Chop Wood, Carry Water 11/2
Special Saturday GOTV edition
Hi, all!
Couldn’t help but drop a quick line to give you some more ways to help in this final weekend. Yes! I’m in North Carolina! No! I didn’t get much sleep! Can you tell?
But who needs sleep when we can be talking to undecided voters, right? So I’m about to go knock doors.
In case you needed more ideas for how to help this weekend, here are a few more:
Let’s all start today by reading Elizabeth Chur’s short, wonderful post about talking to voters at doors—she’s written a whole amazing book about it; this post gives you a great sense of how she approaches this critical volunteer work.
Then take a quick look at Amplify’s terrific resource doc: Answering Tough Voter Questions. So good for conversations with voters! It covers Israel/Palestine, immigration, inflation, and more.
Once you’ve done that, consider some of these options!
Volunteer with DJs at the Polls!
DJs at the Polls is one of the most effective GOTV programs that Focus for Democracy’s evaluation team reviewed this year. On Election Day, the program will have Black DJs in 8,000 heavily Black precincts in the battleground states. Text messages going out this weekend and Monday will tell voters that there will be a DJ in their precinct. This program is proven by scientific testing to increase voting significantly in those precincts.
DJs needs people who can work from their homes:
Answering phones/emails/texts on Election Day - they will train people and provide them with answers to the most common questions
Triaging - knowing when to elevate/pass an issue along
Some knowledge of basic electioneering rules - or the ability to understand the basics of them once presented
a level of comfort with Tech - they use a not-necessarily-intuitive dashboard in Airtable to manage calls
If that description fits you, you can sign up for specific shifts on this sheet and then sign up for one of the virtual training sessions below:
Sign up for Training on 11/3 at 8pm ET
Sign up for Training on 11/4 at 7pm ET
Call Rural Voters
Help Movement Labs reach crucial voters in the hardest-to-reach rural counties in AZ, MI, WI, GA, PA, NC, OH, NV, IA-3rd, TX, and MT!
Contest Every Race is supporting Democrats in battleground states and targeted districts to make sure voters turn out at the polls.
You'll be calling fellow Democrats to ensure they turn out to vote. Join them during the final critical days of this election.
Short training provided. Register here.
Volunteer for a Run For Something candidate
Click here to see the nearest, highest priority, and virtual opportunities to volunteer through election day with an amazing Run for Something local or state candidate.
So Many Phonebanks!
[H/T Force Multiplier]
Make phone calls for Senate candidates!
Montana Sen. Jon Tester: sign up
WisDems GOTV statewide including Sen. Baldwin + Harris/Walz: sign up
Call Pennsylvania for Harris/Walz, Sen. Casey, and the Democratic ticket: sign up
Make phone calls for House candidates!
AL-02 Shomari Figures: sign up
AZ-06 Kirsten Engel: sign up
CA-13 Adam Gray + CA-22 Rudy Salas + CA-45 Derek Tran + CA-47 Dave Min + CA-41 Will Rollins: sign up
CA-27 George Whitesides: sign up
NJ-07 Sue Altman: sign up
NY-17 Mondaire Jones: sign up
OR-05 Janelle Bynum: sign up
PA-10 Janelle Stelson: sign up
AZ-01 Amish Shah: sign up
NY-19 Josh Riley: sign up
IA-01 Cristina Bohannan: sign up
CO-08 Yadira Caraveo: sign up
PA-07 Susan Wild: sign up
PA-08 Rep. Matt Cartwright: sign up textbank: textbank sign-up
Call with the Environmental Voter Project!
EVP has 23 more phone banks planned before the polls close. These are some of my FAVORITE phonebanks! They’re nonpartisan so you never have to talk candidates but you are turning out people who care about climate more than anything else!
Sign up for a GOTV phone bank!
Textbank!
[H/T
]Can’t get on the doors or to the phones? There are still opportunities left to reach voters by textbanking. Sunrise and United We Dream are both seeking volunteers for shifts this weekend which we can sign up for here or here. And we can find a whole range of textbank opportunities that might fit our GOTV schedule here.
Talk to your Neighbors
One last plug for this amazingly effective program! If you’re eligible, sign up for Neighbor2Neighbor today. The most effective way to motivate voters is to talk to them. The most effective way to talk to voters is face to face. The most effective messenger for those conversations is someone in their community. Neighbor2Neighbor takes those truths and turns them into a simple way for you to motivate pro-democracy voters.
Help Ballot Cure in OH
Emily Feltz, one of the leaders of the Ohio Democratic Party, wrote yesterday that the ODP needs ballot curing volunteers, because the race between Sherrod Brown and Bernie Moreno for the Senate “will be close.” Ohio also has important races for its state Supreme Court, Congress and the state legislature. It’s possible that ballot curing could make the difference in one or more of those races. In 2020, Cheri Beasley lost her race for the North Carolina Supreme Court by 401 votes out of 5.3 million votes cast.
You can ballot cure for Ohio from anywhere through election day, and possibly longer. Training will be provided. Sign up here.
You can also phone bank to ballot cure in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona and North Carolina by signing up here. Phone banks will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. PT, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET. Again, training will be provided.
Make Calls with Swing Blue Alliance
Help turn out voters in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. SBA is spearheading a Weekend of Action Saturday through Monday, the weekend of Nov 2 to Nov 4.
The Phone Banks will be open every day from 12 pm to 8 pm ET. Sign up for a shift, stay as long as you can. They are calling supporters and Democrats to get them to the polls.
Call for an hour, but need to leave for 2 hours? Come back and they'll still be there fully staffed. Let's put Dems over the top, elect Kamala, and flip the House!
OK, all. Off to knock doors! Talk tomorrow. AND THANK YOU for your hard work to save our country.
Jess
Last night in Traverse City, Mich 500-600 folks waited in line in low 40 degrees to get into Walz rally - we didn't get in because it was too packed along with the rest of the folks behind us! We did watch online in a bar nearby:-)
We are canvassing here and it's mixed - running into male T voters that are listed as Democrats, but also quite a few who've already voted for H/W!
Great info here, Jessica. Just got back from knocking on doors in Reno (lots of voters whispering to me they voted for Harris- and live in between two houses with Trump signs) and will join some text banks here. Hugs to you and NC.