Hey John,
I’m Matt Caffrey, Swing Left’s Senior Director of Organizing. My favorite program we’ve run over the past several years is our bus program, which helps volunteers in major cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco get out to target states and districts to canvass.
Since 2018, we have helped thousands of volunteers go knock on more than half a million doors for Democrats across the country.
This year’s bus program is supercharged by Ground Truth, Swing Left’s innovative deep-listening program where voters knock on every door in a neighborhood to have substantive conversations—often finding persuadable voters that traditional campaigns miss.
And I’ve got exciting news: We’re working to launch our bus program earlier than ever this year by sending buses out at the end of the month, including a bus from New York to Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District.
Each bus costs about $3,000, and we have a goal of having 3 buses locked in by our next Weekend of Action on August 28th and 29th.
The swing districts and states volunteers are signing up to talk with voters in are where the midterm election will be won or lost, and every bus we put on the road means more doors knocked, more voters reached, and more meaningful conversations had before Election Day.
Ground Truth volunteers are ready to spend their free time knocking on doors to rebuild trust in Democrats and flip the House and Senate this November, but we need help physically getting volunteers to the locations they’re needed most!
In the 2022 midterms, the generous support of grassroots donors funding the bus program made it possible for Swing Left volunteers to knock on nearly 150,000 doors during the last weekend before Election Day. Each voter these volunteers spoke to may have cast the deciding vote in critical midterm elections, as will be the case once again this year.
So if you aren’t able to get on the doors yourself, donating to fund this program is one of the highest-impact actions you can take right now to help us get more volunteers to the doors in the locations where they matter most—and we deeply appreciate anything you can give.
As always, thank you for everything you’re doing to help Democrats build power this November and beyond. We’ll be in touch with more updates soon!
Matt Caffrey
Senior Organizing Director, Swing Left
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Since 2017, Swing Left has channeled the energy of grassroots volunteers and donors to elect Democrats, up and down the ballot, focusing on the most competitive races that can swing the national balance of power. Right now, Swing Left is investing in grassroots organizing in key swing districts and initiatives across the country to flip the House and win the Senate and critical states in 2026. If you’d like to help support our work, you can make a donation using this link. |
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