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VOTE SAVE DEMOCRACY


Voting rights and the integrity of U.S. elections are under attack. Thanks to the ongoing Republican assault on democracy, we need to be worrying about who runs our elections, especially heading into the 2024 presidential election. That means in 2022, there are hugely important elections for positions you may have never even heard of.


Secretaries of State are usually their state’s top election official, and this year, there are Big Lie proponents running in at least 18 states. The Attorney General is the top legal officer for a state and can play a key role in fighting to protect elections and access to the ballot box. An anti-democracy AG could threaten non-partisan local election officials and the integrity of our elections, more generally. 


In the 2020 election, many of these brave elected officials expanded voter access and fought to certify and uphold the election results in the face of a relentless effort by Trump and his allies to defy the will of the people. Pro-democracy Secretaries of State and Attorneys General were a big reason why that effort failed. Republicans have learned their lesson and now they’re working to install people in these key positions who are more than willing to restrict access to the ballot and refuse to certify election results that they don’t like. 


We’ve got great pro-democracy candidates who will run fair elections and fight to ensure everyone has access to the ballot and you can help them right now with one quick and easy donation. We’ve got work to do to make sure these candidates have the resources to win, and these races will be far more expensive than ever before. Your donation today will be split between:


Arizona Attorney General: Kris Mayes

Arizona will elect a new Attorney General in 2022. Democrat Kris Mayes brings a track record of advocating for consumers and protecting Arizona’s natural resources from her time as an Arizona Corporation Commissioner. Mayes has also pledged to fight for ballot access and a woman’s right to choose.  Mayes will face Trump-endorsed Abe Hamadeh, a former Maricopa County prosecutor who states that he would not have certified election results in 2020. Hamadeh has also emphasized his anti-immigration chops and pledged to enforce Arizona’s 121 year old abortion ban. 


Georgia Attorney General: Jen Jordan

State Senator Jen Jordan sees the Attorney General’s office as a tool for justice. From protecting voting rights, to holding corporations who pollute our air and water accountable, to defending consumers against predatory practices, Jordan’s priorities are starkly different from those of incumbent Attorney General, Chris Carr. Currently, Carr is defending Georgia’s new voter suppression and election subversion law in court as well as Georgia’s 6 week abortion ban. 


Michigan Attorney General: Dana Nessel

Incumbent Democrat Dana Nessel has spent her time in office prosecuting major polluters and opioid distributors, investigating clergy abuse, and defending against voter suppression and election subversion attempts. The Republican candidate is Matthew DePerno, a lawyer who sued a Michigan county with false claims that votes had been flipped from Trump to Biden. Endorsed by Trump, DePerno has focused his campaign on election lies, ending vaccine and mask mandates, and ending CRT in schools. DePerno supports an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape, incest, or medical emergency and has pledged to enforce Michigan’s 1931 ban. 


Michigan Secretary of State: Jocelyn Benson 

Michigan is home to the only Democratic incumbent running for re-election—democracy champion Jocelyn Benson. In 2020, Benson oversaw upgrades of Michigan’s election system—including eliminating gerrymandering and increasing voter access through no-excuse absentee ballots. Her opponent is Kristina Karamo, who rose to prominence when she claimed to have witnessed fraud in the 2020 election. Karamo, an anti-vaxxer who called public schools, “government indoctrination camps,” was endorsed by Trump.


Nevada Attorney General: Aaron Ford

Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford is running for re-election on his record of investing in mental health and substance abuse programs, and increasing transparency in the pharmaceutical industry. His Republican opponent is Sigal Chattah, who made her name suing Nevada’s governor over mask and vaccine mandates. Chattah is strongly anti-choice and has made racist comments about Ford. 


Nevada Secretary of State: Cisco Aguilar 

Nevada’s incumbent Republican Secretary of State, who Democrats nearly beat in 2018, is now term-limited, creating an opening. This is an opportunity to continue Nevada’s recent voting upgrades, including the implementation of automatic voter registration. Democrat Cisco Aguilar is running on removing barriers to ballot access and increasing transparency in Nevada’s election.  It’s unfortunately also an opportunity for Republican Jim Merchant, who leads the primary and is working with QAnon leaders to put together slates of pro-Trump Secretaries of States across the country in order to “control the election system.” Yikes. 


Wisconsin Attorney General: Josh Kaul

Since his election in 2018, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has focused primarily on addressing the contamination of Wisconsin’s water supplies with cancer-causing pollutants, reducing gun violence, and addressing the opiate crisis. In 2022, all of that is on the ballot, along with Wisconsin’s democracy. The Republican candidate, Fond du Lac County DA Eric Toney, has said he would bring criminal charges against most of Wisconsin’s top election officials. Their crime? Advising local officials to not send Special Voting Deputies into nursing homes for 2020 elections. 


Georgia Secretary of State: Bee Nguyen 

After Georgia’s Republican legislature and Governor passed one of the harshest voter suppression laws in the country, this may be one of the most important Secretary of State races in the country.  Electing a pro-democracy is critical to stabilize election administration and voter access amid those attacks on voting rights.  Representative Bee Nguyen was the first Asian American woman elected to the Georgia legislature and has a record of defending GA democracy. Nguyen led successful efforts to overturn Georgia's “exact match” voter registration law, restoring the franchise to 53,000 Georgians. 


Arizona Secretary of State: Adrian Fontes

This may be the most important Secretary of State races in a year with A LOT of important ones. Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes faces Representative Mark Finchem, a far-right, insurrectionist election denier with QAnon and Oathkeeper ties. Finchem’s profile rose due to his prominent role in denying the 2020 election results. Endorsed by Trump, Finchem is still running on decertifying the 2020 election, and certainly cannot be trusted to fairly run Arizona’s elections in 2024. Former Marine and prosecutor Adrian Fontes has most recently worked to oversee Maricopa County’s elections, upgrading and professionalizing elections in Arizona’s largest county.

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