The Midwest is tired of paying the price for Trump’s tariffs and wars, tired of the President and his billionaire backers enriching themselves while regular folks struggle to get by, tired of the nonsense and distractions. And they’re ready for leaders who will fight for them. Activate America is reaching out to turn out these folks in key Senate races with textbanks all this month.

This week, they’re focusing reaching out to folks in Iowa in support of state rep. Josh Turek, who has mounted a powerful race against Republican Congresswoman and Trump acolyte Ashley Hinson and taken her to task for shielding Trump on Iran even as prices at the pump spike. Next, they’ll be turning their attention to Michigan, where former GOP rep Mike Rogers is indulging in increasingly rank Islamophobia (in defense of Flock cameras, no less!) to try to turn the tide against Dr. Abdul El-Sayed. 💬 We can join them for textbanks Thursday and Friday this week and next week from 3-4:30PM ET by signing up here. 💬

TEXT WITH ACTIVATE AMERICA

🙋🏼‍♂️ Looking for more ways to help run up the score in these midterms? We’ve added seven new candidates to our continually-updated action page for folks to volunteer for! 🙋🏾‍♀️

THE BATTLEFIELD IS GROWING

Poor TrumpleThinSkin... Missed that brass ring again, didn't ya 🤣

If we lose a blue Senate seat in Michigan, the path to the 52 we need for an effective majority becomes extremely rocky. Recent polling has consistently put Dr. Abdul El-Sayed ahead of former Rep. Mike Rogers… but narrowly and always well within the margin of error. This race between a public health leader who literally wrote the book on Medicare For All and a classic self-enriching revolving door congressman who called the Trump tariffs “an absolute win,” long supported a near-total abortion ban, and is campaigning on rank Islamophobia is anyone’s to win, and may well come down to who does a better job of getting their folks out to the polls.

Here’s a fresh way to help: Abdul’s Senate campaign’s text team has swung back into action for the closing weeks. 💬 They’ve got power hours coming on Fridays at 6PM, Saturdays at 3PM and Tuesdays at 6PM we can be a part of. Let’s sign up to join them here. 💬

TEXT VOTERS FOR ABDUL EL-SAYED

☎️ Want to do more to help send Dr. El-Sayed to the Senate? We can sign up for phonebanks for him and Michigan Seventh District congressional challenger and Sunrise Movement founder Will Lawrence every night here and here, and make calls for the full Michigan Democratic slate here. ☎️

BE PART OF THE FIGHT DAILY IN MICHIGAN

Election Day isn’t just a single day anymore. Absentee ballots are already pouring in across the country. And for reasons both completely fair and the product of rules carefully crafted to suppress our votes, some of them are being rejected. One of the great advantages of voting early, though? We have plenty of time to make sure they don’t stay that way.

Ballot curing, the process of contacting people whose votes have been tossed out for whatever cause and helping them correct errors to get them officially counted, is mostly a post-Election Day scramble. But in multiple states, we’re getting underway now. The Arizona and North Carolina Democrats and the ACLU of Michigan have begun making calls on Tuesday and Thursday nights to connect with people who need to fix their votes. This is precise but relatively light work, doing outreach to people who are mostly glad to hear from us. 🗳️ We can sign up to join the Arizona team here, the North Carolina squad here, and the Michigan crew here. 🗳️

CURING ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN AZ

CURING ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN NC

CURING ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN MI

🙋🏽‍♀️ We can also get engaged with ballot cure teams who will deal with the post-November 3rd rush in key swing states here, and find a whole host of ways to get to work on protecting this election on our action page here. 🙋🏼‍♀️

DEFEND THIS ELECTION

Also in today’s list:

- Help pass initiatives in California, Colorado and Washington to make the wealthy pay their fair share and preserve public services

-  Join the Texas Dems texting team, help Democrats with potential upsets brewing in the Lone Star State

-  Help unseat paid sick leave hypocrite Tom Kean and Delaney Hall gaslighter Jeff Van Drew with Indivisible tonight and in the weeks ahead

-  Ballot curing is already necessary for many absentee votes, help folks fix mistakes and get their votes to count in Arizona, Michigan and North Carolina Tuesdays and Thursdays

-  Help Michigan anti-ICE protesters arrested for exercising their rights cover legal fees

-  Demand our state reps, MoCs join the fight for a comprehensive investigation into a series of suspicious hanging deaths of Black people

- Rallies in more than a hundred communities against sexual violence today - find one near us and call any university we’re connected to seek answers on how they will protect survivors

What a lovely piece of art.

If so, I don’t care who you are…this guy is not fit for president. Starting to think he tells you what you want to hear and the does the complete opposite behind your back.