October 20, 2025

• Videos explaining each amendment. 
• A short VOTE411.org how-to video on creating your personalized Voters Guide.
• A short Voters Guide-VOTE411.org/es video en Espanol by our new Spanish translation volunteer!

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• Read: Vision Zero; a Ten Year Report
• Last Chance! Take the Parks Comprehensive Plan Survey online. Open until Oct. 23.
• Provide input on the Sixth Street Mobility and Revitalization Project
• Take the City of Austin Transportation Research Study
• Find more opportunities to share your opinion at Speak Up Austin
  

• Urgent! Urge the EAC NOT to require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote -- deadline for comments is Monday, October 20!
• Tell your Senators to oppose the SAVE Act
• Tell Your Representatives to protect equal voting rights

• The Austin Common: 
  • Find The Austin Common videos and guides we've already made about the city's budget and Prop Q.
    
• The Austin Monitor:
  • A decade of Vision Zero shows progress on crashes and injuries, not on deaths
• The Austin American Statesman
  • Behind the ballot: How Travis County is preparing for election as state system falters
  • Your guide to Austin’s tax rate election: What’s at stake with Proposition Q
• KUT: 
  • Abbott orders the Texas National Guard to Austin ahead of ‘No Kings’ protest
  • Here's what would be funded by Prop Q, the proposed tax rate increase on Austin's ballot
• The Texas Tribune:
  • Election officials ask Texas to halt rollout of updated voter registration system
  • Gov. Abbott activates Texas National Guard ahead of “No Kings” protest in Austin
  • The feds are cutting off public money for all Planned Parenthoods, following a playbook that began in Texas
  • AG Ken Paxton announces undercover investigations of ‘leftist terror cells’
  • Listen to the conversation: Texas faces consequences if state doesn’t address water crisis, experts say

• Scott Stewart - Legislative Affairs Director for the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC)
• Lisa Hobbs - Civil appellate lawyer and former General Counsel for the Texas Supreme Court
• Karen Fingerman - Director of the Texas Aging & Longevity Consortium
• Valerie DeBill - VP of Voters Service for LWVAA and parent
• Amber Compton - CEO of Sprightly Consulting and parent

• Stand up for voters
• Put your brand in front of a civically engaged Austin audience
• Help make democracy accessible for all

• Oct 27: AISD Consolidation Plan virtual open house (districtwide focus)
• Oct 28:
  • National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation: Libraries as Civic Hubs
  • The Brennan Center: The Power of the Purse
• Oct 29:
  • City of Austin: Get to Know Your Commission
  • Texas Tribune: Legislative Year in Review With Paul Bettencourt
• Oct 31: Register Voters at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar 
• Nov 1: Register Voters at Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline
  
• Nov 3: Election Hero Day  - Thank election workers in your community. They are the heroes that ensure our elections run safely
• Nov 4: Election Day
• Nov 6 - 7: The Brennan Center: The Power of State Constitutional Rights
• Nov 8:
  • AISD: Consolidation Plan Open House (in person)
  • BRAVE Communities: BRAVE Fest 2025
• Nov 12: City of Austin: Get to Know Your Commission
• Nov 13: The Texas Tribune Festival
• Nov 14:
  • Women in Public Life Symposium: A Bipartisan Path Forward
  • The Texas Tribune Festival
    
• Nov 15:
  • The Texas Tribune Festival
  • The Texas Tribune: Open Congress - Free street fest
• Nov 17: Paramount Theater: Bryan Stevenson: A Conversation on Social Justice
• Nov 19: City of Austin: Emergency Preparedness Pop-Up
• Nov 24: National Constitution Center: Why 1776 Still Matters
• Nov 28: Paramount Theater: Home is Here - A Concert for Casa Marianella