Progressive activists of all stripes are fighting to prevent the GOP from taking control of the Senate on behalf of their billionaire backers.
But how can we best do this if we live in blue states? Well there’s a new and easy way that has a lot of organizers really excited.
Just enter your zip code to find a calling party near you or sign up to make calls from home.
This weekend the act.tv team paid a visit to MoveOn’s NYC volunteer phone banking office to make videos humanizing the process and persuading others to take part. And it’s clear that a chord is really being struck here!
Paul Hogarth recently wrote about why this new Voters Rising campaign is such a game changer.
Rather than simply making calls from a phone, MoveOn uses the same “predictive dialer” system that President Obama's Organizing for America uses in its campaigns.
Your cell phone is connected to an online network that automatically makes several phone calls at the same time, until it reaches a live person.
Why is that a big deal? Because most phone calls get picked up by voice mail, so just calling through a list can be very inefficient. With a predictive dialer, every call that you make will be answered by a person on the other end—which allows you to reach more voters.
Here's another video we made walking you through the process.
There are field offices like this across the country (Berkeley, Seattle, Chicago and New York), and if you don’t live nearby you can easily sign up to make phone calls from home.
Based on all this context the 2 million volunteer-to-voter calls made so far seems like an early number to me. Encouraging across the board for sure.