Dear John,
We are doing something truly exceptional with Powered by People. And I’d love your help to grow it by becoming a recurring donor today.
As technology platforms, and our addiction to them, destroy our social and civic bonds… when the temptation has never been greater for political organizations to leverage their immense power to further inflame, isolate, and divide us… our volunteers are consciously choosing to bypass the algorithms and cold digital connections for the extraordinary power of meeting people in person, wherever they are, to bring them into the most important elections of our lives... to bring them out of the despair and cynicism that is manufactured for profit and remind them of their political power in what is still the world’s greatest democracy.
Our thousands of volunteers take the time to reach, register and turn out our fellow Americans, in person, to ensure that we overcome the greatest challenges of our time—authoritarianism, corruption, political violence—and win the elections necessary to lead our country out of this great darkness.
And the best part about our approach to politics: it works.
In 2024, our volunteers met young prospective voters across the state of Texas. We got them registered to vote, personally stayed in touch with them, answered their questions about voting, and nudged them until they cast their ballot. Young voters nationally turned out at a rate of 42%. In Texas it was 37%. In our program, young voters turned out at a rate of 79%.
Now, I’d love your help in growing this program to support more volunteers, to reach more young voters, to ultimately turn out the margin of victory in the most important elections in this country’s history.
You will guarantee that we can do the real work, person to person, face to face, human to human, that will help us win and show America that we can still be a government of, by and for the people.
Thank you for joining us,
Beto
