Thread by @studentactivism

Lack of enthusiasm should not be our concern in these final weeks, and neither should complacency. Everyone's energized. Everyone's engaged. Nearly everyone's made their choice. It's time to GOTV.

Don't worry that excitement over good polls will discourage voting. It won't. Worry that voter suppression and the virus and complicated, changing policies will discourage voting, and do what you can to counter that in a practical way.

And if you really want to make sure that people know what's going on and know what the stakes are, volunteer for a down-ballot candidate. That's where the action is right now. votesaveamerica.com/adopt-a-state/

I'd say pick a race in a swing state and reach out to that campaign through their website. (One Simple Trick for finding such a race in the next tweet.)

https://twitter.com/joelderfner/status/1313926553009614856

This questionnaire is intentionally silly, but it's got 100+ good candidates on it, and it lets you pick statewide vs local, federal vs state, incumbent vs challenger, and a bunch of other stuff. It's a great starting point.

https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1311762728558702593

Here. I'll do a dry run. State of residence, job, favorite color, state govt, oysters, challenger, puppy, climate change, corruption, Capricorn. That gives me Dana Balter, a House candidate in NY, and Kayla Koether, a state leg candidate in Iowa.

Ooh, Iowa! It's a reach state for the presidential election, but it's got a super tight US Senate race, and volunteering for downballot candidates gives a boost to bigger candidates too. So I can throw some money at Kayla via the Warren page, and then plug her name into Google.

And here she is, Kayla for Iowa. And her site has a prominent volunteer button. And you can sign up there to be contacted for phone banking, text banking, whatever. kaylaforiowa.com

Now there is a benefit to volunteering for a candidate you're more familiar with—several benefits, in fact. So if I went back and re-ran the quiz prioritizing the Senate, I'd get a different answer. Or I could just Google Theresa Greenfield, Joni Ernst's challenger in Iowa.

And here's HER website. greenfieldforiowa.com

Text banking might work for you, or data entry—I can't remember which campaign I saw that was looking for folks to help with that recently, but I've seen it more than once.

https://twitter.com/baywren/status/1313929270310313985

Really, the thing to do is just go and poke around and find a candidate or two who looks up your alley for whatever reason, and fill out their volunteer form. If it doesn't work out, try another in a couple of days.

Oh, and if you do wind up volunteering, you could even check out your chosen candidate's schwag. Be the only person on your block with a @greenfieldiowa tee shirt on Election Day.

And as Ben so helpfully reminds us, volunteering for state Democratic parties is a great way to help out with GOTV and registration too. Here's Wisconsin:

https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/1313934281023123456