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2024 Election: Final Days and Next Steps

Phone Banks Through Election Day: Get Out the Vote

The election is trending towards Democrats, but it’s definitely not a sure thing. So we need to do all we can to keep turning out voters through Election Day. Here are some opportunities:

  • Call to get out the vote in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania with Swing Blue Alliance. Sign up for two-hour shifts on Sat 11/2, Sun 11/3, or Mon 11/4 between 12:00 - 8:00 PM Eastern.
  • Call to get out the vote in Charlotte/Mecklenburg County, North Carolina with Swing Blue Alliance. Sign up for two-hour shifts on Sat 11/2 through Tue 11/5.
  • Call White voters in battleground states whose real interests are aligned with the working class, but whom MAGA is trying to peel off through division and hatred. Join SURJ’s Many Over MAGA Phonebanks! Sign up for shifts on Sat 11/2 through Tue 11/5.
  • Call Black voters in six different states with Center for Common Ground, encouraging them to vote and providing resources that make it easier to check where they are registered and find the voting information they need. Sign up for any amount of time on Sun 11/3 between 12:00 - 8:00 PM Eastern.
  • Call Black voters in Florida with Center for Common Ground, encouraging them to vote and providing resources that make it easier to check where they are registered and find the voting information they need. Sign up for a two-hour shift on Mon 11/4 from 4:00 - 6:00 PM Eastern.
  • Fight voter suppression in North Carolina by phone banking to rural voters of color with Center for Common Ground and the Workers Circle. We’ll be calling to learn which issues are most important to them, help them make a voting plan, and know the voter ID they need to bring. Sign up for Mon 11/4 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM.
  • Make calls to get out the vote for critical Senate candidates:
    • Sen. Jon Tester, Montana — sign up for shifts on Sat 11/2 through Tue 11/5 nearly anytime.
    • Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Harris/Walz, Wisconsin — sign up for shifts on Sat 11/2 through Tue 11/5 between 11:00 AM - 9:00 PM Eastern.
    • Sen. Bob Casey, Harris/Walz, and down ballot candidates, Pennsylvania — sign up for shifts on Sat 11/2 through Tue 11/5 between 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM Eastern.
  • Sign up to volunteer directly with the Harris/Walz campaign — online or in person — at go.kamalaharris.com.

Phone Banks Post-Election Day: “Cure” Absentee Ballots

This election will be very close and every vote must be counted. Vote/ballot curing is the process of helping voters who have had their absentee ballot rejected by their local clerk for an issue with the signature or address. If these voters don’t take steps to fix or “cure” their ballots, their votes will not be counted! You’ll call these voters to inform them of the problem and guide them to cure their ballot.

  • Arizona phone bank, sign up for shifts from Wed 11/6 through Sat 11/9
  • Michigan phone bank, sign up for the shift on Wed 11/6 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM Eastern
  • Nevada phone bank, sign up for shifts from Wed 11/6 through Tue 11/12
  • North Carolina trainings for future shifts, sign up for Wed 11/6 from 12:00 - 1:00 or 7:00 - 8:00 Eastern
  • Across the battlegrounds with Harris/Walz to the states that need help most, sign up for shifts on Wed 11/6, Sat-Mon 11/9-11/11, and Wed 11/13

Plug In Post-Election Day: Next Steps and Analysis

This will likely be a nail biter past Election Day. Here are some opportunities to make meaning of the moment, connect with others, and hear about next steps regardless of who wins:

  • Movement Voter PAC Briefing: What Just Happened?! — Join Movement Voter PAC on Zoom to jump for joy, cry bitter tears, or bite our nails awaiting delayed results in the company of like-minded Democratic and progressive donors, activists, organizers, and strategists. Sign up for Wed 11/6 at 3:00 PM Eastern.
  • White People’s Work After the Election with Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ) — No matter what happens on November 5, there will be important work for all of us to do in the days following. Join SURJ, the largest US organization that explicitly organizes white people for racial, economic and gender justice, for immediate calls to action to ensure every vote is counted and certified. White communities, organized by MAGA forces, are in the way of us winning on every issue we care about. Win or lose in this election, white people will have an important responsibility and role to play to reject Trump’s plays for white support — and to bring thousands more white people into the multiracial movement we need to win. Sign up for Wed 11/6, 8:00 PM Eastern.
  • Drop-in sessions with Swing Blue Alliance: SBA is holding post-election drop-in Zoom sessions for three days after the election. Volunteers from the SBA leadership team will be there to offer support, answer questions, celebrate our successes, and provide community. Sign up for drop-ins on Wed 11/6 through Fri 11/8, 1:00-2:00 PM or 6:00-7:00 PM Eastern.
  • Movement for Black Lives Post Election Virtual Townhall: Join us as we reflect on the election results, breathe, and share strategy as we enter 2025. Guests will include leaders from Center for Constitutional Rights, Black Voters Matter, Working Families Party, Abolitionist Law Center, Mass Liberation Arizona. Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and Movement for Black Lives. Sign up for Thu 11/7, 6:00 PM Eastern.
  • Force Multiplier’s Election Reflection: Whatever we know or don’t know by that time, we’re sure it will be better if we're together. Let's look at our wins and our losses and talk about where we are and where we need to go. Sign up for Thu 11/7, 8:30 PM Eastern.
  • Power to the People: Where We Go From Here — Join the Workers Circle for a post-election discussion featuring Ari Berman of People For the American Way; courts expert Marge Baker; and Andrea Miller, founder of the Center for Common Ground. We'll explore the political landscape and our role in defending democracy, voting rights, and court reform. Sign up, ask questions, and connect with activists nationwide on Tue 11/12, 7:00 PM Eastern.

Articles

  • “Red Wave” Redux: Are GOP Polls Rigging the Averages in Trump’s Favor? (New Republic): Polling by right-leaning firms has exploded this cycle. It could be that they’re trying to create a (false) sense of momentum for Donald Trump.
  • Our Elections Are Not Fragile: This article from the Brennan Center highlights two large trends in our elections. First, election deniers have ramped up their attacks. Second, despite these attacks, our election system is stronger than it was in 2020 and better equipped to repel these attacks.

  • 5 Days Out I Would Much Rather Be Us Than Them - New 2024 Election Analysis and Video With Tom Bonier (Hopium Chronicles) Excerpts:

    R[epublican]s would only be working so hard to shape the national narrative to make it look like Trump is winning if they believed he wasn’t.

    Dems are matching our 2020 results in the battlegrounds despite the current battleground electorate being older, whiter, more male and more rural than at this point in 2020. This is really good. Next, as we expect both the R[epublican] and unaffiliated vote to be more Democratic this time, it is very likely we are today running ahead of 2020 in the 7 battleground states. This too is really good.

  • Why voting is a chess move, not a love letter: a two-minute video from Maurice Mitchell of the Working Families Party.