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 Elections and Fall Elections
Part 4: Fighting Misinformation and Lies
NOTE: Starred Actions (*) are Virtual
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PART 1: NORTH CAROLINA
Advocacy for NC
Protect Justice Allison Riggs’ 2024 win for NC Supreme Court. The case has moved to federal courts after a mixed ruling from the NC Supreme Court on 4/12. We are waiting to hear from Allison Riggs and the NC Democrats about the next steps, BUT:
* The NC Democratic Party may need volunteer help! Sign up here NOW to let them know you want to be involved.
* Two other organizations are also coordinating with the Democratic Party. You can sign up with either of them to let them know you want to help out. Click here for Down Home NC, a grassroots organization serving rural NC, and here for Carolina Federation, a community-organizing organization that works statewide.
* 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. (Also call bill sponsors and members of the NC House Election Law Committee. Worth doing! Details here for information from YouCanVote.)
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 gun permit requirement (vote coming up soon), requiring cooperation with ICE (vote coming up soon), allowing state investment in cryptocurrency, allowing energy company price hikes (vote coming up soon), and limiting transgender rights.
Building the Resistance AND the Democratic Party
*Protect Medicaid by making phone calls with Down Home NC! Invite North Carolinians impacted by potential loss of Medicaid to get involved. Receive deep canvassing training and make calls (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
Want to learn about canvassing? Join online training, Advanced Canvassing, on 4/21. Sign up here.
* Phone bank with the Durham County Democrats every Tuesday and Wednesday evening, calling people who have participated in recent protests, inviting them to canvass and hold Sen. Tillis accountably. 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 4/26 (Oxford), here for 5/31 (Greensboro), and here for 5/31 (Pinehurst). Check here for others that may get posted.
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 and Bull City Votes, if you are in Durham. (A plug for Bull City Votes, a Durham-based, volunteer-led group, that builds community with folks at the downtown Durham bus terminal and gives rides to the polls from anywhere in Durham.)
Building a Strong Democratic Party, Starting with the Precincts
Canvass with the Democratic Party in Laurinburg (Scotland County) 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 so we can flip the state leigslature blue! Sign up here for any Wednesday or Thursday (4/16, 4/17, 4/23, 4/24, 4/30, 5/1, 5/7, 5/8, 5/14, 5/15, 5/21, 5/22, 52/28, 5/29, 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. Phone calls for Rep. Dante Pittman are happening now! The launch for Sen. Everitt and Rep. Cohn will be on 5/7. Canvass for Rep. Dante Pittman on 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 a photo ID to vote and helping people get a free ID from the Board of Election. Sign up here for 4/19 and here for 4/20.
* Empower yourself for nonpartisan voter education and registration efforts! Join You Can Vote for a 30-minute online workshop on 4/23, or in person - in Jacksonville (4/29), Durham (5/1), Chapel Hill (5/8), or Greensboro (5/13). Sign up here.
* 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 NC voters in preparation for the Senate race.
* Support voters to get state-issued photo IDs with VoteRiders, the only nationwide organization that provides free 1:1 assistance. They have a presence in Charlotte but provide virtual assistance to voters anywhere. Volunteer 1-3 hours/week. Click here to get on the list to receive info and announcements about events. Next training sessions are 4/15, 5/20, and 6/17 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 phone calls with Common Cause to voters across the country, asking them to call their elected representatives. Sign up here to make calls on 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 4/15, 4/17, and 4/20.
* NEW!!!! Make phone calls with the Working Families Party to voters in Republican districts while Congress is in recess, asking those voters to reach out to their Congress members. Sign up here for 4/15, 4/17, and 4/21 at 2 pm.
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
* Write postcards with Field Team 6 to help register voters. 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, AZ voters about Elon/Musk, CA voters about a 2026 Congressional race, NJ voters about their Governor’s race, or PA voters about their Supreme Court race.
* Make calls with Ride Share to Vote to voters who may need rides to the polls for this year’s local elections! To get involved and provide rides in your state, look for volunteer sign-ups here. Ride Share to Vote also has Thursday phone banks to reach out to voters likely in need of transportation. Make calls 6 pm on 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, and 5/8. Sign up here.
* Support voters to get state-issued photo IDs with VoteRiders, the only nationwide organization that provides free 1:1 assistance. They have a presence in a few locations but provide virtual assistance to voters anywhere. Volunteer 1-3 hours/week. Next training sessions are 4/15, 5/20, and 6/17 at 7 pm.
Special Elections and Fall Elections
Build Democratic power this year! They are municipal elections, and state legislative, governor races, or state court races. 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 (4/25, 4/29, 5/6), MI (4/21), TX (4/14, 4/15, 4/17, 4/22, 4/23, 4/24, 4/26, and 4/27), AZ (5/13), and VA (5/20). Click here to sign up.
* Make phone calls with the Massachusetts Dems to recruit volunteers and turn out Congressional Special Election voters in AZ-7, TX-18, and State Legislatures nationwide. Call 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, and 5/25). 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 4/17, 5/1, and 5/8). Sign up here.
* Write postcards
* Write postcards with Postcards to Voters. Their current campaign is to encourage Florida voters to sign up for Vote By Mail. For postcards, sign up here.
* Help register voters through postcard writing with Field Team 6, the largest partisan voter registration organization in the country. Current focus: AZ (anti-Musk and 45+ voters), CA(45+ voters), GA (to GA women), 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 state 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.
* Get ready to write postcards with Postcards to Swing States. Sign-up here starting 5/1 to begin writing postcards for elections in Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Goals - Get Out the vote, and share important news with VA voters and make sure they hear about harmful Republican policies.
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 for the 5/14 session to learn all the possible ways you can participate.