Dolores, an inspiration
"It is not often you get to meet your heroine, and that felt inspirational."
-- says Molly, Commit to Flip Blue steering committee member, an everyday activist, and blogger about meeting Dolores Huerta
Click here to read more about Dolores in Molly's blog and be inspired.
Thank You Volunteers!
Thank you for attending our appreciation party for all our wonderful volunteers this past Sunday in Lafayette! Without you, Commit to Flip Blue would be a great name only and not the dynamic, activist organization we have become! We won two of our four and plan to work to Flip more in 2020!
We need to defend our gains in CD 10 and CD 21 (Harder and Cox) and flip the seats in CD 22.
Sheet of your accomplishments. Together we were amazing!
All your work bore fruit. Now we need to gear up for the big fight, taking the Senate and the White House. Please consider stepping up and being a leader, leading a phone bank once a month, running a postcard bank once a month, help organize the buses to the central valley, help coordinate Spanish for activists classes and study sessions, help with the database or the website. We will train you and support you. We need you!
Click here to sign up to be a leader.
Thank you again for believing in Commit to Flip Blue and for supporting our efforts to do just that - Flip the government Blue!
With gratitude,
Jackie Moreau and the C2FB steering committee
Maria Bernstein, Emily Blanck, Judith Brown, Diana Doughtie, Jennifer Dees, Margaret Hegge, Annemarie Henning, Molly Hermes, Megan Lotter, David Rosen, Leah Scheibe, Reena Sekhon, Mary Trounstine, and Sheila Yeh
Get Out the Vote in Oakland!
It's the final Get Out the Vote push! Join a GOTV phone bank in Oakland, multiple dates between now and Election Day! Join us at East Bay for Everyone, a collaborative setting in downtown Oakland, where we'll be making calls to help flip the House on November 6! Co-hosted by Commit to Flip Blue and Democracy Action.
We'll be calling to flip CA congressional districts (Josh Harder CA-10, TJ Cox CA-21, Jessica Morse CA-4, and Andrew Janz CA-22), plus we'll make calls to help tight CA and Senate races around the country. On the final four days leading up to Election Day, November 3-6, we'll start early to make calls into Georgia for Stacey Abrams and Florida for Andrew Gillum. Click on the links below to RSVP for a shift. No experience necessary.
Please bring your charged cell phone AND your laptop, iPad or tablet, plus earbuds with a mic for the best experience...and a snack to share.
Location:
East Bay for Everyone
2044 Franklin St., Oakland, CA 94612
Questions? Email Annemarie at [email protected].
Get Out the Vote! Phone bank in Rossmoor!
Help us Flip the House! Join a GOTV phone bank in Rossmoor on the following dates: October 20-21, October 27-28, and November 3-6. Click on the links below to RSVP.
- We are calling for four candidates: Jessica Morse CA-4, Josh Harder CA-10, TJ Cox CA-21, and Andrew Janz CA-22. We are calling Democrats and identified voters to return their mailed ballots or get to the polls on Election Day!
- We need everyone to step up (even if you have never called before or secretly hate to phone bank). Shifts are 3-4 hours with breaks.
- Address: All phone banks are at Rossmoor Creekside Complex at 1010 Stanley Dollar Drive, Walnut Creek. Tell the Gate Security you are there for the Phone Bank.
- Click on a shift below and you’ll be linked to an online signup page.
- Contact: Diana Doughtie at [email protected]
- Please bring a fully charged laptop or tablet and your cell phone. Democracy is hard work and needs all of us.
🚌 BUY A SEAT ON THE SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY BUS TO THE CENTRAL VALLEY! 🚍
RSVP here and let’s flip Congress blue! Questions? Contact Emily Blanck at [email protected]
October 13:
CA-21, to Sanger
CA-22, to Fresno
October 27
CA-21, to Selma
CA-22, to Fresno
November 3
CA-21, to Sanger
CA-22, to Fresno
100 Days Until Election Day! Voter Registration is Now!
Registering new voters is a key factor in preserving our democracy. Young people coming up need to register. New citizens need to register. People moving in and out of cities, towns and rural areas need to re-register.
California is a growing state by at least 330,000 people per year (1). California has also passed new laws to encourage registration of all voters and young voters, such as the motor-voter law which automatically pre-registers all 16 and 17 year-olds when they receive their driver’s licenses (2).
Voter registration is also key to expanding the base of people who will vote for our great candidates.
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Team Blue Wave Contra Costa
Thank you to everyone who came to Team Blue Wave Contra Costa on July 14 where many organizations are joining together to flip blue. Thank you to everyone involved in making the event happen which includes the CD-21 Action Coalition, Central Labor Council, Commit to Flip Blue, OFA, Together We Will and others. With over 80 in attendance, we learned how to phone bank, text bank, postcard, and how to support on the ground canvassing and voter registration efforts.
We also heard Valley Forward talk about their efforts to organize the Latino community in CD-21 and CD-22. Valley Forward is sending in organizers to do voter registration and education door-to-door.
We will win through voter contact and outreach. And, it is always more fun with friends. Come on out to an event and let’s ride the Blue Wave.
Packed house at the Team Blue Wave Contra Costa event on July 14.
Let's Create a Social Media Buzz...
One of the best ways to support your favorite candidate from home is by spreading their news on social media and creating a buzz about them online. Here are key steps you can take to amplify your campaigns’ posts and tweets on social media platforms:
1) Create a Facebook page and Twitter account if you don’t have one
2) “Like” your candidate’s Facebook page and “Follow” your candidate’s Twitter account (click through for links)
3) Start “sharing” your campaign’s posts and tweets on your pages so that your “friends” and others can see and share them.
4) When a post uses a hashtag, include that hashtag when you share or repost their content. This will help your candidate’s content begin “trending”, indicating to users that this is an important topic being talked about by many people right now. (click through for hashtags)
By sharing Facebook posts, retweeting or writing your own content and tagging/hashtagging your candidate and their campaign, together we can create a social media thunderclap every day to amplify the good news that these candidates stand for OUR American values.
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