A few highlights from this year’s campaigns include:
- 4.55 million letters to female voters
- 4.14 million letters to young voters 25 and under
- 3.82 million letters to Democratic-leaning voters through our Political campaigns, including 1.01 million to voters in highly competitive U.S. House districts
- 418,000 letters encouraging voter registration
- 92,000 letters to U.S. voters living abroad
To put it into perspective, 11 million people is a lot of people! It’s larger than the population of New York City, and nearly three times the size of the population of Los Angeles. It’s larger than the entire population of the state of Michigan. It’s more than 2.5 times the total attendees of the U.S. leg of Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour in 2023.
Most importantly, 11 million people is enough to make a big difference in this incredibly important election cycle. In many states or districts this year, the outcome will likely be determined by just a few hundred or a few thousand votes—which means that if even a few of our letters succeed in nudging people to “choose the ballot box instead of the couch”, their votes will have an enormous amount of impact. This is why we do what we do as letter writers—to reach those unlikely voters and encourage them to take their role in our democracy seriously.
While we’ve said it many times, we mean it from the bottom of our hearts: this work would not be possible without each and every one of the letter writers who join us year after year.
Thank you, as always, for supporting our democracy.
The Vote Forward Team
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