Completely reimagining the way Democrats do voter contact is a big task.
Hi there,
This week we announced the nationwide expansion of Ground Truth, our people-powered, tech-enabled canvassing program that is changing how Democrats talk with voters. Through Ground Truth, Swing Left volunteers are knocking every door in swing districts, listening deeply, capturing what voters actually think, and sharing those insights with campaigns to help Democrats win back control in 2026, 2028, and beyond.
Earlier this year, we piloted 25 Ground Truth canvasses in swing districts across the country, and what we learned was striking.
About 1 in 4 voters classified as Republican in voter files actually expressed explicit concern about Trump, openness to voting for Democrats, or alignment with progressive priorities. These are possibly persuadable voters that traditional outreach methods routinely miss.
This is the powerful potential of Ground Truth—when we expand who we talk to and improve how we talk with them, we can uncover real opportunities to grow support for Democrats. Now we need to unlock that potential by scaling this program across all of our swing districts nationwide.
But it’s only going to work if we do it together. Ground Truth is an ambitious program that will take significant resources to run at scale, and grassroots donations from our community will be an important part of making it possible.
That’s why today, we’re asking you to make a donation of $25, or any amount that makes sense, to support Ground Truth and all of the on-the-ground organizing work Swing Left is doing across the country.
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With your help, we can support and scale:
- Local organizing teams that work and specialize in each target district. These organizers will recruit and train volunteer leaders, support them in organizing and running Ground Truth canvasses, and connect new volunteers with their local Swing Left groups. They will also help host local events to engage the community and bring more people into this work. The more organizers we have, the more voters we can reach and listen to—maximizing the impact of Ground Truth.
- A national organizing team to mobilize volunteers everywhere. Not everyone lives in one of our target swing districts. This team will recruit, train, and mobilize volunteers outside swing districts to travel to and knock doors with Ground Truth in the swing districts closest to them. They will also run and manage phone banks for volunteers across the country to call voters in target districts—ensuring anyone, anywhere can be a part of Ground Truth.
- New tech platforms and an expanded data and engineering team. Ground Truth utilizes an innovative new canvassing app (which Swing Left helped design!) to support the longer, open-ended conversations volunteers are having with every voter. This reimagining of outdated systems requires new infrastructure needed to listen to voters at scale. The data and engineering team will be critical to supporting the tools underlying Ground Truth, and for compiling insights to share with campaigns—to help them deliver on voters’ needs and win close races.
Completely reimagining the way Democrats do voter contact is a big task. But Ground Truth has shown promising early results. Together, we can scale this program to make a meaningful difference in swing districts in 2026 and defeat Republicans in more competitive elections in the years to come.
So if you can, please make a donation of $25, or any amount that works for you, to help bring Ground Truth to all of our target districts nationwide.
Thank you for everything you do,
The Swing Left Team
P.S. If you’d rather give your time to this program, that’s super valuable, too. Whether you donate or not, we’d love for you to join the “Inside Ground Truth” national strategy call on December 9th, where we’ll share more ways to get involved.