5 Ways to Advocate with NCJWSTL this Week
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Election Protection Volunteer Training Program
We’re happy to partner with the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition and groups around Missouri to support nonpartisan Election Protection efforts in Missouri for the upcoming November elections.

Area Jewish Community organizations will be sponsoring an Election Protection Training (via Zoom) on Mon. Oct. 19 at 7:30 PM You can register for this training by clicking here.

Election Protection is the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition that works to ensure all eligible voters can cast a ballot. The Election Protection hotline, (866) OUR-VOTE, as well as our poll monitors, social media monitors and legal support on the ground here in Missouri offer voters immediate assistance with questions about voting and help advocate for their right to vote. Your involvement helps stop voter suppression in its tracks.

All our volunteer opportunities are remote or contactless this year. 
You can volunteer for as little as a three-hour shift, all day or anything in between. Thank you for helping ensure that all Missouri voters are able to cast a ballot this year!
Vote NO on Amendment 3:
Help the Effort by Phone Banking From Home
The Clean Missouri Amendment passed by an almost 2-to-1 margin in 2018. 

The fair map reforms earned endorsements from Republican, Independent and Democratic reformers — and endorsements from every major anti-gerrymandering organization.

Now politicians in Jefferson City don't think 1.4 million Missouri voters really wanted fair, non-gerrymandered, non-political maps.

It's going to take all of us to beat back this deceptive politicians' protection plan. 

We need you to pledge to fight gerrymandering and defend the fair redistricting process we, the more than 1.4 million Missourians, enacted in 2018!

Please click here and pledge to VOTE NO on Amendment 3 on Tuesday, November 3.
Our coalition partner, Missouri Jobs With Justice, is looking for volunteers to help phone bank in support of the No On 3 effort.

Volunteers will need a computer, phone and Internet access. Jobs With Justice will provide training via Zoom before each session. This is a great way to make a difference from your living room!

The phone banking will continue until the General Election:
  • Tuesdays from 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Wednesdays from 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Thursdays from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Saturdays from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

For more information and to sign up to volunteer, please contact Cody Burleson at [email protected].
Remembering RBG: The Work Isn't Done
We cannot simply mourn Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing. We must also take action to honor her dying wish to her granddaughter that her seat not be filled until the next President is sworn in.

What can you do?
Call Senators Blunt (202-224-5721) and Hawley (202-228-0526) every day and demand that they wait until after the next presidential inauguration before confirming her replacement. A sample script provided by our friends at NARAL is pictured here.

We also oppose the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the highest court in the land due to her past statements and decisions related to abortion, health care, immigration, gun violence prevention, and racial justice. We are also deeply troubled that Barrett has stated she would prioritize her personal religious views above settled law.

It is also vitally important to remember that 100 cases or fewer each term are typically heard by the US Supreme Court. The majority of decisions are made in the federal district and appellate courts. If you are interested in being kept up to date in order to help NCJWSTL ensure a fair and independent judiciary, please contact Heather Silverman at [email protected].

Check out National NCJW's new Courts Matter website by clicking here.
More ways you can take action today:

  • Listen to a special message from Michelle Weltman, Courts Matter Co-Chair about what exactly is at stake with the Supreme Court nomination and why all courts matter. Be sure to share this video with your friends.
  • Add your name to the petition calling on the U.S. Senate to honor Justice Ginsburg's dying wish by clicking here. 
Absentee Voting has begun! The League of Women Voters has put together a fantastic website detailing everything you need to know about voting in the November 3 General Election. Click here for their crucial election information.
Here are the top actions you need to take:

  1. If you plan to vote absentee or by mail, please click here to request your absentee or mail-in ballot.
  2. Know your voting deadlines for the November 3 election:
  • October 21, 2020 - Last day to request an absentee ballot
  • November 2, 2020 - Last day to vote absentee in person
  • November 3, 2020 - Election Day!

*Absentee and mail-in ballots must be received (NOT postmarked) by Nov 3*

Please click here to print out a palm card with all relevant information about
voting in the upcoming election.
Your vote matters! If you have any questions, feel free to contact Jen Bernstein at [email protected] or 314-277-9080.
Don't Forget: Join the A-List
Given the legislative challenges facing us, your voice is important, now more than ever! Vote-by-Mail and supporting Clean MO are some of the critical issues we are taking action on together.
A-List sponsorship ads in the St. Louis Jewish Light sustain our collaborative efforts to educate the community and elected officials about issues integral to our mission.
  • $18 includes your name in the ad.
  • $54 makes you an Advocate Plus with your name in bold.
  • $72 makes you a sponsor with your name distinguished in color and includes a special gift.
Click here to see the A-List flyer.
Click here to see the latest A-List Ad.
Join the A-list here.
Interesting Reading
During judicial confirmation hearings, nominees often go out of their way to say nothing, offering terse and combative non-responses and thereby unintentionally telling the Senate Judiciary Committee everything it needs to know.

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett did her best to evade serious questions, but what she did say—about the ACA, Roe v. Wade, and the president’s power to delay elections—should terrify us all.
Click here to read how Coney Barrett tried to gaslight the committee into thinking her positions do not exist.
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