They shut down early voting for these students — we’re highlighted on NPR

Friends,

The Freedom Ride has reached New Orleans, the stop the original Freedom Riders weren’t allowed to reach by bus due to extreme racism and violence, and boy, what a feeling!

Especially six days away from Election Day, as President Donald Trump ramps up his racist rhetoric here in 2026.

NPR just ran a story about The Ride, and public radio stations across the South have carried it.

Reporter Leoneda Inge of WUNC spoke with riders at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, where state officials voted against opening an early voting site on campus, even though it had hosted one in previous elections.

Students marched together to the closest precinct and arranged rides for other students. Nyla Taylor, from the student NAACP chapter, held a sign reading “free rides to polls.”

This is what it takes in the face of voter suppression.

And on our bus for The Ride was Kredelle Petway Phillips. In 1961, she spent three days in jail in Mississippi for participating in the Freedom Rides. She told NPR that it’s “extremely important today for us to reignite the movement to get people out to vote.”

It’s so incredible to see students today carrying on the tradition, including Jaxton Gay, a junior who said that not voting “allows anything to happen to you.”

He’s exactly right — and that’s what’s on the line in these final six days to Election Day.

White Christian Nationalist politicians know what it means when they vote to shut down a polling place. They know what it means when they redraw the lines around a majority-Black district.

They’re counting on tired people struggling to pay rent to decide the trip to the voting booth isn’t worth it. But together, we’re showing them it’s worth it, and we’re not giving up.

Tomorrow we start work in Texas. We’re at the AME Church Conference in Houston on Thursday, then at the Laredo federal courthouse on Friday morning for a border coalition press conference, then in Eagle Pass on Saturday to turn out voters. Sunday we’re in San Antonio with Katy Padilla Stout, running in TX-23, and Monday in Carrollton with Dan Barrios, running in TX-32.

On Election Day, we’ll drive rides to the polls in Tarrant County and then hold a Party at the Polls in Austin.

Please donate any amount today. Your gift helps pay for the buses, drivers, and voter outreach we’re depending on to get people to the polls in Texas and across the country.

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In this together,

Doug

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