Action For The Two Days Ahead [11.3.24]
LFG
It’s go time. Before I get into opportunities to volunteer or donate, here’s another installment of how Project 2025 is terrible, specifically how it aims to completely dismantle voting in America. P25 would:
Slash the budget for CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the department tasked with providing federal election assistance and combating online voter disinformation;
Add a question to the next census about US citizenship, which could alter key population counts and negatively affect redistricting efforts;
Put Citizens United on steroids by raising campaign contribution limits;
Prevent the government from promoting voter registration;
Grant federal access to states’ DMV and voter registration databases, which could lead to purging of voter rolls.
There are three things you can do with three days to go: canvass, phone bank, and donate. Pick one!
CANVASS:
At this point, the most effective way to volunteer is to help your local Congressional or state representative get out the vote in your community. You can go door-to-door to remind people to cast their ballots, or volunteer to drive voters to the polls, or work as a poll watcher. The best way to find out ways to help is to look up your rep on Mobilize, or to call or stop by their local campaign offices, the addresses of which will be on their websites.
PHONE BANKING:
Many, many chances to help here, whether calling to remind people to vote, or to “chase ballots”—meaning to call those with mail-in or absentee ballots and instruct them about how to turn them in, or to cure mail-in ballots with mistakes. Again, you can search through Mobilize, but here are a few links:
Grassroots Democrats HQ has 20 Minutes/20 Dials phone banking, sign up here.
Citizen Action is organizing ballot chasing calls for NY-19 among other key swing races in the House.
Volunteer Blue os coordinating calls for ballot curing.
DONATING:
It’s not too late to send money to candidates. As someone online pointed out, donating now or even after an election is making investment in the future, as candidates and their operations use these funds to build up infrastructure and resources to win future elections (think ground-game operations, GOTV technology, etc.). Short of doing that, check these out:
Pizza to the Polls delivers free food to people who are forced to wait on long lines to vote. (This has become an issue on college campuses within states like Florida and Texas.) Send them some cheddar!
ProPublica is responsible for publishing evidence of Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito’s rampant corruption, and they’ve also brought to the public the stories of Amber Thurman, Candi Miller, and Nevaeh Crain, who all died horribly after being denied care because of their states’ abortion bans. Support them as they continue to shine the light.
Democracy Docket is going to be extremely busy in the coming weeks and months as they work to counteract legal attempts by the right to challenge election results and prevent election certifications.
The above pic is of me and my two fierce friends Nancy and Tanya as we were about to begin canvassing for Mondaire Jones in Yorktown, New York, over the weekend. Our task was to knock on doors belonging to Democrats and undecideds to make sure they had a plan to vote and to provide information like early voting locations and polling places. We knocked on 57 doors, and I will likely go back on Election Day to help with last-minute mobilization. None of us wants to wake up on November 6th with regret that we didn’t do all we could. So what are you going to do?