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February 10, 2022
WORLDS SAVED: 1
DEMOCRATS WE'VE HELPED REGISTER: 3,150,092+
TOTAL VOTERS REACHED OUT TO: 16,578,324
DAYS UNTIL 2022 MIDTERM ELECTION: 271
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We are deciding the outcome of the do-or-die November midterms right now. And every day is a new opportunity!
Each day we do not act, we allow a future where the Biden administration faces utter deadlock in Congress. Where boneless fascist enabler Mitch McConnell runs the Senate and bumbling fascist dunce Kevin McCarthy runs the House.
But every day we choose to act, we choose a future where we do not surrender our majorities in the Senate and House – we build on them, enabling us to move from a recovery agenda to a reform agenda. By holding the House majority and adding just two more Democrats to the Senate, we can transform society with the Build Back Better bill – laws defending our freedom to vote – and so much more. We can protect women’s reproductive rights, fight racial injustice, and address the climate crisis.
We came right up to the edge of these historic victories. We didn’t lose because our dreams were too big – we lost because our numbers were too small. Just barely. We can change that. And that starts today.
Sign up for one event below, or make one donation, and choose a Democratic victory in November!
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RACE FOR DEMOCRACY
Field Team 6 is thrilled to debut our new rewards program — Race for Democracy!
Become a member and earn rewards like access to exclusive conversations with Field Team 6 leaders, elected officials and candidates... merchandise and other sweet progressive swag... and discounted tickets to our signature events like America Needs a Queen or Ballots over Broadway.
"Wow! How do I do that?" you ask. Well, you earn "Miles" by donating, volunteering, and even just following Field Team 6 on social media. In fact, simply joining up today bags you 5 smooth miles. See? It's easy!
We're all in this race together, and the finish line is a free and healthy democracy, so sign up HERE.
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RACE FOR DEMOCRACY PROMO
The hardworking creative team at Field Team 6 has cranked out another awesome video! This commercial for Race for Democracy is one of their best. Check it out HERE!
Post it far and wide! We're super proud of the program we've put together to reward all your hard volunteer work and generous donations, and we hope this makes it even more fun to be involved!
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One of Field Team 6's most useful tools is our Voter Drive in a Box – it's the digital version of everything you need to hold your own voter drive in a swing state, all on one page: training videos, manuals, cheat sheets, etc. Our goal is to make holding voter drives easy, fun, and effective. The “box,” of course, was a metaphor.
UNTIL NOW.
You heard us right right!
It’s an actual box filled with everything you need to launch your own voter drive. It includes clipboards, pens, forms, stickers, and more – for up to 8 volunteers! We'd like to mail one of these state-specific goodie boxes to every volunteer who signs up to lead their first voter drive. For free!
In order to ship a real box, though, we’re going to need to raise some real money. Each of these costs $60, including shipping – a very good price, considering we’re sending 8 clipboards and so much more goodness. Can you Adopt-a-Box to help make this dream a reality?
As soon as we can fund this initial run, we can start shipping these to swing states across the country! Adopt-a-Box HERE!
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AMERICA CROWNED ITS QUEEN!
Our most exciting online event ever – America Needs a Queen: Drag Queens do Democracy... and Sports! – was a smashing success!
Attendees from all over the country sat rapt before their screens to watch living legends including Detox, Milk, Joey Jay, Salina Estitties, Cali & Torie Balmain, and Becky, compete for the gold in Badminton, Vogue Racing, and Figure Skating. Our brilliant hosts, Brita Filter and Alaska, emceed a night full of scandalous trash talk, hilarious twists, and seriously amazing performances.
And the winner was... REDACTED. (If you don't know, you'll just have to watch the show HERE to find out!) Anyone who puchased (or purchases) a ticket for $50 or more will receive a link to view the show
But that's only half the story. Field Team 6 announced the event to over 400 LGBTQ+ Democratic clubs – literally every one in the country – and the epic social media reach of our drag stars got the word out about voter registration to almost 4 million more people. The event was attended by reporters from the LA Times and the Associated Press, and was promoted by OFM, Queerty, Indivisible Chicago, Broadway World, Community Impact (Texas), GoPride (Illinois), and Erie Gay News (PA/NY/OH). Spreading the word is how we win!
Massive thank you to everyone who helped us pull off this gigantic event without a hitch – including our volunteer crew, editors, and Events Team, Luther Toston at OMNI, our own Cory Alpert for dreaming it up and spearheading it, our COO Dale Roy Robinson for bringing his producing experience to bear, all our generous Executive Producer donors, and especially our Lead Producer Andrew Tobias, who believed in this event from the very start!
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MARCH 8... 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!
And March 8 is your next chance to build on the wild success of our first two Days of Action (Jan 6 and Feb 8) by helping register Democrats. (We'll be holding these on the 2nd Tuesday of every month until the November election.)
Pssst: we are secretly in competition with our sister orgs, and we want to put up more registration events than any of 'em. It's not too late to add one of your own!
Want to lead a registration event on Tuesday, 3/8 in the flavor you find most delicious? In-person voter drive, phonebank, textbank, postcarding party, or social media storm? Contact Wayne Liebman HERE.
Also, please be sure to amplify these efforts on the Twitters HERE and HERE!
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TODAY!!! — FEBRUARY 10:
BYOP TEXTING BOOTCAMP!
Get ready to BYOP – Bring Your Own Phone (*plan)! We're bootcamping this very afternoon… Thursday, February 10 at 4p PT. We’ll train you how to text from your computer, using your data plan. Once trained, you can do this on your own time, whenever you like!
We're texting Texas, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and CA-22 (formerly CA-21)… all vital states/districts in the battle to save democracy. Let's register Democratic voters who can elect Democrats 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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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13: UNDERSTANDING THREATS
With the GOP attempting to pass anti-voter bills across the country, and many misled voters believing the Big Lie Trump won the 2020 election, the danger of a midterm election crisis is dangerously high.
So join us February 13 at 1pm PT for an exciting, free webinar, “Understanding Threats to the 2022 and 2024 Elections, and What We Can Do,” presented by Indivisible South Peninsula. Protect Democracy's Alexandra Chandler will discuss the threats to election integrity and specific steps we can take to help preserve democracy. Alexandra coordinates staff support for the National Task Force on Election Crises and has a wealth of experience to share from a long career in national security, including roles at the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Register HERE for the webinar.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16:
SOCIAL MEDIA STORM
Brace yourself for some big numbers. Last week, we sent out over 12,000 tweets and generated over 51 million impressions!
This makes five weeks in a row with over 40 million impressions, and a new record high! Those stats are not just mind-blowing... they could literally be democracy-saving.
It's a good time to join the party as every Wednesday we jump onto the web to raise awareness for Field Team 6's efforts to #RegisterDemocrats and save the world. We’ll also be recruiting volunteers for our ongoing in-person voter drive trainings, phonebanks, textbanks and postcarding programs.
Storm any time on your own or join our storm Wednesday, February 16 at 11a PT for added momentum. We’ll be on Zoom for some socializing and fun training. Our very own Deb Verla is literally a training professional, so she’s got you covered!
RSVP HERE. And, as always, you can find info/assets for our latest storm right HERE.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16:
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, February 16 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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IN PERSON VOTER DRIVES!
Register Democrats in Orange County, CA!
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 AZ, CA, FL, GA, NC, PA, TX, and WI – with NV coming soon!
PHONEBANKING
Join Field Team 6 and our partners as we call likely Dems in
swing states and get them registered to vote!
Just added: Spanish speaking FL phone bank!
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
AZ, CA, NC, PA, FL, GA, and TX!
Our partner organizations are writing to TX, PA, NC, NM, NY, CA
and Korean and Vietnamese speakers in GA!
We're also writing to TX Women about the abortion ban and
port communities in FL about the infrastructure package!
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 WI, TX, NC & CA Dems!
Click VOLUNTEER OPS below to get up to the minute details and sign up!
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VOLUNTEER SHOUT-OUT: GWEN RICE
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This week, the Field Team 6 appreciation party is lighting the virtual fireworks for an incredible volunteer, Gwen Rice, a Texan who lives to flip her state blue.
Gwen’s activist roots go deep, while her family’s politics are mixed. “I think I've always been an activist, thanks to my family; my mom is a Democrat who lost half her friends when she plastered our house in John Kerry signs, and my dad and brother are Republicans.”
Gwendolyn eventually moved to Spain to pursue a PhD in Medieval Studies. “In 2008 I watched Barack Obama's inauguration with friends in Spain. An older German colleague turned to me and said, ‘You should think about going home. Your country is going to need you. This is an amazing moment, but there will be a backlash.’ So I moved back to Dallas and marched.”
In 2018, she joined Beto O’Rourke's Senate campaign as an Ambassador and surrogate on the campaign trail, often working three or four events a day. “We realized there were a lot more progressives in Texas than we had ever imagined.”
Later, she moved to Colorado, where she connected with Indivisible Colorado, which led to her meeting Jason Berlin and working with Field Team 6.
“When Greg Abbott started to act crazier than Ted Cruz and Louie Gohmert combined, we decided to go back and work on turning Texas blue again. I'm still a Beto Ambassador.”
Gwen loves the Field Team 6 approach to voter registration. “I'm a Texan, loud, proud, and blue to the bone, and our backs are against the wall. We lost many elections in Texas in 2020 by only a few thousand votes so anything is possible in 2022. If we flip Texas we can save the world — again — and I'm not afraid to yell that in public!”
The main thing that keeps her motivated is making a difference for the next generation. “In 2018 on the campaign trail, I met a young man who was so excited to meet Beto he was shaking. So I told him I would make sure he got to meet him, and he put his head on my shoulder and cried. He had just turned 18 and was going to vote for the first time. Every day I think about young people like him, waiting to be heard.”
Gwen, we share your fiery passion for politics and your rock-solid dedication to democracy. And we look forward to flipping Texas — and as many states as possible — blue in 2022!
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Be like Gwen! 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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GEORGIA NITTY GRITTY VIDDY
& VOTER DRIVE IN A BOX
We've been doing these awesome little videos as part of each battleground state's Voter Drive in a Box. They're fun, they're quick, and they teach you exactly how to register Democrats using either a paper form or with Voterizer.org on a smartphone or tablet.
Georgia… is on our mind! Georgia did all of us—and democracy itself—a huge solid in January of 2021 by electing Senators Jon Ossoff and the Reverend Raphael Warnock. We want to help turn the rest of Georgia blue and pave the way for our hero Stacey Abrams to take her rightful place in the Peach State Governor’s Mansion.
To that glorious end, we hope you find this particular video super helpful. (And thank you so much to the Georgia Democratic Party for vetting all the details!) You can watch How to Register Democrats in Georgia right HERE and check out our Georgia Voter Drive in a Box. Now let's get out there and make some more history!
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NEW POSTCARD DESIGN, REGISTRATION T-SHIRTS,
AND OTHER MERCH TO SAVE THE WORLD!
If you know the North Carolina state dog, the Plott Hound, you'll know our new postcard will appeal to NCers who want to register to vote! Many thanks to James McMullan for this latest Democracy Donkey series art piece!
Want postcards, QR-code T-shirts or other merch to register Democrats? Click HERE to start shopping!
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