How to help get out the vote for Harris?

August 10, 2024 9:27 AM

What are some reputable organizations that get people involved in canvassing/door-knocking, writing letters/postcards, etc.? I don't know which organizations run these things.
posted by tzikeh to Grab Bag (12 answers total)

Swing Left is great - I've canvassed with them many times. I'm sure many people here will have worked with them as well.

My friends and I have been doing some things facilitated by Field Team 6 - we're going to PA tomorrow to register voters.
posted by maggiemaggie at 9:39 AM on August 10 [5 favorites]

Check out this USA voting support page by aLeaflikeStructure! It's an excellent and growing list of ways you can get involved.

It led me to Postcards To Voters, and I'm currently writing Florida Democrats to remind them to renew their Vote By Mail enrollment. It's been great!
posted by evilmomlady at 9:39 AM on August 10 [4 favorites]

Also, my friends and I have used Postcards to Voters since 2020.
posted by maggiemaggie at 9:40 AM on August 10 [1 favorite]

Thanks for the shout-out, evilmomlady. And thank you, maggiemaggie; I have added SwingLeft to the wiki page.
posted by ALeaflikeStructure at 10:12 AM on August 10 [2 favorites]

https://commonpower.org/
Besides Robert Reich's Inequality Media, Common Power is well-run, effective and arrow-straight in its approach. I try to give them as much $ as I can.
posted by lois1950 at 10:22 AM on August 10

I'm heading off shortly to do some canvassing. I signed for it on the website of my local Democratic Party.
posted by mareli at 10:32 AM on August 10

Response by poster: Thanks for pointing me to that MetaTalk post - a non-MeFi friend just recommended Indivisible, which also looks really good.
posted by tzikeh at 10:57 AM on August 10 [2 favorites]

I've been involved with Vote Forward since 2019, and have found them to be a stable and reputable organization. Their main thrust is having volunteers write letters to infrequent voters, urging them to vote. They run all their campaigns as experiments with an experimental group (get letters) vs. a control group (don't get letters). For the 2020 election, the letters brought out ~126K voters who otherwise wouldn't have voted, which is quite impressive given the slim margins in swing states. For postcards, Postcards to Swing States and Blue Wave are both very good. Really, you can't go wrong with any of these.
posted by DrGail at 2:28 PM on August 10 [2 favorites]

I will be working with my local Dems, canvassing for local candidates as well as Harris-Walz. The state candidates in my district are all set. We'll also do phone calling and maybe texting. I have terrific local candidates and the goal is to get people to vote. The site for Dems is mobilize.us. Volunteer where it's least inconvenient.

So much energy in the campaign right now! Thanks for participating
posted by theora55 at 4:24 PM on August 10 [1 favorite]

I will plug Fair Fight, a v.effective grassroots org trying to counter the many ways votes and voters are being suppressed in Georgia, a key swing state.
posted by lalochezia at 4:26 PM on August 10 [3 favorites]

I'm part of the Georgia Postcard Project.
posted by heathrowga at 5:09 PM on August 10 [2 favorites]

If you actually live where your profile says you do, sign up here and take a day trip. Research says door-knocking is the most effective outreach to strangers* you can do, and nothing else comes even close.

*if you happen to have people in your life who are low-information or low-propensity voters in swing states, and you can make sure a few of them vote, that’s probably better than all the stranger outreach a normal person can do in their spare time.
posted by juliapangolin at 12:34 PM on August 11