Tom Lopach

🚨 There’s an effort underway to impose restrictions on voters, but YOU can help stop it 🚨

The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is considering whether to require Americans to show a passport or other citizenship document when registering to vote.

Voter Registration Faces Threats Nonprofits Can’t Ignore - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly Political leaders are changing voter registration programs, threatening nonprofits’ ability to provide support to underrepresented groups.

VPC's President and CEO @tom-lopach.bsky.social urges nonprofits not to back down from helping voters in the face of attacks on voting rights: “It’s important to make voting as accessible as possible.”

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Stop Acting Like This Is Normal - Listen on NYT Audio 23 min listen - Democrats aren’t powerless, and they don’t have to enable autocracy.

Ezra Klein’s piece is not only direction for the government shutdown fight ahead, but it is an indictment of the lack of leadership, message, agenda and strategy coming from national Democratic leaders.

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Fight for fair maps a win in Alabama. Now we must protect that power: op-ed After decades of distorted district lines, Alabama now has more representative congressional maps.

VPC's CEO @tom-lopach.bsky.social discusses the importance of voter registration efforts in the fight against voter suppression ⤵️

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Tell a friend to tell a friend: you have important mail coming your way! 📬

In August and September, VPC will be expanding our mail voter registration program nationwide 🙌

Voting-rights groups announce national expansion to reach underrepresented communities The Voter Participation Center and the Center for Voter Information are expanding their work in an effort to get more eligible but unregistered Americans at the voting booth. BY KEELY QUINLAN AUGUST 21, 2025

Two nonprofit, nonpartisan voting-rights organizations are expanding their efforts to register more voters, using data from public and commercial sources to target their work. Over the next two months, the groups, the Voter Participation Center and the Center for Voter Information, said they will send voter registration applications to more than 4.7 million eligible but unregistered Americans. The groups told StateScoop they plan to conduct additional digital outreach and follow-up mailings leading into the 2026 midterm elections. The efforts will be focused on registering those often underrepresented in the voting process, such as people of color, young people and unmarried women.

Tom Lopach, the Voter Participation Center’s chief executive, said the groups’ expanded effort to register voters was deemed necessary in light of the Trump administration’s attacks on voting access. He said the expansion is also driven by work the center did comparing voter turnout data from the 2024 general election to monthly census numbers. “What we’ve noticed for a number of years is progress on voter registration in underrepresented communities has been somewhat stagnant, and that in 2024, voter turnout from the communities we serve — people of color, young people and unmarried women — have reduced compared to 2022 and to 2020,” Lopach said. “So, knowing that our goal is to create an even playing field and help underrepresented populations participate in our elections, we knew it was time to run our programs nationally.”

The news is out! The Voter Participation Center and our partner organization, the Center for Voter Information, will be expanding our mail voter registration program to reach underrepresented Americans nationwide 📬🗳🎉

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The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis

The D Party has devolved into “Not Trump.” It no longer listens, and it doesn’t stand for working folks, wages, or cost of living.

If the D Party was branded in, governed on, and talked about kitchen table issues, people would want to be a part of it.

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Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.

Statement: The Voter Participation Center Responds to Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson - Voter Participation Center In response to a statement released by the Mississippi Secretary of State, the Voter Participation Center (VPC) wishes to clarify the nature of our work and assure eligible Mississippians that any mai...

🚨 Statement: VPC Responds to Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson

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Opinion | Governors Should Be the Face of the Democratic Party

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VPC fought for the voters of Kansas and won 🙌💪

On July 3, a US District Court sided with the Voter Participation Center to permanently block the enforcement of an anti-voter provision in Kansas Law HB 2332, reaffirming that voter engagement is protected free speech under the First Amendment.

Former Astronaut Launches Texas Senate Run by Hitting Both Parties

Interesting article highlighting the need for Democrats to fix their party brand:

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...

RFK Jr. is making it more difficult to enroll in Obamacare The Trump administration projects as many as 1.8 million people, including many DACA recipients, could lose coverage.

This is an affront to everything for which Senator Kennedy worked.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06... CMS finalizes plan to narrow Obamacare enrollment, DACA sign ups - POLITICO

Teddy Schleifer on X: "Senior D.N.C. officials have discussed the possibility of borrowing money in the coming months to keep the operations fully funded, according to two people with direct knowledge of the private discussions who insisted on anonymity. https://t.co/eueoJZbpIT" / X Senior D.N.C. officials have discussed the possibility of borrowing money in the coming months to keep the operations fully funded, according to two people with direct knowledge of the private discussions who insisted on anonymity. https://t.co/eueoJZbpIT

If this is true….

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Former Governors: Trump Is Weaponizing the Power of His Office | Opinion The president's actions threaten our cherished constitutional principles of state sovereignty and freedom of speech.

Important bipartisan perspective on Federalizing the National Guard last week:

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Why I'm obsessed with winning the Senate You can't defend democracy if you don't win elections

This is a good column. Worth reading. I don’t even think candidates need to go as far as Yglesias says at the end — I think simply having common sense immigration and economic policies will do it. open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...

I am not an identity-politics-first sort of guy, but when you watch the race and gender of electeds that Trump arrests, and when you watch the race and gender of university presidents that Republicans drive out, you can’t help but notice they seem to be identity-politics sort of people: racists.

When Senator Padilla asked a question of Secretary Noem, she had just finished calling the Governor and Mayor socialists and she had just said that the Department of Homeland Security was in California to liberate Californians from their duly elected government.

Donald Trump’s government is regularly arresting and charging Democratic office-holders who ask questions.

The authoritarian behavior is real.

I am seeing a lot of messaging from Democrats on ICE.

Perhaps Democrats could put together and message on an economic agenda.

Come on folks — get in the damn game.

Democratic frustration reaches boiling point over David Hogg — The Hill Tensions are reaching a boiling point between David Hogg and Democratic National Committee (DNC) leadership as the organization moves to potentially redo Hogg’s election as vice chair.

We have never needed solid Democratic Party leadership more than now — and all they are doing is fighting with one another. This is such crap.

Could we please have strong Democratic leaders? Somewhere? Anywhere?

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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

This government is staffed with charlatans, clowns, and people who are weakening the nation. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

A 1,400-County Crisis for Democrats - Listen on NYT Audio 29 min listen - A Times analysis of the last four presidential elections shows how Donald Trump made strides all across the country.

Listen to every minute of this and ask yourself where Democratic leaders are. We are hearing nothing about how to fix the party. Nothing.

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In a meeting today a former elected Republican, who is no longer Republican, whom I respect greatly said, “One party is impotent and the other is mean.”

That’s pretty clear.

Does the Working Class Vote Against Its Interests? A perennially misguided question among progressives.

This is so important: open.substack.com/pub/theliber...

On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama

The Republican Party is all about family values: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

How Donald Trump Has Remade America’s Political Landscape The steady march to the right across a vast number of counties reveals the extent of the nation's transformation in the Trump era, and the seriousness of the Democrats' problems.

Perhaps Democrats should try something different:

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Opinion | This is just embarrassing Everywhere I looked this week, I cringed for my country.

Read every word:

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Regulators Are Investigating Whether Media Matters Colluded With Advertisers

Democracy is dismantled one brick at a time:

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I am so excited for my friend and former colleague Andy Tweeten to be a Minnesota Judge. He will be amazing!

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