2024 Program Summary

Strategy: Build permanent Native voting power on Navajo, Hopi, White Mountain Apache and San Carlos Apache Sovereign Lands, including border towns and nearby rural communities.

  • Build a bench of organizers, community leaders, and empowered voters

  • Promote year-round local community knowledge of the tribal, county, state, and federal voter registration, electoral process, and election information. 

  • Provide free Indigenous Democracy Class presentation and workshops grades 8 to 12.

  • Educate voters on tribal, county, state, and federal offices, 2024 elections seats, county/state/federal district maps and names, voter registration process

  • Increase voter registration and turnout by 2% in 2024

    Recruit and train 100+ Firekeepers

  • Recruit voters to the Active Early Voting List (AEVL) and advocate for early voting

  • Recruit volunteers and hire local organizers to register voters and engage residents in Northeastern Arizona counties with a concentration on Navajo Nation, White Mountain Apache, San Carlos Apache, and Hopi. There is also a special focus to target border towns and high-potential voters. 

  • Expand year-round voter registration and education efforts with matriarchs and students in tribal and rural communities.

  • Carry out community service projects and initiatives that strengthen and support local women and families.

Native-led organizing in our own communities

Arizona Native Vote reaches potential voters year round.

Tribal and rural organizing requires local organizers to register voters and engage residents year-round to overcome the geographical and structural barriers to civic participation. Our Native field organizers are from the communities they work in. We focus on northeastern Arizona’s rural counties, concentrating on Navajo Nation, White Mountain Apache, San Carlos Apache, and Hopi sovereign lands and border towns.

Our focus is two-fold. First, we train community members, especially women, to help their family and neighbors to vote. Our Family Votes program centers and empowers the traditional role women play in the matriarchal cultures of our communities.

We also focus on engaging high-potential voters who traditionally have been left out of the electoral process.