February 26, 2022 Newsletter

Volunteers Taking Back Democracy

In This Issue
●  SBA Update:
       Roundup Recap & Field Leaders Network for Research and Innovation
● To do this week:
       NH monthly meeting/GOTV, recruiting PA activists, NC monthly meeting

●  Learning corner:

       Google Docs for activists III and IV

Everything SBA

Over 90 Swing Blue Alliance members attended the February 20 All Volunteer Roundup. They got an earful! Are you asking these same questions?

• How active are SBA volunteers? What are their priorities?
• How is Win Blue NH preparing for the 2022 elections?
• What challenges must future SBA postcarding campaigns address?
• Why and how are we re-engaging inactive volunteers in swing states?
• What did NC candidates and organizers do to win in red states?
• Who won the door prize?

Here are two ways to get the answers.

FLRN: Refining Grassroots Organizing Methodology

How do activist organizations know they are effective? In the summer of 2021, Swing Blue Alliance and other grassroots groups across the country founded Field Leaders Network for Research and Innovation. The Network is exploring ways to deploy and measure the effectiveness of activists' efforts on influencing election returns.

Here are some events that will definitely fit your interests.

Win Blue NH Monthly Meeting

Hear from leaders of Win Blue NH as well as Andrea Nemececk, New Hampshire's Coordinated Campaign Director. They’ll tell you about Dem’s successes in NH already this year. They will also explain our goals for 2022 and how we are going to achieve them.

Mon, Mar 7 @ 7 pm ET

Join any of these phonebanks to help Democratic candidates win local elections on March 8.

Sat, Feb 26  @ 1 - 3 pm ET
Mon, Feb 28 @ 5 - 7 pm ET
Wed, Mar 2 @ 5 - 7 pm ET
Sat, Mar 5 @ 1 - 3 pm ET

Recruit PA Volunteers

Re-engage inactive volunteers in swing states who have been instrumental in winning past elections. It's a worthy task because local activists already have on-the-ground experience and connections. Volunteers T*B*D (Taking Back Democracy) is an extremely successful campaign (see last week’s newsletter) that uses active listening techniques to build relationships with on-the-ground Democrats.

Fridays @1:40 pm ET for newcomers; @ 2 pm ET for callers

All In for NC Monthly Meeting

Do you know what All In for NC is doing to flip NC legislatures? One tactic is to court LatinX voters. Leaders of Siembra NC and PODER NC will update us on the status of redistricting and candidate filings.

Mon, Feb 28 @ 2:30 - 3:45 pm ET

Learning Corner

Activist Training:
Google Drive, Google Docs, and Microsoft Word

Attend the February 26 training and learn how to:

• Use advanced Search tools
• Share files with the "right" people
• Organize files in folders

This is an intermediate course on Google Docs and Google Drive.

Sat, Feb 26 @ 11 am ET

Attend the March 5 training and learn how to:

• Move between Google Docs and Microsoft Word
• Format Google Docs files
• Share Google Docs
• Make it easier to edit Google Docs

This is a basic course on Google Docs and Microsoft Word.

Sat, Mar 5 @ 11 am ET

Both sessions are co-hosted by Indivisible Acton Area, Swing Blue Alliance, and Indivisible Mass Coalition in collaboration with volunteers at the MAssachusetts Grassroots Information Center, a Slack workspace for exchanging information, encouraging connections among groups, and building activist momentum across the state. Join the News-MAGIC Slack space today.

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Swing Blue Alliance (formerly Swing Left Greater Boston) is the largest all-volunteer Democratic grassroots organization headquartered in Massachusetts. We use proven methods to protect our Democracy, work on competitive local and national elections, and strengthen the Democratic party at the grassroots level.

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