Tl;dr:
i'm focusing on existing voter registration and turn-out groups in georgia. i'm donating to these two right now:
* https://newgeorgiaproject.org/ * https://fairfight.com/
who else has suggestions?
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the good news: it looks like two geogia seats will be up in a run-off in january. i believe that, for the future of america, and the future of the world, there is *NOTHING* more important than getting those two seats. i'm going to be researching opportunities to contribute there, and would love your help.
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why?
looks like biden is going to beat trump. this is a huge victory, both moral and practical. but, if you care about solving the core problems in this country, we cannot do it without control of the senate. i'm referring to:
* climate change * supreme court * improved healthcare * aid for folks affected by the pandemic * structural REP advantage in the senate + electoral college
all of these things require the senate. mcconnell is going to block all attempts at legislation, and his conservative-packed judiciary is going to block executive action, too. we're looking at 2 years of gridlock, which the conservative media will spin into a liberal failure. we're then going to get spanked in the 2022 midterms, and there's basically no chance of democrats having power in washington again for 20 years after that.
some things that will be on the table if we have control of the senate (of course, we still have to convince our dem reps to do the right thing instead of quivering in their boots and attempting to "compromise"):
* statehood for DC and Puerto Rico -- this is simply the right thing to do, as folks in those places currently have taxation without representation. this would reduce the REP advantage in the senate from 5-6 points to merely 3-4 points * supreme court reform -- everything from adding more justices, to changing lifetime appointments to 18-year appointments, to removing judicial authority over certain issues (esp. regulatory bodies given authority by the senate, e.g. the EPA, which is about to get gutted) * meaningful progress on climate -- without the senate, we'll be optimizing on the margins through reconciliation, with no ability to pass comprehensive legislation. in the meantime, the supreme court will be cancelling environmental protections as fast as they can * HR1 -- mandates non-partisan redistricting commissions. if we can get this through the senate, it will limit REP ability to suppress voter turnout and further strengthen their advantage
this is just a start. without this, things are looking dark for the next few decades, as reps lock control over state legislatures through post-census restricting and further suppress the vote.
i think it's douable. the mechanics of off-season elections are very different than the presidential race. there will be less turnout and less frenzy. individual action can make an even bigger difference. lets do this!
<3, --igor
The runoffs in Georgia are *absolutely* the most important thing right now, and I encourage everyone to contribute as much as they can and get involved as much as they can. It cannot be said strongly enough how much of a difference it will make to the future of the country and the world if we win these two runoffs.
*TL;DR: Donate to Block Power http://blockpower.us. It's the highest-leverage thing I know of right now.*
I want to recommend a project I recently discovered that is (a) highly effective, (b) run by folks who care about evidence, and (c) relatively new thus unlikely to be saturated with funds.
*1* * Black voters support Democrats by huge margins, and black women even more so.* [image: image.png]
*2* There are a massive number of eligible Black voters who didn't vote, enough to have easily defeated Trump in 2016. [image: image.png]
*3* Block Power https://blockpower.us/ is a simple and brilliant concept: • Pay volunteer Ambassadors in Black communities • To recruit Vote Triplers among their friends • Who each identify and remind three friends to vote
And they have a slick system: • An app for Ambassadors that suggests people they are likely to know, to recruit as Vote Triplers • A payment platform that instantly pays Ambassadors for each Vote Tripler they sign up • An SMS platform that texts people to remind them to vote as election day approaches
This is the coolest thing I've heard of so far. It automatically scales up as more money is added to the pot, it reaches new communities of votes that are less likely to have been reached before, and it tends to grow geometrically because, naturally, once Vote Triplers hear that their friends are getting paid as Ambassadors, a good number of them want to sign up as Ambassadors too.
Donating to Jon Ossoff https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_hp_ossoff and Raphael Warnock https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnock-for-georgia_web is a good idea right now. But they are about to be inundated with torrents of money.
Donating to FairFight https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fair-fight-1 and The New Georgia Project https://secure.actblue.com/donate/new-georgia-project-1 is a better idea. They target Black voter registration specifically, and will probably give you more impact per dollar than money to the campaigns in a market saturated with political ads. But they have also been around for quite a while and are likely to be well funded.
Donating to Block Power http://blockpower.us is an even better idea. They are ready to go, not fully funded yet, and they can use every dollar we send them to drive exponential growth.
—Ping
Oh, P.S.: If you decide to donate to Block Power, please let me know how much you gave so we can get an idea of how much money we're moving. Thanks!
On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 7:27 PM Ka-Ping Yee zestyping@gmail.com wrote:
The runoffs in Georgia are *absolutely* the most important thing right now, and I encourage everyone to contribute as much as they can and get involved as much as they can. It cannot be said strongly enough how much of a difference it will make to the future of the country and the world if we win these two runoffs.
*TL;DR: Donate to Block Power http://blockpower.us. It's the highest-leverage thing I know of right now.*
I want to recommend a project I recently discovered that is (a) highly effective, (b) run by folks who care about evidence, and (c) relatively new thus unlikely to be saturated with funds.
*1* * Black voters support Democrats by huge margins, and black women even more so.* [image: image.png]
*2* There are a massive number of eligible Black voters who didn't vote, enough to have easily defeated Trump in 2016. [image: image.png]
*3* Block Power https://blockpower.us/ is a simple and brilliant concept: • Pay volunteer Ambassadors in Black communities • To recruit Vote Triplers among their friends • Who each identify and remind three friends to vote
And they have a slick system: • An app for Ambassadors that suggests people they are likely to know, to recruit as Vote Triplers • A payment platform that instantly pays Ambassadors for each Vote Tripler they sign up • An SMS platform that texts people to remind them to vote as election day approaches
This is the coolest thing I've heard of so far. It automatically scales up as more money is added to the pot, it reaches new communities of votes that are less likely to have been reached before, and it tends to grow geometrically because, naturally, once Vote Triplers hear that their friends are getting paid as Ambassadors, a good number of them want to sign up as Ambassadors too.
Donating to Jon Ossoff https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_hp_ossoff and Raphael Warnock https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnock-for-georgia_web is a good idea right now. But they are about to be inundated with torrents of money.
Donating to FairFight https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fair-fight-1 and The New Georgia Project https://secure.actblue.com/donate/new-georgia-project-1 is a better idea. They target Black voter registration specifically, and will probably give you more impact per dollar than money to the campaigns in a market saturated with political ads. But they have also been around for quite a while and are likely to be well funded.
Donating to Block Power http://blockpower.us is an even better idea. They are ready to go, not fully funded yet, and they can use every dollar we send them to drive exponential growth.
—Ping
Thanks for this info!
For those of us with bandwidth to do in-person work in Georgia, does anyone have information on what tasks/organizations would be useful to engage with? Is in-person work by folks coming from out-of-state even useful relative to staying remote and contributing from afar?
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 9:25 AM Ka-Ping Yee zestyping@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, P.S.: If you decide to donate to Block Power, please let me know how much you gave so we can get an idea of how much money we're moving. Thanks!
On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 7:27 PM Ka-Ping Yee zestyping@gmail.com wrote:
The runoffs in Georgia are *absolutely* the most important thing right now, and I encourage everyone to contribute as much as they can and get involved as much as they can. It cannot be said strongly enough how much of a difference it will make to the future of the country and the world if we win these two runoffs.
*TL;DR: Donate to Block Power http://blockpower.us. It's the highest-leverage thing I know of right now.*
I want to recommend a project I recently discovered that is (a) highly effective, (b) run by folks who care about evidence, and (c) relatively new thus unlikely to be saturated with funds.
*1* * Black voters support Democrats by huge margins, and black women even more so.* [image: image.png]
*2* There are a massive number of eligible Black voters who didn't vote, enough to have easily defeated Trump in 2016. [image: image.png]
*3* Block Power https://blockpower.us/ is a simple and brilliant concept: • Pay volunteer Ambassadors in Black communities • To recruit Vote Triplers among their friends • Who each identify and remind three friends to vote
And they have a slick system: • An app for Ambassadors that suggests people they are likely to know, to recruit as Vote Triplers • A payment platform that instantly pays Ambassadors for each Vote Tripler they sign up • An SMS platform that texts people to remind them to vote as election day approaches
This is the coolest thing I've heard of so far. It automatically scales up as more money is added to the pot, it reaches new communities of votes that are less likely to have been reached before, and it tends to grow geometrically because, naturally, once Vote Triplers hear that their friends are getting paid as Ambassadors, a good number of them want to sign up as Ambassadors too.
Donating to Jon Ossoff https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_hp_ossoff and Raphael Warnock https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnock-for-georgia_web is a good idea right now. But they are about to be inundated with torrents of money.
Donating to FairFight https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fair-fight-1 and The New Georgia Project https://secure.actblue.com/donate/new-georgia-project-1 is a better idea. They target Black voter registration specifically, and will probably give you more impact per dollar than money to the campaigns in a market saturated with political ads. But they have also been around for quite a while and are likely to be well funded.
Donating to Block Power http://blockpower.us is an even better idea. They are ready to go, not fully funded yet, and they can use every dollar we send them to drive exponential growth.
—Ping
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Thanks so much Ping! Also curious about further resources. Possibly relevant/an opportunity to hear more: a Zoom conversation with Ossoff & Warnock at 4:30pm today: tinyurl.com/savethesenate2020
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 10:08 AM Christopher Lin < powertothepenguins@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for this info!
For those of us with bandwidth to do in-person work in Georgia, does anyone have information on what tasks/organizations would be useful to engage with? Is in-person work by folks coming from out-of-state even useful relative to staying remote and contributing from afar?
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 9:25 AM Ka-Ping Yee zestyping@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, P.S.: If you decide to donate to Block Power, please let me know how much you gave so we can get an idea of how much money we're moving. Thanks!
On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 7:27 PM Ka-Ping Yee zestyping@gmail.com wrote:
The runoffs in Georgia are *absolutely* the most important thing right now, and I encourage everyone to contribute as much as they can and get involved as much as they can. It cannot be said strongly enough how much of a difference it will make to the future of the country and the world if we win these two runoffs.
*TL;DR: Donate to Block Power http://blockpower.us. It's the highest-leverage thing I know of right now.*
I want to recommend a project I recently discovered that is (a) highly effective, (b) run by folks who care about evidence, and (c) relatively new thus unlikely to be saturated with funds.
*1* * Black voters support Democrats by huge margins, and black women even more so.* [image: image.png]
*2* There are a massive number of eligible Black voters who didn't vote, enough to have easily defeated Trump in 2016. [image: image.png]
*3* Block Power https://blockpower.us/ is a simple and brilliant concept: • Pay volunteer Ambassadors in Black communities • To recruit Vote Triplers among their friends • Who each identify and remind three friends to vote
And they have a slick system: • An app for Ambassadors that suggests people they are likely to know, to recruit as Vote Triplers • A payment platform that instantly pays Ambassadors for each Vote Tripler they sign up • An SMS platform that texts people to remind them to vote as election day approaches
This is the coolest thing I've heard of so far. It automatically scales up as more money is added to the pot, it reaches new communities of votes that are less likely to have been reached before, and it tends to grow geometrically because, naturally, once Vote Triplers hear that their friends are getting paid as Ambassadors, a good number of them want to sign up as Ambassadors too.
Donating to Jon Ossoff https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_hp_ossoff and Raphael Warnock https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnock-for-georgia_web is a good idea right now. But they are about to be inundated with torrents of money.
Donating to FairFight https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fair-fight-1 and The New Georgia Project https://secure.actblue.com/donate/new-georgia-project-1 is a better idea. They target Black voter registration specifically, and will probably give you more impact per dollar than money to the campaigns in a market saturated with political ads. But they have also been around for quite a while and are likely to be well funded.
Donating to Block Power http://blockpower.us is an even better idea. They are ready to go, not fully funded yet, and they can use every dollar we send them to drive exponential growth.
—Ping
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Igor, Stacey, & other engineer-folks, are you looking into any coding or data work, or just donations at the moment? I filled in the volunteer form for Block Power mentioning that I can offer technical help, but haven't heard back yet.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 12:14 PM Stacey Svetlichnaya stacey.svet@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks so much Ping! Also curious about further resources. Possibly relevant/an opportunity to hear more: a Zoom conversation with Ossoff & Warnock at 4:30pm today: tinyurl.com/savethesenate2020
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 10:08 AM Christopher Lin < powertothepenguins@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for this info!
For those of us with bandwidth to do in-person work in Georgia, does anyone have information on what tasks/organizations would be useful to engage with? Is in-person work by folks coming from out-of-state even useful relative to staying remote and contributing from afar?
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 9:25 AM Ka-Ping Yee zestyping@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, P.S.: If you decide to donate to Block Power, please let me know how much you gave so we can get an idea of how much money we're moving. Thanks!
On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 7:27 PM Ka-Ping Yee zestyping@gmail.com wrote:
The runoffs in Georgia are *absolutely* the most important thing right now, and I encourage everyone to contribute as much as they can and get involved as much as they can. It cannot be said strongly enough how much of a difference it will make to the future of the country and the world if we win these two runoffs.
*TL;DR: Donate to Block Power http://blockpower.us. It's the highest-leverage thing I know of right now.*
I want to recommend a project I recently discovered that is (a) highly effective, (b) run by folks who care about evidence, and (c) relatively new thus unlikely to be saturated with funds.
*1* * Black voters support Democrats by huge margins, and black women even more so.* [image: image.png]
*2* There are a massive number of eligible Black voters who didn't vote, enough to have easily defeated Trump in 2016. [image: image.png]
*3* Block Power https://blockpower.us/ is a simple and brilliant concept: • Pay volunteer Ambassadors in Black communities • To recruit Vote Triplers among their friends • Who each identify and remind three friends to vote
And they have a slick system: • An app for Ambassadors that suggests people they are likely to know, to recruit as Vote Triplers • A payment platform that instantly pays Ambassadors for each Vote Tripler they sign up • An SMS platform that texts people to remind them to vote as election day approaches
This is the coolest thing I've heard of so far. It automatically scales up as more money is added to the pot, it reaches new communities of votes that are less likely to have been reached before, and it tends to grow geometrically because, naturally, once Vote Triplers hear that their friends are getting paid as Ambassadors, a good number of them want to sign up as Ambassadors too.
Donating to Jon Ossoff https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_hp_ossoff and Raphael Warnock https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnock-for-georgia_web is a good idea right now. But they are about to be inundated with torrents of money.
Donating to FairFight https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fair-fight-1 and The New Georgia Project https://secure.actblue.com/donate/new-georgia-project-1 is a better idea. They target Black voter registration specifically, and will probably give you more impact per dollar than money to the campaigns in a market saturated with political ads. But they have also been around for quite a while and are likely to be well funded.
Donating to Block Power http://blockpower.us is an even better idea. They are ready to go, not fully funded yet, and they can use every dollar we send them to drive exponential growth.
—Ping
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I asked Igor Kofman if there's a data focus in the DCCC and he mentioned he's comfortable with what's already being done, and would find out if more needs to happen. He'll keep me updated.
In AZ, I was curious about doing additional work to engage/motivate volunteering. I thought I would do my own analytics and got access to the voterfile via TargetSmart. The answer is: a) this is pretty hard, the tools are not that sophisticated b) by not coordinating with existing campaigns, you risk overload on voters who are annoyed about too much outreach
I think the remaining technical levers have to do with digital advertising, esp. on novel platforms. Even progressive insiders inside the DCCC (like AOC) say the dems are relatively digitally unsophisticated. I've also heard this theory from Jessica Alter (Ping, you'll recognize the name) who mentioned to me that Dems spend most of their money on TV ads, as instructed by overpaid election consultants. So, if we want to do our own grassroots digital advertising and turnout campaigns, I think there might be room to do that. I know Peter did some home-grown Facebook ads this cycle, as did Stacey's 30 Friends. I've never made a facebook ad - i'd be interested in trying with ya'll.
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I'm thinking more long-term about how to counter Red Team's very effective propoganda efforts. I think something *must* happen there, but I'm not sure what can be done before the election in Jan. If you have ideas or interest there, let me know -- I'd love to pair up. So far, all of my thoughts focus on the Moab-like scenario from Fall/Dodge in Hell.
Pollsters seem to be concluding that some of the polling miss in this election was not a fundementally demographic shift, in terms of demographic groups you can identify through census data, but because of low-trust voters, who are more likely to both not answer pollsters, and to vote for republicans. Red Team strategy is *clearly* to continue to destroy/undermine trust FTW. The options, I think are: * restore trust in government -- this is the Andrew Yang thesis, that only effective technocratic government can restore trust. Red Team, if they control the Senate, will continue to stall and destroy government, leading to a further erosion of trust * accelerationism -- target the low-trust voters, and reduce their trust to 0, even for Rep candidates. This is what I mean by the Moab scenario.
The end. No Tl;dr.
--igor
On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 12:44:14PM -0800, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
Igor, Stacey, & other engineer-folks, are you looking into any coding or data work, or just donations at the moment? I filled in the volunteer form for Block Power mentioning that I can offer technical help, but haven't heard back yet.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 12:14 PM Stacey Svetlichnaya stacey.svet@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks so much Ping! Also curious about further resources. Possibly relevant/an opportunity to hear more: a Zoom conversation with Ossoff & Warnock at 4:30pm today: tinyurl.com/savethesenate2020
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 10:08 AM Christopher Lin < powertothepenguins@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for this info!
For those of us with bandwidth to do in-person work in Georgia, does anyone have information on what tasks/organizations would be useful to engage with? Is in-person work by folks coming from out-of-state even useful relative to staying remote and contributing from afar?
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 9:25 AM Ka-Ping Yee zestyping@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, P.S.: If you decide to donate to Block Power, please let me know how much you gave so we can get an idea of how much money we're moving. Thanks!
On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 7:27 PM Ka-Ping Yee zestyping@gmail.com wrote:
The runoffs in Georgia are *absolutely* the most important thing right now, and I encourage everyone to contribute as much as they can and get involved as much as they can. It cannot be said strongly enough how much of a difference it will make to the future of the country and the world if we win these two runoffs.
*TL;DR: Donate to Block Power http://blockpower.us. It's the highest-leverage thing I know of right now.*
I want to recommend a project I recently discovered that is (a) highly effective, (b) run by folks who care about evidence, and (c) relatively new thus unlikely to be saturated with funds.
*1* * Black voters support Democrats by huge margins, and black women even more so.* [image: image.png]
*2* There are a massive number of eligible Black voters who didn't vote, enough to have easily defeated Trump in 2016. [image: image.png]
*3* Block Power https://blockpower.us/ is a simple and brilliant concept: • Pay volunteer Ambassadors in Black communities • To recruit Vote Triplers among their friends • Who each identify and remind three friends to vote
And they have a slick system: • An app for Ambassadors that suggests people they are likely to know, to recruit as Vote Triplers • A payment platform that instantly pays Ambassadors for each Vote Tripler they sign up • An SMS platform that texts people to remind them to vote as election day approaches
This is the coolest thing I've heard of so far. It automatically scales up as more money is added to the pot, it reaches new communities of votes that are less likely to have been reached before, and it tends to grow geometrically because, naturally, once Vote Triplers hear that their friends are getting paid as Ambassadors, a good number of them want to sign up as Ambassadors too.
Donating to Jon Ossoff https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_hp_ossoff and Raphael Warnock https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnock-for-georgia_web is a good idea right now. But they are about to be inundated with torrents of money.
Donating to FairFight https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fair-fight-1 and The New Georgia Project https://secure.actblue.com/donate/new-georgia-project-1 is a better idea. They target Black voter registration specifically, and will probably give you more impact per dollar than money to the campaigns in a market saturated with political ads. But they have also been around for quite a while and are likely to be well funded.
Donating to Block Power http://blockpower.us is an even better idea. They are ready to go, not fully funded yet, and they can use every dollar we send them to drive exponential growth.
—Ping
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Super interesting! How are you in touch with Jessica, Igor?
I heard back from Karthik and he's invited me to a call. Would any of you like me to connect you with him to talk about software dev help?
Yes, please!
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 13:58 Ka-Ping Yee zestyping@gmail.com wrote:
Super interesting! How are you in touch with Jessica, Igor?
I heard back from Karthik and he's invited me to a call. Would any of you like me to connect you with him to talk about software dev help? _______________________________________________ chrysalis.giving mailing list chrysalis.giving@moomers.org https://mailman.moomers.org/listinfo/chrysalis.giving
Hi friends,
I am on my way to Georgia now and will be there through the election. Taking my time getting there and will arrive around the 22nd.
I am working with SURJ and will be helping do on the ground volunteer coordination from one of their field offices (location currently unknown).
1) when I have more info on what volunteer opportunities are available for in person, I’ll forward it along. FWIW I was there from 10/31-11/4, and found on the ground work both very effective and rewarding. Hence my return journey (flew there and back, driving now so I’ll have my car).
2) stacey and I are both in 30 friends and our digital ad campaigns were pretty damn successful (100k clicks generated on ads targeted to progressives who had been purged from the voter rolls). Our group created the ads and collaborated on strategy, but did not run the actual campaigns (I.e. trafficking, targeting, reporting, optimization), as this was done more by the orgs we partnered with (field team 6 mostly). If you are interested in doing work on that front I’m sure Stacey or I could connect you with the relevant person from our side, just let us know.
-Dan
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 3:33 PM Christopher Lin < powertothepenguins@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, please!
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 13:58 Ka-Ping Yee zestyping@gmail.com wrote:
Super interesting! How are you in touch with Jessica, Igor?
I heard back from Karthik and he's invited me to a call. Would any of you like me to connect you with him to talk about software dev help? _______________________________________________ chrysalis.giving mailing list chrysalis.giving@moomers.org https://mailman.moomers.org/listinfo/chrysalis.giving
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1. Ping, yes please on coding/data work, would love to help if I can.
2. Dan, thanks so much for sharing! Excited for continued overlap & interconnection between 30friends & Chrysalis <3
3. My notes from the zoom conversation with Ossoff & Warnock I attended are here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pd6xfQ3FVnyMMLrnI4A1ta26Zn9vF6jzQzO2o1Mi0Jc/edit?usp=sharing. TL;DR it was very inspiring, mostly high-level, 1000s of people joined the call. We need to get as many people in Georgia as possible to *actually vote*. Resources shared in the call:
Donate: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/gsvf_strategycall
Sign up to volunteer: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jFMW-F6qxMEcSmSno1CkxlijRrougVGZp4_H8ga_n_E... Fundraiser event Nov 17 with Stacey Abrams: https://tinyurl.com/savethesenateGA
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 7:32 PM Dan Couch robert.d.couch@gmail.com wrote:
Hi friends,
I am on my way to Georgia now and will be there through the election. Taking my time getting there and will arrive around the 22nd.
I am working with SURJ and will be helping do on the ground volunteer coordination from one of their field offices (location currently unknown).
- when I have more info on what volunteer opportunities are available for
in person, I’ll forward it along. FWIW I was there from 10/31-11/4, and found on the ground work both very effective and rewarding. Hence my return journey (flew there and back, driving now so I’ll have my car).
- stacey and I are both in 30 friends and our digital ad campaigns were
pretty damn successful (100k clicks generated on ads targeted to progressives who had been purged from the voter rolls). Our group created the ads and collaborated on strategy, but did not run the actual campaigns (I.e. trafficking, targeting, reporting, optimization), as this was done more by the orgs we partnered with (field team 6 mostly). If you are interested in doing work on that front I’m sure Stacey or I could connect you with the relevant person from our side, just let us know.
-Dan
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 3:33 PM Christopher Lin < powertothepenguins@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, please!
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 13:58 Ka-Ping Yee zestyping@gmail.com wrote:
Super interesting! How are you in touch with Jessica, Igor?
I heard back from Karthik and he's invited me to a call. Would any of you like me to connect you with him to talk about software dev help? _______________________________________________ chrysalis.giving mailing list chrysalis.giving@moomers.org https://mailman.moomers.org/listinfo/chrysalis.giving
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On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 10:07:57AM -0800, Christopher Lin wrote:
For those of us with bandwidth to do in-person work in Georgia, does anyone have information on what tasks/organizations would be useful to engage with? Is in-person work by folks coming from out-of-state even useful relative to staying remote and contributing from afar?
just heard Stacey Abrams Pod Save America (https://crooked.com/podcast/one-flew-over-the-coup-coups-nest/) -- she says "please don't go to Georgia right now". FWIW.
<3, --igor
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