Chop Wood, Carry Georgia 9/24 🍑
Hey, Team Georgia!
So, the GA State Election Board passed the hand-count rule in a disappointing 3-2 ruling. Sigh. Nonetheless, thank you all for your tremendous efforts in calling Kemp and emailing the Board - there’s still a good chance this will get struck down in the courts before the election, so let’s keep our fingers crossed! In the meantime, there are, as always, all sorts of other important things to be done…
The New Georgia Project is an organization focused on registering, engaging, and mobilizing Georgians, particularly Black and young Georgians, to the polls and making sure their right to vote is protected. They have a whole slew of great opportunities and resources you can share, and are in need of volunteers to support this effort. Here are some ways you can get involved:
Click here for their voting guide page, where you can research the candidates and measures that will be on your ballot, check your voter registration, or request a ride to the polls! This is also a great page to share with any of the less informed voters in your life.
Click here for some GOTV phonebanking - NGP will provide training and support while you help GA voters make their plans to vote. You can join virtually any Tuesday or Thursday from 5:30-8:30pm.
Click here to become a VoPro poll monitor and protect the polls on election day!
Next up, Team Georgia for Harris-Walz has their final September Weekend of Action this weekend!! It’s incredibly important to keep up the momentum as we enter the final stretch of the race, so join them on Saturday and/or Sunday to canvass and make some calls. Sign up here.
Lastly, we are fast approaching the October 1 deadline for writing and sending out letters in Vote Forward’s voter registration campaign. They are still in need of a significant amount of writers for GA, so click here to get started!
Thank you all for your continued efforts. I appreciate you, and so does the state of democracy in this country!! More soon.
Jess
Folks, let’s roll up our sleeves! ACTION STEPS! It’s dangerous to be over- confident that Kamala will win. In 2016 we were confident Hillary would win, but because 40 million registered Democrats did not vote, Trump won.
Pls join me in reaching out to moderate and low-propensity voters.
We need millions of low-propensity Democrats (a polite term for not motivated to vote), Independents, and undecideds to vote for Kamala. There are also some Republicans who are disgusted with Trump but they don’t want to “become a Democrat” – we need to inform them that voting Blue is in their best interests. WE CANNOT WIN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE WITHOUT MILLIONS OF THEIR VOTES.
Two wonderful organizations - Galvanize Action - https://www.galvanizeaction.org/ - and One For All - https://oneforallcommittee.org/ -- are expert in crafting campaign messages to motivate people to vote Blue. They reach out to moderate women who admire Kamala but are married to Trumpers – giving them a nudge to follow their own common sense and vote for Kamala. Their messages are tried and true - created by veteran campaign experts, social psychologists, and data scientists - and are constantly tested and refined.
Another action step – Pls. support the work of kick-a*s investigative reporter, Justin Glawe. Only $5 a month gives you a subscription to his mighty Substack: “American Doom” - https://www.american-doom.com/p/how-georgia-election-officials-will - Justin does deep investigations into the shenanigans of the Georgia board of elections and has uncovered a lot of malfeasance. GA Republicans are doing everything they can to depress Democratic turnout, even submitting fake Death Certificates to have registered voters removed from the rolls. Much of this is only known due to Justin Glawe’s work. He writes for The Guardian and Rolling Stone; but he’s a freelance writer. Which means, in addition to no regular paycheck, he has to pay for all the FOIA (Freedom of Information) requests on his own. It also means if he’s sued, there’s no publication to cover his legal defense. Please join me in supporting him!