hi! I’m a firm believer in knocking every door, but I realize that right now, that could mean putting your own safety at risk! here are a couple of tips I do before knocking a packet of #rural doors:
1. Call through your list first. I realize that many of the reasons you’re probably knocking these doors are because rural voter data #sucks, BUT sometimes you’ll get lucky. It’s a great way to tell someone you’re going to come by, or figure out ahead of time who is HOSTILE.
2. RESPECT no trespassing signs. These are different than “no solicitor” signs. No trespassing folks are likely to meet you at the door with a shot gun. And don’t u dare trying to go around someone’s locked gate. Leave the lit on it! - don’t do something stupid.
3. Knock and introduce yourself first. You’re knocking on THEIR door. It’s important you identify who the hell you are, before you ask for their name or if you have the right residence.
4. Do not go in anyone’s house under any circumstances. Transparency moment - I’ve definitely broken this rule several times, but it’s always been when I’ve felt extremely comfortable. Listen to your GUT. it will never lead you wrong in those situations.
5. Never go alone. Always have a buddy. It makes the driving part easier. However, transparency moment #2, I also break this rule frequently. BUT if you are - you BETTER have your location shared with someone, let them know your exact route, when you expect to lose cell service…
And when they should expect you back. Now, you’re probably like, anderson that’s a lot to know about an area you’ve never knocked before. EXACTLY.
So rule #6 is the second part of #5 - don’t knock an area you are unfamiliar with the first time by yourself.
7. Leave your keys in your car - car running if the driveway isn’t too long. Trust me on that one. Let me know what tips y’all would add - these are me thinking on the fly.
Like genuinely the doors have surprised me this year. They’re not as friendly as they used to be especially out in the #rurals. Isolationism has done a lot to our country and I can feel that at the doors sometimes.
Also a bonus is #8 - I always try to find a democrat that lives somewhere around there to let me park my car/tell folks who I know in that particular area. Like on that road specifically!
And if there aren’t any? Find a nice Republican or independent. Especially if you’re from that area, you know as well as I do, that they do live there and will be nice to you if you are to them.
tbh another transparency moment - I’ve tested this too lol oops
ALSO! I fully understand that not all rural is the same. What works in some places doesn’t work in others. I tell folks often, “when you’ve seen one rural town, you’ve seen one rural town.” So here is the description of places I’ve knocked in using these rules:
rural Iowa (towns with populations less than 1,000 people), rural Eastern Kentucky (at least 40 different counties), and rural North Carolina where I am now. I’ve never knocked doors in the Wild West, and it seems like a completely different beast - so I am owning that now!
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
📣 DEADLINE: Help me raise $10,000 by midnight for @NCDemParty to stop MAGA in their tracks. Trump can’t win back the White House without North Carolina… and this year we have a historic opportunity to flip NC blue!
@NCDemParty First, some context: Trump won North Carolina in 2020 by less than 75k votes. That year, our great Democratic Governor @RoyCooperNC also won North Carolina by a staggering 248,186 votes—blowing Trump’s margin out of the water.
This year, we have another Governor’s race with Attorney General @JoshStein_ running on a platform of freedom, justice, and opportunity for everyone. Watch his campaign launch video here:
🚨 we got a report this morning of a voter who was turned away from a polling site trying to use their *VALID* student ID to vote. Their student ID is on the approved list from the state board of elections. This is why voter ID disenfranchises voters — especially young voters. 🧵
Students! Make sure you know your rights going into polling locations this year in North Carolina. Attached below is the approved list of all school and university IDs that were approved through the hard work of @CollegeDemsNC this last year. #ncpol ⬇️⬇️⬇️ s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/V…
Thank you to the hundreds of students who showed up on Wednesday in solidarity with each other.
Gun violence isn’t a partisan issue. North Carolinians believe in universal background checks and red flag laws. Republicans don’t.
On Monday, we got news that UNC was on lockdown. I spent the next hour checking to see if our @UNCYoungDems were safe and okay. Soon after the “all clear” had been given, we saw Republican legislators offering thoughts and prayers to students and faculty on campus.
The same republican legislators who just months prior, voted to repeal the pistol permitting law in our state making it easier to buy a gun. The same republican legislators who just voted to make it harder for students to register to vote and cast a vote by enforcing voter ID.
There’s never been a single-day rollback of racial progress as there was today in North Carolina.
The NCGOP and our Republican Supreme Court delivered on disenfranchisement of Black communities at the ballot box with 3 tragic rulings that make it harder to vote in our state. 🧵
🚨 VOTER ID
The NC Supreme Court in a 5-2 vote, restored a 2018 law that requires voter ID at the polls.
We know that voter ID laws are discriminatory against our most vulnerable communities — low-income, racial and ethnic minorities, elderly, and folks with disabilities.
🚨 GERRYMANDERING
In a 5-2 ruling, the republican majority court struck down its prior ruling that gerrymandering violates the state constitution.
People should choose their leaders instead of politicians choosing their voters through partisan gerrymandering.
“And that’s at the hands of Republicans who don’t want to see working people in positions of power in this state, because they know the Democratic Party…that’s who comprises us. We are your teachers, your service workers, your nurses, the people who are on the front lines.”
One of the greatest barriers to running for State House or State Senate is the fact that North Carolina has a “citizen”, or part-time legislature.
Legislators in North Carolina receive a salary of $13,951 a year with a per diem rate of $104 while in session...
…so if the legislature is in session for 7 months, a legislator can expect to make around $33,000 — well below the median income in North Carolina.
With pay that low, many legislators are retired, independently wealthy, or breaking their backs to survive.
Howdy y’all! It’s been a wild week since I was elected Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party! While I may have used the phrase “it’s like drinking from a fire hose” more times than I care to admit this week, it’s been the best experience of my life. So here’s a recap! 🧵
On Saturday, Feb. 11th, I won. It was unbelievable. And something I never expected to happen. Equally though - you don’t get much time to react before you’re thrown into the thick of it! The gavel was handed to me mid-meeting, & I ran the rest of the almost 7-hour meeting!
My phone literally and truly broke that day - from so many calls and texts of congrats and well wishes. I’m so honored and grateful to everyone who helped me get through this, to the point where words can’t really do it justice. So I hope I can just do you proud in the job…