Happy Pride Month! So here’s the plan!

While Biden and the Democrats get the debt ceiling lifted, keep the wheels on the democracy, and move the country into the future, you, me, and a few thousand of our best friends will keep on reaching out to swing states and districts, finding good-hearted people—turns out they’re everywhere—and helping them register as Democrats. 

In fact, let’s register 3 million of them.

Because in 2024, we don’t want to win in a nail-biter. We want to SHUT. THEM. DOWN. We want the election results to be a national repudiation of fascism, of sexism, of racism, of homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia.

Trump Repbulicans: You want despair to paralyze us?

Our hope comes from our actions. And our actions keep winning elections.

You want to divide us with petty hatreds?

We represent every age, race, gender, orientation, and religion, and our coalition has never been stronger. Because our power comes from empowering each other.

You want to end this experiment in democracy?

We are just getting started.

We have the strategy and the tactics and the gusto.

All we need is to do the damn thang!

So keep volunteering and donating and helping out behind the scenes!

Join or lead one of our Pride events below!

And when people ask what you’re doing, say, “I’m saving the world. Want to help?”

PRIDE MONTH IS HERE... AND WE ARE HERE FOR IT!

June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month!!!! – and Pride events are the number one places to register eager new Democrats in person! 

We'd love small or large groups of our awesome volunteers to celebrate by registering voters at Pride! Even better if you can get to a Pride Event in our 12 target states: AZ, CA, GA, MI, MT, NC, NV, NY, OH, PA, WI and WV!

Fired up and ready to go? Check out existing Pride Registration Events at Volunteer Ops on our site. Find all you need to set up your own voter drive in Voter Drive in a Box. Email Voter Drive Captain Jo Ann at helpmydrive@fieldteam6.org to connect volunteers to your event, connect you to existing events, and answer any questions!

Want something even easier? Go HERE and print out QR codes that people can scan with their phone cameras and register themselves… Or download a screen to your phone, and do the same thing digitally.

For dates and times, check out this Pride Event Calendar, one of many you can find online. And prepare to have a blast: in our experience, people at Pride events are not only very progressive, but delighted to meet you. And the voters we register could decide who wins multiple elections, as well as the fate of democracy itself.

This is how we build the America we dream of, conversation by conversation. An America we can take Pride in!

KICK-ASS PARTNER REPORT:

BLUE CD2 NEW MEXICO —

ENCHANTING (AND REGISTERING) DEMOCRATS!

Meet Blue CD2 New Mexico – a shining example of how you can partner with Field Team 6 even if you are in a "non-target" state and pull off miracles.

They helped raise a modest amount of money to buy data on unregistered likely Democrats in NM CD2. Then Field Team 6 used that data to set up postcarding campaigns. And those campaigns helped register the new Democrats who flipped that Republican district and elected Democratic Representative Gabe Vasquez!

In the 2021-2022 cycle, they contacted 21,229 unique people and sent a whopping 53,131 postcards.

And it worked! Our number crunching shows Blue CD2 helped register 5,006 new Democratic voters in the district, of whom, 2,508 voted in the 2022 election. Here's how the Albuquerque Journal put it: "He [Gabe Vasquez] won the competitive race by 1,224 votes, according to the Secretary of State’s Office." And that's how we do it!

If you like the cut of Blue CD2 New Mexico's jib, join their efforts HERE.

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

THURSDAY, JUNE 1 & ON:

OHIO... COME ON DOWN!

Ohio is critical this year AND next! In the coming August special election (!!), we need to regsister enough Democrats to vote NO on the Republican attempt to make it harder to pass a popular referendum. Then 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, June 1 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, June 6 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, June 7 from 2-4p PT — Postcard Party. Sign up HERE to send voter registration postcards into Ohio!

Sunday, June 11 from 5-6p PT — Postcard Party. Sign up HERE to send voter registration postcards into Ohio!

Thursday, June 15 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, JUNE 1 & 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! (Or get trained up on BYOP texting HERE!)

SUNDAY, JUNE 4:

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, June 4 from 10a-12p PT. Click HERE for more info and to RSVP.

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.

TUESDAY, JUNE 6:

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 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

OH: Tuesday July 18 @ 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, JUNE 10:

PARKER TUBE FLOAT DRIVE!

Over the years we've held voter registration drives in loads of different places. But we're hard pressed to think of one as crazy fun as this: the 45th Annual Parker Tube Float.

As thousands of people don swimsuits and water shoes ahead of tubing down the Colorado River by the Parker Strip (between California and Arizona) we'll be there to take in the scene, register Democrats, and save the world.

Things get going on Saturday, June 10 at 8a MT (and will go to about noon) at La Paz County Park on the Parker, Arizona side of the river. We'll start with a 15-minute training before hitting the local hot spots, clipboards in hand and sunscreen and smiles on our faces. Click HERE for more info and to RSVP. Saving democracy can be a hilariously good time!

SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 7P-12P

GET YOUR BOOGIE ON AND PARTY LIKE IT'S 11/7/2020!

Speaking of a hilarious good time, remember when Joe and Kamala won? Well, we are cranking up the way-back-machine so we can all party like we wanted to that day: together, in person! If you're in Los Angeles or able to get here, come sing, dance, and party the night away with all your favorite activists while raising money to save our democracy! It's a night of live bands, dancing, and karaoke, where someone is sure to grab the mic and sing Jason Berlin’s “Protasiewicz!” The party is at Molly Malone's on 6/25/23 and doors open at 7p so click HERE to grab your ticket, and we’ll save the last dance for you! 

IN-PERSON VOTER DRIVES!

Register Democrats on the ground in

Bakersfield, Irvine, Merced, Patterson and Porterville, CA, Parker, AZ,

and at Pride events in Los Angeles and West Hollywood, CA,

Cincinnati, OH, Freeport, NY 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

so we can crush the anti-democratic Issue 1 in August,

pass abortion rights and hold Sherrod Brown's crucial Senate seat!

Make calls to flip CA-27 blue!

NEW: Register Dems in NY-03 to boot lying liar George Santos!

POSTCARDING

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

to register Dems in TN swing districts,

to all of our 2024 target states: AZ, CA, GA, MI, MT, NC, NV,

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

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)

[see PHONE BANKING, above, to learn why OH is so important!]

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

Let's do this!

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.  

HOW TO REGISTER NEW WEST VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS

In case you missed it last week, don't forget to check out our West Virginia Nitty Gritty training video right HERE! This crucial swing state is essential to holding the Senate and restoring a Democratic trifecta that can bring about real change.

Plus it’s never too early to start building a progressive groundswell. Like elsewhere in the country, West Virginia has a ton of young/new voters starting to take note of Republican shenanigans. They can put Democrats into the local offices and judgeships that will keep future elections free, fair and safe. Also in 2024, two seats on the West Virginia Supreme Court are up for grabs… and we know how important those are! 

So learn how to lead a successful and partisan voter drive by watching the vid, then crack open the West Virginia Voter Drive in a Box for even more support.

And leave a nice YouTube comment for Jeff Sielaff, FT6 Media Team leader. This Mountain State video marks his twelfth and final Nitty Gritty Video... this cycle. He crafted one for each of our '24 target states. A herculean effort! Thank you, Jeff!

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.