Posted on Monday, November 11, 2024
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by Shane Harris
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Over the course of the 2024 election cycle, AMAC and AMAC members were engaged on a broad swath of issues at the local, state, and federal levels. The results show that this advocacy proved crucial on key issues and in key races throughout the country.
One of the most noteworthy electoral developments this year was the significant boost in early and mail-in voting among conservatives, particularly in the all-important swing states – which President-elect Donald Trump swept on November 5. While Trump and Republican candidates deserve plenty of credit for working hard to catch up to Democrats’ early vote machine, some of that credit also goes to grassroots conservative organizations, including AMAC Action.
Case in point: On August 30, a poll of AMAC members found that 12,261 participants said they planned to vote on Election Day, while 12,013 said they planned to vote early – essentially a 50-50 split. But in a similar survey taken just days before Election Day, 25,809 participants said they’d already voted early while 5,932 said they were waiting to vote on Election Day.
This reflects a monumental shift over the course of just a few weeks. Why? There are undoubtedly several factors, but one big one is likely a concerted campaign from AMAC Action encouraging members to get out and vote early. These efforts also likely had a compounding effect, as members encouraged their friends and family to also get out and vote early in the battlegrounds that proved decisive to Trump’s win.
But it wasn’t just the presidential contest where AMAC members made their voices heard. AMAC Action activated more than 800,000 out of 2.1 million members in targeted states for get-out-the-vote campaigns on pivotal issues. Working with like-minded partners, including the Election Integrity Network, the Honest Elections Project, Tea Party Patriots, the Leadership Institute, America First Works, and numerous individual state coalition partners, AMAC members delivered an impressive slate of critical victories.
In Ohio, AMAC members helped defeat Issue 1, a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would’ve allowed an unelected, unaccountable partisan commission to draw the state’s legislative maps. Despite out-of-state left-wing dark money groups investing millions of dollars to muddy the waters on this measure, the amendment failed overwhelmingly.
In Florida, AMAC members came up big again in defeating a radical pro-abortion amendment. After several discouraging setbacks in red and purple states on abortion ballot initiatives over the past two years, this victory gives the pro-life movement some crucial momentum heading into more looming battles in 2025. It acts as proof of concept that, when messaged right and with an engaged base of supporters, the pro-life cause can be a winning issue.
AMAC members also acted as a firewall against the spread of ranked choice voting across a slew of states, including Nevada, South Dakota, Oregon, Montana, and Idaho. AMAC Action has been a leading organization in opposing ranked choice voting, working with other conservative groups to educate voters about this unnecessarily complicated and intentionally confusing system.
In Missouri, a constitutional amendment requiring citizenship to vote and prohibiting ranked-choice voting passed with nearly 70 percent of the vote. Another measure explicitly prohibiting noncitizens from voting passed with 62 percent support in Kentucky. Despite false claims from the corporate media and liberal politicians that noncitizen voting is a non issue, AMAC members have diligently continued to pressure legislators to erect new election integrity safeguards amid the unprecedented surge of illegal aliens across the southern border and mounting evidence about just how widespread noncitizen voting is.
As in previous election cycles, AMAC members were also engaged in their communities, with more than 2,500 serving as poll watchers and workers in 13 key states. In the wake of a controversial election cycle in 2020, these selfless individuals answered the call to better ensure transparency and fairness in this year’s contests.
While the results from this year’s elections were resoundingly positive, there remain challenges ahead. Pro-abortion ballot measures still won in 7 out of 10 states. In New York, Proposition 1 passed, which not only likely codified late-term abortion-on-demand, but also opened the door to noncitizen voting and severely undermined parental rights.
However, no matter the scale of the challenges that remain, AMAC members proved yet again that they are up to the task. AMAC Action will continue to provide updates in the weeks and months ahead on how members and non-members alike can get engaged to affect positive change in their communities and our country.
Shane Harris is a writer and political consultant from Southwest Ohio. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
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