Politics is a spectator sport for most Americans.
Are you someone who wants to heedMichelle Obamas call to do something?
Heres something to do:
Turn out your neighbors to vote.
Harris-Walz campaign sign in yard of residential area, Falmouth, Massachusetts.Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
Ezra Levin, one of the founders of Indivisible, is bullish on 2024 and ambitious.
As Levin describes this traditional model: You get 40 names.
You spend an afternoon trying to contact those voters.
You talk to three or four voters, and you go home for the day.
Local canvassers turned out nearly double the number of unlikely voters compared to conventional, stranger-to-stranger methods.
Voters talking to voters is just crazy impactful, Levin says, describing the surge in turnout as mind-boggling.
(For newbies, Indivisible offers asample scriptto guide the conversation.)
It is intentionally a low lift, Levin insists.
That is nerve-wracking, Levin says.
But from an organizing perspective, it is a good place to be.
It means the work that were doing right now is meaningful.
The N2N program is currently targeting 300,000 unlikely voters.
Were pushing quality over quantity.
Indivisible can make this neighborhood model work because it has chapters distributed deep into the target states.
The 2024 election marks a return to on-the-ground organizing that was all-but-shut-down by the pandemic in 2020.
Its been a challenge to harness thatcoconut-pilled energyinto political might, simply as a matter of mechanics.
That call directly spawned 700 new action teams for Indivisible that have been mobilizing voters ever since.
To have roughly 700 new action teams form in the course of weeks is pretty astounding for us.
The N2N effort is a reflection of the constant need to innovate in GOTV efforts.
Levin points to the decline in effectiveness of political texting.
Starting in 2019, 2020, as we were looking at impact, it just significantly went down.
People were getting bombarded, and the marginal vote that you got out of a text just decreased.
