FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 14, 2018
Progressive Turnout Project Endorses Voting Rights Champions
Grassroots-funded organization supports 6 competitive candidates in congressional battleground districts
CHICAGO — Progressive Turnout Project added six candidates to its list of voting rights champions today as part of its effort to take back the House and Senate in November. The candidates are Josh Harder (CA-10), Gil Cisneros (CA-39), Lauren Underwood (IL-14), Steven Horsford (NV-04), Max Rose (NY-11), and Betsy Rader (OH-14).
“Progressive Turnout Project is dedicated to getting Democrats to the polls and that means we need to elect representatives who will stand up and fight back against Republican efforts to restrict our access to the ballot box,” said Executive Director Alex Morgan.
Today’s endorsements are part of a larger effort by Progressive Turnout Project to expand its impact in the 2018 election. The grassroots-funded organization released an expansive watch list in January and followed up with the announcement of 18 field programs in May. PTP hired a Fellows Program Coordinator in July to support additional candidates.
“Our more than 3 million supporters and 220,000 grassroots donors have been loud and clear that we need to do everything we can to win by supporting candidates who will represent our values and defend our democracy,” said Morgan.
Progressive Turnout Project asks campaigns to complete an endorsement questionnaire that asks about critical voting rights issues such as the restoration of the Voting Rights Act, automatic voter registration, early voting, no-excuse absentee voting, and voter ID laws. The organization will continue to announce endorsements as it receives and reviews completed candidate questionnaires.
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Progressive Turnout Project is a grassroots-funded Political Action Committee with a single mission: get Democrats to the polls. PTP designs, tests, and executes specialized voter-turnout programs targeting inconsistent Democratic voters in the most competitive districts across the country. Since its inception in 2015, the organization raised more than $18 million with a supporter base of over 3 million and invested in voter-turnout programs in 73 congressional races and 17 state legislative races, including 10 Virginia House of Delegate races 2017.
