Jack, there's a special election on May 1 in Texas to fill a vacant U.S. House seat. And if we boost voter turnout, this historically red district could flip blue.
Click to sign up or log into a Vote Forward account, and write letters to Democratic leaning voters in this Texas district who don't normally show up in special elections. Vote Forward is also conducting an experiment in this race called "vote tripling."
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Vote Forward is an innovative program where volunteers write heartfelt, personalized letters to irregular, Democratic-leaning voters who need that extra "nudge" to cast a ballot. You volunteer on your own schedule, write as many letters as you wish whenever works best for you, and mail them out all at once on a predetermined date (which in this case is April 15.)
The Republican congressman from Texas' 6th district recently passed away, so now there is a special election slated for May 1. If no candidate receives a majority in this "jungle primary," there will be a runoff a few weeks later. TX-06 is a suburban, college-educated district that has trended towards Democrats in recent years. Under the right circumstances, we can win.
Vote Forward is conducting a new experiment for this special election, called vote tripling. Besides asking people to cast their ballots, some voters will be asked to identify three friends who they will personally talk to about voting. Peer-to-peer outreach is an effective means at boosting turnout, but we have never tried it before using personal letters.
Daily Kos has been key to Vote Forward's success. In 2018 when we won back Congress, Daily Kos wrote 500,000 letters with Vote Forward. In 2020 when we won the presidency and the U.S. Senate, Daily Kos volunteers wrote over 2 million letters. In the past month alone, Daily Kos volunteers have written to nearly 60,000 first time voters in Georgia and Virginia, thanking them for turning out and urging them to stay involved. Please join us in this growing phenomenon that has demonstrably increased voter turnout in multiple elections.
Click to sign up or log into a Vote Forward account, and start writing letters to voters in Texas for the May special election. We also still need folks to write letters to first-time voters in Virginia about the upcoming gubernatorial election. The send date for both sets of letters is April 15.
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Thanks for all you do,
Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos
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