WE'RE EXPANDING THE MAP
A pre-election strategy briefing, a VP debate, video and podcast bonuses -- and chocolate!
Every 2-year election cycle, Field Team 6 looks at the national map and chooses the target states where registering Democrats will have the greatest effect. Those target states are where we concentrate our budget and outreach, via email, text, phone calls, and postcards. For 2024 we chose the 12 states that would enable us to take back the House, hold the Senate, and retain the White House. When Manchin retired, we were forced to drop West Virginia. And when Florida put reproductive freedoms on the ballot this November, we enthusiastically added them.
Right now, to seize the day and take full advantage of our momentum, we are expanding the map in the biggest way we ever have.
Maryland and Nebraska are now target states, since Angela Alsobrooks (MD) and independent Dan Osborn (NE) are neck-and-neck with their Republican opponents.
Swing House districts are also now our targets – 38 House districts in all! Our own rockstar Deb Verla, Czar of our free BYOP texting platform, has trained over 2,000 volunteers to send 30-100 free texts a day, and the results are mind-blowing. We’re now sending free texts to over 350,000 people a week (in addition to our millions of paid texts!)!
Purged voters are now our targets, too. We’re working on re-reregistering purged voters on our side in Ohio and Georgia – and we’re wrestling with Florida and Texas to get their purged lists ASAP.
And are you sitting down? Because Texas is now officially a target state! We have more than 1 million records in Texas, the poster child for state voter suppression. We want to reach as many as possible via text and email before the registration deadline hits on 10/7.
Our work is invisible to the polls and the pundits. Yet the work you are doing right now – and the donations that fuel it – will change election outcomes. So keep doing what you’re doing. IT’S WORKING.
40 days left. Volunteer, donate, have a quick coffee when you need to, and get back in the game! Help Field Team 6 register new Democrats until close of polls in all of our same-day registration states. We sprint through the ribbon – we don’t stop until 8:01pm Pacific, November 5 – here we goooooo!!!
– Jason Berlin, Founder, Field Team 6
Here are a couple things (among the many, many options) to do coming up this next week and beyond:
#1 - Monday, September 30th at 5p PT/8p ET. Pre-election strategy briefing. Join us to learn how we've been channeling this Harris/Walz tidal wave of love into massive, concrete action. We'll lay out all the ingenious new approaches we're rolling out to rock the polls. And we'll let you know exactly how you are the key to scoring the Democratic trifecta: House, Senate, and White House. The SPRINT is ON – let's GOOOOOO!!! Sign up HERE.
#2 – Tuesday, October 1st, at 6pm PT/ 9pm ET. VP debate Slack watch party! In one corner, national treasure Tim Walz. In the other, unhinged alien-in-a-human-suit J.D. Vance. What'll go down? At this virtual hangout we'll watch, we'll laugh, we'll cry (though probably only because we're laughing so hard), and we'll analyze the whole event together. Sign up HERE! We'll get started at 6p PT/9p ET, and hang out as long as people want.
Bonus video: When a renowned songwriter sends you an original song with some fine banjo playing you are obligated to have the Field Team 6 Media Team turn it into an inspiring music video. To watch Dennis Coats’ song “Don’t Want No King,” just click HERE – and many thanks to Laura Shapiro for the editing chops!
Bonus podcast: Podocracy is a brand new podcast aimed at keeping up with this election cycle, and for their very first episode they’ve interviewed our very own founder, Jason Berlin! Click HERE for the full interview on Spotify or Apple Podcasts (Jason comes in around the 30-minute mark), and get fired up to work with Field Team 6 and make all our blue wave dreams come true!
Bonus treats: Order some delightful milk chocolate “The Pussy Between Us” bars “for the childless cat ladies” in your life — or anyone else who values chocolate and likes progressive values! Profits go to Field Team 6!
September is National Voter Registration Month. If you reach out to people and they’re not certain whether they’re registered, send ‘em to Voterizer.org!