This is it! Election Day is tomorrow! If you or your family members haven’t yet voted, you need to go to the polls tomorrow! Polls open at 7:00 a.m. We strongly recommend that you go in the morning and take care of this important civic duty before getting into the rest of your day. If you’ve received your ballot by mail be sure to drop it at a drop box today or tomorrow before 8:00 p.m.

Questions about voting? Check out this guide. Folks who are not registered can still register to vote and vote in person tomorrow.

This election year, we’re taking our demands for a more just and inclusive Maryland to the ballot box. We have a chance to vote for candidates and ballot measures that will support our communities and protect our democracy. Be sure to vote up and down the ballot: all of these elected officials matter in our day to day lives because of the important decisions they make.

Your vote makes a difference and volunteering can, too. Help us talk to voters in the next 24 hours. Make phone calls tonight and tomorrow:

Sign up to phone bank

Text bank with our Election Day team

Thank you! Look for posts and pictures on social media from our folks in the field tomorrow! Stay tuned for information about Election Night Returns Watching and a debrief next week on November 17. 

Here’s to victory! 

In solidarity,

The Progressive Maryland Team

Election Corner:

Click here for answers to your questions about voting. 

If you encounter issues, call the Election Protection Hotline at 202-833-1200 or visit their website here.

General Election Dates and Deadlines:

Voter Registration Can Take Place:

In-person at voting location on Election Day : November 8

Return Mail-In Ballot: 

In-person at your nearest ballot drop box by November 8 at 8 p.m.

Check out PM’s endorsed candidates!

Task Forces & Chapter Updates:

Healthcare For All:

On the national level, People’s Action launched a grassroots Care Over Cost campaign this year! Read more about it in the In These Times article about wrongful denials of claims by insurance companies like Elevance. We’re getting ready for the 2023 state legislative session where we’ll be working to lower Rx prices at the state level, to end the burden of Medical Debt and to expand healthcare services for Marylanders in need. We need more folks to take part in this critical campaign to fight corporate greed in our healthcare system. To join us, contact Patty.

Campaign For Justice and Ending the War on Drugs:

Justice is on the ballot this year! We’ve been door knocking and phone banking voters to urge a FOR vote on Question 4 to legalize cannabis. Punitive marijuana laws fueled mass incarceration and widespread racist policing practices.Legalization has many benefits, including redirecting public resources spent on thousands of arrests to community needs and social services. 

If you’re interested in joining our efforts, please contact Kurt or Dev.

Returning Citizens Task Force: 

Check with Kurt for our upcoming meetings schedule. 

Frederick County: Sheriff’s Race

The Sheriff’s race here embodies the growing state and national  campaign to win better policing practices and build more local progressive power. Our chapter is campaigning to elect a new Sheriff who will focus on building trust with the community and transforming the office.To volunteer tonight or on Election Day, contact Zack . 

Progressive Harford County 

Join Zack and other Chapter leaders and PM members for our Get Out the Vote Phone banks tonight and tomorrow. Sign up here.

Lower Shore Progressive Caucus

LSPC is getting out the vote for several outstanding progressive candidates. Help turn more of this beautiful part of our state blue. Contact Kris or check for GOTV events here.

State and National News:

People are voting tomorrow all over the country, every state – “the great mystery of democracy” as a 20th-century political sage called it will actually happen and the polls will be history, right or wrong. The era of early voting including mail-in has muddled that sense of one-day-settles-all. Here is the morning tally from Pluribus News: More than 40.5 million Americans have voted already this year, according to University of Florida political scientist Michael McDonald’s U.S. Elections Project. In the 23 states where voters register by party, Democrats hold a 43%-34% turnout edge.

Also in News You Can Use this week: Election disruption attempts in Maryland and some other states; Congress's "lame duck" session; Wes Moore gets ink; a West Virginia refugee crisis here? Read on.

Get the details on all these pressing topics in News You Can Use, our blog of Maryland and national progressive concerns. If you need an incentive to vote progressive, look no further.

Progressive Maryland BlogSpace:

We value creating space for our members to express their thoughts on any issues related to our campaigns. Have an idea for a blog post? You can submit writing, film, graphic design, etc. to be published on our website to the blog moderator Woody.

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