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How to register in all 50 states, in 1 link

They won't be the only folks to offer this one-stop service, but the editors at Elle have put together a handy site explaining voter registration procedures in all 50 states, with links to each state's registration websites.

The venerable women's magazine says its readers need to understand that it's not too early to get registered for 2020, especially for those who live in places with early presidential primaries or caucuses.


The start to voting "will be here before we know it, and voting laws can be complicated: they vary state by state, and are sometimes seemingly designed to be confusing. Plus, the deadlines for primary elections will be here before we know it. So what better time than now to bone up on your state's dating rules and regulations?"


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Protestors wearing masks and holding signs.

A deCOALonize protest against coal held in 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Photo courtesy of deCOALonize.

Philanthropy Must Accelerate a Just Energy Transition

After crucial global progress toward tackling the climate crisis in recent years, we are re-entering an era where powerful industrial nations are again resorting to military force to control fossil fuel reserves as both a key aim and lever of geopolitical power.

The United States’ illegal military intervention on January 3 in Venezuela, a colonialist power play for the country’s vast oil reserves, is among the latest outcomes of the dangerous pivot away from global efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Days after its military incursion in Venezuela, the U.S. became the first nation in the world to withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international treaty ratified by Congress in 1992 that seeks to limit the amount of climate pollution in the atmosphere.

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