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March 17, 2022
WORLDS SAVED: 1
CONFIRMED DEMOCRATIC VOTERS WE HELPED REGISTER BY NOVEMBER 2020: 784,875
CONFIRMED DEMOCRATIC VOTERS WE HELPED REGISTER BY NOVEMBER 2021: (coming next week!)
TOTAL VOTER TOUCHES TO DATE: 16,724,718
DAYS UNTIL 2022 MIDTERM ELECTION: 243
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Today is Day 22 of Putin’s War on Ukraine. For 22 days, Ukrainians have been fighting for their lives, for their loved ones, for their democracy.
You can help directly HERE.
In addition to that crucial direct help, one of the best things you can do for Ukraine’s democracy is to fight for our own. More than anything else, America’s leadership in the world has given Ukraine its best shot at survival… and continues to. President Biden has succeeded in uniting the entire free world against Putin’s aggression, and Biden signed a bill yesterday that will increase America’s direct Ukrainian aid to $1 billion in this last week alone.
Democratic leadership has been so strong, it has even succeeded in bringing some Republicans along, dragging them into bipartisanship because they can’t figure out how to protest such a good cause. But behind the scenes, Koch Industries, the largest fiscal sponsor of the Republican Party, is among the very few American companies that currently refuse to stop doing business in Russia, profiting from and fueling Putin’s brutal war.
Out in the open, the Republican Party continues its concerted national attack on democracy every day. From the US Senate and House to state legislatures across the country, Republicans are making it harder to register to vote – to vote – to have those votes counted fairly – and to fairly certify elections.
The good news? You can fight the Republicans and save our democracy. You can help register more new Democrats in swing states, so that we can save the Senate and House in the November midterms, less than 8 months away. Take a training and register Democrats on your lunch break at a community college. Make calls to eligible voters on a Saturday. Text into a swing state for an hour. It’s easy. It’s more than fun – it’s profoundly satisfying. And most important: it works.
So get involved – then get more involved! (That’s what we did!) Sign up for an event below!
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APRIL 12... OUR NEXT ACTION-PACKED DAY OF ACTION!
National Voter Registration Day... just once a year? PREPOSTEROUS! That's why, together with a consortium of national grassroots voter registration organizations, we've turned National Voter Registration Day into a monthly event!
April 12 is your next chance to build on the wild success of our first three Days of Action (Jan 6, Feb 8, Mar 8) by helping register Democrats. Find an action-packed event HERE.
Want to lead a registration event of your own? It can be an in-person voter drive, phonebank, textbank, postcarding party, social media storm... or something we have yet to dream up! Just Contact Wayne Liebman HERE.
We'll be holding these on the 2nd Tuesday of every month until the November election, so please be sure to amplify these efforts on the Twitters HERE and HERE!
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IN-PERSON DRIVES, POSTCARDS, FREE TEXTS: NOW IN ALL 9 TARGET STATES!
Our 2022 field rollout proceeds, full steam ahead! In response to volunteer demand, we now have...
• in-person voter drive training (Voter Drive in a Box)
• postcarding campaigns
• free text banks (BYOP, or "Bring Your Own Phone")
...for all nine of our target states! That includes Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin. We also currently have phone banks for 7 of those states, and we're currently standing up one for Wisconsin too. That leaves only one state – Nevada! (If you're up for leading a Nevada phone bank, let us know HERE!)
We pride ourselves on custom-tailoring our messages for each state, to make sure we're addressing the issues our eligible voters care about most. So try one or two – or collect 'em all! And let's win these midterms!
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NEVADA: REDISTRICTING BREAKDOWN |
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A SILVER (STATE) LINING: NEVADA'S GOT NEW MAPS!
The new maps have been adopted, confirming Nevada will be absolutely critical to saving our Senate majority, saving our House majority, and winning down-ballot in November. Hence: TRIPLE WORD SCORE!
To save the Senate majority, we must re-elect Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D), who won her last election by a razor-thin margin. To save our House majority, we need to re-elect three Democrats: Rep. Dina Titus in NV-01, Rep. Susie Lee in NV-03, and Rep. Steven Horsford in NV-04. We also must re-elect Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak, so he can continue championing LGBTQ+ rights, expanding access to education, and leading Nevada’s economic recovery from COVID!
In addition, we have a great chance to replace Nevada’s termed-out Republican Secretary of State, Barbara Cegavske, with a Democrat.
The good news is that any Democrat we register anywhere in the state can help win the statewide races for Senate, Governor, and Secretary of State. Check out Volunteer Ops below to sign up for in-person voter drive training (on Zoom), postcarding and BYOP texting – and let’s keep making Nevada bluer, from the bottom to the top of the ballot!
[NOTE: though we are pushing for it as hard as we can, our data vendors have not yet added the new NV district data to the system. This means we cannot yet provide you with data on eligible voters in the new districts. However, we promise we will let you know the moment they do! Until then, please bear with us. Thank you so much for your patience.]
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ROAD TO VICTORY: HERE'S THE PLAN |
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FIELD TEAM 6 STRATEGY BRIEFING... RECAP!
Eight months out from the November 8 midterms, everything is at stake. But we have a plan. We have updated metrics on our effectiveness. And as always, we have lots of fun, creative new ways to register new Democrats – the most important step we can take toward winning in November.
If you missed Jason breaking it down live... never fear! We've got a link to the rousing recording right HERE. Happy watching!
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TODAY!!! — MARCH 17:
BYOP TEXTING BOOTCAMP!
Get ready to BYOP – Bring Your Own Phone (*plan)! We're bootcamping this very afternoon… Thursday, March 17 at 4p PT. We’ll train you how to text from your computer, using your data plan. (Or a free Google Voice number!) Once trained, you can do this on your own time, whenever you like!
We'll be texting and registering new Democrats in multiple swing states: AZ, CA, FL, GA, NC, NV, PA, TX and WI. Let's get Democrats elected up and down the ballot!
We've upgraded the tech with some sassy Chrome extensions that turn this into a two-click operation! If you have an ActionID, Chrome browser, and software to text from your computer, you're ready. RSVP!
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23:
SOCIAL MEDIA STORMS
It’s now been a dazzling 6 weeks in a row with over 50 million impressions, 10 weeks in a row with over 40 million impressions! Last week we generated almost 52 million impressions, sending out over 11k tweets, and 85k likes & retweets! You guys are truly amazing!
Let's keep the momentum going next Wednesday, March 23 at 11a PT as we jump onto the web yet again to raise awareness for Field Team 6's efforts to #RegisterDemocrats and save the world. We have lots of new assets, including ones promoting Women’s History Month, a new video featuring Brian Tyler Cohen, and lots of Spanish language ones! We’ll also be recruiting volunteers for our ongoing in-person voter drive trainings, phonebanks, textbanks and postcarding programs. These storms are making a difference and will help form the basis of a blue tsunami this fall.
Storm any time on your own or join our scheduled storms HERE. And, as always, you can find info/assets for our latest storm right HERE.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23:
WEEKLY POSTCARD PARTY
Have you ever wanted to write voter registration postcards in a group... from the comfort of your kitchen table? Then our weekly virtual postcarding parties are right up your alley! Join our Postcarding Team's Laurie Mendik at the next one: Wednesday, March 23 at 2p PT.
She'll get you trained up and ready to write. RSVP HERE! If you'd like to order some of our incredible Shepard Fairey or James McMullan-designed cards then click HERE. And if you can't contain your postcarding enthusiasm until Wednesday, feel free to get started any time right HERE!
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30:
HOW TO BE OUR PARTNER!
Field Team 6 loves to partner with other organizations! They See Blue, WAVE, DVC, Indivisible, Swing Left, Four Directions, Putnam Progressives, Blue Revolution, Together We Elect... The list is way too long to name them all here, but we want even more!
Why? Because that's how we scale up! That's how we register even more Democrats. That's how we win the November midterms. That's how we save democracy!
Sign up for our first How to Partner with Field Team 6 event on Wednesday, March 30 at 5p PT right HERE! If that one's not convenient, we'll do one two weeks after that. And two weeks after that...
We've built a super-sexy infrastructure, acquired mountains of data, and developed a user-friendly partnership system, so that we can help your organization – for free – to run in-person voter drives, textbank, phonebank, postcard, and social media storm. If you can raise money, we can also help do paid text banks, emails and targeted ads.
You can partner in just one way – or all the ways. And we encourage you to tailor every script to the voice of your audience. Together, we will help register *far* more swing state Democrats. See you there!
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SUNDAY, APRIL 24:
TAKING IT TO THE STATES!
Field Team 6 and partner Democratic Volunteer Center (DVC) are co-hosting an incredibly important webinar on Sunday, April 24 at 1p PT. The topic: how to beat back Republican attempts to use GOP-led state legislatures to subvert free and fair elections.
Attacks on the freedom to vote, and on our ability to freely and fairly count those votes, have dramatically increased in the past year, largely via anti-voter laws passed by GOP-controlled statehouses. These laws seek to limit every aspect of voting, including voter registration, early and absentee voting, and even ballot counting. Experts have also suggested that a fringe legal theory known as the independent state legislature doctrine, which is now appearing in briefs submitted to the Supreme Court, could lead to a subversion of the will of the voters in the 2024 presidential election.
In this talk, Daniel Squadron of The States Project discusses the crucial role of state majorities in creating election law, the critical need to elect pro-democracy candidates to statehouses, and the key target states to focus on for 2022 and 2024.
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IN PERSON VOTER DRIVES!
Register Democrats in Placentia, Fullerton, Stockton and San Marcos, CA
and Atlanta, Clarkson and Doraville, GA!
TRAIN TO LEAD IN-PERSON VOTER DRIVES
Our Zoom trainings give you all the skills to lead in-person voter drives!
We have trainings for all of our target states:
AZ, CA, FL, GA, NC, NV, PA, TX and WI!
PHONEBANKING
Join Field Team 6 and our partners as we call likely Dems in
swing states and get them registered to vote!
POSTCARDING
Register Dems via postcard in the most flippable districts and
write with friends on Wednesdays at our weekly virtual postcarding party!
We've got campaigns in all of our target states:
AZ, CA, FL, GA, NC, NV, PA, TX and WI!
We're also writing to women in TX about the abortion ban and to
folks in rural WI about the infrastructure bill!
Coming soon: LGBTQ+ supporters in FL and TX
SOCIAL STORMING
Build progressive awareness and help #RegisterDemocrats
from the comfort of your social media accounts!
Find camaraderie, tips, and tricks on our weekly Wednesday Zooms!
TEXTBANKING
Join our BYOP textbank to register Dems in all of our target states:
AZ, CA, FL, GA, NC, NV, PA, TX and WI!
Click VOLUNTEER OPS below to get up-to-the-minute details and sign up!
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VOLUNTEER SHOUT-OUT: CHRIS ROAT |
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This week we're setting off the Field Team 6 fireworks for Chris Roat, an amazing volunteer and talented scientist (that's him with the "V"). His incredibly impressive titles include Astrophysics Researcher, Physics PhD, Data Scientist and Ad Tech Whiz.
We are incredibly grateful to have his brain power on our postcarding team, where he keeps Person-to-Person, the address distribution website he created, running smoothly for dozens of FT6 partners and hundreds of volunteers. He's been in the postcarding trenches for a while now, starting with a Swing Left chapter in California, where Person-To-Person was born. And thanks to Chris's expertise, Field Team 6 is taking postcarding to the next level.
Chris says he'll never forget watching the 2016 election results roll in while sitting on the couch with his wife and their two-year-old daughter. "Before that moment, I had imagined my daughter at 10 years old only ever knowing a female in the White House.... I did not imagine the 4-year clown show that I then had to shield her from."
Afterwards, he dedicated a significant portion of his time volunteering with many political organizations, including a voter ID group called Spread The Vote. They've helped thousands of people in a dozen states with overly strict voting laws get access to IDs so they can vote, plus get housing, healthcare, and jobs.
Chris believes that "if we fairly get everyone involved with the information they need, we'll all come out ahead." So he focuses on issues like #adfree news, the survival of local news, and ranked voting choice. In his professional career, Chris has used software to tackle a wide range of problems, and he's now using those skills to level-up his fellow volunteers.
Chris, we're so thankful you've harnessed your super-scientist skills to help us register Democrats and fight for the freedom to vote. We salute your genius and enthusiasm, and hope to send out twice as many postcards this year!
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Be like Chris! We're looking for volunteers with a little time and almost any skill to share.
And we also have a specific request: we'd love to find some Vietnamese or Korean speaking volunteers for a postcard campaign. So if that's you, please get in touch by emailing our amazing POSTCARD TEAM.
And here's one more that could come in particularly handy now: if you'd be game to call other friendly volunteers and let them know about opportunities that match their interests, join our Activist Telecom Team (or AT&T) HERE!
Find all of our current behind-the-scenes needs, or pleasantly surprise us HERE.
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WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!
One of Field Team 6's coolest tools is our Voter Drive in a Box – the digital version of everything you need to hold your own voter drive in a swing state: training videos, manuals, cheat sheets, etc.
Now we're introducing the physical version. Our Voter Drive in a Box Box is not just metaphorical... it’s an actual box filled with everything a first-time drive leader needs to host their own voter drive: clipboards, pens, forms, stickers, and more – for up to 8 volunteers!
To achieve our goal of mailing one of these state-specific goodie boxes—for free!—to every volunteer who signs up to lead their first voter drive, we're looking for people to Adopt-a-Box. It'll cost us about $60 to buy, stock and ship each box, but we think the dividends it will pay in the voter registration ground game will be priceless. Won't you adopt a box today? Look how cute they are!
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BRIAN TYLER COHEN
In case you missed it last week, progressive political host and social media superhero Brian Tyler Cohen – who has over a billion views across all his platforms – graciously recorded an inspirational video for FT6!
He talks about our mission, our methods, and our maniacal focus on registering Democrats. Check it our HERE, then share it with friends and family, neighbors and strangers, and help us get out the word. You can also check out his fantastic podcast No Lie With Brian Tyler Cohen and follow (and amplify this video) on his socials HERE and HERE and HERE.
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GORGEOUS NEW POSTCARDS, SNAZZY TEES & MORE WORLD SAVING MERCH!
James McMullan (who, along with Shepard Fairey, is one of the two fab artists who've so generously contributed their immense talent to the cause) just unveiled his latest creation: BernieMittens — an amazing youth-centric progressive card that's just perfect for our active postcarding campaign to young people in Pennsylvania!
And we have it on good authority that Gen X and Gen Y think it's pretty sweet, too. You can get this and our other incredible postcards right HERE. Let's stay on track to 1 million cards sent by the midterms!
We've also got cool "Register" t-shirts, with a QR code on the back, specifically designed to make it fun and easy to register Democrats and save the world! Click HERE to see if we have your size. (We probably do!)
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