Election Day is Tuesday, November 3rd.

We don’t need to tell you that everything is riding on this election, but we will anyway. It can’t be said enough: Everything is riding on this election. Everything.

From now until election day, every episode of the show will highlight a different way you can be spending time and/or money to support a free and fair election, as well as Democrats down the ballot and all the way up to the Biden-Harris ticket. 

All of the segments and links to the information we share (and those we are going to share) are below. We'll be updating this page regularly.

 

BOTL V.I.N.E. SEGMENTS:

BotL #1364: Voting Is Not Enough: Become a Poll Worker & Save Polling Places

BotL #1365: Voting Is Not Enough: Get Involved In the Ground Game NOW 

BotL #1366: Voting Is Not Enough: Help Unhoused, Poor and Low-Income Voters Access the Ballot

BotL #1367: Voting Is Not Enough: Know Your State’s 2020 Voting Rules & Voting Best Practices & Help Others

BotL #1368: Voting Is Not Enough: Take Part in National Voter Registration Day

BotL #1369: Voting Is Not Enough: Work to Overcome Racist Voter Suppression in Yet Another Election Without the Full Voting Rights Act 

BotL #1372: Voting Is Not Enough: Help Flip the Senate (& more!) via @swingleft

BotL #1373: Voting Is Not Enough: Register Voters & Re-Register Purged Voters in Battleground States via @fieldteam_6

BotL #1374: Voting Is Not Enough: Fight Voter Suppression & Help Restore Native Voting Rights

BotL #1375: Voting Is Not Enough: Protect the Election Results

BotL #1376: Voting Is Not Enough: GET OUT THE VOTE!!!

BotL #1377: Voting Is Not Enough: FINAL PUSH! GOTV & DONATE STRATEGICALLY!

 

**FINAL PUSH - ACTION TO DO LIST**

• GET OUT THE VOTE:
  • Swing Left (Super State Strategy aims to flip the White House, Senate, & key state houses)
    • The Last Weekends - Volunteer opportunities the during the last weekends before the election
  • Field Team 6
    • Unique action! Call purged voters and make sure they are re-registered
  • Sunrise Movement 
  • Vote Save America
  • Indivisible's Windivisible Campaign

• DONATE STRATEGICALLY:
  • Donate to the Swing Left Immediate Impact Fund or an individual Super State (Flip White House, Senate & Key State Houses)
  • Donate to individual Senate races via Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to Flip the Senate (Flip the Senate)
  • DCCC Frontline Fund (Protect Vulnerable House Dems)
  • DCCC Red to Blue (Flip More Red House Seats)
  • EveryDistrict (Flip state legislatures)
  • Democratic Governors Association (Support Incumbents & Flip Red Governorships)

• TALK TO 5 FRIENDS/FAMILY MEMBERS ABOUT VOTING, THEN ENCOURAGE THEM TO DO THE SAME
  • How to Talk about Voting With Friends Who Don't Vote (HeadCount)
  • How to Talk to Your Friends About Voting (Global Citizen)
  • How I Convinced My Dad Not to Vote for Trump (The Cut)
  • Convince left friends to use their vote as a tool & vote for Biden: Use Jay's final comments from episode #1365 (Transcript). (This listener tweeted it out)

 

**PROTECTING THE ELECTION RESULTS**

• 6 Steps to Save the Vote (RepresentUs)
• Protect the Results (Coalition)
• #CountOnUs: How to Defeat Trump and Defend the Election (Sunrise Movement)
• 10 Things You Need to Know to Stop A Coup (Waging Nonviolence)

Understanding What May Happen & How:

• Is Trump Planning a Coup d’État? (The Nation)
• What Happens If Trump Won't Step Down? (Slate)
• The Election That Could Break America (The Atlantic)
• A list of the times Trump has said he won't accept the election results or leave office if he loses (CNN)

 

**KNOW YOUR VOTING RIGHTS, CONFIRM REGISTRATION & MAKE A VOTING PLAN**

PROBLEMS AT THE POLLS? BALLOT OR DROP BOX CONCERNS? CALL ELECTION PROTECTION AT 866-OUR-VOTE or visit 866ourvote.org

Voter Information/Resources:

• Register to Vote Online (39 states & DC, but remaining states may have online registration form request options, etc.)
• Voter Registration Deadlines (Vote.org) or Table of Voter Registration Deadlines by State and Type (Business Insider)
• Check On Your Voter Registration Status (make sure you haven't been purged!) (Rock the Vote)
• Know Your Voting Rights & Make a Plan (ACLU)
• ...make sure everyone you know checks these things too!

 

State-by-State Voting Rules/Deadlines/Etc.:

• For the latest state-by-state voting rules and info, explore and share the comprehensive "How to Vote in the 2020 Election" Project (FiveThirtyEight)
• Let People Vote - State-by-State Rules & Options (ACLU)
• Voter Info for Every State (Registration deadlines, absentee ballot deadlines, mail-in ballot deadlines, early voting dates, etc.) (Rock the Vote)
• Check Voter ID Laws (VoteRiders)
• NativesVote2020.org (Includes state-by-state laws in context of suppression)
• ...make sure everyone you know checks these things too!

 

Voting Best Practices

1. Request your absentee ballot ASAP! RIGHT NOW! 

2. When you have your ballot, vote ASAP but follow ballot rules to the letter to avoid rejection!

3. If you don't want to mail your ballot, find local ballot drop boxes through your state's Secretary of State website or by calling your local election office. Find my state or local election office

4. Track your ballot online to ensure it was received and accepted! To find the tracker, first find your state or local election office

Voting in person is still an option (and about as safe as a trip to the grocery store), but be prepared for people to disobey health rules, and for long lines and reduced polling places. Find your polling place

...make sure everyone you know has this info too!

 

THEN, DIVE IN...

Want to IMMEDIATELY sign up for shifts? Visit TheLastWeekends.org (via SwingLeft)

REGISTER VOTERS 

• National Voter Registration Day is Tuesday, September 22nd
  • Not just about registering, but also for updating addresses, changed last names, etc.
• Table of Voter Registration Deadlines by State and Type (Business Insider)
• Register to Vote Online (39 states & DC, but remaining states may have online registration form request options, etc.)
• Essential Spanish for Voter Registration (Field Team 6)

 

BECOME A POLL WORKER 

• Enter your state at WorkElections.com
• Support recruitment campaigns: 

More Than A Vote (@morethanavote): Fighting against voter suppression. Recruiting poll workers in heavily Black districts across the country. 

The Poll Hero Project (@pollheroproject): Recruiting thousands of college and high school students to be paid poll workers to make the 2020 election a success!

Power the Polls (@powerthepolls)

 

JOIN A VOTER/ELECTION PROTECTION TEAM

• Volunteer for a 2020 Voter Protection Team (FairFight)
• Nonpartisan Election Protection Volunteer (Election Protection)
  • Are you a lawyer, paralegal or other legal professional? Volunteer with Election Protection
• Poll Watcher Qualifications by State (NCSL)

 

FIGHT RACIST VOTER SUPPRESSION (In Another Election Without the Full VRA Protections) 

1. Confirm Voter Registration & Talk to Purged Voters:

Vote.org

National Voter Registration Day Toolkit

Call purged voters: Field Team 6 Actions 

2. Help People Get Necessary IDs to Vote:

VoteRiders Free Help (share, volunteer & donate)

3. Increase Black Voter Turnout:

NAACP Black Voices Change Lives

4. Become a Poll Worker:

WorkElections.com

MoreThanaVote.org

 

VOLUNTEER TO GET OUT THE VOTE/SUPPORT VOTERS NOW

Call, Text, Write, Relational Voter Outreach, etc. 

• Grab some friends & GOTV with:
  • Swing Left (Super State Strategy aims to flip the White House, Senate, & key state houses)
    • The Last Weekends - Volunteer opportunities the during the last weekends before the election
  • Field Team 6
    • Unique action! Call purged voters and make sure they are re-registered
  • Sunrise Movement 
    • Swing State Phonebank with Sunrise, March For Our Lives, Dream Defenders and United We Dream (Oct. 5-17th)
  • Vote Save America
  • Indivisible's Windivisible Campaign
  • The Poor People's Campaign's "We Must Do M.O.R.E"
  • Vote Forward (write to voters)
  • Move On
  • Progressive Turn Out Project
  • Biden-Harris campaign
    • Download the Vote Joe app on the App Store or Google Play Store or by texting APP to 30330.
  • NAACP's Black Voices Changes Lives - Engaged Black voters calling unengaged Black voters in key states
  • SuperMajority
  • SEIU Members GOTV events
  • National Voter Education Week - Engagement Resources 

 

Help Unhoused, Poor and Low-Income People Access the Ballot 

• Join The Poor People Campaign's "We Must Do M.O.R.E." Effort
  • "We Must Do M.O.R.E" Digital Toolkit
  • Watch the "We Must Do M.O.R.E." Moral Monday Mass Assembly on 9/14 at 7pm ET on Facebook
• National Low Income Housing Coalition: National Federal Eviction Moratorium & Toolkit
• Are you or someone you know facing eviction? National Housing Law Project Resources for People Facing Eviction During the Pandemic
• More info at BotL #1366: Voting Is Not Enough: Help Unhoused, Poor and Low-Income Voters Access the Ballot

 

Focus on Swing/Battleground States

• Swing Left
  • Swing Left: The 2020 Super States (Swing Left)
• NAACP's Black Voices Changes Lives
• Vote Save America - Adopt a State
• Field Team 6

 

Flip the Senate/Hold the House

• Senate & House: Swing Left
  • Swing Left: The 2020 Super States (Swing Left)

• Senate & House: NAACP's Black Voices Changes Lives
• House: Red to Blue (DCCC)
• Senate: Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) to Flip the Senate

 

Senate Races of Note (Check Cook Political Report & FiveThirtyEight for latest)

Special Elections (Winner sworn-in in November!):

AZ: Unseat McSally. Give to Mark Kelly. (Lean D)

GA: Unseat Loeffler. Give to Rev. Raphael Warnock. (Lean R)

Tightening Polls -  Toss Ups:

MT: Unseat Daines. Give to Steve Bullock

GA: Unseat Perdue. Give to Jon Ossoff

IA: Unseat Ernst: Give to Theresa Greenfield 

ME: Unseat Collins. Give to Sara Gideon

NC: Unseat Tillis. Give to Cal Cunningham 

CO: Unseat Gardener. Give to John Hickenlooper 

Close Polls - Lean R & Likely R:

AK: Unseat Sullivan. Give to Dr. Al Gross 

SC: Unseat Graham. Give to Jaime Harrison

TX: Unseat Cornyn. Give to MJ Hegar

KS: Open seat. Give to Bollier

 

Support Vulnerable Dem Incumbents

Cook Political Report Senate Race Ratings 

- MI: Help Sen. Gary Peters 

Cook Political Report House Race Ratings 

- DCCC Frontline Fund (Protect Vulnerable House Dems)

Cook Political Report Governor Race Ratings

- Democratic Governors Association (Support Incumbents & Flip Red Governorships)

 

DONATE STRATEGICALLY!

• Donate to the Swing Left Immediate Impact Fund or an individual Super State (Flip White House, Senate & Key State Houses)
• Donate to individual Senate races via Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to Flip the Senate (Flip the Senate)
• DCCC Frontline Fund (Protect Vulnerable House Dems)
• DCCC Red to Blue (Flip More Red House Seats)
• EveryDistrict (Flip state legislatures)
• Democratic Governors Association (Support Incumbents & Flip Red Governorships)
• Biden-Harris Campaign

 

PERSUADE SOMEONE TO USE THEIR VOTE AS A THEORY OF CHANGE TOOL & VOTE FOR BIDEN-HARRIS

•  Jay's final comments from episode #1365 (Transcript). This listener tweeted it out:

thinking about this bit from episode #1365 of @BestOfTheLeft again today. i've been trying to find a way to say this exact thing for such a long time. it's so nice to see it explained this eloquently.

a vote is a tool.

full transcript: https://t.co/kkpQJZtH2o pic.twitter.com/Z6MR01kwRj

— literally just brenna (@traceretrace) September 12, 2020

 

• The Majority Report - "Taking Sides In The Chomsky - Bad Faith Podcast Debate" (Oct. 21st)

 

• Democracy Now! - Rev. William Barber Millions Are Struggling. So Why Do the Debates Ignore Poverty? (Oct. 8th)

 

 

STAY MOTIVATED!

Podcasts:

• "How We Win" from SwingLeft
• Washington State Indivisible Podcast 
• Archives of "The Good Fight with Ben Wikler" from MoveOn.org (ended in 2015)

Music:

• "Get Up" by We The People (Agenda Records | Feel Good Voting)
• "We Insist: 2020's Protest Music" (NPR Music's Spotify Playlist)
• "Top 10 Protest Albums of 2020 (So Far)" (ShadowProof)
• "As America Bleeds" (Song tied to campaign to raise funds for NYCLU, National Urban League, Coming to the Table, Brooklyn Community Bail Fund and Campaign Zero)
• 1,000 Days, 1,000 Songs (formerly "30 Days, 30 Songs")