The 2022 election has presented us with some enormous hurdles: We will have to overcome unprecedented voter suppression, challenges presented by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, unchecked misinformation and more. Thankfully, progressive leaders in Michigan are already on the ground addressing these concerns, and are working to register, educate, count, protect, empower, and mobilize voters in frontline communities.
From working to protect reproductive health access on the ballot, to instructing Michigan communities on how to run for electoral positions, to a dedication to registering every eligible voter in the state. Daily Kos has teamed up with a number of Michigan-based local and statewide organizations with a proven dedication to civic engagement, and with truly ambitious goals for the outcome of this election and the future of Michigan. Please contribute $1 to each organization to help them build a progressive Michigan.
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The Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition: works to achieve a clean, healthy, and safe environment for Michigan residents most affected by inadequate policies. MEJC seeks to build power and unity within our community, so we all can thrive. MEJC takes a multi-faceted approach to systems change by aligning on intersectional goals with statewide power-building organizations and small grassroots groups for policy change. We see mobilizing voters in environmental justice communities as part of our fight against the intersecting systems which pollute our air, oppress our voice, and threaten our future.
We The People Action Fund: is an organization focused on building multi-racial, working-class organizing infrastructure toward state based governing power in Michigan. Michigan is one of the most segregated state in the country, and we believe that our politics and policy outcomes are shaped by a divide-and-conquer strategy that seeks to pit struggling communities against one another, often using race and identity as a weapon of division. This challenge is core to our work, and informs the way we show up to build multi-racial democracy across the state, working intentionally to bridge across segregated urban, suburban, and rural communities, and fighting to build power so that all of our communities have dignity.
Michigan People's Campaign: By working together to create a new pole in Michigan politics, we believe we can forge a more just and sustainable future. We are committed to a participatory democracy at every level, an economy that works for the many, and a society that dismantles racism while uplifting our common humanity. We are a key People’s Action and Community Change Action affiliate, with offices in Detroit, Kalamazoo, Flint, and Grand Rapids. Michigan is a critical swing state and our organizing helps build the power our communities need to thrive. We are fighting hard to take control of the Michigan Legislature and keep our majority within the Michigan congressional delegation.
ACCESS: Grounded in a grassroots commitment to empowerment, ACCESS is the largest Arab American community nonprofit in the U.S., with a 50-year history of nonprofit excellence. Guided by our vision of a just and equitable society, with the full participation of Arab Americans, we empower communities in Southeast Michigan to improve their economic, social and cultural well-being through an extensive network of health, education, employment and social services programming. Through voter engagement, we work at a grassroots level to activate community members to use their power to advocate for their needs. We do this by encouraging immigrant and marginalized communities to vote, holding voting rights events, and activating youth to volunteer at the polls and protect the election.
Michigan Voices: a state-based collaboration formed to improve long-term coordination and communication among nonprofit civic and voter engagement organizations in Michigan. The collaboration’s nonpartisan mission is to engage traditionally underrepresented and marginalized communities in the democratic process to create a more accessible, inclusive, and representative government.
Flint Rising: Flint Rising, a project of The Advocacy Fund, is a coalition of community organizations and allies working to ensure that directly impacted people are building the organizing infrastructure and leadership necessary for this long-haul fight for justice and creating the future that Flint families need and deserve.