92,470 and counting. Can Daily Kos recruit 100,000 GOTV volunteers?

Daily Kos is not just a news site—it's news you can do something about. We give you a way to fight back on the stories you care about the most.

With the stakes so high in this election, our activism team set a goal at the beginning of this campaign cycle to recruit 100,000 volunteers for get-out-the-vote activities.

Daily Kos does not run phone banking, text banking, or canvassing operations ourselves. But if a Democratic campaign or allied progressive organization is doing meaningful work where they need volunteers, we promote what they do and encourage our audience to sign up.

With five days left before the election, we are now at 92,470 volunteers signed up.

What have we done so far?

Roughly 50,000 Daily Kos community members wrote 2.5 million "please vote" letters to Democratic-leaning folks in swing states, through a highly successful program called Vote Forward. This helped Vote Forward send 17+ million letters through its coalition partners.

Another 14,000 Daily Kos volunteers sent 3.2 million postcards to voters in swing states through another program run by Indivisible activists called Postcards to Swing States, which sent 15+ million total. The program was so popular that we had to stop promoting it in early September, because organizers could not keep up with the demand from our community members.

Over 11,000 Daily Kos activists volunteered to be poll workers, and another 9,000 signed up to do Election Protection work fighting voter suppression. Over 23,000 folks signed up for at least one GOTV activity through our promoted feeds on Mobilize America (our national feed is here, and our Pennsylvania-specific feed is here). That total includes over 7,000 people who have already RSVP'ed to attend a Protect the Results rally near them if Trump tries to stop votes from being counted or refuses to leave office after he loses to Joe Biden.

Now, with the election on Tuesday, we need all hands on deck to do the most crucial work to get the very last Democratic voters out to the polls. And to make it easier for you to know about what needs to get done, Daily Kos has set up a comprehensive GOTV page to get involved.

• Want to help Biden win Texas? Our friends at Turnout2020 have been working for months to call Democratic voters in the Lone Star state, which has helped boost Texas' stratospheric early voting rates. Sign up for a shift here.

• Pennsylvania is the tipping-point state. Pennsylvania is likely to be the decisive state in this election, and Republicans are trying every dirty voter suppression tactic in the book to keep it in Trump's hands. That's why Daily Kos has set up a specific feed at Mobilize America to help volunteers get out the vote in Pennsylvania no matter where they live.

• The Biden-Harris campaign, through 2020 Victory, needs volunteers to make phone calls to voters in battleground states. You can participate no matter where you live. They offer training and the ability to chat with campaign staff in their Slack channel while you are making the calls to help you troubleshoot any issues that might arise. 

• Reach young voters with NextGen America through both phone banking and text banking in 11 battleground states. Young voters historically wait until closer to Election Day to cast their ballots, and we need them to come out and vote.

• Don't forget state legislatures! Our friends at Sister District have adopted specific Democratic candidates in key state legislative chambers, where we can flip control and end Republican gerrymandering. Sign up for a phone banking shift where a few hours of your time will go a very long way.

And finally, what happens on Nov. 4 if Donald Trump refuses to concede? We know that Republicans can only win this election if they suppress the vote, and if the results are anywhere near close we can expect a big fight on our hands. That's why we have already started recruiting volunteers to be ready on Wednesday to protect the results. Click here to find a "protect the results" event near you, and the organizers will keep you posted about whether—and when—mobilization is needed.

More than 92,000 Daily Kos community members have signed up to volunteer this election cycle. Can we exceed 100,000 by Tuesday? Sign up today and join us.

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