🚨 162 Days Until Election Day! Link To 2026 Calendar and Election Information 🚨
Here’s the link to my pinned thread with the Election Calendar, Activist Links, and Donation Links:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220932849
As I point out in my pinned thread, the calendar dates are general guidelines. For precise dates, call your local election office or visit their website. You can find the contact information here:
https://www.usvotefoundation.org/election-offices
Monday, May 25 (Today)
Memorial Day
California state primary early voting continues (varies by county)
Iowa state primary in-person absentee voting continues
Maine state primary in-person absentee voting continues
Montana state primary in-person absentee voting continues
Nevada state primary early voting continues
New Mexico state primary early voting continues
South Dakota state primary in-person absentee voting continues
Virginia state primary in-person absentee voting continues
Tuesday, May 26 (Tomorrow)
New Jersey state primary early voting begins
North Dakota state primary early voting begins
South Carolina state primary early voting begins thru June 5, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. (closed weekends)
Saturday, May 30
New Mexico early voting ends
Sunday, May 31
New Jersey state primary early voting ends
Monday, June 1
California state primary early voting ends
Iowa state primary in-person absentee voting ends
Montana state primary in-person absentee voting ends 12 p.m.
South Dakota state primary in-person absentee voting ends 5 p.m.
Tuesday, June 2
California state primary, including 1st District special election primary (pre-prop 50 district boundaries)
Iowa state primary
Montana state primary
New Jersey state primary
New Mexico state primary
South Dakota state primary
Thursday, June 4
Maine state primary in-person absentee voting ends
Friday, June 5
Nevada state primary early voting ends
Monday, June 8
North Dakota state primary early voting ends
Tuesday, June 9
Maine state primary
Nevada state primary
North Dakota state primary
South Carolina state primary
Utah state primary early voting begins
Thursday, June 11
Maryland state primary early voting begins
Oklahoma state primary early voting begins
Saturday, June 13
New York state primary early voting begins
Oklahoma state primary early voting ends 2 p.m.
Virginia state primary in-person absentee voting ends 5 p.m.
Tuesday, June 16
Oklahoma state primary
Virginia state primary
Thursday, June 18
Maryland state primary early voting ends
Friday, June 19
Juneteenth National Independence Day
Utah state primary early voting ends
Sunday, June 21
New York state primary early voting ends
Tuesday, June 23
Maryland state primary
New York state primary
Utah state primary
The pinned thread at the top will be my grand collection and linkography for election information (but still updated frequently, so check back there often). I’ll continue with my “countdown” threads every day, which will highlight events and information that is imminent or urgent.
Please let me know if there are any broken links, or any incorrect or incomplete information (both here as well as my pinned thread), and I will make the necessary corrections.
Note – if you do anything by mail, be sure to mail things in WELL IN ADVANCE. I personally would recommend at least two weeks (10 business days), especially for submitting absentee ballots. Remember, DeJoy might be gone, but his postal system is still in place. See this thread here as a cautionary tale:
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100221063903
(Especially true for the General Election) URGE EVERYONE YOU KNOW to take advantage of early voting, to avoid very long lines. Or if you absolutely must wait until Election Day to vote, to vote as early in the day as you can. And to learn ahead of time your polling location. We all saw what happened in Dallas during the primaries!
Image: "Registering to vote is complicated? False. It takes 2 minutes using Rock the Vote's online voter registration tool."
https://www.rockthevote.org/how-to-vote/register-to-vote/?source=register
Patriotism is vigilance. Patriotism is participation. Patriotism is moral courage. Patriotism is caring enough about your country and your fellow citizens to remain informed, engaged, compassionate, and unwilling to accept corruption simply because it comes packaged in the language of nationalism.
Which means our responsibility cannot be passive outrage punctuated by doom-scrolling and performative despair. Citizenship requires more than emotional exhaustion and angry social media posts. It requires action, whatever lawful, ethical, constructive action aligns with your conscience and capacity. Vote in every election, not just the presidential ones. Midterms. Local elections. School boards. Judicial races. State legislatures. City councils. That is where democracy often lives or dies quietly while everyone is distracted by the circus in Washington. ... Democracy requires adults, not just outrage addicts.
If the coming months become uglier, and many, including myself, fear they may, then our response cannot be panic, surrender, or paralysis. It must be citizenship in its highest form: active, informed, principled, compassionate, relentless. America does not belong to any one man, one woman, any one movement, or any one cult of grievance. It belongs to the people willing to do the often unglamorous, exhausting work of preserving it.
-- Excerpts from “I Am a Patriot” by Michael Jochum, and posted on DU by babylonsister. Full text here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221257872
Image:
Voter: “All of this politics and noise!!! I have to tune it out!”
Tyranny: “Good.”
(In the background, a citizen is seen being dragged to a police car.)
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And goodnight! See you tomorrow.
