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March 3, 2022
WORLDS SAVED: 1
TOTAL VOTER TOUCHES TO DATE: 16,647,976
DAYS UNTIL 2022 MIDTERM ELECTION: 257
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COURAGE LIKE THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
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The Polish Border Guard reported six days ago that 22,000 people have crossed into Ukraine since Russia invaded the country on February 24th. Like the heroic 9/11 first responders who ran towards the danger, here are Ukrainians, men and women, rushing to the defense of a country under brutal attack by one of the world’s military superpowers.
This is courage.
Just outside the strategic port city of Odessa, a Russian warship approached a small group of Ukrainian soldiers charged with defending a small island. The Russians radioed the Ukrainians: I am a Russian warship. I ask you to lay down your arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed and unnecessary deaths. Otherwise, you will be bombed.
Facing imminent death, the Ukrainians responded without hesitation: Russian warship, go f--- yourself.
Courage like this moves the world.
President Zelenskyy, when America offered to help him evacuate, said, “I need ammunition, not a ride.”
Courage like this changes everything.
(And for anyone surprised by Zelenskyy’s courage, remember: this is a man who chose to do comedy in Ukraine. The man does not know fear.)
This rare courage is rallying the Ukrainian people – uniting the EU, NATO, and almost every country in the UN – and capturing the hearts of the world.
And thanks to every Democratic voter who elected President Biden, America is leading a massive global alliance to isolate Putin for his war of aggression, inflict punishing sanctions, and provide aid to Ukraine.
So let’s join this fight for democracy – in Ukraine, and in our own country, which so badly needs our courage right now.
Here are four great ways to help in Ukraine. And to help right here in America, sign up for an event below. Let’s register new Democrats who can win the November midterms – and ensure we can keep our democracy!
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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!
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.
IN-PERSON VOTER REGISTRATION 3/8/22
Register Dems in Fullerton, CA: 10a-1p PT RSVP!
Register Dems in Yucaipa, CA:1030a-1230p PT - RSVP!
PEER-TO-PEER PHONE & TEXT BANK (FOR SOUTH ASIAN VOLUNTEERS) 3/8/22
Register South Asian Dems in Swing States with They See Blue: 3p PT/6p ET HERE!
POSTCARDING 3/8/22
Virtual Postcarding Party with Laurie: 12:30p PT/3:30p ET HERE!
PHONEBANKING 3/8/22
Georgia: 12n PT/3p ET HERE!
NC Spanish Speaking Phone Bank: 3p PT/6p ET - RSVP!
SOCIAL MEDIA STORMING 3/8/22
Get storming on the socials: 11a PT/2p ET HERE!
TEXTBANKING 3/8/22
BYOP Text Bank into WI, TX, NC and CA: 4p PT/7p ET - RSVP!
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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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9:
STRATEGY BRIEFING
The night of this briefing, we will be eight months out from the November 8th midterms. Can we save the Senate, the House, and the democracy itself? What we do every day between now and then will decide it.
We have a plan. We have updated and confirmed 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.
Trump’s Republicans are counting on apathy to fuel their victory. What they don’t see is this huge army of volunteers and donors who care more than they could possibly imagine… Who care enough to spend every available day and dollar reaching out to good-hearted people and adding their voices to the growing chorus of millions coming to the rescue of this democracy.
Join us at this Strategy Briefing, hear the plan, and get involved. Because if we stand and fight – if we turn our caring into action – and if we register the daylights out of Democrats in swing states and districts – we will win.
The Strategy Briefing is on Wednesday, March 9 at 5:30p PT – RSVP HERE!
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FOR HIGHLY CAFFEINATED VOTER DRIVE LEADERS!
Field Team 6 held its first-ever "Coffee is for Closers," a monthly Zoom coffee with Executive Director Jason Berlin for anyone who has led at least one voter drive.
And what a success! We traded great tips on what conversation-starters are working best and what hot spots are the hottest, from Georgia to Wisconsin to Arizona to California. We discussed challenges, inspiring registration encounters with new voters, and great ideas for new stickers, t-shirts, videos, even an app!
One Pro Tip: Dr. Harvey Kaufman, our On-the-Ground Coordinator in Georgia, always brings a white board with him to a voter drive. He changes the message every time, depending on where he is. On a college campus, he might write "FREE TUITION FOR ALL." This gets people's attention and helps send a beacon to the people we're there to register. Genius!
These events are invite-only, but all you have to do to get invited – is hold a voter drive! Hope we see you at the next one!
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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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THE RIPPLE EFFECT
Every action and interaction of our dedicated Field Team 6 volunteers—from trainings to tweet storms—has an impact. Some are immediately apparent... like a freshly registered voter. Others manifest further down the road... like the rookie volunteer who becomes an ace voter drive trainer!
It's with that in mind that we'd like to share this story from our own Jo Ann Bollen, Field Director for CA-23 and In-Person Voter Drive Trainer for California. Jo Ann shared this wonderful example of the ripple effect in action. After a recent voter drive training, she received this awesome email from attendee Mike G:
I wanted to take a moment to thank you for the training last night. I feel empowered & am eager to get out there!
I also wanted to tell you that your training last night gets half-credit for 3 voter registrations! My 16 year old daughter and her circle of friends, who all are aware that Rs are haters, will be getting pre-registered! I didn’t know that was a thing until you showed me last night.
Thanks again!
- Mike G
That's exactly what we love to hear, Mike! Thanks for sharing your story and for joining the good fight! And who knows how many young progressives your daughter and her friends will end up registering or pre-registering. (Pre-registering is totally a thing, folks... and it's fabulous.)
Information, empowerment, enthusiasm... our Field Team 6 volunteers pass these along with every call, text, tweet or in-person greeting. And the people they meet often turn around and do the same. It's how our ripples are going to build into a giant blue tsunami come the midterms! Thanks for passing Mike's story along, Jo Ann! Share your stories HERE.
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NORTH CAROLINA: REDISTRICTING BREAKDOWN
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DIGGING IN OUR TAR HEELS!
The new maps have been adopted, confirming that North Carolina will be 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 elect a Democrat to replace retiring Republican and insider trading enthusiast Richard Burr. When it comes to saving our House majority, we need to re-elect Rep. Kathy Manning (D) in NC-06, and we need to elect Democratic representatives in swing districts NC-01, NC-09, NC-13 and NC-14! Down-ballot, if we can add four more Democratic seats to the State Senate, we can flip it blue.
The good news is that any Democrat we register anywhere in the state can help win the Senate race. Check out Volunteer Ops below to sign up for in-person voter drive training (on Zoom), phonebanking, and soon, postcarding and BYOP texting too – and let’s keep making North Carolina 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 NC 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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TODAY!!! — MARCH 3:
BYOP TEXTING BOOTCAMP!
Get ready to BYOP – Bring Your Own Phone (*plan)! We're bootcamping this very afternoon… Thursday, March 3 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, Wisconsin and North Carolina… vital states 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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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9:
SOCIAL MEDIA STORMS
It’s now been a staggering 8 weeks in a row with over 40 million impressions! Last week we hit a new all-time record with over 59 million impressions, over 13,400 tweets, and 110 thousand likes & retweets! Once again, those are bonkers numbers. Democracy-saving numbers!
Let's keep the momentum going next Wednesday, March 9 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’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 for added momentum, fun socializing, and a bit of training if you want it. Deb Verla—literally a training professional—will lead the sessions on Zoom and they're lots of fun. RSVP HERE. And, as always, you can find info/assets for our latest storm right HERE.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9:
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 9 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, Stockton and Yucaipa, CA
and Atlanta, Kennesaw 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 AZ, CA, FL, GA, NC, PA, TX, WI and NV!
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 NC 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, WI and TX!
Our partner organizations are also writing to NM, NV, NY, VA
and Korean and Vietnamese speakers in GA!
We're also writing to TX Women about the abortion ban and
rural communities in WI 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: TONY ARN
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This week we're shining the Spotlight of Gratitude on an incredible volunteer, Tony Arn, who leads Field Team 6 phone banks from his flat in London, and while traveling throughout the EU. Though he lives in England, he's trying to get Democrats registered in Georgia.
"I continue to work for Field Team 6 even from Europe because I’m convinced the answer to our current sad state of affairs is a truly representative democracy where everyone wants to vote, and everyone who wants to vote is allowed to do so without any hindrance."
Tony's connection with Field Team 6 goes way back. He and Jason Berlin were working for the CA Democratic Party, and Jason had him manually entering voter registration info on all the forms brought back from the field. From there, he segued into doing phonebanks, textbanks, and online work for FT6.
Tony's colorful history of political activism stretches even further back into his youth, when he started doing street theater, "including a lot of anti-Vietnam war pieces, and a ton of Brecht, whose work is (depressingly) even more apposite today."
After that, he got active again in 1987 with ACT UP/LA, "a very confrontational group that fought for drugs, medical care, anti-discrimination measures, etc. and went from total conflict with Tony Fauci to a fruitful collaboration with him (most of the time) that has led to a lot of changes in drug testing at the CDC and FDA, and can take much credit for the ease and speed of, most recently, the development and approval of Covid vaccines."
Tony says ACT UP taught him that individuals really can effect lasting change and that sometimes confrontation of a peaceful kind is a necessary part of transformation. "And I remain proud of my numerous arrests, even if most of my efforts in the last ten years have been more directed to winning elections than laying down in the street or government offices."
In his 50's, Tony became a teacher, and that experience has taught him that "people can learn things they never thought they’d be able to do, which serves us all in good stead in training volunteers to register voters."
Tony, we salute your tireless dedication, your general badassness, and your use of the word "apposite." We are super grateful for your hard work from a distant continent, and look forward to preserving democracy together on this continent!
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Be like Tony! 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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RACE FOR DEMOCRACY
Field Team 6's brand new rewards program — Race for Democracy — is off and running. Yes, we are absolutely hammering that race metaphor.
Members are already earning rewards just by doing the stuff they've already been doing, like donating, volunteering, and even following Field Team 6 on the socials.
Sound fun? It is! Want a bit more info? Get it HERE!
And don't forget to watch our awesome Race for Democracy commercial on YouTube. Then smash that "like" button (as the kids say) and share with friends on the social medias. Remember, we're all in this race together... and the finish line is a free and healthy democracy!
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SNAZZY TEES, GORGEOUS POSTCARDS &
AND OTHER MERCH TO SAVE THE WORLD!
Feel like taking a stroll and saving democracy at the same time? Of course you do! Pull on this sweet t-shirt and combine exercise and activism. On the front, the simple but all-important message in super cool shadow script: "REGISTER." On the back: a handy QR code that sends new voters to Voterizer.org for instant registration. You spin around, they snap away with their smartphone, and VOILA – a Democrat is born. Fast, fun and stylish! Click HERE to see if we have your size. (We probably do!)
We've also got fabulous Shepard Fairey and James McMullan postcards, "I'm vaccinated... can I register you as a Democrat t-shirts" and more, so be sure to check it all out HERE!
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