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Friend, we can elect presidents by the popular vote, and we can do it without a constitutional amendment. The campaign to make this common sense reform a reality is already underway, and we are winning! Three states—Colorado, Delaware, and New Mexico—have joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact so far this year, after Connecticut joined last year. Legislation is making its way through at least three more states—Maine, Nevada and Oregon—now. [This has been a years-long campaign, and it may take us a couple more years still to reach victory, but succeeding would make one of the most profound and important electoral reforms in history a reality. Can you please chip in $5 a month to Daily Kos so that we have the resources to continue this crucial campaign in the months ahead?]( [Can't chip in monthly? Please chip in $5 one time.]( The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among several U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their respective electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote. Once states totaling 270 electoral votes pass laws to join the compact—and states totalling 189 electoral votes have already done so-—then the NPVIC goes into effect and the next presidential election will be determined by the popular vote. That individual states hold the power here is what makes this campaign so complicated and long-running. We connect readers and activists to their state legislators and governors in key states to pass the NPVIC and change the way those states allocate their electoral votes. It isn't easy, but it is still much, much easier than passing a constitutional amendment, and we already have a clear [roadmap to victory](. Electing presidents via the popular vote would have enormous and immediate consequences. Elections like those in 2000 and 2016—where Al Gore and Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 500,000 and 3,000,000 votes respectively, but still lost their elections—would never happen again. [Please chip in $5 a month to support our campaign to elect presidents by the national popular vote.]( [If you can't chip in monthly, please consider making a one-time contribution here.]( In solidarity, Chris Bowers, Daily Kos If you wish to donate by mail instead, please send a check to Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612. Contributions to Daily Kos are not tax deductible. Sent via [ActionNetwork.org](. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Daily Kos, please [click here](.