Black Voters Matter

Organizers say they're raising awareness to make a plan to vote on Tuesday, November 3rd, or to vote early or by mail, and to encourage friends and family to do the same.

Indivisible 5051, Black Voters Matter, MoveOn, and the ACLU are among the coalition partners, as are a long list of labor unions and community organizations.

The New York Times is reporting that the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has announced an initiative to establish a federal research clinic to address vaccine injuries and a new billing code to reimburse doctors for filing reports of serious vaccine side effects.

We spoke with health policy consultant Benedict Callan, who questions whether RFK Jr.'s actions and beliefs are founded in science.

You can pull a few friends together.

Even better if you join up with your 50/51 group, or your Black Voters Matter group, or your Indivisible group, or your local organizing hub, but you can do it with a few friends.

You can do it with a few family members.

You can get it on the map and find other people in your community, and highly, highly, highly recommend you do.

Uh, he writes, "Elon Musk has launched a scam voter website, votesafe.org. That site collects the following information.

It includes name, birth date, full address, IP address and location, cell phone number, email address, uh, just a whole bunch of bad information, uh, your district and your ballot included." A- and so Mark asks, "What is Indivisible doing to sound the alarm and warn people to steer clear?" Y'all might have seen some of the viral moments from the event that I did this past weekend.

Uh, it was in New York with, uh, Mark Ruffalo and with, um, uh, uh, Black Voters Matter and with We Stand United and with Sunrise Movement and with...

Oh, Robert De Niro.

And those numbers are concerning because that is enough to determine the outcome of some of these elections.

He revealed that and more in a 2026 Black media briefing led by Black Voters Matter.

Meanwhile, President Trump says the US will not strike Iran before the midterm elections next month.

He made the announcement in a Truth Social post today.

They are steeped in that history.

And then, of course, you have the women like Stacey Abrams, LaTosha Brown, who was one of the founders of Black Voters Matter, who decided, you know, they started doing this work 20 years ago.

of building up infrastructure outside of the Democratic Party around voting and civic engagement.

And, you know, even after post-Calais, Black voter turnout is up in every primary that there has been since the Calais decision in the South.

Totally wild.

So one more thing, and our fourth thing really, civil rights organizations such as the Legal Defense Fund, LatinoJustice, Hispanic Federation, and Black Voters Matter sent letters to all 50 governors, secretaries of states, and hundreds of mayors flagging what they see as the biggest threats to Black and Latino voters this specific election.

Namely, new voter ID requirements, limits on mail-in voting, and the real fear of federal agents, including ICE, showing up near polling places.

To be clear, it is illegal for federal law enforcement or the military to station themselves at polls to intimidate voters, but the fact that civil rights group feel the need to put that in writing to every governor and mayor in the country right now tells you how real that fear is.