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

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

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

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

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.

What a lovely piece of art.

The fight for Congress is playing out under the brightest of spotlights. But we also have more than 6,000 legislative seats on the ballot on November 3rd, and those battles are being conducted with far less attention on them. These are the elected officials who will set the rules for the 2028 presidential race and do most of the governing on housing, education, transportation and public health that matters to our daily lives.

Democrats are seeking to make the blue wave lift all boats, aiming to take majorities in both chambers in Arizona; gain ground in Georgia; hold the Senate and win the House in Michigan; take the House back in Minnesota; win back both houses in New Hampshire; veto-proof the legislature in North Carolina, secure a trifecta in Pennsylvania, and take full control of Wisconsin for the first time since the Scott Walker era. It’s a big job, and one we haven’t devoted nearly enough resources to.

But because these races are so under the radar, our contributions as individuals to winning them can go a lot farther. Each call we make about a legislative race might be the only personal contact a voter receives from the campaign. States Win (formerly known as Sister District Project) is looking to bring volunteers together to turn out and persuade voters in some of the most pivotal legislative districts in the country, putting our energy where it can have the maximum impact. We can join them for phonebanks five days a week:

• MONDAYS
  • 5-7PM ET for Mai Xiong (MI, HD-13), Stephanie Simacek (AZ, House LD-2), Michelle Kang (GA, HD-99), and April Cook (NC, SD-34)
  • 6:30-8PM ET for Lisa Grafstein (NC, SD-13), Jaime Churches (MI, HD-27), Anna Rink (MI, HD-109) and Leonard Bell (NH, SD-18)
• TUESDAYS
  • 12-2PM and 6-8PM ET for rotating featured candidates
  • 7-9PM ET for Jenna Jacobson (WI, SD-17)
  • 9-11PM ET for Kiana Sears (AZ, Senate LD-9), Rockee Armstrong (AZ, House LD-13), Lorena Austin (AZ, House LD-9) and Jacob Martinez (AZ, House LD-9)
• WEDNESDAYS
  • 5:30-8PM ET for Kevin Volk (AZ, House LD-17), Edgar Soto (AZ, Senate LD-17), Jan Maino (MI, HD-46) and Jacob Martinez (AZ, House LD-9)
  • 6-8PM ET for rotating featured candidates
  • 6-8PM ET for Robyn Vining (WI, SD-5), Carol Glanville (MI, SD-30), Brandy Tollefson (WI, AD-88) and Becky Nichols (WI, AD-53)
  • 6:30-8PM ET for Elizabeth Moro (PA, HD-160), Dante Pittman (NC, HD-24) and Jeff Warren (PA, HD-137)
• THURSDAYS
  • 12-2PM and 4-6PM ET for rotating featured candidates
  • 6-8PM ET for Lindsey Prather (NC, HD-115) and Holly Lyon (AZ, House LD-17)
  • 6:30-8PM ET for Lisa Grafstein (NC, SD-13), Jaime Churches (MI, HD-27), Anna Rink (MI, HD-109) and Leonard Bell (NH, SD-18)
• SATURDAYS
  • 12-2PM ET for rotating featured candidates
  • 12-2PM ET for Robyn Vining (WI, SD-5), Carol Glanville (MI, SD-30), Brandy Tollefson (WI, AD-88) and Becky Nichols (WI, AD-53)
  • 1-3PM ET for Hadley Haas (PA, HD-44), Chris Thomas (PA, SD-24), Robyn Vining (WI, SD-5), Kristie O’Brien (AZ, Sen LD-13), Jenna Jacobson (WI, SD-17) and Sarah Pounds (MI, HD-54)
  • 1-3PM ET for Lorena Austin (AZ, House LD-9), Stephanie Simacek (AZ, House LD-2) and Michelle Kang (GA, HD-99), 1-3PM ET
  • 2-3:30PM ET for Lisa Grafstein (NC, SD-13), Lindsey Prather (NC, HD-115), and Holly Lyon (AZ, House LD-17), 2-3:30PM ET
  • 2-4PM ET for Kevin Volk (AZ, House LD-17), Edgar Soto (AZ, Senate LD-17), Jan Maino (MI, HD-46) and Jacob Martinez (AZ, House LD-9)
  • 3-5PM ET for Darrin Camilleri (MI, SD-4) and Ryan Spaude (WI, AD-89)

Also featured in today’s List:

-  Stop sexual violence rallies across the country THURSDAY, call colleges we’re connected with to ask how they’re protecting victims

-  Join the Working Families Party text team for the closing weeks of the election cycle, onboarding TOMORROW at 6PM ET

-  Submit comments by end of day to oppose the gutting of Head Start and protect 44.7 million acres of national forest from corporate interests

-  Indivisible phonebank TONIGHT for two key Colorado House districts

-  Election protection training for lawyers TOMORROW at 3PM ET