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Tom Lopach
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Thank you to the @practivistpod.bsky.social for sitting down with VPC’s President and CEO, @tom-lopach.bsky.social, to discuss the important work that we do to ensure that our electorate is representative of all Americans 🙌
December 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Election officials and poll workers are the unsung heroes of our elections! Their work keeps our democracy running and protects YOUR freedom to vote 💪

We thank election workers for safeguarding our elections and ensuring that each and every eligible American can cast their vote.
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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A must read:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Below is my column from The Hill today regarding the Voting Rights Act and a current pattern of racism and bigotry extending to political representation.
votercenter.bsky.social Voter Participation Center (VPC) @votercenter.bsky.social · Oct 24
Louisiana v. Callais is not just a small fight over one state’s voting maps. It’s a test of whether the US still believes in protecting every citizen’s right to fair representation.

VPC’s @tom-lopach.bsky.social weighs in on the larger context behind this case ⤵️

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October 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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ICYMI ➡️

VPC's @tom-lopach.bsky.social discusses Louisiana v. Callais, and the effect of voter suppression policies on underrepresented communities ⤵️

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time.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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votercenter.bsky.social
This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could weaken the Voting Rights Act.

At the same time, states are putting up new barriers for voters, and we are seeing the effect of those policies in action.

Read more from VPC's @tom-lopach.bsky.social ⤵️

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The Right to Vote Is on Trial at the Supreme Court
"We are on the verge of becoming a country where the right to vote exists only on paper," writes Tom Lopach.
time.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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🚨 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.
October 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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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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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.
nonprofitquarterly.org
September 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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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.

www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...
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.
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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VPC's CEO @tom-lopach.bsky.social discusses the importance of voter registration efforts in the fight against voter suppression ⤵️

www.al.com/news/2025/08...
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.
www.al.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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votercenter.bsky.social
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 🙌
August 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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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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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.”
August 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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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.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis
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August 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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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.
August 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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🚨 Statement: VPC Responds to Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson

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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...
www.voterparticipation.org
August 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
Opinion | Governors Should Be the Face of the Democratic Party
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July 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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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.
July 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Interesting article highlighting the need for Democrats to fix their party brand:

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...
Former Astronaut Launches Texas Senate Run by Hitting Both Parties
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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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
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.
www.politico.com
June 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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If this is true….

x.com/teddyschleif...
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
x.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Important bipartisan perspective on Federalizing the National Guard last week:

www.newsweek.com/former-gover...
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.
www.newsweek.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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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...
Why I'm obsessed with winning the Senate
You can't defend democracy if you don't win elections
open.substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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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.
June 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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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.
June 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Donald Trump’s government is regularly arresting and charging Democratic office-holders who ask questions.

The authoritarian behavior is real.
June 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM