Welcome to LWVAA's Weekly VOTER
The Weekly VOTER is here to make sure everyone stays in the know about opportunities to empower voters and defend democracy in our community. Like what you see? Please share with your friends!
|  | 🗳️ Big news: Election results!
Voter turnout was at 25%, with 227,711 out of 904.768 registered voters turning out for this election.
Find Travis County Unofficial Election Results to learn how voters in your community voted on the 17 Constitutional Amendments and in local elections, including the City of Austin tax rate election (Prop Q) and local elections in Bee Cave, Jarrell, Lago Vista, Leander, Pflugerville, Rollingwood, Sunset Valley, West Lake Hills, Village of the Hills, Lago Vista ISD, Liberty Hill ISD, Manor ISD, and Taylor ISD.
🗳️ Your daily democracy actions made a difference!
Thank you for all you did in support of our mission of empowering voters and defending democracy. The League of Women Voters of the Austin Area is a grassroots, all-volunteer nonpartisan nonprofit. Give yourself a big cheer if you shared the LWV Voters Guide, talked to your friends and neighbors about the election, emailed voting reminders, or shared LWVAA social media posts.
🗣️ We need to hear from you!
LWVAA members: The 2025 election is behind us and it's time for LWVAA to begin planning for 2026. In a few days, you'll receive a short survey that will help us learn what's important to you. Your response will help us focus our work during the coming year to better support our mission of empowering voters and defending democracy.
|  | The Fall Mixer is this Friday!
On November 14, join LWVAA from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at Stargazer to toast the League's hard work this past election season! Grab a snack and a beverage and enjoy conversation, connection, and community. Registration isn't required, but your RSVP will help us plan.
And remember: the mixer isn't just for members, so feel free to bring a friend! | Austin area students, show us how Together We Thrive! Submit your original art or writing for a chance to win $150 and be featured at our spring festival. 💫
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Looking for an event to support 🗳️ democracy this week?
The LWVAA calendar is here to help!
Help build partnerships! Wear a League pin or name badge to events.
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Volunteer at the Texas Tribune Festival!
Don’t have a ticket to TribFest yet? Sign up to volunteer and get a free ticket!
Sign up for two shifts and snag a complimentary Festival ticket ($350 value), a yearlong Texas Tribune membership, and a super cool TribFest volunteer t-shirt.
Support your neighbors
If you're looking for a way to help your neighbors:
Reference: The Austin Common
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🗣️ Speak Up Austin
- Take the Creative Reset Survey -The Creative Reset is a community effort to reimagine how Austin invests in and supports arts, culture, and heritage. This city-wide initiative is led by Austin Arts, Culture, Music, and Entertainment (ACME). Its purpose is to examine how Austin builds a more accessible, inclusive, and sustainable creative ecosystem for the future.
✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Take action with LWVUS
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Keep up with local news
Axios Austin
Community Impact
KUT
KXAN
The Texas Tribune
Follow new local news sources:
- Watch: Austin Insight on Austin PBS - a weekly news program that examines the issues impacting Central Texans and celebrates the region’s cultural and creative diversity.
- Read:
- The Austin Current - a new local nonprofit news organization whose mission is to deliver the information Austin residents need to navigate daily life, breakdown the issues shaping the city’s future and ensure those in power are working for the people they’ve promised to serve.
- Austin Axios - We exist to help local readers get smarter, faster on the most consequential news and developments unfolding in their own backyards.
- Listen: Austin Signal on KUT News - the go-to place for news of the day. Hosted by Jerry Quijano, the show covers news, music, sports, culture and more from around Central Texas.
| Help find sponsors for the LWVAA fundraiser
Remember Schoolhouse Rock? We’re taking that Saturday morning energy and turning it into a Sunday afternoon party for democracy.
🎤 Live music, tacos, trivia, and a cause worth cheering for...funding voter education through TRIVIACRACY!
💡 Sponsors make it all possible! Levels start at $1,000 and go up to $20,000 for the Guardian of Democracy. Every sponsorship funds voter registration, multilingual voter guides, and civic education across Central Texas. Sponsors, this is your chance to help voters get informed, get inspired, and get involved!
Empower voters. Defend democracy. Have a blast doing it.
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Celebrate partnerships
🎉 Join LWVAA in celebrating Austin Public Libraries for sharing the LWV Voters Guide across Travis County. When you visit your local library, tell them thank you for empowering voters by providing them the information they need to vote in every election.
Make a commitment to democracy by becoming a partner!
- Is your nonpartisan organization, church, or business interested in making a commitment to democracy?
 Contact LWVAA co-president Debbi Voss to find out how we can support democracy together.
Empower voters and support democracy at your events!
- Is an organization or business you know hosting a concert, picnic, panel, or party? Help your community get vote-ready! Request a nonpartisan LWVAA voter registration table. Email tablingrequest@lwvaustin.org.
- Fill out this form to request a speaker from LWVAA. Co-president Debbi Voss will reach out to help you find the best speaker for your event.
- We show up anywhere people gather with clipboards, answers, and nonpartisan energy.
| Highlighted League & community events
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