April 1, 2021
WORLDS SAVED: 1
TOTAL PROGRESSIVES REGISTERED: 30,133
TOTAL VOTERS REACHED: over 15,000,000
DAYS UNTIL TEXAS MAYORAL ELECTIONS: 30
DAYS UNTIL 2022 MIDTERM ELECTION: 585
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ENJOY DEMOCRACY RESPONSIBLY |
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By electing the Biden/Harris administration, America bought itself two years. And we celebrate that by working every day of those two years to save the Senate and the House in the midterms… and make sure authoritarians cannot attempt to end our democracy in two years, or ever again.
To protect our right to vote, “the right that is preservative of all other rights,” the Senate must pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, passing these two bills into law will quash every single one of the 360+ voter suppression bills proposed in 47 states. (Find ways you can help make this happen below!)
We do our part by continuing to register Democrats in the states and districts that will most help us save the Senate and House. We currently have phone banks and/or postcard campaigns into AZ, FL, NC, PA, and TX, as well as key House districts in CA and CO-03… and we’ll be rolling out more soon. So yes, let’s enjoy our democracy responsibly – by making sure it survives 2022!
And in case you need some inspiration, let us remind you of all the amazing things that you made happen just a little while ago...
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WHAT WE DID TOGETHER
In the 2020 cycle and the Georgia runoffs, Field Team 6:
- Teamed up with over 100 partner organizations
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Deployed over 10,000 volunteers to almost 40,000 shifts, who…
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Sent 14.6m texts
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Posted social media ads generating 11.8m impressions
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Sent 6.4m emails
- Reached tens of millions with social media storms
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Reached over 15m voters with an average of 3 touches each including purged voters, public college students, the Black, Latinx, and indigenous communities, marriage equality supporters, even possible Trump defectors
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Registered our 30,000th swing state Democrat… (including >6k in Arizona, 58% of Biden/Harris’ margin of victory!)
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…and helped register hundreds of thousands more!
Now let's do it again! From the top, with feeling!
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DEVIN NUNES JOINS FIELD TEAM 6 ADVISORY BOARD!
Happy April 1st! This is the only April Fool's joke in the newsletter. Promise.
To clear your palate, here's a fun fact: Devin Nunes is the only congressman in history to sue a fictional cow – and lose.
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CA-21 PHONE BANK
WITH PARTNERS!
Since 1981, CA-21 was represented in Congress by Republicans. That changed in 2018, when Democrat TJ Cox unseated Republican incumbent David Valadao... then changed again last year, when Valadao squeaked back into the seat with less than a 1% margin. That's why we're laser-focused on reclaiming the seat for Democrats in 2022. To aid in that effort, FT6 is teaming up with an incredible team of partners led by FT6 stalwart and Swing Left Inland Valley leader Sharon Cohen, that includes: Democratic Women of Kern, Fresno County Democratic Party, Jimmy Carter Club, Kern County Democratic Party, Kings County Democratic Party, Santa Clara County Democratic Party, and West LA Democratic Club.
Our Avengers-style alliance will be announcing a series of phone banks into CA-21 soon... stay tuned for details!
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TUESDAY, APRIL 6:
THE "CUSTOMIZER"
You probably didn’t think Voterizer — the only proudly blue voter registration app designed to streamline the process of registering Democrats — could get any better. Well it can! Because you can now customize Voterizer for your organization. Fireworks! Horns! Confetti!
Tuesday, April 6 from 5:30-6:30p PT, mad genius Adam Lesh, Voterizer’s creator, will show you how to make Voterizer your very own: how to co-brand it, insert your own language and image, and add notes about the elections most important to you! All of this is also available to do en Español. Sign up for all the awesomeness HERE!
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7: NEXT SOCIAL STORM
Storming is back, people! Wednesday, April 7 from 11a-12p PT we'll be hitting the web to build awareness for our FT6 postcarding efforts as well as hashtags #Voterizer and #RegisterDemocrats.
Storm on your own or join us on Zoom for some socializing & virtual training to develop mad storming skillz! RSVP HERE.
You can always find info on our current storm HERE. And click the image to watch a cool "How To" VIDEO to up your storming game beforehand!
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THURSDAY, APRIL 22:
EARTH DAY CONCERT
We're partnering with Face the Music, Outside the Box 925, and Neto Community Network for a concert to celebrate Earth Day and raise funds for Field Team 6! Join us Thursday, April 22 at 6p PT to rock out with some incredible artists, including Chas Castell, Scott Cook, Christophe Ellie, Lauren Mayer, Joe Newberry, Pete Kronowitt, and Nancy Sanchez. Click HERE to get tickets!
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2020 DONOR OF THE YEAR:
DON FOSTER
If you missed our first annual Field Team 6 awards show, there were tears, laughter and a well-deserved superhero cape... and that's just from the presentation of our 2020 Donor of the Year Award! Watch the video again and again.
Irrepressible resister, Chair of Field Team 6's illustrious Advisory Board, and all around Good Guy, Don Foster was our honoree. We'll add another round of heartfelt thanks and echo what is printed on his award:
"Field Team 6 is proud to present this award to our Donor of the Year, Don Foster, in recognition of Buddha-like inner radiance, creativity on the battlefield, heart-melting generosity, and mastery in bringing joy to the fight. Without you, Field Team 6 would not exist. Thank you for literally helping save the world."
Thanks, Don! We couldn't have done it without you and we wouldn't want to try!
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CALL AZ VOTERS TO GET SENATOR SINEMA
TO REFORM THE FILIBUSTER
To give us all the freedom to vote, we must reform the filibuster and pass the
For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Senator Sinema is publicly opposed to filibuster reform.
Get her constituents to persuade her otherwise!
ADOPT-A-TRAITOR PHONE BANKS
Register Dems in districts whose representatives supported
overturning the Biden/Harris election victory, and flip those seats blue!
We're targeting traitors in California, North Carolina, and Texas!
FLIP A "TRIPLE WORD SCORE" STATE
Register Dems in the 8 most important states to Save the Senate and the House.
Join our brand-new phone banks into AZ and PA!
POSTCARDING
Register Dems via postcard in the most flippable districts
and write with friends at our weekly postcarding parties!
Campaigns into PA and
Adopt-a-Traitor campaigns in CO (Lauren Boebert's district!),
FL, NC and CA are up!
SOCIAL STORMING
Build awareness for our voter registration app #Voterizer,
our postcarding program, and #RegisterDemocrats from
the comfort of your social media accounts!
Find camaraderie, tips and tricks on our Zooms!
Click VOLUNTEER OPS below to get details and sign up!
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147 Republicans voted to overturn an American election. We’ve found 3 million unregistered Democrats in their districts. Let’s register every single one we can – and make sure these traitors lose their seats in a landslide.
Treat traitors to the full panoply of FT6's outreach efforts, including texts, emails, targeted ads, phone banks, and postcards.
Thanks to you, we've now raised the money to do that for two adoptees, Reps Beth Van Duyne (TX-24), and Mike Garcia (CA-25)!
We've left three of them on the board: Richard Hudson of North Carolina, Carlos Gimenez of Florida, and, even though we already hit our first fundraising goal, Southern California's own Mike Garcia – aka the guy who slithered into Katie Hill's old seat, won by just 333 votes in November, and then voted to overthrow democracy just weeks later. We've already started phone banking into Garcia's district with the ThruTalk autodialer, and have just started postcarding too! But to fund more passes (which equals more voter touches), we're looking to raise just $322 more. Can you chip in and help us unleash the full force of our digital organizing on every single unregistered likely Democrat in CA-25? Mike Garcia won't thank you, but we will. And so will America!
If you donate, you'll be the first to receive an invite to the texting extravaganza for your adoptee!
Not sure who to choose? Check out the adoption videos below!
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Traitor Richard Hudson (NC-08)
Goal: $7,548; Progress: $3,025
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Traitor Carlos Gimenez (FL-26)
Goal: $5,106; Progress: $3,171
Phone Bank to Unseat Traitor Carlos Gimenez & Marco Rubio (COMING SOON)
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Traitor Mike Garcia (CA-25)
*NEW* Goal: $4,947; Progress: $4,625
PLUS: Addresses for postcarding into all three of these districts are now available! CLICK HERE to get started!
And remember – if you adopt Richard or Carlos, you're helping defeat bonus traitors too! In 2022, every single Democrat we register in North Carolina will help us take the Senate seat Richard Burr is leaving open. And every Dem in Florida will help us beat Governor Ron DeSantis as well as Senator Marco Rubio!
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NEW CAMPAIGNS INTO NC, FL, CA!
35,175 postcards have been sent or are being written!
Our campaigns in Pennsylvania and Traitor Lauren Boebert's district CO-03 are still rolling along. But we are thrilled to announce that addresses for additional Adopt-a-Traitor postcard campaigns are now available! You can write to the voters of NC-08 (to kick Richard Hudson to the curb), FL-26 (to fire Carlos Gimenez), or CA-25 (to send Mike Garcia packing) – or go for all three districts! (And coming soon: TX-24, home of the disgraceful Beth Van Duyne!)
CLICK HERE to get your addresses! (And if you'd rather postcard with pals, CLICK HERE to RSVP for our weekly postcarding parties, each Saturday!)
P.S. Need to order some postcards so you can get started? Check out our amazing Shepard Fairey-designed options HERE!
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SEO SUPERSTAR NEEDED!
Search engine optimization is vital to our online presence. And we're looking for a social-savvy supervolunteer to take the reins of all things SEO for FT6's YouTube, website, and social channels. We'll provide training! Wanna be our superstar? Let us know HERE!
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SPANISH LANGUAGE PHONE BANKERS NEEDED!
Want to help phone bank en Español? Even better – want to LEAD a bilingual phone bank? We need your help! Únete a nosotros! Join us HERE.
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LEAD THE CHARGE FROM HOME
We're looking for people with time and skills to share. Heck, it might be something we don't even know we need! Tell us about your skills HERE!
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YOU CAN HELP STOP VOTER SUPPRESSION TODAY!
Click HERE to watch a new video from Brave New Films/Declaration for American Democracy about the hundreds of voter suppression bills Republicans are trying to pass right now and how you can stop them by urging your representatives to support S.1, the For the People Act, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
Our friends at Common Cause – plus a whole host of pro-democracy organizations – are petitioning the U.S. Senate to (finally) end the filibuster.
You know, that undemocratic relic of slavery and Jim Crow that has been continually abused by the minority to block the will of the voters! You can sign the petition HERE. And call your senators! Especially if you live in CA, ME, WV, or AZ!
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MERCH MERCH MERCH!
Love Voterizer enough to wear it? Then check out our two new designs, fresh off the merch presses and now available in our FT6 store! The best part is on the back: we've included a QR code so you can register new voters on the spot by sending them to Voterizer – all they'll need is a smartphone and for you to turn your back. Spice up your occasional forays into the outside world with a little pinch of voter registration. CLICK HERE to start shopping!
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