As we reflect on the past year and look ahead to 2026, we wanted to share where Vote Forward is headed—and why your role in this work matters more than ever.
This year, thousands of us came together to write more than 873,000 letters to turn out voters in critical races in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and California. That scale matters—but what matters just as much is what we’re learning from this work.
For years, Vote Forward has paired large-scale volunteer action with rigorous testing and transparent analysis. That commitment helped us learn together how and when handwritten letters can boost turnout. And it’s also why we’re expanding our focus—keeping what works now, and also discovering what works next.
This year, we took an important step in that direction by piloting two new tactics alongside our letter writing campaigns. We tested distributing personalized flyers in California, and we ran a voter support hotline where letter recipients in Pennsylvania could call or text a trained Vote Forward volunteer. These experiments reflect a central part of Vote Forward’s identity: our collective effort to drive innovation, not just execution.
We’re now analyzing what we learned from these efforts, and we’ll be sharing the full results of the impact of these experiments once turnout data is available and analysis is complete early next year.
As we head into 2026, our goal is simple but ambitious—to work together to create the most effective ways to engage voters in elections that will shape the future of our democracy.
