YOU DID IT. AGAIN!!

In a major upset, Jacksonville, the largest city in Florida, will now have its first female mayor and its second Democratic mayor to be elected in the last three decades. Donna Deegan won by 8,680 votes. Spurred on by Hopium Chronicles editor Simon Rosenberg (hear him at the Register Democrats Summit HERE), Field Team 6 volunteers sent thousands of GOTV texts, postcards, and emails to 2,372 registered Democrats in Jacksonville – and were a critical part of this win!!

In Pennsylvania’s 163rd State House district, Democrat Heather Boyd won by 3,341 votes, preserving Democrats’ one-seat majority, and quashing Republican plans to take away reproductive freedom across the state. Field Team 6 volunteers sent 5,390 voter registration and GOTV texts, 861 postcards, and 1,023 emails into the district. These went to 5,887 unregistered, likely Democrats – and to 1,221 new Democratic voters Field Team 6 helped register last cycle. Your efforts were instrumental to this victory!!

Your work MATTERS. SO. MUCH. Remember that when things seem daunting. Your work makes people’s lives better. Election by election, conversation by conversation, your work turns good-hearted people into a unified political force. Your work empowers love. Your work advances and protects the rights of everyone in our American Family. Your work lights the path forward.

So keep volunteering. Keep donating. Keep showing up. And together, we will keep saving the world!

DEMOCRACY IS GREAT!

CAN YOU ADOPT-A-STATE?

To date, Field Team 6 volunteers and donors have helped register 2,888,049 new Democratic and progressive independent voters – so what are we gonna do now?

We’re gonna help register 3,000,000 more Democratic voters by the '24 election. We can restore the Democratic trifecta that will pass game-changing voting rights, codify abortion rights, and beat back fascism once and for all.

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.

We want to duplicate this success everywhere. That's why we've done the numbers crunching to tell you, your friends/family, or your organization, how much we need to raise for each of our 12 target states in '24. Adopt the one you love the most!

Click HERE for more information about each state and our goals, and thank you. None of what we do happens without you.  

KICK-ASS PARTNER REPORT:

BOB HAAR RESISTERS in '22!

You've heard us say that we get more done with partners. That we couldn't love our partners more. Well, here is a good example of why we say both:

The Bob Haar Resisters partnered with Field Team 6 to handwrite 199,692 postcards in the '22 cycle to three swing states – AZ, GA and PA. A whopping 59,559 of them ended up getting registered to vote. And we know that in '22 an unbelievable 28,589 of them voted! Thank you to Bob and his writers. Proving once again that the pen is mightier than the sword. And activism can change election outcomes! Boom!

More partner reports coming! If you partnered with us (or want to), watch this space.

POSTCARDS A-PLENTY!

Now that you know how effective postcarding can be, we've got some great news! NY artist James McMullan has done it again — he's inked up a brand new set of 12 incredible postcards – one for every Field Team 6 target state in '24.

Order your beautiful state-specific Democracy Donkey art cards for the battleground of your choice HERE.

THURSDAY, MAY 18 & ON:

OHIO... COME ON DOWN!

Ohio is critical this year AND next! By November 2023, we need to register enough Democrats to pass an amendment cementing abortion rights in the state constitution. And in 2024, in order to keep our Senate majority, we need to re-elect Sherrod Brown, one of our most vulnerable (and best) senators!

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

Thursday, May 18 from 7-8p ET — In-Person Voter Drive Training. Learn how to register Democrats in person, the fun, effective Field Team 6 way! Sign up HERE.

Thursday, May 18 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, May 23 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, May 24 from 2-4p PT — Postcard Party. Sign up HERE to send voter registration postcards into Ohio!

Sunday, May 28 from 5-6p PT — Postcard Party. Sign up HERE to send voter registration postcards into Ohio!

THURSDAY, MAY 18 & ON:

TENNESSEE 3 + 4 = 7!

We didn't have Tennessee on our already large list of target states for the 2024 cycle, but we also didn't have fascist expulsion of duly elected Tennessee House Reps for the indecorous audacity to represent their constituents on our bingo card either.

The Tennessee Three inspired a nation, and us... so we've done a deep research dive and identified four swing state house districts in Tennessee. 2 are repped by Democrats: we can keep them there. The other 2 are repped by Republicans: we can flip them. We'll also be registering new Democrats in the districts of The Tennessee Three, to lean into the movement those House Reps are leading so passionately.

Join the Postcard campaign HERE!

Join the BYOP campaign HERE!

SATURDAY, MAY 20: LEARN TO HOST THE PHUN WAY!

You can make a giant difference by leading a weekly phone bank to register new Democrats in any of our 12 target states. Get trained in all you need to know to lead an extra-phun and effective phone bank by Master Phone Bank Trainer Lynn Bommer. Sign up HERE for the virtual event Saturday, May 20 from 4–5p PDT.

SUNDAY, MAY 21:

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, May 21 from 10a-12p PT. Click HERE for more info and to RSVP.

TUESDAY, MAY 23:

TEXT ARCADES ARE BACK!

We have what we like to call a high-class problem: our database has so many eligible voters who are likely Democrats that we don't have enough funds to text 'em all.

The solution? The Text Arcade! It’s 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 latest Text Arcade target is Ohio. In the crucial November election, voters will have the chance to firmly cement abortion access as an amendment to the state constitution.

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

OH: Tuesday May 23 @ 3p PT, Tuesday May 30 @ 3p PT, Tuesday June 6 @ 3p PT

AZ: Tuesday June 13 @ 3p PT

MT: Tuesday June 20 @ 3p PT

GA: Tuesday June 27 @ 3p PT

NY: Tuesday July 11 @ 3p PT

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

SATURDAY, MAY 27:

NO PHEAR PHONEBANKING!

Does this describe you?

• You want to register Democrats and save the world...
• You know phonebanking is one of the most effective ways to do that...
• Something about it phreaks you out?

Well, we have the solution! Phone banker extraordinaire and inspirational activist Lynn Bommer's amazing mini-workshop is designed to take the mystery out of the process and help you overcome that phonebanking phear. We'll go so far as to say Lynn can actually teach you how to have phun registering Democrats by phone!

Lynn's next online session is Saturday, May 27 from 4-5p PT. Click HERE for more info and to RSVP. And then boldly go where plenty have gone before!

SUNDAY, JUNE 4:

BOOK BANS ARE BIGLY BAD!

Across the country, right-wing organizations have launched a coordinated attack on... reading! Attempted book bans and restrictions at school and public libraries surged in 2022—setting an ignominious new record—as the GOP ramped up its culture wars.

Naturally, there's a clear bias towards banning books with non-white protagonists and books with LGBTQ+ themes. And books that teach actual history and make MAGAs ashamed. So what can we do? Plenty!



We're co-hosting a webinar with FT6 partner DVC, and you can tune in Sunday, June 4 at 1p PT to hear from the leadership of the Florida Freedom to Read Project. You'll learn about the attacks on books in their state and how you can help fight back from anywhere. Don't sit still while the lunatic fringe bans books, defunds libraries, and assaults children's (and everyone's!) freedom to read. Push back. Hard! Click HERE for more info and to RSVP.

SUNDAY, JUNE 4:

NEW CA-27 PHONEBANK!

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, June 4 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.

IN-PERSON VOTER DRIVES!

Register Democrats on the ground in

Bakersfield and Irvine, CA,

Parker, AZ and Philadelphia, PA!

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!

NEW: Make calls to flip CA-27 blue!

POSTCARDING

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

to register Dems in TN swing districts,

our 2024 target states: AZ, CA, GA, MT, NC, NV,

NY (including George Santos' district!), OH and WI,

and thank you cards (which are free - you pay only for the shipping!)

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)

to pass abortion rights this year,

and hold Sen. Sherrod Brown's crucial seat in '24!

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

Let's do this!

SEND IN THE STARS! THANKS

TO/FROM OUR LUMINARIES

By now you know all about our wildly successful Register Democrats Summit, a pro-democracy booster shot of inspiring panelists and awesome workshops. (So successful we're doing it again next year: March 14, 2024!)

Aside from dropping lots of knowledge and inspiration, the inaugural summit also featured a cavalcade of stars that pushed the entertainment dial to 11. We hope this highlight VIDEO inspires your to watch or listen to the whole Summit HERE.

HOW TO REGISTER NEW DEMOCRATS IN MONTANA

In '24, re-electing beloved Sen. Jon Tester (D) is critical to keeping our Democratic majority in the Senate.

Tester, the only farmer in the Senate, is popular in Montana. There are also a host of Gen Z voters horrified by the GOP's silencing of transgender Montana State Rep. Zooey Zephyr for the crime of standing up for gender-affirming care. Now is the perfect time to register Montana Democrats who can right these wrongs with their votes.

This VIDEO has all you need to lead a successful Montana voter drive. And then crack open Voter Drive in a Box for even more support. Time to fight for Big Sky Country!

Our postcarders have written 1,177,194 postcards to date. And we want to thank the 17k+ amazing volunteers and donors who helped us reach our astounding tally of 2,888,049 newly registered Democrats. So we're asking anyone who's postcarded (or not) to help us crank out some "thank you" postcards. Order free postcards HERE. To download "thank you" campaigns click HERE.