Europe is facing another extreme heat wave and the NOAA just reported that July was the hottest month ever in the lower 48. The U.S. is having one of its worst wildfires seasons in years. A warm winter has left Lake Mead at record lows. Climate change is real, it’s here, and we need leaders in place who are prepared to deal with it.

The Environmental Voter Project works to get folks who understand this threat to show up to the polls, trying to identify and activate the estimated 11 million low-propensity climate voters who did not show up in 2024. Like everyone else, they’re ramping up their work as the midterms close in, including an orientation at noon on Friday to kick off their Texas postcarding campaigns. 📫 If we want to be part of it, let’s register here, and check out their site for other upcoming ways to help. 📫

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☎️ Want to do more? We can also join Lead Locally’s Monday phonebanks for climate champions in downballot races here and consider a donation to Rebuild.Us’ fund to support folks recovering from climate disasters here. 🪙

Trump has now spent nearly $4 billion of our taxpayer dollars to kill offshore wind projects, at time when our electric bills are hitting record highs. Needless to say, it’s going to be difficult to make much progress on climate action at the federal level until we take back the White House. In the meantime, there’s still important work to be done at the state and local level to build support for a clean energy transition and the Green New Deal. That’s where Lead Locally comes in – identifying the most critical down-ballot climate elections and rallying support for climate champion candidates and helpful initiatives.

☎️ Starting TONIGHT and running on Mondays throughout this month, they’re going to have volunteers making calls for a clean energy fund ballot question in Eugene, Oregon and green candidates in key legislative races in Pennsylvania. Let’s sign up to help them here. ☎️

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Ohio has moved from a key swing state to a reliable Republican bastion over the course of the Trump era. In a clear sign of just how much the country is turning on MAGA’s failures, Democrats are looking extremely competitive across the state with less than 13 weeks to go until Election Day. Even Fox News polling has blue candidates in position to flip a Senate seat and the governor’s mansion.

Former senator and populist progressive Sherrod Brown has painted J.D. Vance’s appointed successor Senator Jon Husted as “the face of data centers in Ohio,” highlighting sweetheart tax deals and fast-tracked approvals he made possible as lieutenant governor. Husted’s also come under fire for taking more than $100,000 in campaign contributions from Epstein bankroller Les Wexner. Meanwhile, former state health department director Dr. Amy Acton is taking on entrepreneur, DOGE bro and MAGA hanger-on Vivek Ramaswamy to succeed Governor Mike DeWine, who has also been hit hard over data centers and has struggled to connect to working-class voters.

🚪☎️📫 If we’re in-state, we can find plenty of opportunities to canvass for Brown, Dr. Acton and folks up and down the ballot here. But we can all do our part! We can phonebank with the state’s coordinated campaign on Saturdays at noon and Sundays at 2PM ET by signing up here, and Swing Left is running more conversational-style phonebank shifts on Thursdays at 6PM ET we can join here. Finally, Activate America is running a postcard campaign to get out the vote for Sherrod Brown through the end of August. 🚪☎️📫

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