Every year, 4 million kids turn 18.

The 2016 presidential election was decided by about 77,000 votes.

The 2020 presidential election was decided by roughly 43,000 votes.

In 2022, Democrats lost the House by less than 7,000 votes.

We need to register young people like our democracy depends on it.

Laura Brill, who puts the “brill” in “brilliant,” is a former law clerk to RBG and, since 2018, founder and Director of The Civics Center, a nonprofit focused on registering high school students to vote. Laura writes, “Turnout is a function of two separate processes. Registration and casting a ballot. If we forget the first, we’re not going to be able to meaningfully address the latter.”

She points out that although young people in general have a turnout rate less than 30%, registered youth turn out at very high rates. In a presidential election, roughly 85% of all registered voters vote. In the 2020 election, registered 18-24 year-olds beat that stat: 86% voted. The simple act of registration moved the needle over 56%!!! 

Registering young people is the quickest road to the world we’re fighting for.

The Civics Center does nonpartisan work, as they must in order to work in high schools. The proudly partisan work of Field Team 6 begins where their work ends: on every college campus we can get to. Right now, as you read this, our stalwart volunteers are holding voter drives on multiple campuses, registering brand-new young Democrats by the hundreds!

In the coming weeks and months, WE NEED YOU to:

• volunteer for one (or more) of the many back-to-school voter drives on our calendar – sign up HERE

• get trained to lead your own on a video call HERE

• train yourself to lead a drive with Voter Drive in a Box HERE

• if you can’t volunteer, donate HERE! Every dollar helps register another Democrat!

Young people want a world with abortion rights, civil rights, LGBTQ+ rights, workers’ rights, and immigrant rights. They want climate rescue and police reform and student loan forgiveness. They want health care access and a healthy economy, they want democracy and they want to stop Trumpist fascism. Let's help them lead the way.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19: RAUCOUS REGISTRATION RALLY AND VOTER DRIVE!

It's almost here!! September 19th is National Voter Registration Day! We’re sure you have your regular annual traditions, like trimming the National Voter Registration Tree, but this year you can add something super-fun: a raucous rally with Field Team 6 and a bunch of our partners, new and classic!

On Tuesday, September 19, from 2-3p PT, log on to this virtual Rally & Drive to hang with us, Sister District Project, Run for Something, DemCast, Georgia NOW, Grassroots Democrats HQ, and The Union. The day’s focus is on Virginia and Ohio, so we’ll hear from a few bigwig candidates and Democratic party officials from those states, then full-tilt-boogie hit the phone and text banks, postcarding, social storming, and training for in-person voter drives!

Together we’ll stuff our National Voter Registration Day Stockings with the best gift ever: lots more progressive voters in two major swing states, with even more to come! Click HERE to sign up – we’d love to see you there!

IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, IT'S NEW TO YOU: OUR STUNNING VOLUNTEER OPS PAGE!

What's bold, achingly fun, and super-easy-to-navigate? No, it's not the full list of Donald Trump's felony counts, it's Field Team 6's new Volunteer Opportunities page!

Laid out with crystal clear (and oh so cute) graphics, the revamped Volunteer Ops is a joy to behold. See all the ways to join Field Team 6: text arcades, textbanks, phonebanks, social media storming, in-person voter drives... you can even learn how to help the team backstage (those quick costume changes don't happen by themselves)! With additional buttons to sort all events by state and all-of-the-ways Training Opportunities, the page is now so friendly you'll want to wear its matching half-heart BFF necklace. But hey, don't take our word for it! Check it out HERE, then come join us, 'cause the only thing we love more than our new page is you, our volunteers!

YOU KNOW WHAT DOCTORS SAY, "A JASON-A-DAY KEEPS FASCISM AWAY!"

Yup, it's true! It's impossible not to get fired up about progressive issues and all the amazing strides you and other activists are making when you watch Field Team 6 founder Jason Berlin's daily social media videos! Every weekday, Jason shares his optimism, excitement, and opportunities to make a difference. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll watch his hairline recede in real time! Check it out on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Threads, and get your USRDA of Jason every day!

TODAY! THURSDAY, AUGUST 31: MEET US AT THE FIELD TEAM 6 SALOON!

We’ve shined up the bar, set out salty snacks, and filled the jukebox with only the best tunes for another night at our Field Team 6 Saloon! This Zoom Happy Hour is the perfect place to hang with your friends and fellow activists, as well as Field Team 6 founder Jason Berlin (he’ll be drinking anyway, might as well be on Zoom!) and a rotating cast of top Field Team 6 organizers.

We’re open for business every two weeks, and that includes TONIGHT, Thursday, August 3 from 5-6p PT. Bring your own boozy or non-boozy libations, and strap in for an hour of chat, fun, and if we’re lucky, lots of people lifting their pets into frame. 

Sign up HERE, and we’ll see you as soon as you hit the swingin' doors!

THURSDAY, AUGUST 31 AND ON: REPORT TO CAMPUS!

Get your class list ready, pick your favorite dining hall, and prepare to laze in the sun on the quad... cause Field Team 6 is going to college!

That's right, now is the time campuses are deluged with new and returning students. They're excited to make their mark on the world, and we're giving them that opportunity: by making sure they're registered to vote! Gen Z is officially the biggest generation, a majority of them are now voting age (since 2022!), and they care deeply about Democratic issues like abortion rights, gun safety, healthcare, climate rescue, and stopping Trump. Their unbridled energy makes back-to-school events the blowout Beyoncé concert of voter drives. Join the fun!

There are currenly 27 drives to join, all over CA, as well as AZ, GA, and PA! Find all of them HERE.

Please add a drive in a target state! You can easily get trained to lead a campus drive yourself. Check out our Voter Drive in a Box HERE, attend a live Zoom training HERE, or just contact our super helpful Voter Drive Coach Jo Ann HERE!

IN-PERSON VOTER DRIVES!

Register Democrats on the ground

in cities all over CA, Scranton, PA, Tucson, AZ,

and at Pride events in Atlanta, GA 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 CA-27, MI-10, NY-21, GA, LA, and OH

and get them registered to vote!

AZ phone bank starting 9/16!

POSTCARDING

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

and registering Dems in all of our 2024 target states:

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

Join us at our virtual postcarding party every Wednesday!

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, TN, KY, LA, MS, NC, NJ, and VA,

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

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

Let's do this!

YO HO HO AND A BOTTLE OF... JASON BERLIN?

Yes indeed, you've seen his social media videos, you've joined him at the Field Team 6 Saloon, but to truly experience the ultimate Voter Registration Pirate, get Field Team 6 founder Jason Berlin at your next event! Contact us HERE for info about how to get Jason for a fun, informational, 30-minute fundraising Zoom, where you can bring friends together to learn about Field Team 6, our amazing results, and our big plans, all while having a great time.

Zoom parties are easy. Invite your friends, family, neighbors, alums, book group members, professional colleagues, and fellow seafarers; we’ll do the rest. DROP US A LINE and we'll get the fun rolling faster than you can say – or define – "Shiver me timbers!"

ADOPT A PHONEBANKER!

So you know how sometimes you really want to phonebank, but the idea of calling someone and actually dealing with a real-time voice on the phone sends you fleeing under the bed like a dog on the 4th of July?

We totally get it! We've been there, and we came up with the perfect solution! Now you can phonebank without phonebanking, by adopting a phonebanker!

These adoptees absolutely LOVE to phonebank, but they need one thing to make their efforts as effective as possible: an auto-dialer. For a phonepanker, harnessing the power of the auto-dialer is like He-Man tapping into the power of Greyskull: THEY HAVE THE POWER!

Of course, unlike the power of Greyskull, the power of the auto-dialer comes with a price tag. But that's where you come in. Adopt a phonebanker for just $25 bucks, and they'll get the help they need! Click HERE, and make it recurring so your phonebanker can keep at it, week after week, With your combined efforts, we'll register enough Democrats to secure the House, Senate and White House in 2024! Plus you'll get those warm fuzzies for giving a precious phonebanker a forever home.

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!