Stay in the Fight
We cannot allow any foreign power to subvert our elections.
In 2020, the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee released a 1,000-page report confirming that Russia launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the 2016 election on Trump’s behalf.
We all know where we stand today.
The foundation of fair and free elections rests within the states. Our fundamental right to vote depends on the assurance that citizens have the opportunity to vote and that their votes will count. The responsibility to see that this happens lies with governors, state legislatures, courts, secretaries of state, boards of elections, county election commissions, town clerks, poll workers, and poll observers, and with citizens. State elections are key to protecting American democracy.
Since 2017, Lean Left volunteers have given their time, energy, and money to citizens in other states who are working hard to protect the vote, voting that ultimately affects all of us.
We are now asking you, in the words of Vermont Congresswoman Becca Balint: “Do what you can, when you can. You can’t do it all. Change takes time. Stay in this fight. . . .”
If we stand together, if we support each other, we will make progress.
Lean Left Vermont Organizers
Dana, Gretchen, Brooke, Susan, Elizabeth, Tracy, Janet, Eve, Rebecca
You are Not Alone
“Courage is contagious. Marching provides encouragement for people who aren’t in the thick of things in Washington or New York. Big protests, little protests, it’s all part of the great cacophony of democracy and a reminder that we still have rights and power, if we are willing to exercise them. Americans marched. We made it clear: We have no intention of sitting down and accepting the end of democracy.”