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Welcome everyone! Janna (she/her) here from Swing Left in Chicago

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Vancouver WA

Brooklyn, NY!

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Hi, I’m Sally (she, her) Berkeley, CA

Alexandria, VA

Welcome!!

Hi. I'm Gayle from Connecticut

Calling from Goleta, CA.

Kathy from Moon Township, PA

HiI’m Kristy from Windsor, CA

Sue Los Angeles

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CCathy from Mid Michigan

Nancy in Albany

KC from Greensboro, NC

Fatha in San Jose

Welcome to those just joining! we're getting started with Swing Left's strategy, led by Julia, one of our organizers with the College Network.

Hey all - bet I'm from the most reddest remote small town (pop 1,498) in far northwest Nebraska (think Wyoming far right voters). Hoping to get a few ideas from you all.

Mary in Philadelphia

Thank you for being here and for sharing that, Shannon!

Henya and Zack from Portland, OR!

I don’t want the religious nuts running our country.

Adaku Mensah Phoenix, AZ

NC Senate is in play

Education. It's the only way to beat this intentionally intellectually lazy movement. Either that or deploy subliminal/tricky marketing, fighting far-right with their own tools.

You can find your closest swing district here: https://swingleft.org/targets

I'm a lifelong registered Republican. When the HELL are the Democrats going to start acting like this SHIT MATTERS. We all know the priorities: They're calling for VIGILANTES to intimidate voters.

I’m old enough to remember what it was like pre Roe v Wade. Reproductive rights are human rights.

Where the hell is my LIKE or LIKE-ON-STEROIDS button, Frank?

I hope we get to what we can actually do soon.

where are the strategies to take over state legislatures. why aren't WE taking over school boards?

What about buying FACEBOOK ads?

I would be willing to donate money to buy facebook ads?

https://swingleft.org/targets/state/az

On the Swingleft.org/targets page, you can click on the state you’re interested in, which will take you to the state page.

Do you do vote curing?? So important.

What is vote curing??

will there be another Orientation meeting after today??

What is most effective? Texts, door knowcing, calls, letter-writing?

If there is an issue with their absentee ballots, such as a signature-matching issue or a missing witness signature, these states allow voters a chance to fix or cure their ballot in some form in order to help avoid their ballot being discarded and their vote not counting.

And there will be opportunities to get involved with that!

TO WRITE LETTERS - Go to https://votefwd.org/swingleft to make an account – which will take up to 48 hours to get approved, and start writing letters to voters.

but if it takes 48 hours to get approved, that only gives us 24 hours to write letters

To find events near you, you can head to https://swingleft.org/take-action and type in your zip code.

Join our weekly Immediate Impact phone banks between now and Election Day to call voters in competitive districts: https://www.mobilize.us/swingleft/event/513668/

There was a girl in Arlington VA that went to one of their USPS to mail her PA absentee ballot & the clerk REFUSED to mail it!

You can check out if there is a local group near you by going to https://swingleft.org/groups, and entering your zip code.

If you’re not familiar with Slack we have a guide on how to join and how to use linked at https://swingleft.org/resources.

Check out buses for GOTV weekend - https://swingleft.org/p/bus-travel

Check out Michael Moore's Tsunami Truths...wonderful daily blogs about how we are going to win!

We have boiled all of that information and strategy into a single tool you can find at https://Swingleft.org/take-action

What days is canvassing taking place -- and does it go through election day, or just the weekends? Thanks.

Can you email us the links you have mentioned for those of us driving currently?

FYI - I just signed up for the letter writing and was approved in less than 10 minutes

Thank you!!!

Woohoo!! Nice Rick!!

Thank you Rick!

facebook ads?

I've been letter writing this week and it's very satisfying. Recommended!

do they give you templates to write?

Need info for NC US Senate

Nice work Priscilla!

Hi- I just signed up to do letters & added my LinkedIn link . How fast will I be approved so I can get started ?

Can you explain what canvassing really involves?

Letter writing: you print out a page, and then you fill in a short paragraph of "why I vote” that encourages them to join you in voting. The printed part includes basic info re: further info, etc.

Is Swing Left doing anything in particular to get out the youth vote?

Is canvassing only to Dem voters?

@rosemary Yes! Julia works closely with our groups on college campuses 🙂

How does phone banking compare to letter writing in effectivness?

If you remember one thing from this training: make it https://swingleft.org/take-action

Thank you! Very helpful. XOXO

Thank you...

Thank you Janna and Julia!

Thank you!

Thank you for the inspiring organizing

Thank you!!

Thank you Julia and Janna!

Thank you!

Thanks!

Thank you...if you are going to stick around, can you tell me whether facebook ads are good?

Thank you

thanks!

Thanks so much :)

thank you so much!

Thanks for doing this work!

Thank you for everything you are doing!

Thanks for your wonderful work!!

and how we go about doing FACEBOOK ADS?

Vote the bastards out