Pamela, we shared big news on Friday: a generous donor has agreed to 2X-match grassroots donations through tonight's deadline.
We’re still looking for another surge in contributions today so we can take full advantage of this incredible opportunity to magnify our team’s impact. Can you rush a 2X-matched donation of any amount? All contributions are doubled up to $15,000. This pro-democracy movement is rising up to meet a pivotal moment. Across the South, lawmakers are rushing to draw new voting maps that silence Black and brown voters. But across the South, with solidarity from all over the country, we are fighting back. We’re reaching out to voters in key states so they can call on their lawmakers to reject new gerrymanders. With this team’s support, we’ve made 20,000+ contacts in Alabama, 99,000+ contacts in Louisiana, 132,000+ contacts in Mississippi, 58,000+ contacts in Tennessee, and 312,000+ contacts here in Georgia, where a special map-rigging session starts in just a few weeks. When we see a rise in donations to emails like this one, we’re able to expand our outreach and bring even more people into the fight. Make a 2X-matched contribution, and go twice as far to fight for fair elections with fair maps. Recently, our co-founder, Stacey Abrams, testified before the Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee and laid bare the stakes of this moment: “I come before you today though as a daughter of the South… because we are yoked together by geography and destiny. I did not travel to Tennessee today to weigh in on a policy debate or a political fight. “The question before you is whether America will continue the long, unfinished work of building a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-generational democracy that belongs to all of us — or whether we will tear down the very protections that made that democracy finally possible.” —Stacey Abrams Our team also traveled to Montgomery, Alabama to rally for the National Day of Action on Voting Rights. Thousands joined from around the country to say “Hands off our votes.”

That weekend, a powerful demonstration on the Edmund Pettus Bridge evoked the freedom fighters from 1965 who marched and bled for the Voting Rights Act. 
And all over America, grassroots donors are pitching in to power our ongoing fight for the freedom to vote in fair elections. This 2X match opportunity only exists because we’re in a critical moment where we need as much grassroots support as possible. We’ve got to keep up the fight. Chip in any amount to continue defending democracy.
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In solidarity, The Fair Fight Action Team
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