IF WE EVER NEEDED TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE, WE SURE DO NEED TO VOTE NOW.
During this 2022 midterm election season, we are intensifying our non-partisan nationwide efforts to educate, mobilize, and encourage voter registration in poor and low-wealth communities.
Our experience shows that an intentional effort to engage low-wealth voters—around an agenda that includes living wages, health care, strong anti-poverty programs, voting rights and policies that fully address injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the war economy—can be effective in shifting our nation's policy priorities.
WATCH NOWIn 2020, the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival reached over 2 million low-income voters. Our study of the general election data showed that 58 million low-income people voted in 2020, accounting for 33% of the electorate and 45% in battleground states. While we saw record turnout among our target community, the data also showed that over 20 million eligible low-income voters did not vote.
On June 18, 2022, we assembled in Washington DC for the Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls, the largest gathering of poor and low-income people in US history. We demanded immediate and transformative action to address interlocking injustices, and we vowed that the assembly was not just a day, but a declaration and commitment to action. We declared that, as a movement, we would take seven next steps before the midterm elections, including a commitment to engage in mass voter education and mobilization in poor and low-income communities through every means available.
To that end we are increasing our efforts to educate and mobilize poor and low-wealth eligible voters for the Midterm Elections. We are strategically deepening our work in states with high poverty rates, high percentage of potential low-income voter turnout based on the 2020 data, and high percentages of low-income voters as a percentage of the overall electorate.
Our votes are demands - this is why we are mobilizing voters around the Third Reconstruction Agenda, which calls for a fundamental restructuring of society that lifts from the bottom. The non-partisan agenda calls for policies that center the 140 million poor and low-income people in the country.
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THE PROPHETIC PLEDGE
We know that the power of the poor and low-income vote has never been more critical and potent than it is now. That's why we asked faith and community organizations to come together and take a Prophetic Pledge to turnout voters this 2022 election. People all over America pledged to call and text poor and low-income voters in their communities, helping to create a massive wave of political participation.
Faith and community organizations that signed onto the Prophetic Pledge committed to building a movement that votes, and to build the power we need to hold our elected officials accountable to the policies that the people are demanding.
Those who signed up for the Prophetic Pledge agreed to:
- Be non-partisan; the Poor People’s Campaign is non-partisan but deeply political
- Fully read the principles and demands of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
THREE THINGS FAITH COMMUNITIES CAN DO:
- 1 Organizing Your Local Community To the PollsReach into the Community - having conversations around the issues and the moral agenda, registering poor and low-income voters for November and beyond. Mobilize and follow through to build plans to get to polls
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- 3 Share A Word With Your Faith CommunityShare a message with your faith community about “If We Ever Needed To Vote For Democracy And Justice We Sure Do Need To Vote Now!
