Everyday Election Activism: The Opportunities
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What This Covers
Part 1: North Carolina
Advocacy for NC, Building the Resistance, Building a Strong Democratic Party, Flipping the NC Legislature Blue, Voter Outreach with Democracy NC, Help NC Voters Register to Vote and Obtain Photo IDs
Part 2: Federal Government Accountability
Finding Out About Calls to Action, Contact Your Members of Congress Daily!, Help Others (esp. those in GOP districts) contact their Elected Officials, Tips on Making Calls to Elected Officials, Information about messaging and litigation, and where to donate
Part 3: Critical Elections Around the Country
Equip Voters to Vote, Special Election in Wisconsin, Other Elections in 2025
Part 4: Fighting Misinformation and Lies
* Starred Actions (*) are Virtual *
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PART 1: NORTH CAROLINA
Advocacy for NC
Protect Justice Allison Rigg’s 2024 win for NC Supreme Court. Help fight back against the challenge of 60,000 votes by her Republican opponent, Jefferson Griffin.
* For actions you can take, consult Common Cause NC.
* Make phone calls to voters on the Griffin List with the NC Democratic Party on 4/7. Click here.
* Stop Anti-Voting and Anti-Democracy Legislation in the NC General Assembly. Charlotte Indivisible provides explainers and scripts here.
Protect NC Attorney General’s ability to challenge illegal executive orders (Vote coming up soon!)
Oppose legislation that will disenfranchise NC voters: HB 66 and HB 127. These bills reduce early voting and prevent voter registration drives from using actual registration forms. (YouCanVote urges you to also call bill sponsors and members of the NC House Election Law Committee. Worth doing! Details here.)
Ask your legislator to condemn Justice Griffin’s attempt to overturn the 2024 election win by Justice Riggs.
Oppose legislation (HB 171) that would ban all DEI programs, policies, or initiatives. (Vote coming up soon)
Charlotte Indivisible also has scripts to oppose eliminating permit requirements for handguns (vote coming up soon), requiring cooperation with ICE (vote coming up soon), allowing investment of state funds in cryptocurrency, allowing energy company price hikes (vote coming up soon), and limiting transgender rights.
Building the Resistance AND the Democratic Party
*Protect Medicaid with Down Home NC! Invite North Carolinians impacted by potential loss of Medicaid to get involved. Receive deep canvassing training and make calls (4/3, 4/10, 4/17, 4/24, and 5/1). Click here.
Canvass in Durham with the Durham County Democrats every weekend, asking voters to demand that Sen. Tillis oppose cuts to Medicaid. Sign up here.
Canvass with the Democrats in Alamance, Granville, Guilford and Moore counties, asking voters to hold Sen. Tillis accountable. Sign up here for 4/12 (Burlington), here for 4/26 (Oxford), here for 5/31 (Greensboro, and here for 5/3 (Pinehurst).
Invite friends and co-workers to protests and rallies. Your best bets for finding up to date information are: Common Cause North Carolina, Carolina Federation, and Indivisible groups in NC (e.g., Bull City Indivisible, Engaged Durhamites 4 Democracy, Indivisible Charlotte, and others). Also check out Durham Dems Action.
Building a Strong Democratic Party, Starting with the Precincts
Canvass in Cary with the Wake County Democrats on 4/5 to bring in more people. Sign up here.
Canvass in Asheville for Rep. Prather on 4/6 (sign up here) and in Laurinburg on 4/19. Sign up here.
* Across NC: Make phone calls with the NC Democratic Party to invite Democrats around the state to get involved. Sign up here for 4/2, 4/3, 4/9, 4/10, 4/16, 4/17, and more.
Flipping the NC Legislature Blue
* Phone bank and canvass with Neighbors On Call/County To County. Reach out to constituents of the Democratic state legislators who helped break the Republican supermajority. Phone banks start with a launch. After that, make calls on your own for the rest of the month. The launch for Rep. Dante Pittman phone banking is on 4/9, and for Sen. Everitt and Rep. Cohn on 5/7. Canvass for Rep. Dante Pittman on 4/12 and 5/31, and for Everitt/Cohn on 5/3 and 5/17. Sign up here.
Voter Outreach with Democracy NC
* Make phone calls to NC voters with Democracy NC, a nonpartisan organization devoted to voting rights and access to the ballot. Join their monthly phone bank. Next ones on 4/28 and 5/26. Sign up here.
Help NC Voters Register to Vote, Obtain Photo IDs, and Get Rides
Canvass with the Durham Democrats to spread the word about using ID to vote and helping people get the ID they need. Sign up here for 4/19 and here for 4/20..
* Write postcards with Field Team 6 to help register voters in NC. Field Team 6 is the largest partisan voter registration organization in the country. Attend an info session about Field Team 6’s strategy any Wednesday at 2 pm. Sign up here to write postcards to women in Georgia, NC voters in preparation for the Senate race, NJ voters about their Governor’s race, and PA voters about their Supreme Court race.
* Support voters to get state-issued photo IDs with VoteRiders, the only nationwide organization that provides free 1:1 assistance. They have a physical presence in Charlotte but provide virtual assistance to voters anywhere. Volunteer and commit to 1-3 hours a week. The next training sessions are 4/15 and 5/20 at 7 pm.
PART 2: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY
Finding Out About Calls to Action
* To hold your elected officials accountable: Indivisible puts out calls to action and serves as a great resource for learning how to make phone calls, send effective emails, and make visits to your Members of Congress. Check out their 2025 Indivisible Guide, and use their website for information and guidance.
Wherever you live: Join protests, rallies, town halls, empty chair town halls, and feel the energy of resistance grow! See above for NC sources of information. In other states, find your nearby Indivisible groups and other state or local organizations. Also check out Chop Wood, Carry Water (including the state-specific pages)
Contact Your Members of Congress Daily!
* Speak out and push back against the coup by making sure your elected Members of Congress hear from you - every day or as often as you can! Tell them how they should be voting and make them understand we want them to stand up for us! Unfortunately there are reasons to call daily!
* For phone calls to Members of Congress, try 5Calls.org (also a phone App). It has scripts for important national issues, along with contact information for your elected officials. The easier it is to make a call, the better. This app makes it easy!
* Calls with Friends is a tool created by Swing Blue Alliance that you can use to urge people you know in red or purple states to speak out. Sign up to get weekly alerts.
Tips for Making Phone Calls to Elected Officials
Look up and save contact information for your two U.S. Senators and your U.S. House Representative. Store the numbers for their DC office as well as state offices.
Making calls: Your GOP Members of Congress may not answer the phone. If you can not get through, call back, try their state offices, or leave a message. Give your name and zip code. If you talk with a real person, you can ask about the elected official’s position, but leaving messages (even after hours) is always an option.
Help Others (especially those in GOP districts) Contact Their Elected Officials
* Build opposition to the SAVE Act (H.R. 22). This may be the most significant national-level threat to free elections. It will require voters to produce a passport or birth certificate. Up to 150 million Americans, especially women, people of color, young people and older adults, could be disenfranchised.
* Make calls with Common Cause to voters across the country, asking them to call their elected representatives. Sign up here to make calls every Tuesday and Thursday on 4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, and 4/29 from 5-7 pm.
* Make calls with RepresentUs to voters across the country, asking them to call their elected representatives. Sign up here for 4/2, 4/3, and 4/6.
Information about Messaging and Litigation, and Where to Donate
* For messaging guidance, check out the Freedom Over Fascism Toolkit and the Election Protection Toolkit from the Research Collaborative, headed by Anat Shenker-Osorio.
* For updates about legal challenges, follow Democracy Forward on their Legal Response Center page or subscribe to Democracy Docket. Other groups fighting in the courts: ACLU, Public Citizen, and Common Cause. Please support them financially if you can!
PART 3: CRITICAL ELECTIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Equip Voters to Vote
* RideSharetoVote is launching a new national Groundwork2Vote Program. Join them 4/2 at 6 pm to learn how you can get involved in between elections to expand their presence nationwide and increase the number of voters we take to the polls. Sign up here. If you are unable to attend, email for info here.
Special Election in Wisconsin
Election Day for the Wisconsin Supreme Court is April 1. The Supreme Court race will determine whether Democrats retain control of the court. Final phone banks on 3/31 and 4/1!
* Join final phone banks (3/31/ and 4/1) with the Wisconsin Democratic Party. Click here to Get Out The Vote and here to recruit volunteers.
* Join final phone banks with Indivisible on 3/31. Sign up here.
* Join a final phone bank to Black voters with Reclaim Our Vote, a project of the Center for Common Ground. Sign up for 3/31 here, or learn how to make calls on your own here.
* Join final phone bank with Our Revolution (Bernie Sanders) on 3/31. Sign up here.
* Join phone banks with Wisconsin Working Families Party on 3/31 and 4/1. Sign up here.
* Join final phone bank with Swing Blue Alliance on 3/31. Click here.
* Join final phone bank to voters with Swing Left on 4/1. Sign up here.
Other Elections
Build Democratic power this year! They are municipal elections, and state legislative, governor races, or state court races. There are also Congressional special elections that will determine majority rule: in Florida, we have a chance to flip two Congressional seats! There are also primaries this spring and we are already gearing up for fall elections in a few states.
*Join Phone Banks
* Make phone calls with the Environmental Voter Project. A great organization to know about! They turn environmentalists into consistent voters. Call for NE (4/1, 4/2, 4/8, 4/25, and 4/29) and TX: (4/9, 4/10, 4/14, 4/15, 4/17, 4/22, 4/23, 4/24, 4/26, and 4/27). Click here.
* Make phone calls for Josh Weil for Congress in Florida-06. Click here for phone banks all day on M-F 3/31 and 4/1, and here for more on 4/1.
* Make phone calls to support Gay Valimont for Congress in Florida-01. To join a phone bank with the Florida Democrats, click here. (There’s even a phone bank to chase mail-in ballots.)
* Make phone calls with the MA Dems to recruit volunteers and turn out Congressional Special Election voters in FL-01, FL-06, and NY-21. Dates: 4/1, 4/6, 4/13, 4/27, and 5/4). Sign up here.
* Text voters
* Join a text bank to register voters in swing states with Field Team 6. This is the largest partisan voter registration organization in the country. Get started every Wednesday (next dates are 4/3 and 4/10). Sign up here.
* Write postcards
* Help register voters through postcard writing with Field Team 6, the largest partisan voter registration organization in the country. Current focus: NC (2026 Senate), NJ (2025 Governor), and PA (2025 Supreme Court). Attend an info session Wednesdays at 2 pm. Sign up here to write postcards.
* Write postcards to voters of color for the VA primary with Reclaim Our Vote, a project of the Center for Common Ground. Sign up here.
* Write postcards to voters in VA with Postcards4VA. Send “hard hitting messages to women who … haven't voted in past elections. Our goal is to wake these women up … and get them to pay attention...” First postcards go to districts where women are running! Sign up here.
PART 4: FIGHTING MISINFORMATION AND LIES
Join Indivisible’s Truth Brigade. Learn how to share and amplify unified, factual messages to those who trust us, in order to shift the narrative. Sign up here. Or join the next regular online meeting on 4/9 at 6:30 pm here.
Amp up your impact in fighting misinformation and lies with Indivisible’s Truth Brigade AMP Team pilot and join a meaningful work community on Social Media, Reddit, Longform Writing, or Conversations. Sign up here for Launch on 4/2, 6:30 pm.