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By Natasha Butler-Rahman In winter 2023, I sat down with fellow Swing Blue Alliance media relations intern Eli Kanner. Eli is a senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a […]

[Scroll for English Translation] Por Natasha Butler-Rahman Hoy en día, es más importante que nunca que los Latinoamericanos estén presentes en la política de los Estados Unidos. La gente Latinx […]

by Susan Labandibar and Andy Liebman Not long after the polls closed in November, Georgia election officials announced the Senate race would go to a runoff. Around the country, left-leaning […]

By Carla Marin *English speakers, please scroll toward the bottom to read the translated version Interview with John Barry (Jack) ¡Hola! Todos soy Carla Marin y soy un estudiante en […]

Absentee ballot voting is devilishly hard in Georgia – especially with the new short turnaround times for Runoff elections.  That is one reason that the Warnock campaign put out the […]

What comes after the sprint, friends? Well, we are in it! As a tight contender for the US Senate seat for Pennsylvania, John Fetterman recently told an audience that Delaware […]

I hope that your groups are, as mine is, sprinting full speed to Election Day. Even though volunteers here are just finishing up their letters to Pennsylvania, they responded quickly […]

High Stakes on Instagram  Recently at Swing Blue Alliance, we have been using different social media platforms to engage with wider audiences and spread the word on issues we care […]

Thank you for working hard with your groups to keep our huge effort strong. Every postcard is a potential vote, and each vote increases our possibility of a win. We […]

You are all doing an amazing job of energizing your groups, educating them on our campaigns, and placing orders that are making a difference for our partners. Our democracy may […]

Swing Blue Alliance volunteers often wonder whether the voters we target are going to receive multiple postcards and letters. The answer is yes, they will.  But that’s not a bad […]

“Don’t despair! Organize!” That’s John Meiklejohn’s takeaway after responding to a survey for this blog. “The questions gave me a chance to reflect on why we started our small group […]

It Started with Wendy During the 2020 election cycle when Massachusetts resident Wendy Machmuller contacted her seven nieces and nephews in Iowa. She challenged each of them to become the […]

Over the next eight weeks, we will be working together to preserve our democracy. Together, we are the largest volunteer organization in Massachusetts. Whatever your role, as host, postcard and […]

I want to report on the exceptional success of the use of VoteBuilder last Wednesday for the Matt Cartwright for Congress campaign. In this session I contacted very motivated volunteers […]

How do you spread the word? Most young adults like me wouldn’t think of printing a flier. We turn to social media. Platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter are […]

Two months ago I was discouraged: Biden was down in the polls; pundits were warning that we would lose the House and the Senate. Everything has changed.  We have passed […]

If you’ve ever been on social media, it is likely that you’ve come across disinformation posts—false or inaccurate information online deliberately intended to deceive. Disinformation is distinct from misinformation, which […]

Tracy Walton, like many of us, felt moved to act after the 2016 election. In 2018 she hosted a few in-person gatherings for the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, in support […]

The Environmental Voter Project (EVP) believes there are many Americans who care about the environment, but seldom show up to vote. Motivating enough climate-conscious folks to vote could swing the […]

Like many Swing Blue Alliance (SBA) activists, Shaw Yang transitioned from Democratic voter/supporter to activist in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. Now, he’s all in. A Swing Blue organizer […]

“Every citizen should play a role in shaping our nation’s democracy” — E.J. Dionne, Washington Post, 3/23/22 Our efforts helped to turn out 66.8% of Americans in the 2020 election; […]

For organizers evaluating potential mailing campaigns for groups of volunteers, your first consideration is not to decide between postcards and letters — although that may seem an intuitive first step. […]

“Spring is a time for renewal, growth, and new opportunities. In this spirit of hope, we kick off this Celebration of Grassroots Activism in Massachusetts. After the isolation of COVID […]

As we advance through this election year, Swing Blue Alliance’s corps of veteran campaigners are ready and willing. That’s the baseline finding of a survey of more than 2000 volunteers […]

  If you’ve interacted with Swing Blue Alliance (SBA), it’s likely you know Susan Labandibar. Susan is a tech entrepreneur, mentor, and co-founder of SBA, a grassroots network organization that […]

After the enormous outpouring of volunteer actions in 2020, a group of activists from grassroots groups across the country wanted to explore how they could direct this energy to its […]

In honor of Groundhog’s Day, the Swing Blue Alliance research team hosted an event to discuss the results of our 2020 mailing program and how we can apply what we’ve […]

Todd Rogers, who is professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, is a leading scholar in applying lab-style scientific analysis to voter behavior in elections. When […]

Sylvia Galván has been a leader for more than 40 years in Western Mass. In the 1970s, she came from Mexico, where she was born, to join her husband in […]

We are so grateful to all of you who have grappled with phone dialing software, suffered postcard-writing cramps, braved COVID to deliver supplies, and challenged yourselves to apply deep canvassing […]