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New Year, New Changes at Tomorrow We Vote! Happy New Year and welcome 2026! It’s been a hard road for many in 2025 – especially in the nonprofit arena where everything is dependent on the funding of individuals, outside donors, and grants. For Tomorrow We Vote, we moved forward with our mission of registering new voters inside of high schools and educating those to spread voter information throughout the state. Despite our efforts, due to a lack of funding and support, our office space was forced to close on October 1, 2025. This space offered solace to many, many individuals who would stop by for a peaceful outlet due to harsh worlds around them. It was an organizing space for local organizations to conduct business meetings, coordinating protests and rallies, org monthly and annual workshops, phone banking, volunteer planning and so much more.  Our Office Space The Tomorrow We Vote front office space was for small or new orgs who didn’t have a home but needed space to help with their projects. Our only requirement was to be nonpartisan and help the greater good. We registered so many voters who stopped by and needed a helping hand or personal assistance. We even helped others create their organizations with the information we had available. We held birthday and engagement parties, movie nights, dance nights, large vendor events, and assisted as a resource for those who needed help with their ballots in each election. We stayed busy giving our time and energy to the community despite a lack of reciprocity. For Tomorrow We Vote, we believe all progressive organizations in Arizona have a responsibility to help others obtain the goal of a better tomorrow through uplifting, support, sharing. But sadly, that’s not what has happened. What Do Funders Want? We learned that funders don’t simply want an organization that registers and educates voters – despite our unique access directly to high school students inside of their classrooms. They want everything else that is emotionally-tied due to current event issues included. Many organizations are self-focused thus creating a barrier to progress – mostly due to fighting for limited funding despite some having millions of dollars in the bank and smaller organizations having almost nothing.  Grantors AND funders will reject you for being Black and Brown-led and have fallen for the anti-DEI sentiment. We couldn’t allow people to force us to ignore our identity for money. That’s not resistance. That’s acceptance. So, it opened Tomorrow We Vote as a Black and Brown-led organization to become a target of defunding. Despite the efforts of our good friends and partners at MassLib AZ building a coalition for funding Black-led projects, it fell on deaf ears from funders out of fear from the current administration’s anti-DEI attacks. The Future of Tomorrow We Vote So, this year, in 2026, we’ll be winding down operations a lot more than we already have. We’ll go purely digital at Tomorrow We Vote and make appearances for those who have supported us over the years when asked. With a lack of funding, we can’t pay ourselves and we’ve already gone years sacrificing salaries for the communities. But it’s reached a breaking point and operating for any movement should never be free. We wish everyone well who is fighting the good fight and looking out for each other and making strides to unify behind a mission of improving Arizona for our future generations. We’ll work toward registering and helping those for the 2026 mid-terms and see what happens next. Please support each other in the future! Because others (with partisan agendas of division) who have penetrated our high schools and colleges are better unified, universally funded, and organized. Cheers!

On this Giving Tuesday, we at Tomorrow We Vote want to give back in a couple of ways. One, we’re fundraising to help purchase the books legislators and school boards across the states are either banning or consider challenging to young people. Most of these are politically-motivated and seem to be a suppression of accurate history being told. Others are to control the stories being told by Black, Brown, Indigenous, and LGBTQIA authors. We want to stock our shelves to have a safe space for people to read such books. Second, we’d like to purchase these books from local bookstores – particularly, Grassrootz Bookstore and Juicebar, Palabras Bilingual Bookstore, and Changing Hands Bookstore. If you would like to support our cause, please feel free to donate to Tomorrow We Vote and choose the dropdown menu for “Banned Books” before submitting. Thanks!

There was a lot of back and forth regarding days to register to vote in Arizona. An extended date of October 23rd had been temporarily granted due to the concerns of the COVID 19 epidemic on lower registration turnout. That date has been rescinded and now October 15th at 11:59PM PST is the final time and date to get all registrations in. The bad news is there are still a lot of eligible citizens who aren’t registered to vote in this important election. The good news is there were at least a few extra days to help register more people in Arizona. But for now, SHARE THIS PAGE! Today is IT for this presidential election and your one vote may be the one that makes the difference. Below are two ways you can register to vote. Choose a method and share it to as many people as you can and ask them to share it to as many people, etc. One ask can go a long way. On computer: Right-click on an image > Choose “Save Image…” > Text / email / post it on social media stories on October 15th!On phone: Click on image and hold > Save to Photo gallery > Text / email / post it on social media stories on October 15th!

On Monday, September 21, 2020, Tomorrow We Vote launched a large video project they had been working on for about a month to highlight voter engagement and focus on new and young voters. It is called the Tomorrow We Vote National Convention 2020. The idea was to cover the issues that concern young people as is usually discussed in their class presentations. But due to Covid-19 and the extended closures of schools due to government mishandling, TWV was forced to get even more creative. So, after being inspired by the DNC and RNC National Conventions, the question asked within the organization was “But what about a nonpartisan Convention”? Thus Tomorrow We Vote National Convention 2020 was born! Videos were created and submitted by specific people around the country who were asked to participate and who represent The United States. As a result, an hour-long Convention was created and displayed the concerns of many areas of humanity (many largely ignored) who rely on votes to help improve their experiences as American citizens. Feel free to check out the Convention as a whole by visiting this page or view each person’s video by clicking on them individually and share them to help influence people to register and get out the vote!