America Votes is an American 501 (c)4 organization whose mission is to build a permanent progressive campaign infrastructure. America Votes leads national and state-based coalitions to develop shared strategies that advance progressive policies, engage communities and increase voter turnout.
America Votes leads the coordination, servicing and strategy of the progressive movement's grassroots campaigns for advocacy and elections, and advances vital election reforms and voting rights in the states.
America Votes was the brainchild of Ellen Malcolm, the founder of EMILY's List, former Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope, Harold Ickes, Steve Rosenthal and Andy Stern, the former president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Greg Speed serves as Executive Director of the organization.
America Votes has offices in Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Washington, DC.
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“We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcæ, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votes as they go in. Now, the first time I vote I’ll see if the woman’s vote looks any different from the rest—if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don’t inside, it need not outside.”
—Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883)