Help protect the truth, our vote, and our voice
ELECTION PROTECTION KIT
Everything you need to know about voting in ANY STATE.
Register to vote, check your registration, find your polling place, request your ballot.
866OurVote.org
Volunteer for ELECTION PROTECTION to be a poll monitor at your local polling place or to monitor and support voters FROM HOME. Common Cause and the Election Protection coalition are recruiting volunteers now.
866OurVote.org/volunteer
TWO-STEP STRATEGY
TO DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY
Now and into the future
ONE:
Join: Common Cause
at Common Cause IL
Our personal portal to the national list and your state
Add your name and be counted with the 1.5 million members already standing with Common Cause and the coalition of pro-democracy organizations for the fight in the courts and other places of maximum impact in defense our democracy.
TWO:
Join: JinglesForDemocracy/Subscribe
Become part of this national friend-raising movement. Even one person joining Common Cause because of you is a permanent win for democracy. Subscribe to be updated with strategies for spreading the word.
“I dreamed up Jingles For Democracy
so we can use the charm of music,
not to leave the message
in cyberspace or on the streets,
but to lead people to strategic action.”
Corky Siegel, Founder
“For more than half a century,” Steven Wine, ASSOCIATED PRESS notes, Corky has been “making the world slightly smaller and kinder.”
You can link friends to JinglesForDemocracy.com
Use it as an action point or non-adversarial response in political discourse.
Choose your favorite Jingles.
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How it Works
Using welcoming music videos, we reach out to all democracy loving Americans and offer an easeful way to empower the well-equipped pro-democracy forces fighting in the places where the battles to protect our democracy and our vote, are won or lost.
Why Common Cause and Why It’s Significant
We chose Common Cause (with its 1.5 million members) to consolidate and focus the people’s power to one maximum point of impact, bringing all pro-democracy groups together in one place. Common Cause is a leading organization in this democracy coalition. They are a well-equipped, effective, nonpartisan watchdog, and a major force in winning for our voices, our votes, and our democracy, in the courts, legislatures, and choice public movements, for over 50 years. Common Cause offers a spectrum of effective involvement options from passive (sign up and be counted) to an engaged volunteer (like an election protection worker) all accessible to you. When you are with Common Cause you are connected to 100s of pro-democracy organizations.
Engaging with the videos and sharing the JinglesForDemocracy.com civic action link with your friends and networks will bring much needed light to the discourse and in turn spark a growth leading all democracy loving Americans to stand together in one place behind the work to save the our vote, our rights, our voice our freedoms, the truth, at the last line of defense. Each person that joins is an added asset.
What About the Midterms?
The growth of this movement now, will give the get out the vote and protect the vote initiatives a giant head start. You can stay in the peaceful oasis of positive action and opt-in for the email notifications or just share the videos on your own - spreading joy and protecting our voices and our votes, now and into the future.
So sign up both at
and
However you feel on any given day there are opportunities to participate, or simply stand in solidarity. Together we can all help turn this into a movement in support of our fragile democracy.
Questions? Ask here
Disclaimer: “No-one on Jingles for Democracy team is a spokesperson for Common Cause nor represents them, though Holly and I helped start the new Common Cause Illinois chapter in 2010 and served on the advisory board for 15 years. I chose Common Cause as the #1 leader in the defense of democracy back then and I haven’t changed my mind.” - Corky Siegel