One of the lessons life teaches you pretty early on is that, by yourself, there’s very little you can do to change the world. So I realize that my efforts are small and insignificant in the scheme of things. But I’ve realized something else as well: as individuals, we cannot do EVERYTHING to correct the ills of the world, but we can do SOMETHING. And when we join up with millions of others, there is very little we cannot do.
So I sit here in Hawaii, so distant from the rest of the country, and I urge you to get out the vote, so that we might destroy the criminal regime of right-wing authoritarians and fanatics that is destroying our beloved country. You may not know that I also wage my own incessant war against Trump and his minions on Twitter. I was astonished to see, as I was looking over my stuff last night, that I have almost 55,000 Tweets, the vast majority of them re-Tweets. So you know what? I invite you to use my Twitter account as a resource. I am @JosephMiller41 if you’re interested. You will find a treasure trove of stuff, I promise you. You can re-Tweet it or use the huge number of articles I’ve saved to help out our campaign against the right-wingers. A small thing, but it’s (almost) all I can do.
Here’s something else I do, every day:
I will push GET OUT THE VOTE until Trump’s CRIMINAL ass has been kicked out of power and the Senate Republicans have been put in the minority where they belong. I will push for GET OUT THE VOTE until the damned Republican Party has been reduced to ashes, which is what they deserve. I will push GET OUT THE VOTE to give the white supremacist conservative “movement” the political groin kick it so richly has coming. I will push GET OUT THE VOTE because I am a patriot who hates and despises the right-wing JACKALS that are destroying my country.
STAND WITH ME.
And let’s save our country! Here are PRACTICAL, WORKABLE things YOU can do!
Hillary Clinton got almost 65.9 million votes. I’d like to see Joe Biden get at least 85 million votes.
It’s doable, but not in the way I was originally planning on. In January 2019 I began advocating a massive canvassing campaign of reaching out to voters door-to-door. In pandemic-ridden America, that may not be an option (unless we want to be the Masked Door Knockers). But I am convinced that there MUST be a personal element involved. Texts, postcards, and letters seem to me to be the key to this personal contact. Where to start? Try these links.
POSTCARDS TO VOTERS.
VOTE FORWARD’S LETTERS TO VOTERS.
TEXT OUT THE VOTE.
THE MoveOn TEXT TEAM
And don’t close the door on canvassing just yet! There are safe ways in which this can be done!
Our Target Groups: WHERE THE VOTES ARE
ID REQUIREMENTS FOR EVERY STATE, HOW TO OBTAIN VOTER IDs
1. Information from The National Conference of State Legislatures, located here. This is an excellent source.
2. Information from Ballotpedia, here. This has a wealth of detail.
3. VoteRiders will help people obtain voter IDs. Take a look here.
ABSENTEE BALLOT REQUIREMENTS
Vote.org
Absentee and Early Voting
REGISTERING TO VOTE
1. State voting requirements can be found at U.S. Vote Foundation, located here.
2. You can register people to vote at Vote.Org, located right here.
3. You can not only register to vote at this site, you can check your current eligibility, right here.
WORKING WITH DEMOCRATIC GROUPS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL
1. Act Local put this guide out last year. It has plenty of good information, and I’m sure they’re already cranking up for 2020. Take a look here.
2. You want to be part of a fighting organization? Check out Indivisible, right here.
3. Check out Wave 2020, right here. Their list of local organizations is here.
4. Take a look at SwingLeft, right here.
5. The Action Network has links to let you volunteer in key states.
FOR AMERICANS ABROAD AND MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY
And Democrats Abroad has valuable information.
I have GOTV suggestions specifically targeted for PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, MICHIGAN, WISCONSIN, IOWA, NORTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, and FLORIDA.
If you want to help in Texas, try The Texas Organizing Project. If you’d like to go an additional route, there’s The Texas Democratic Party.
Here is a big list of Texas progressive organizations from ActLocal.
Here’s the Dallas County Democratic Party.
Here’s the Harris County Democratic Party. (Houston)
Here’s Texas Democratic Women.
Here’s Turn Rural Texas Blue. (From Kossack sane)
BETO O’ROURKE IS HOLDING A VIRTUAL REGISTRATION DRIVE IN EARLY JUNE! Click the link for details!
Here is the largest Latino Democratic organization in Texas, Jolt. Note: One in three eligible voters in Texas are Latino!
If you want to help in Arizona, look at AZ Dems. If you are in Arizona, it’s imperative that you look at this: Arizona Voting Guide. It’s full of VITAL information.
And take a look here:
The Campaign Workshop: GOTV for Democrats
Nuts & Bolts, right here on DKos.
National Democratic Training Committee
Progressive Turnout Project
For the Win (county-wide GOTV)
Daily Kos Groups (from Kossack mettle fatigue)
Sister District Project (for winning state legislatures)
Joe Biden’s Take Action Page.
And MICHELLE OBAMA is ready to go BIG on GOTV!
Here are ALL of the state Democratic parties!
We need your help BIG TIME this year! Never think we’ve got this in the bag. We need to be fighting EVERY day.
And your money is vital as well. ActBlue is a handy-dandy way to contribute.
So every day from now until 3 November, my message will be simple and straight-forward:
GET OUT THE VOTE, GET OUT THE VOTE, GET OUT THE DAMN VOTE!
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE SHARE THIS!!!!!!!!!
BTW, here is a link to the video RIGGED: The Voter Suppression Playbook. It’s about how the Republicans CHEAT to win.