Democracy is a beautiful thing—it’s the power of our voices coming together to shape the future. By registering to vote, you’re taking a joyful step toward participating in something bigger than any one of us: our collective decision to build a better tomorrow. By registering to vote, you’re embracing the privilege we all share: the […]
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Promoting the Joy of Voting
When we first settled on Citizen Joy as a name, we assumed that we were hardly the first group to emphasize the importance of joy in motivating people to participate in civic life. I recently ran across a Seattle-based organization with a webpage promoting “The Joy of Voting.” The organization is Citizen University, co-founded by […]
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➡️Choose your candidate/campaign: you can focus on the presidential election, senate races, house races (your own or a nearby district that’s more contested), or local races. ➡️You can sometimes have more impact by choosing a local race. For example, county District Attorneys and Sheriffs are key players in criminal justice issues and those races are […]
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