10/21/2024
From our host: Here’s the deal, y’all: It’s tied. I don’t know how to say it any more plainly. People ask me for comforting words. Hell, I look for comforting words. But the reality is that all the trustworthy pollsters & data trackers are telling us the same damn thing. The presidential race is tied.
I’d rather be us! We have the momentum, the superior candidate, & the better field operation. However we are up against the relic of the electoral college and powerful forces that aren’t concerned with truth or rule of law. And we need to win by large enough margins that the state level suppression & election subversion tactics they’ve already told us they’re working on won’t be successful.
In the next two weeks, YOU have the power to have Kamala’s back, to stand up for your community, & to help save democracy. After Election Day, it will be too late. YOU can do something TODAY to make a difference. It’s the same remedy we’ve talked about since the Obama days: First, make your plan to vote, and then help get our voters to the polls by making calls. Yes. Calls still work. Actual conversations with voters still matter.
Knocking doors works better, but we can’t all be in the places where that’s needed & the logistics required for canvassing are significant. We can all do calls from almost anywhere with a computer, an internet connection, & a phone.
Texts are great, but because they’re fast and easy to do, we run out of numbers quickly. And we have a glut of folks on the text team already. Calls are still needed.
While yard signs & post cards have their place, they move the needle only very slightly. With 2 weeks to go, we need folks turning their efforts to calling and reminding OUR VOTERS to get to the polls.
Not a single serious campaign operative who has actually won elections will tell you direct voter contact doesn’t work. The trick with calls is, we have to make A LOT of them. It’s simple math. No one person can make 100,000 calls a day. But 1000 people can each make 100 calls. So we need as many people as possible on the phones. The campaign has made it easy to plug in through their website: KamalaHarris.com/calls
Try it for half an hour. Maybe work up to calling for an hour. Then consider calling an hour every day. Think of how easy that will be compared to how difficult your life will be if we lose. Remember the resistance efforts that were required in 2017? Remember what you felt like on November 9, 2016? Making calls today is a cake walk by comparison AND IT MATTERS.
Doom scrolling is a waste of time. We are in Get Out The Vote mode. For some voters, it takes multiple contacts in various forms to get them to the polls. It’s time to make calls…
When you are anxious, make calls. When you are angry, make calls. When you feel alone, make calls. When abortion rights and women’s healthcare are on your mind, make calls. When you’re seeing that Nobel laureate economists predict Donald’s tariffs & massive deportation of immigrants (even legal ones) will crash our economy, make calls. When you think about how all progress on climate change will be halted & reversed, make calls. When you’re concerned about misinformation & disinformation, make calls. When you’re hearing about voter suppression, make calls. When you’re reading about GOP court cases to subvert a free & fair election, make calls. When you recall that the former president stole dozens of banker boxes of classified information and that he is an extreme national security threat, make calls. When you’re worried about billionaire dorks pouring their fortunes into influencing this election, make calls. When you remember that 40 of Donald’s cabinet members are begging us not to let him back in the White House, make calls. When you’re warned by experts who study authoritarian regimes that he will really truly bring fascism to America, make calls. When HE SAYS he will turn the DOJ & a militarized police against his opponents (like you & me!), make calls. When you are confused as to how half the country could vote for a felon and an adjudicated ra**st, make calls.
Joe Biden made a remarkable sacrifice for the good of the country — twice! — first by running in 2020 & then by stepping aside in 2024. We shouldn’t let this go to waste. Kamala has run a flawless, albeit truncated campaign. She will be a wonderful president, though human, of course — as THEY ALL have been — and as WE ALL are. So, sure, we’ll still have work to do, but we’ll have the freedom to continue our work to move the country forward, instead of fighting dark forces pushing us backward & worse.
Meanwhile, y’all, we have the opportunity to make all kinds of history on November 5th. It will take all of us together to finish this job. Let’s win this: KamalaHarris.com/calls
Help Kamala & Tim win by calling voters in battleground states. Get started now.
