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!
| Guess who was thrilled to see the Voters Guide? Pat Stanley, a long time LWV Midland member, who is 90+ years young and now lives in Austin. Share your photo with the Voters Guide with communications@lwvaustin.org. | The primary election -- the vote before the vote!
(AKA "the one where you actually choose the candidates.")
When turnout is low, your vote carries more weight. And your choices shape courts, budgets, and everyday life in our community. If you care who runs things, this is your moment!
| | 🗳️ Share the Voters Guide!
💙 Elections are happening now, and voting starts with good info. 💙
or use VOTE411 to create a personalized Voters Guide
🖨️ Print or write out your choices - Use this convenient worksheet
🗳️ Take your list to the polls and vote (remember, cell phones aren't allowed in the voting booth)
| Kudos to our volunteers!
As we wrap up our get out the vote (GOTV) campaign for the March 3 primary, we want to thank all of the LWVAA volunteers and friends who helped address and stamp almost 21,000 postcards, stapled zines, and assembled 500 GOTV tote bags to help Austin area voters show up to the polls prepared to cast their ballots. Whether you held postcard parties with your friends or civic group, worked at the League office, or addressed cards on your own, give yourself a round of applause -- we couldn't have done it without you!
If you need to turn in addressed postcards or if you would like to help stamp cards, the League office will be open from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 17, and Thursday, February 19. If these hours are inconvenient, contact Joyce Jackson to arrange a drop-off time. |
🇺🇸🗳️ Be an Election Protection volunteer!
Volunteer to empower voters with accurate voter information, document any problems voters might have at the polls, and report barriers to voting. The League of Women Voters, a member of the Election Protection Coalition, needs volunteers to monitor the polls during early voting and on Election Day.
Virtual Training is provided on Tuesdays at 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. and on Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. through February 28.
Sign Up for Training
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Register voters with the League
🗳️ Saturdays: Register voters at Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline
Contact Voters Service to learn about more voter registration opportunities.
Contact our Volunteer team for questions, or review general volunteer opportunities here.
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💜 💛 🗳️ Help Reach More Voters With LWVAA Social Media!
Now is the time to Get Out the Vote (GOTV). We need you to comment, share, and support our algorithm. Light up our views! Get LWVAA graphics and videos seen by more voters! The more you comment and share, the more social media algorithms will surface LWVAA GOTV messages to voters.
| | ⚖️ Join us online on February 19 for LWVAA online presentation of From Poll Taxes to Maps: A Legal History of Voter Suppression in Texas | Celebrate Black History Month!
🗽 Recommended Read
The Civil Rights era was a time when everyday people took action to change the trajectory of our world. People sat in at lunch counters, boycotted businesses, and marched for justice. Today, the fight for voting rights and human dignity is still raging. There are moments when history feels as if it is repeating itself, but it is our responsibility to keep the righteous fight.
Read: Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Era from the LWVUS blog. |
League & community events this week
Feb 17:
|  | 🎉 Support the Voters Guide! Buy your tickets to TRIVIACRACY!
Join us on Sunday, March 8, at Central Machine Works for an afternoon of civics trivia, live music, great food, and connection -- all supporting our nonpartisan Voters Guide in a critical election year.
The event features live music and a relaxed mixer vibe. Come early to meet new people, join a trivia team, catch up with friends, or simply enjoy the atmosphere before gameplay begins.
Tickets are $125 per person and include:
- A three-course buffet
- Two drink tickets
- Trivia, music, and an amazing, democracy-loving crowd
| 📢 Speak up on the City of Austin 2026 Bond
During the month of February, staff will conduct 2026 Bond Open House engagement activities, including a second survey, to inform Austinites about proposed bond projects and gather feedback that will help shape final recommendations to the City Council and the Mayor.
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Urgent! Tell Congress to Reject the Save Act!
Oppose Proof of Citizenship to register to vote.
Congress continues to introduce bills that would require voters to present documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC) to register and/or vote. It's already illegal for noncitizens to register and vote in federal or state elections. Requiring documentary proof of American citizenship to register to vote in federal elections is unnecessary and seeks to divide us. It simply creates another barrier to voting.
Many communities of eligible voters would be unnecessarily burdened by the requirements of these bills, including military voters, people of color, married women who've changed their names, and people who've lost important documentation due to natural disasters.
| 📰 Keep up with democracy in the news
| Highlighted League & community events
|  | 🛍️ Support voting. Shop with the League.
Stop scrolling and start shopping at the all new LWVAA Shop. You'll find voting and democracy themed t-shirts, stickers, yard signs, bags and more!
The Voters Guide and the new shop got a shout-out!
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Empower voters and support democracy at your events!
🗣️ Request a speaker or voter registration table here.
| Gift memberships are back!
Gift memberships to any League can now be purchased online! To purchase a gift membership, log into or create an account at the LWV Member Portal and click the "Gift" link in the Grow Our Community box. You do not have to be a League member to purchase a gift membership.
| If you've read this far, it must be worth it.
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|  | 🗳️ Franklin reads the Voters Guide. Do you?
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| The League shall not support or oppose any political party or candidates. It may take action on governmental measures and policies in the public interest after significant study and consensus is reached. | |