Earlier this year, I convened voting rights leaders to thank them for their work and issue a call to action: Join me on three National Days of Action on Voting Rights to help get Americans registered.
Here's how their organizations took action:
When We All Vote registered people at the iHeartRadio Music Festival, the Atlanta Dream WNBA game, live on Twitch with Questlove and other DJs, through popular apps, and with voter registration drives in 15 states.
The League of Women Voters held over 600 registration events across the country, partnering with libraries, high schools, colleges, and the WNBA.
APIAVote held a text banking party to remind voters to register to vote on National Voter Registration Day, while their state and local partners held voter registration events at boba tea shops, Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations, community centers, and college campuses.
As part of its nationwide Vota Con Ganas campaign, Voto Latino Foundation and the Voto Latino On-Campus program partnered with 170+ Latino campus leaders to host registration events and digital activations as part of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Protect the Sacred hosted a “Ride for Democracy” trail ride in Arizona, helping residents of rural communities and individuals living on Native reservations update their voter registration and register to vote.
I am grateful for these organizers and so many others across our nation who are leading the fight to protect and strengthen our democracy.
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Gun violence is the number one cause of death for children in America.
Today, I announced new funding to protect and support our children as we work to implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the most significant gun safety legislation passed in nearly 30 years.
This law is also the largest investment in history to support student mental health, including the trauma of gun violence.
Today, I announced an additional $285 million as we work to hire and train over 14,000 mental health professionals in schools across our nation.
The Biden-Harris Administration is also investing in community violence intervention efforts to help schools and communities tackle the epidemic of gun violence.
I announced more than $6 million through the Department of Education to help do this critical work.
President Biden and I ran for office to ensure that our nation is a place where every American has the freedom and opportunity to thrive. We made significant progress in 2023, and the fight continues in the new year.
In 2023, our historic investments hit the streets as we rebuild roads and bridges, replace every lead pipe, invest in clean energy, boost U.S. manufacturing, and bring affordable high-speed internet to every home.
We have already announced 44,000 infrastructure projects.
This year, we also continued to increase access to capital for our nation's small business owners. As a result, the Biden-Harris Administration is on track for the strongest three years on record for small business creation.
Yesterday, Allen, Texas was torn apart by a senseless mass shooting at a shopping mall.
Doug and I mourn for the eight adults and children who lost their lives, pray for those wounded, and send our gratitude to the first responders who ran toward danger.
While there's much we don't yet know about the attack, here's what we do know: all Americans deserve to be safe from gun violence. But they're not.
Not because we don't know the solutions. Not because Americans are divided on the issue – a majority of gun owners support reforms.
.@POTUS signed the most significant gun safety legislation in 30 years and implemented important executive actions, but more must be done.
An Arizona court ruling recently resurrected an abortion ban from 1864. That court ruling has been paused pending appeal. Patrick Robles from @uarizona shared with me how this issue is impacting students on his campus.
The University of Idaho advised employees that they could not offer birth control on campus, and then reversed its position. Ashley Paine shared how students were left in confusion on campus.
Soumya Jaiswal from @uofcincy discussed how coalition building is critical to fighting back in states with extreme abortion bans.
Indiana passed a near-total abortion ban yesterday. By the time a woman realizes she's pregnant, she will effectively be prohibited from having access to reproductive health care. This is an absolutely shameful decision made by the Indiana legislature and governor.
The ban has narrow exceptions and will endanger women and girls in a state that is already third-worst in the nation for maternal mortality. This decision puts lives in danger.
I traveled to Indiana last month and met with more than 30 state legislators who were fighting against this. They stood up for women in the face of other so-called "leaders" who passed this law.
What happened on Friday was a complete dismantling of reproductive freedom by the Supreme Court. Right now, we are fighting to restore what the Court took away. reproductiverights.gov
The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision means that millions of women will no longer have the reproductive health care that their mothers and grandmothers fought for and had for the last 50 years.
@POTUS is taking executive action to address the health care crisis this decision has created. He's directed @HHSGov to protect women’s access to medication to safely end a pregnancy, and he pledged to protect women’s ability to travel to another state to seek the care they need.