Virginia, Maine, Nevada, Oregon, Minnesota, Colorado, Delaware, Alaska

Friend, the campaign to elect presidents through the national popular vote has reached a decisive moment: On Tuesday, the Virginia state Senate voted down a bill to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Virginia would have been a huge win. It has 13 electoral votes and a reputation as a pivotal swing state; winning here would have been an enormous boost to our campaign to reform the Electoral College. We held nothing back, with Daily Kos readers in Virginia making 1,765 calls and sending 3,600 letters to their legislators, urging them to vote yes. Our work here is part of a multi-year campaign that began after Trump's election in 2016. This is a campaign fought entirely in state legislatures, making our work difficult—and invisible to readers in most states, where this issue is settled or hasn't yet been brought up before a legislature. We've mobilized tens of thousands of readers in eight states over the past three years, and we've won victories in five of those states. That's a 62.5 percent win rate! These victories have added 31 electoral votes to the NPVIC, which when combined with 11 other states and DC—all of which had joined the compact between 2007 and 2014—we are 72.6 percent of the way to 270 electoral votes, which would transform how we run presidential elections in this country. [Daily Kos has been working on this campaign since 2016. We've made huge progress, but we still have a ways to go. Can you chip in $5 a month to help us win in Virginia and begin work in other states we need to win 2021 and 2022?]( [Can't chip in monthly? Please click here to chip in $5 one time.]( If this is the first time you've heard of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, here's what you need to know: The 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 overall popular vote. Once states totaling 270 electoral votes join the compact—which only requires passing state laws—then the next presidential election will be determined by the popular vote. Passing the NPVIC through state legislatures became one of Daily Kos' top priorities after 2016, when Donald Trump won the Electoral College despite losing to Hillary Clinton by three million votes. It's grown into our longest-running and most intricate campaign ever. Here's a full list of the actions we've taken in state legislatures across the country since 2016: - Maine readers sent 6,280 letters to their state legislators - 18,635 letters and 362 phones calls went in to the Oregon legislature - In Nevada, 5,963 constituent letters were written by Daily Kos readers - 1,522 letters to the Minnesota state legislature from constituents - 9,108 letters and more than 200 calls in Colorado - We're even active in small states, with readers sending 175 letters to the governor of Delaware and 166 to Alaska legislators We have been coordinating with allies on the ground and nationally, and developing new messaging and actions for every step of this campaign—all the way from committee hearings to floor votes to when governors have bills sent to their desks—to make our actions as effective as possible. [We can't do this sort of work without you. Can you chip in $5 month so we can keep fighting state to state in 2021 and beyond?]( [Can't chip in monthly? Click here to chip in $5 one time.]( 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](.