfranchised by voter ID laws in North Carolina. \nVoteRiders is a non-partisan\, non-profit organization with a mission to ensure that all citizens are able to exercise their freedom to vote. VoteRiders informs and helps citizens to secure their voter ID as well as inspires and supports organizations\, local volunteers\, and communities to sustain voter ID education and assistance efforts. \nKathleen Unger founded VoteRiders in 2012 as a direct response to the increasing number of stringent voter ID laws across the country. \nToday\, their team works alongside thousands of partner organizations and an ever-growing community of 10\,000 volunteers across the country. \nAbout our Speaker: \nLauren Kunis has spent her career working to strengthen democracy at home and around the world\, designing and managing impactful voter education\, civic engagement\, and government accountability programs. Lauren most recently worked at Nonprofit VOTE\, where she was the National Voter Registration Day program director and led the holiday to a record-setting number of voter registrations in 2020. She previously worked at the nonpartisan National Democratic Institute and the World Bank on democracy and governance programs in over 15 countries in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. Domestically\, Lauren has worked on national political campaigns\, served on the Steering Committee for the DC Paid Family Leave campaign\, and worked as an NYC Urban Fellow in the Bloomberg administration. Lauren has a BA with honors in Government from Cornell University and an MPA in Public and Nonprofit Management from New York University. She lives in Washington\, DC with her husband and their two young children.
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/kunis/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:Tent Talks,BigTent Events,Preserving Democracy
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SUMMARY:Marc Elias and Lauren Groh-Wargo: The Ongoing Fight Against Voter Suppression
DESCRIPTION:BigTent is honored to host Marc Elias\, the founder of Elias Law Group and Democracy Docket\, alongside Lauren Groh-Wargo\, the dynamic CEO of Fair Fight Action. Marc and Lauren are at the forefront of defending voting rights and combating voter suppression. Their unwavering commitment and groundbreaking work have had a significant impact on preserving the integrity of our democracy. \nThis event is an opportunity to engage in a discussion about how voter suppression has impacted elections to date and what are the next lines of attack in 2024.  \nAbout the Speakers: \nLauren Groh-Wargo is a top political\, democracy and civic engagement strategist\, executive\, and fighter for economic justice. In 2012\, Lauren began a partnership with Stacey Abrams to chart and then execute a ten-year plan to build power and policy wins for Georgia through supporting existing and building new civic engagement infrastructure. Spurred by wide scale voter suppression during the 2018 election\, Lauren founded and is the CEO of Fair Fight Action\, which focuses on fighting voter suppression and advancing voting rights. Fair Fight Action brings the full force of strategic campaign tactics and culturally relevant engagement and voter education to those most targeted by suppression and disinformation.  Fair Fight played a leading national and battleground state role in the 2020 election and in the 2021 Georgia runoff.  \nLauren started her career by organizing tenants to improve living conditions in Brooklyn\, New York. An organizer at heart\, Lauren has led or advised campaigns\, nonprofit organizations\, donors and leaders over the past 22 years in states in every region and at the national level. Raised near Cleveland\, Ohio\, she holds a degree in Economics from American University. Lauren resides in Atlanta\, Georgia with her partner and nine-year-old son. \nMarc Elias is the Firm Chair of Elias Law Group and is a nationally recognized authority and expert in campaign finance\, voting rights\, redistricting law\, and litigation.  As a litigator\, Marc has handled hundreds of cases involving politics\, voting rights\, and redistricting. He has successfully argued and won four cases in the U.S. Supreme Court\, as well as dozens of cases in state supreme courts and U.S. courts of appeal.   \nIn 2020\, Marc led the historic legal effort to protect voting rights\, winning over 60 lawsuits against MAGA’s efforts to suppress the vote. As aggressive challenges to voting continue\, Marc keeps fighting back in court. Marc is also the founder of Democracy Docket\, the leading platform for progressive advocacy and information about voting rights\, elections\, redistricting and democracy.  \nMarc is an alumnus of Hamilton College\, Duke Law School and Duke Graduate School. He is a proud owner of a Portuguese Water Dog named Bode. 
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/elias-groh-wargo/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:BigTent Spotlight Speaker Series,BigTent Events,Preserving Democracy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T190000
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SUMMARY:Unmasking the Christian Right: Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet
DESCRIPTION:BigTent was pleased to host investigative journalist Kathryn Joyce and author Jeff Sharlet. Both are long-time observers and experts on the American right-wing and conservative movement. They write on the central role of the Christian right in the rise of Trumpism and neofascism\, and the types of institutions that the right-wing has built to create and sustain their movement to end democracy. \nCurrently the christian movement is explicitly arguing that there is one acceptable culture in the United States—a Christian\, conservative culture—which should be supported by the law and assumed to be the norm across all areas of public life here. And with the Speaker of the House\, a self-defined Christian Nationalist\, unmasking christian nationalism will be key to preserving American democracy. \nKATHRYN JOYCE is investigative editor at In These Times and author\, most recently\, of The Child Catchers: Rescue\, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption. \nJEFF SHARLET’S most recent book is The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. He is the Frederick Sessions Beebe ​’35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College. He also wrote The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power which became a 5-part Netflix documentary with the same name.
URL:https://bigtentusa.org/event/joyce-sharlet/
LOCATION:BigTent Zoom Room
CATEGORIES:BigTent Spotlight Speaker Series,BigTent Events,Preserving Democracy
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