Everyday Election Activism: The Opportunities

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Click here to check out the Insider’s Guide to Everyday Election Activism!

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

Special Election in Wisconsin (phone banks, text banks, letter and postcard writing), Other Elections in 2025 (phone banks, text banks, letter and postcard writing)

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, by calling impacted voters.

  • * For information and 5 actions you can take, consult Common Cause NC.

  • * Join a phone bank reaching out 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. For explainers and scripts, courtesy of Charlotte Indivisible, sign up here.

  • Protect NC Attorney General from a law prohibiting him from challenging illegal executive orders issued by Trump.

  • Oppose legislation that will disenfranchise NC voters: HB 66 and HB 127. HB 66 would eliminate 11 days of early voting. HB 127 bans third-party voter registration drives from using actual registration forms. (YouCanVote urges you to also call members of the NC House Election Law Committee and the bill sponsors. Worth doing! Details here.)

  • Ask your legislator to condemn the attempt by Justice Griffin to challenge 60,000+ votes and overturn the November 2024 election win by Justice Riggs.

  • Oppose legislation (HB 171) that would stop any state agency from promoting, supporting, funding, maintaining, or implementing any DEI programs, policies, or initiatives.

  • Charlotte Indivisible also offers scripts to oppose legislation that would eliminate permit requirements for handguns and require NC law enforcement agencies to cooperate with ICE.

Building the Resistance, Inviting More People In!

• *Protect Medicaid! Make calls with Down Home NC to North Carolinians impacted by potential loss of Medicaid and invite them to get involved. Receive wonderful deep canvassing training and make calls on 3/27. Click here to join.

• Canvass in Durham every Saturday and Sunday afternoon, asking voters to demand that Senator Tillis oppose all cuts to Medicaid. Sign up here.

• Invite your 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). In Durham County, also check out Durham Dems Action.

Building a Strong Democratic Party, Starting with the Precincts

• * In Durham: Make phone calls on 3/26 and 3/27 to invite people to attend their precinct kick-off meetings. If we are strong at the precinct level, we can better resist the Trump agenda. To sign up, click here.

• * In Wake County (Raleigh area): Make phone calls with the Wake County Dems to invite Democrats to get involved in their county party. Click here for 3/24 and 3/27 sign-ups. Then canvass to bring in more people on 3/30 and 4/5.

• * Across NC: Make phone calls pm 3/26 at 1 pm or 3/27 at 5 pm to invite Democrats around the state to their Precinct Kickoff Meetings. Click here to sign up.

Flipping the NC Legislature Blue

• * Phone bank and canvass with Neighbors On Call/County To County. Reach out to constituents of some of the Democratic state legislators who helped break the Republican supermajority in 2024. Phone bank for Rep. Dante Pittman with a kickoff on 4/9 (and then make calls on your own through 4/30). Canvass for Rep. Dante Pittman on 4/12. 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 3/24 and 4/28. Sign up here.

Help NC Voters Register to Vote and Obtain Photo IDs

• * 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.

• * 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 session is 4/15 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 some NC sources of information. If you live in other states, find your nearby Indivisible groups and other state-based or local organizations.

Other organizations with reliable action alerts: Chop Wood, Carry Water (and look for the state-specific pages as well), as well as Declaration for American Democracy.

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.

Help Others (especially those in GOP districts) Contact Their Elected Officials

• * Build opposition to the SAVE Act (H.R. 22), the so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. This may be the most significant national-level threat to free elections. It will require all voters to produce a passpor or birth certificate to vote in federal elections. Up to 150 million Americans, especially women, people of color, young people and older adults, would have trouble providing either of these. It is expected to come up for a vote soon. Your choice of phone banks!

  • * Join a phone bank with Common Cause to call voters across the country, asking them to call their elected representatives. Sign up here to make calls every Tuesday and Thursday on 3/25, 3/27, 4/1, 4/8, and 4/15 from 5-7 pm.

  • * Join a phone bank with RepresentUs to call voters across the country, asking them to call their elected representatives. Sign up here for 3/25, 3/27, and 3/30.

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 for their offices across the state. Then make calls!

• Making calls: Republicans make it difficult to get through to a real person. If you can not get through to a real person, call back, try the official’s other office numbers, or leave a message. Be sure to give your name and zip code. Remember, it’s nice to talk directly with a Legislative Assistant, because you can ask about the elected official’s position, but leaving messages (even after hours) is always an option. In the end it is the number of calls that makes a difference.

Information about Messaging and Litigation, and Where to Donate

• * For messaging guidance about the MAGA agenda, including executive orders, check out the Guidance for Executive Orders from the Research Collaborative, headed by Anat Shenker-Osorio.

• * For updates about legal challenges, follow Democracy Forward on their Legal Response Center page.

• * To learn about and support litigation against unlawful and unconstitutional government action, pay attention, and donate if you can, to Democracy Docket, the coalition of litigators at Democracy Forward, as well as ACLU, Public Citizen, and Common Cause.

PART 3: CRITICAL ELECTIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Special Election in Wisconsin

Election Day for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and other races is April 1. Early voting started March 15. The Supreme Court race will determine whether Democrats retain control of the court.

• * Join phone banks with WisDems, the Wisconsin Democratic Party. Click here for daily (yes, daily!) phone bank events through 4/1. You can also help recruit volunteers for WisDems on 3/25, and 3/26 (click here). Click here for lots of choices of dates and time to help recruit volunteers for county Democratic parties across the state.

• * Join phone banks to Black voters with Reclaim Our Vote, a project of the Center for Common Ground. Sign up for 3/26 here, or learn how to make calls on your own here.

• * Join phone banks with Our Revolution (Bernie Sanders) on 3/25 and 3/31. Sign up here.

• * Join phone banks with Wisconsin Working Families Party on 3/26, 3/30, and 3/31. Sign up here.

• * Join phone banks with Swing Blue Alliance on 3/24, 3/26, and 3/31. Click here.

• * Join phone banks to voters with Swing Left on 3/25 and 4/1. Sign up here.

Other Elections Coming up in 2025

Help build Democratic power through small but important elections. We have a lot of special elections this year. Some are municipal elections, some are critical state legislative or governor races, some are state court races. Still others are Congressional races that will help determine majority rule in the House of Representatives and Senate - right now in Florida, we have a chance to flip two Congressional seats from red to blue! 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 for special elections with the Environmental Voter Project. A great organization to know about! Environmental Voter Project uses multiple outreach methods to turn environmentalists into consistent voters, including calling voters ahead of small elections. Current phone banks: Florida (3/25 and 3/26), Alaska (3/27), and Nebraska (4/1, 4/2, and 4/8). Sign up here.

• * Make phone calls for Josh Weil for Congress in Florida-06. Click here for phone banks throughout the day, M-F from 3/24- 3-28. For other options, click here (and then scroll down) to find other phone banks for Josh.

• * Make phone calls to support Gay Valimont for Congress in Florida-01. To join a phone bank with the Florida Democrats almost any evening, click here. for other options, click here.

• * Make phone calls to support Blake Gendebien for Congress in NY-21. Phone banks on 3/27, 3/29, 3/30, 4/1, 4/3 , 4/5, 4/6, , 4/8, and 4/10. Sign up here.

• * Make phone calls with the Massachusetts Dems to recruit volunteers and turn out Congressional Special Election voters for Democrats in FL-01, FL-06, and NY-21. Phone banks Sundays at 4:30 pm and Tuesdays at 5:30 pm (dates: 3/25, 3/30, 4/1, 4/6, and 4/13). Sign up here.

• * Make phone calls with VoteRiders/Fair Count to encourage and mobilize Mississippi voters in advance of the municipal primary on April 1st. Sign up here for 4/30 from 4 to 6 pm.

* Text voters

• * Join a text bank to register voters with Field Team 6. This is the largest partisan voter registration organization in the country. Get started every Wednesday (next dates are 3/27 and 4/3). Sign up here.

* Write postcards

• * Help register voters through postcard writing with Field Team 6. This is the largest partisan voter registration organization in the country. They are now focused on elections in NC (2026 Senate race), NJ (2025 Governor race), and PA (2025 Supreme Court race). Attend an info session any Wednesday 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. (If in the Durham area, email rovnchw@gmail.com.)

• * Write postcards to voters in VA with Postcards4VA. Send “hard hitting messages to women who lean Democrat or Republican and haven't voted in past elections. ..Our goal is to wake these women up with our postcards and get them to pay attention to what is happening around them.” The first round goes to districts where women have announced their intention to run and have run before. 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.

• If you’re ready to amp up your impact in fighting misinformation and lies, join the Truth Brigade AMP Team pilot and become part of a meaningful work community. Sign up here for Team Training and Launch on 4/1, 6:30 pm. Learn how to work with the platform of your choice: Social Media, Reddit, Longform Writing, or Conversations.