Plaid Shirt (Voting) Days
and nights where we phone bank and text bank
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Take all your friends to the summit in style! Our second Social Goods x Swifties for Kamala drop, the “From the Vault” collection, is here and it’s putting calm over chaos step by step and from town to town. Because electing Kamala is a relaxing thought, don’t you think? So let's paint the town blue and get out the vote, together!
Proceeds from this sale benefit nonprofits working to increase civic engagement in the disability community and improve the accessibility of elections so everyone can access their right to vote.
You can shop our collection with Social Goods here.
The battle is long, and it’s the fight of our lives. With only 40 days until the election, it’s the final sprint and we are ready for it. This week we are highlighting four volunteer opportunities that specifically target key battleground states in the election.
This is our phone bank, we make the calls: Join Swifties for Kamala and our partner, the North Carolina Democrats Coordinated Campaign, for a phone bank on Saturday, Sept. 28 from 6 - 8 pm ET. Training will be provided at the start of the Zoom call.
I had the time of my life text banking Georgians with you: Join the Georgia Working Families Party for a weekly text bank on Tuesdays from 6:30 - 8:30 pm ET. There will be a short training at the beginning of every Zoom shift.
You know I love an Arizona phone bank: Sign up to virtually phone bank with Arizona Democrats! Shifts are available on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5 - 7 pm PT, Saturdays from 11 am - 2 pm PT and Sundays from 2 - 4 pm PT. Training will be provided at the start of the call and live support will be available throughout the Zoom sessions.
Free tonight? Join Swifties for Kamala and our partner, Wisconsin Dems tonight, Sep. 26 from 6-8pm CT as we make calls to Wisconsin voters! If you can’t make it tonight, join us next week, Oct. 3, at the same time!
Want to find an in-person event in your community? Use the Harris campaign’s search tool to find local volunteer opportunities!
This past week has been a major one for the campaign — and for us! This past Thursday, Oprah hosted the Unite for America 2024 livestream. The event aimed to connect the amazing grassroots groups across the U.S. that have mobilized for Kamala — including us Swifties!
Our co-founder, Irene Kim, was invited to sit front and center in the live audience, and we couldn’t be prouder! When asked for her reflection, Irene said, “Being part of the Unite For America call with Oprah Winfrey and VP Harris was so surreal. It was inspiring to meet so many other organizers and volunteers, and it really reminded me why we started Swifties For Kamala: to connect with and mobilize our communities. It was so joyful to see how many different communities have been coming together to get our first Black woman president into the White House.”
You can watch the full livestream here!
In other news, a recent NBC news poll found that Harris is currently leading Trump nationally 49% to 44%! (Here’s the link to the data for our crosstabs warriors.) While this is great news, it’s always important to remember that polls don’t vote and we have to keep the momentum going. Make sure to keep talking to your friends and family about Kamala and her policies! (This week you can send around Kamala’s WIRED Autocomplete Interview — there’s lots of policy discussion and a few hilarious moments. And a Taylor Swift mention!)
You look like Taylor Swift: This week’s most Taylor Swift-coded campaign moment is… Kamala’s promise to end the filibuster to pass protections for reproductive freedom! Taylor is famous for knocking down any walls in her way (and singing about a few of them along the way), and we’re so glad that Kamala has vowed to make crashing through this unnecessary wall a priority in her campaign and for her presidency. It’s been a long time coming…
Since there are approximately 161.4 million workers in the United States, protecting the working class has never been more important. This week we’re shedding some light on the restrictive policies Project 2025 has planned for labor laws and workers.
One proposed issue is allowing more fluidity in labeling contract workers and employees (pg. 591). While employees are typically provided benefits such as healthcare, many contractors are not afforded that same protection. Unions are also attacked consistently in the proposal, including suggestions of interfering with the unionization voting process (pg. 602) to stripping government security organizations like TSA of their union status (pg. 159).
The project also proposes rescinding the Public Student Loan Forgiveness program (pg. 332), which helps repay student loan balances of eligible government and nonprofit employees (pg. 332).
Republicans claim to be fighting for workers, but no worker will be out of the woods if any of these proposals come to fruition. So get out and vote!
With Climate Week NYC (it's been waiting for you) happening this week, now is a perfect time to dive into VP Kamala Harris's climate policy..
The story starts when it was hot and it was summer, and in 2005 Harris, then working as San Francisco’s district attorney, set up one of the country’s first environmental justice units. After becoming California’s attorney general in 2010, she continued to work on environmental issues, such as bringing charges against Plains All-American Pipeline for a massive oil spill and kickstarting the investigation into whether ExxonMobil has been misleading about their climate-related risks. (Seemingly related, California sued ExxonMobil and other oil companies last year.) And as a senator, she continued her climate work by co-sponsoring the Green New Deal.
As Vice President, she cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which is labeled as the largest investment in climate action in history. If you’re interested in a deeper dive on why climate groups are optimistic about Kamala, give this episode of Crooked Media’s What a Day podcast a listen.
With more than 350 prominent climate advocates endorsing VP Harris, we’re confident that it’ll be anything but a cruel summer with her leading our country.
Oh Carolina (and Maryland) knows why for years they’ve said, “Vote blue!”
North Carolina and Maryland residents, make a fist and make it count — both states have critically important down-ballot races this coming Election Day.
Volunteer for Stein’s campaign — or donate here. You can even call some North Carolina voters with us this weekend!
Volunteer for Alsobrooks’s campaign — or donate here.
It’s between you, the ballot box, and the sea, but make sure to get out and vote on Nov. 5!
(for sources from these infographics, click here)
With early voting already underway in some states, it’s time to start thinking about your plan to vote! Early voting is a great option if you can’t miss work or school on Election Day or you don’t want to wait in a long Election Day line. To learn more about early voting and whether it’s offered in your state, this US News & World Report article is a great resource.
Of course, in order to vote early you need to be registered! Visit our website to see your state’s deadlines. We’ve also included resources to help you find your early voting location if it’s offered in your state!
If you’re planning to vote on an absentee ballot, or from abroad, check out our First-Time Voter Guide! Even if you’re not a first-time voter, this has everything you need to make sure you’re prepared to vote.
I'd love to see if we could organize a Keyboards for Kamala workshop for you and your followers. Check out the playbook here: https://playbook.forkamala.fyi/Keyboards-for-Kamala-a-guide-to-doing-politics-online-a074ef3c9e524e4db556b0256f73871c.