1. Martin Luther King Day, January 20. Check with your local food bank to find a volunteer activity. Or, if you know someone who is disabed and would welcome the help, how about doing some yard work or other task?
2 Help a candidate. If you have a candidate you would like to help, now is the time to make those calls and texts to Iowa. Remember, candidates who are also Senators will soon be tied up in the trial. They will need surrogates to make their case!
3 Sign up to make some calls connecting voters to 13 key senators. With impeachment hearings moving forward this week in the Senate, it’s critically important that we prepare for the next stage -- a fair impeachment trial in the Senate. We’ve hit 600,000 calls (!!) but we still have a ways to go to make our goal of calling one million constituents of the 13 senators who really need to hear from them. We're asking you to call voters in those states and ask them to turn up the pressure on their elected officials. It’s a simple four-part process:
- You call a progressive voter in a key state with one of these 13 Republicans. These folks are your friends—they attended the Women’s March and/or fight for progressive causes.
- You explain how they have power now. You’ll remind them why the continued fight for impeachment is so important—and why they have particular power in this moment.
- You ask them to use their power. Then, you’ll ask them to call their senator and make their voices heard on why we’re demanding courage in this moment.
- You push a button and connect them to their senator’s office. The call tool will allow you to automatically patch them through to the senator’s DC office.
4 Plan to participate in a Virtual Phone Bank for primaries and caucuses in other states. You can concentrate on getting out the vote for Democrats, or picking a candidate and making calls for them.
5 Don't forget about our local candidates! We need to re-elect our Democratic members of Congress, add to the Democratic majority in Sacramento, and start the process of getting more progressive city halls, county offices and school boards across the county. Those people are our "farm team" for later federal offices. And be sure to thank our MOCs for their votes on impeachment.
6 Go to our page "Contact or Join" and join as a member. That way, you can send in your vote TO US and after we get 25 votes on an issue, we can express our support or dissent on important issues.
