Do Something: 14 Days 'Til the Election

Jim Hightower's Lowdown

For you Lowdowners who are looking for ways to spend your anxious energy in productive ways for the next two weeks, we wanted to put together a quick list of ways to do just that. Squeezing out every last vote that we can! It’s go time! Rahr!

Swing State Rural Actions

From our friends at Rural4Harris, who are emailing out new swing state actions to take every few days:

Wisconsin

1. Contact Rural Voters in Wisconsin — Statewide calls for Harris/Walz

2. Flip Wisconsin 3: Elect Rebecca Cooke and Go Red to Blue — Rural Congressional District in Western Wisconsin

Pennsylvania

1. Make Calls to Rural Voters — Statewide calls for Harris/Walz

2. Bucks County Turnout — Important swing county north of Philadelphia

3. Get Out The Rural Vote — GOTV calls into Rural PA on last weekend

RUBI’s Rural Success Stories

I’ve been helping our friends over at the Rural Urban Bridge Initiative write up and spread messages about the investment in rural areas that have been made during the Biden-Harris administration. Whether you’ve only got 5 seconds, 30 seconds or 5 minutes, we’ve got things you can do and share in our Action Kit here. From RUBI:

RUBI believes, and our research has shown, that positive messages about progress and bottom-up solutions are more likely to persuade people in rural communities and small towns.

We need your help amplifying stories about how Kamala Harris will continue the exciting progress happening in rural communities!

By choosing to focus on progress, we’re changing the narrative about rural America. After facing decades of bad policies, disinvestment and wealth extraction, rural communities are coming back, and the federal government, under Biden-Harris, is finally on board with practical and effective support. Sharing these stories is critical for the long-term work of keeping that progress moving forward with Harris-Walz.

Phonebank and textbank — to people you know

Over at , our friend wrote recently about how important true relational organizing is: not just reaching out to strangers, but tapping our own networks to find people who might not be reached by more standard lists of voters or donors in the campaign’s phonebanking operations. Micah gets into the gory details of it all, but if you want to jump in and learn more about the the Reach program, they’re running free introductions every single night online. Sign up here.

Kulkarni has a vision for the next three weeks. If enough people get on Reach and join the DCCC’s “Take Back the House” campaign, on November 1 it may be able to give every congressional campaign a list of missing voters in their district who have not yet voted and who are “in network” and reachable by volunteers who know them. That requires more than simply signing onto Reach; participants are being encouraged to “friendbank” and get more of their contacts in swing states to also get on the app. Every night, he and his team are running “Friendbanking” workshops online that will get you trained in how to use Reach for this specific purpose. Sign up now.

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