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If you want to do more so you dont have too many regrets on November 6, now is the time to commit to doing more if you can. Here are three ideas:
1. Find a campaign to work on.
The single most effective action in politics is a volunteer asking for another citizens vote.
Just one in-person conversation had a profound effect on a voters likelihood to go to the polls, boosting turnout by a whopping 20 percent (or around 9 percentage points), Vox reports.
Every candidate worth working with has a volunteer button on her website. And Crooked Media has made it so easy to start working on a campaign now that you should feel guilty for not having done it before. I do.
2. Try something new.
The Citizen Strong campaign is
something new:
Since February 2018, weve been busy scouring the records of elected officials all over America. Led by alumni of the Obama 08 campaigns research team and harnessing the energy of almost 18,000 volunteers, were tipping the balance in nearly 30 Congressional races and over 70 legislative races in key states.
And now Citizen Strong is ready to start flooding the electorate with messages that expose Republicans records. So Citizen Strong needs writers:
Starting around Tuesday or Wednesday we are going to have a flood of text coming in from researchers that will need to be transformed into something very powerful.
Youll have guidance and license. If comedy or satire are your gifts well then you can just start sharpening your pencils now. If you love words justice womanity humanity and america then youll either have fun or at least feel good about what youre doing
A. Go to www.citizenstrong.org to sign up as a volunteer.
B. Youll get a welcome email with intake survey enter WRITER in the occupation/specialization/spider-sense field.
C. Well get you going on high impact work.
Please share with friends.
Share broadly across your networks. Dont worry about the trolls because all of the text that gets re-written and edited will then be read by at least three random people after its flagged for objectionable language like what Kanye did in the White House yesterday. So if someone joins up and wants to sabotage the only time they will be wasting is their own. We, on the other hand, are gonna be like those fisher boats in Dunkirk or analogy of your choice.
3. Give more $
If you havent given all your money Beto, now is time to give some more. To whom? Id find the REPUBLICAN TOSS UP seats closest to you among the ones listed here by Cook and give to the candidates Democratic opponent. These races are the blue wall. We need at least 24 of these seats to have any hope of stopping Republicans from uninsuring 20 million and letting Trump get away with all his crimes.
BONUS: If you cant do any of these things or you done them all, theres still something else Id ask you to do until November 6: ONLY RETWEET OR REPEAT MESSAGES YOU BELIEVE IN. Resist the urge to dunk on or fact check Trump or Trump Jr. as much as possible. And when you feel that urge, seek out a candidate you back and share her message instead.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)handmade34
(22,758 posts)I just finished another 25 letters to voters... trying to finish 25 per day
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Thank you for your service in the Resistance!