Let’s talk about the Supreme Court, who just now gutted affirmative action. This is a huge blow to progress, to equality, to the America we are fighting for. Add this to the list of wrongs we must right – and to the list of reasons to expand and rebalance the Supreme Court. 

In their Moore v. Harper ruling yesterday, a majority of justices did the right thing, and invalidated the bogus Independent State Legislature Theory. That was a missile aimed at the heart of our democracy. It missed. We live to fight another day. Voters continue to decide who governs – and cannot be overruled by legislators.

The Supremes also just ruled that the maps they approved for the 2022 midterm elections were illegal, all but admitting that they handed control of the US House of Representatives to the Republicans for this current 2-year period. The flip side is that, as far as our initial understanding of the ramifications, it looks like the new maps alone could enable a net gain of 4-7 Democratic seats in 2024, helping our fight to take back the House. 

Beyond mourning the bad news and celebrating the good, how can we fight for meaningful change? We can use our most powerful response: connection. We reach out to people in key swing states and districts. We find the helpers. And we bring them in! We register them as Democrats, so they can add their outrage to ours – they can add their joy to ours – they can add their voices to ours, and together, we can move this whole country out of this unsure time and into the light.

WE CAME – WE SANG – WE CONQUERED!

An enthusiastic group of activists from Field Team 6, Face the Music, and Civic Sundays gathered at Molly Malone’s in Los Angeles on Sunday night to raise the roof and raise money for the very special purpose of registering Democrats in Ohio ahead of the state’s 8/8 special election.

The GOP’s cynical (and illegal) effort to consolidate power and make it harder for Ohio’s citizens to codify abortion rights in November’s election made us so mad we wanted to shout. Instead, we sang! From Democratic super-organizer, Substacker, and political social media influencer Jess Craven to Anthony Fedorov, American Idol star who absolutely rocked Journey's Don’t Stop Believin’, our progressive activists demonstrated their karaoke chops.

They also helped raise over $3,400, which will go directly to buying Ohio data, and to pay for text and phone banks and other programs to register Ohio’s oh-so-precious Democrats!

So thank you to everyone who came, who sang, and especially who donated to make this night such a success. And a special shout-out to brilliant singer-songwriter-activist Charlie Castell who came up with this fantastic idea for a fundraiser… and also sang his heart out for the cause! He even joined his father in a tearjerking duet!

Lastly, if you missed the fun Sunday night, you can get a link to the highlight video with any donation by clicking HERE. The new goal is $3750!

PRIDE IS ALMOST OVER... AND IT'S ALSO JUST BEGUN!

Pride Month may be winding down, but Pride events continue all year—which is fantastic because Pride events are the number one places to register eager new Democrats in person!  

Field Team 6 has partnered with The Union and Crimson Goes Blue at pride events this month and beyond. We'd love small or large groups of our awesome volunteers to celebrate by registering voters at fun parades and gatherings wherever you find them! Even better if you can get to a Pride Event in our 12 target states: AZ, CA, GA, MI, MT, NC, NV, NY, OH, PA, WI and WV!

Fired up and ready to go? Check out existing Pride Registration Events at Volunteer Ops on our site. Find all you need to set up your own voter drive in Voter Drive in a Box. Email Voter Drive Coach Jo Ann at helpmydrive@fieldteam6.org to connect volunteers to your event, connect you to existing events, and answer any questions!

Want something even easier? Go HERE and print out QR codes that people can scan with their phone cameras and register themselves… Or download a screen to your phone, and do the same thing digitally.

For dates and times, check out this Pride Event Calendar, one of many you can find online. Whether you march in a parade in the final few days of June, hit Disneyland in September for Gay Days, or party at Pride Fort Lauderdale next February, prepare to have a blast! In our experience, people at Pride events are not only very progressive, but delighted to meet you. And the voters we register could decide who wins multiple elections, as well as the fate of democracy itself.

This is how we build the America we dream of, conversation by conversation. An America we can take Pride in!

THURSDAY, JUNE 29 & ON:

OHIO... COME ON DOWN!

Ohio’s first voter registration deadline is fast approaching (July 10… yikes!) and there’s so much going on there. It’s a critical state this year AND next! First, there’s an August special election where Republicans are pushing a referendum to make it harder to pass future popular referendums. (It’s a naked power grab by one of the most corrupt GOP cabals in the nation.) We need to register enough Democrats right now to VOTE THIS DOWN.

Then by the November 2023 general election, we need to register enough Democrats to pass an amendment cementing abortion rights in the state constitution. And keep that momentum rolling into 2024 so we can re-elect Sherrod Brown, one of our most vulnerable (and best) senators, in order to keep our all-important Senate majority.

So sign up for our upcoming events, and help register hordes of new Buckeye Democrats to vote those GOP weasels out!

Thursday, June 29 from 4-5p PT –– BYOP Texting. Sign up HERE and get trained in how to send free texts, using a Google Voice account or your phone plan! Or if you're already trained, dive in HERE!

Tuesday, July 4 from 4-6p ET — Phone Bank. Sign up HERE for this ongoing Tuesday event. (PS. We really need more Ohio phone bank leaders. Click HERE to get in on the fun!)

Wednesday, July 5 from 2-4p PT — Postcard Party. Sign up HERE to send voter registration postcards into Ohio!

Saturday, July 8 from 10-11a ET — In-Person Voter Drive Training. Learn how to register Democrats in person, the fun, effective Field Team 6 way! Sign up HERE.

SUNDAY, JULY 2:

SAVE DEMOCRACY WITH FRIENDS!

Are you vaxxed, maxxed (on your love of democracy) and ready to roll? Then Field Team 6 and Civic Sundays have just the thing for you: fun, in-person events to save our nation!

Civic Sundays LA is now meeting in person on Sunday mornings at private locations in the Silverlake/Los Feliz/Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles. There are always multiple ways you can get involved in supporting progressive candidates up and down the ballot, locally and nationwide. Phonebanking, textbanking, postcarding and digital letter writing will be among the offerings—and you get to do it in person with your new friends!

Next up is Sunday, July 2 from 10a-12p PT. Click HERE for more info and to RSVP.

SUNDAY, JULY 2:

NEW CA-27 PHONE BANK!

California has so many swing districts that flipping just some could allow us to take back the House in '24!

One of those districts is California's 27th, the only remaining Republican district in LA County. It's represented by traitorous MAGA-bot Mike Garcia, who campaigned as a moderate, then promptly joined the Insurrection Caucus in voting to overturn Biden's victory. Let's retire him.

Join Field Team 6 for the first installment of this new weekly phone bank on Sunday, July 2 from 2:30-4:30p PT and call unregistered likely Democrats to get them registered.

In 2024, we can take back this seat! All training is provided. RSVP HERE.

TUESDAY, JULY 11:

TEXT ARCADES ARE FUN!

Text Arcades are a-rockin! They're a super-fast text bank where 100% of your ticket funds the text bank. Amazing donors are helping defray costs, so you only have to pay 25 buckeroos. Plus, we cap attendance to guarantee you’ll get to send 1400 texts.

Our next Text Arcade target is Montana, where we MUST re-elect Jon Tester to keep our Senate majority and prevent more Mitch McConnell monkeyshines. And every new voter we register for Senator Tester is also a vote against comically corrupt Republican governor Greg “I body slam reporters” Gianforte. Win-win!

So sign up HERE for any or all of the below Arcades: 

MT: Tuesday July 11 @ 3p PT

NY: Tuesday July 18 @ 3p PT

AZ: Tuesday July 25 @ 3p PT

GA: Tuesday August 1 @ 3p PT

OH: Tuesday August 8 @ 3p PT

One more thing: since Ohio is a new target for us this cycle, we’re trying to raise more cashola to buy even more data on unregistered likely Dem voters, so please donate HERE to help us crush the GOP.

SATURDAY, JULY 22 - SUNDAY, JULY 23: HISTORIC HOME TOUR FUNDRAISER

You're cordially invited to a special FT6 fundraiser in the historic Adams District of Los Angeles, where you can learn all about our mission to register Democrats and save the world.

Get the full story on our big plans for 2024, which include saving the Senate, House and White House. And we’ll explain how we helped register 785K voters in 2020, and a whopping total of about 2.9 million to date!

And now, we wanna raise 3 million bucks, so we can register 3 million more Democrats by November, 2024. Yep, it costs about one dollar to help register one Democratic voter.

But wait, there's more. If you act now, we'll throw in a curated tour of this gorgeous historic home, beautifully restored by our lovely host, Lore Hilburg!

This event takes place two days in a row, so pick whichever one is best for you! You need to buy a ticket to attend, so to guarantee yourself a spot, please buy it pronto for Saturday, July 22 @ 2p PT HERE or Sunday, July 23 @ 2p PT HERE.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 1 - SAVE THE DATE: MEGA VOL FAIR!

There are a ton of things you can do to help us register more Democrats where they are needed most. Join our partners DemCast and The Union for a whole bunch of good trouble at our august August Volunteer Fair.

Find out all of the ways you can help WIN IT ALL in 2024 – from postcarding to text and phone banking, from social storming to in-person voter drives and helping out behind the scenes!

Tuesday, August 1 @ 5-6p PT. RSVP HERE!

IN-PERSON VOTER DRIVES!

Register Democrats on the ground in

Bakersfield, Corcoran, Fullerton, and Modesto, CA, Bronxville, NY,

and at Pride events in Atlanta, GA, Cincinnati, OH,

Kenosha, WI, Tucson, AZ,

and Long Beach, Santa Ana, and Palm Springs, CA!

VOTER DRIVE TRAINING

Learn on Zoom to lead your own voter drive

on the ground in all of our 2024 target states:

AZ, CA, GA, MI, MT, NV, NC, OH, NY, PA, WI, and WV!

PHONE BANKING

Call likely Dems in Ohio and get them registered to vote!

Make calls to flip CA-27 blue!

Register Dems in NY-03 to boot lying liar George Santos!

And phone banks to flip LA and TN blue!

POSTCARDING

We're writing for 2023 elections in: KY, LA, MS, NJ, OH, TN and VA,

to register Dems in TN swing districts,

to all of our 2024 target states:

AZ, CA, GA, MI, MT, NC, NV, NY, OH, PA, WI, and WV

and thank you cards to Field Team 6 donors and volunteers!

Join us at our Wednesday and Sunday postcarding parties

to learn about our postcarding program or just write with friends!

SOCIAL STORMING

Got ten minutes?

Help us reach another 4 billion impressions this cycle -

all from the comfort of your social media accounts! 

Find camaraderie, tips, and tricks on our Zoom trainings!

No social media experience required!

TEXT BANKING

BYOP Text Banking to CA, FL, KY, LA, MS, NC, NJ, OH, PA, TN and VA,

and weekly text arcades to OH ($25 = 1400 texts)

Click VOLUNTEER OPS below to get up-to-the-minute details and sign up!

Let's do this!

ADOPT-A-STATE – CHOOSE YOUR OWN BATTLEGROUND!

Adopting a state is a great way to go deep with your donations and make a huge difference.

That's why we've drawn up field plans for our 12 target states in 2024 – and now for our 5 target states in 2023 as well! (Our 2024 targets are AZ, CA, GA, MI, MT, NC, NV, NY, OH, PA, WI, WV. Our 2023 targets are KY, LA, MS, NJ, VA.)

Each state's field plan tells you 1) how much we need to raise in order to do the most good we can, and 2) how many new Democratic voters we expect to register with that budget. If you, your friends & family, or your organization adopts a state, you can help win that state up and down the ballot!

This process works. In '22, Angel Treinen and Onward Toward Progress adopted Nevada and raised $55k for Field Team 6. That allowed us to conduct the most comprehensive outreach we've ever done. And it succeeded wildly, winning 3 swing House seats and 1 swing Senate seat, among other historic results. With your help, we can duplicate this success everywhere.

Thanks to your Adopt-a-State donor efforts, Field Team 6 raised enough money to buy data on 30,000 unregistered likely Democrats in Montana and another 30,000 in Ohio! And we're hoping to raise enough at this coming weekend's Activist Boogie to be able to buy another 30,000 in Ohio!

So check out our field plans HERE, adopt a state, and thank you for saving democracy! (Want to adopt a district instead, with a lower budget? Let us know HERE and we'll draw up a field plan!)

HOST A ZOOM PARTY WITH FOUNDER JASON BERLIN!

Do you have one or two or 10 friends interested in helping save the world with the original pirates of partisan voter registration? Let’s set up a 30 minute Zoom fundraiser!

In 15 minutes, Founder Jason Berlin will share Field Team 6’s inspiring results, big plans, and how donations can help win it all in 2024. Then he'll answer all your questions – and you're done!

And chances are, one of the people in your group may know some other interested people, and do their own Zoom! It’s Obama’s snowflake model of organizing, applied to fundraising.

Bring together your friends, family, neighbors, alums, book club, you name it... Contact us HERE, and we’ll do the rest!

"THE WORLD IS WHAT YOU BAKE OF IT" - ANONYMOUS

Great news for lovers of democracy and cupcakes!

Our partner Bake Back Better is holding a fundraiser for Field Team 6 partner, NEAZ (Northeast Arizona Native Democrats). We are very excited to be doing partisan voter registration on sovereign lands, and hope to build on this to work with other Native American organizations, too. 

Bake Back Better is looking for Los Angeles-based bakers and drivers to fulfill cupcake orders in the LA area for the NEAZ fundraiser. Donations means FT6 gets to do even more voter registration with NEAZ!

Cupcake bake: July 28-30

Cupcake delivery: July 30-Aug 2

Are you able to help bake? Drive? Both? Please get in touch with NEAZ's CCO (Chief Cupcake Officer) Jennifer Eis at her email right HERE.

POSTCARDS & SNAZZY TEES, & SIGNS IN STORE!

We also have a full range of Jamie Rodgers, Shepard Fairey and James McMullan postcards and QR t-shirts linking to Voterizer.org, making it a snap for anyone to register as a Democrat!

Click HERE to order a whole bunch of all of 'em!