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June 8, 2023
WORLDS SAVED: 1
DEMOCRATIC VOTERS REGISTERED BY 11/22: 2,888,049
TOTAL VOTER TOUCHES TO DATE: 27,178,593
DAYS TO REGISTER DEMS FOR OHIO ELECTION: 31
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The Supreme Court just did the right thing! As Rick Perry has said, “Even a broken clock is right once a day.” They ruled that Alabama violated legal restrictions on racial gerrymandering. So Alabama must now draw another congressional district that is majority Black. This is a huge win for fair districting, for the people of Alabama, and for the country. This will likely be a Democratic district, meaning that we now need a net gain of only FOUR seats to take back the House next year.
This lends even more urgency to our work right now. We need volunteers to register Democrats at:
- in–person voter drives at every Pride event in the country
- in-person voter drives at every Juneteenth event possible
- phone banks/text arcades/BYOP texting/postcarding/live voter drives into Ohio for their special election (with a 7/10 voter registration deadline) to stop Republicans from restricting abortion access
- all types of outreach into 12 target states to win it all in ‘24!
Never doubt that your volunteer hours and donor dollars are pushing things forward. Remember that there are thousands of people like you out there, all pushing in the same direction. And all of our small actions add up to big change.
Ask two people who know: our own Voter Drive Coach (and CA voter drive Trainer) Jo Ann Bollen and our OH voter drive trainer Judith Bolker were both honored last week by the CA Democratic party as Volunteers of the Year! Congratulations!!! We are so grateful for your heart, your brilliance, and the endless joy you both bring to the fight!
Find SO many ways to make a real difference HERE - and below!
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JUNETEENTH: CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY BY REGISTERING DEMOCRATS!
On June 19th, we celebrate the end of slavery in America. Specifically, the day commemorates army General Granger reading “Order Number 3” to the people of Texas in 1865, announcing “all slaves are free.”
Juneteenth is a time to take stock of how far we’ve come, and how far we still have to go. And one of the best things we can do to fight for equality is register more Democrats! Because unlike the Greedy Old Party, we believe that everybody deserves the same fair chance to education, healthcare, housing, and opportunity.
We're looking for volunteers to register voters at Juneteenth events on Monday the 19th, or the weekend before. Bonus points if you can do it in our 12 target states: AZ, CA, GA, MI, MT, NC, NV, NY, OH, PA, WI and WV!
If you want to set up your own voter drive, everything you need is here - Voter Drive in a Box. Email Voter Drive Coach Jo Ann at helpmydrive@fieldteam6.org to connect volunteers to your event, connect you to existing events, and answer any questions!
Don't have time for that? Just go HERE and print QR codes that people can scan and register themselves. Or download one of our graphics to your phone, and do it that way.
Let's get as many Democratic voters registered as we can at Juneteenth events this year, an authentic way to celebrate the moment and honor the movement.
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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!
Field Team 6 is partnering with The Union and Crimson Goes Blue at pride events this month and beyond. We'd love small or large groups of our awesome volunteers to celebrate by registering voters at fun parades and gatherings wherever you find them! 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 Coach 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!
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ADOPT-A-STATE IS DOIN’ GREAT; JOIN THE FUN AND LET’S GET MORE DONE!
BIG NEWS: Thanks to your Adopt-a-State donor efforts, Field Team 6 has raised enough money to buy data on 30,000 unregistered likely Democrats in Montana and another 30,000 in Ohio! That’s a first step on the way to our goal of registering 3,000,000 new Democratic voters by the '24 election. By doing that, we can restore the Democratic trifecta that will pass game-changing voting rights, codify abortion rights, and beat back fascism once and for all.
We know this process works. 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.
With your help, we can 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, and let’s watch those data numbers climb, just like they have in MT and OH!
Click HERE for more information about each state and our goals, and thank you for your efforts! You’re strengthening our Democracy with every state you adopt, and
every donation you make.
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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!
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SUNDAY, JUNE 11 & ON:
OHIO... COME ON DOWN!
Ohio’s first voter registration deadline is fast approaching (July 10… yikes!) and there’s so much going on there. It’s a critical state this year AND next! First, there’s an August special election where Republicans are pushing a referendum to make it harder to pass future popular referendums. (It’s a naked power grab by one of the most corrupt GOP cabals in the nation.) We need to register enough Democrats right now to VOTE THIS DOWN.
Then by the November 2023 general election, we need to register enough Democrats to pass an amendment cementing abortion rights in the state constitution. And keep that momentum rolling into 2024 so we can re-elect Sherrod Brown, one of our most vulnerable (and best) senators, in order to keep our all-important Senate majority.
So sign up for our upcoming events, and help register hordes of new Buckeye Democrats to vote those GOP weasels out!
Sunday, June 11 from 5-6p PT — Postcard Party. Sign up HERE to send voter registration postcards into Ohio!
Tuesday, June 13 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 14 from 2-4p 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 15 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!
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SUNDAY, JUNE 11 & 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!)
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SUNDAY, JUNE 11:
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 11 from 12-12p PT. Click HERE for more info and to RSVP.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 11:
NEW CA-27 PHONE BANK!
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 11 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.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 13:
TEXT ARCADES ARE FUN!
Text Arcades are a-rockin! They're 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 13 @ 3p PT
OH: Tuesday June 20 @ 3p PT
OH: Tuesday June 27 @ 3p PT
MT: Tuesday July 11 @ 3p PT
NY: Tuesday July 18 @ 3p PT
AZ: Tuesday July 25 @ 3p PT
GA: Tuesday August 1 @ 3p PT
One more thing: since Ohio is a new target for us this cycle, we’re trying to raise more cashola to buy even more data on unregistered likely Dem voters, so please donate HERE to help us crush the GOP.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 7P-12P
GET YOUR BOOGIE ON AND PARTY LIKE IT'S 11/7/2020!
Remember when Joe and Kamala won? And there were spontaneous dance parties in the street as people bounced, jived and jiggled to express their joy?
Well, we're 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 June 25 from 7p to midnight at fab pub Molly Malone's. Click HERE to grab your ticket, and we’ll save the last dance for you!
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IN-PERSON VOTER DRIVES!
Register Democrats on the ground in
Bakersfield, Irvine, and Merced, CA, Parker, AZ, Hudson, NY,
and at Pride events in Cincinnati, OH, Freeport, NY,
Los Angeles, Santa Ana, Porterville and Palm Springs, CA!
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!
Make calls to flip CA-27 blue!
Register Dems in NY-03 to boot lying liar George Santos!
New: Phone banks to flip LA and TN blue!
POSTCARDING
We're writing for 2023 elections in: KY, LA, MS, NJ, OH and VA,
to register Dems in TN swing districts,
to all of our 2024 target states:
AZ, CA, GA, MI, MT, NC, NV, NY, OH, PA, WI, and WV
and thank you cards 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)
Click VOLUNTEER OPS below to get up-to-the-minute details and sign up!
Let's do this!
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HELP US THANK YOU!
You know Field Team 6 believes in the power of postcards. They're among the most personal of our prospective voter "touches" and they're incredibly effective.
And with artists like Shepard Fairey, James McMullan, Jamie Rogers and Deborah Aschheim contributing stunning designs, our cards are as beautiful as they are powerful.
But now we have a very specific card we'd like to send out: one that says "Thanks!" to the 17k+ volunteers and donors who helped us reach our astounding tally of 2,888,049 newly registered Democrats!
So if you're one of the amazing writers who helped us send out over one million cards—or even if you're not—would you help us crank out a few "thank you" cards to the phone and text bankers, to the voter drive leaders and attendees, to the social stormers and trainers, to the donors who give so generously, and, yes, to the postcarders?
You'll probably get a card yourself from a volunteer you haven't met yet. And won't that feel nice! Order free postcards HERE. To download "thank you" campaigns click HERE.
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POSTCARDS & SNAZZY TEES, & SIGNS IN STORE!
We also have a full range of Jamie Rodgers, Shepard Fairey and James McMullan postcards and QR t-shirts linking to Voterizer.org, making it a snap for anyone to register as a Democrat!
Click HERE to order a whole bunch of all of 'em!
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