Georgia's on our minds... (Two US Senate races and potential control of the chamber)

[sathari]

Like the title says, we have two upcoming opportunities to flip the Senate (okay, it'll be 50/50, but with Vice President Harris as the tiebreaking vote) in the same state! 

Here are the links to the Democratic candidates' campaign sites:

https://electjon.com/ for Jon Ossoff, who ran in Georgia's 6th Congressional district in a special election back 2017, and who is running against Republican David Perdue

and

https://warnockforgeorgia.com/ for the Rev. Raphael Warnock, who got a very early endorsement from none other than former gubernatorial candidate and current voting protection activist (and also our fellow fannish person and a published romance writer) Stacey Abrams and is running against Republican Kelly Loeffler, who was appointed following the resignation of incumbent Johnny Isakson and who is not only married to the president of the New York Stock Exchange (this is the sort of thing that might matter to some subset of swingable Southern voters, as in OMG damnyankee) but appears to have engaged in a spot of insider trading around the whole COVID thing.

Speaking of Stacey Abrams, here the website for her main voting protection organization: https://fairfight.com/; I note that there are links to volunteer both in Georgia and nationally as well as to donate.

Comments

[sara]

Kelly Loeffler also owns a WNBA team and is...not well loved within the league.

[sathari]

I'd forgotten about that! There are just too many reasons to dislike that woman.

[sara]

I don't care a whole lot about sports but I am deeply invested in Sue Bird/Megan Rapinoe.

[tanaqui]

Three other local organisations that have been registering, educating and supporting voters and could undoubtedly do with money.

https://newgeorgiaproject.org/

https://southernersonnewground.org/

https://www.atlantamutualaid.org/

There's also https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/ which has been working across a few more states.

And we had a post yesterday about the Romancing the Runoff fundraiser for several of these organisations.

[sathari]

...I love this community and all the hard work you and tassosss have put into it. I mean, I had barely made the above post before you were adding more awesome links. You're amazing. Thank you so much.

[teaotter]

And a reminder that Georgia peeps can still register to vote for the runoff! The last day is December 7th -- and you can register if you'll be 18 by January 5th.

https://georgia.gov/register-to-vote

https://georgia.gov/vote-absentee-ballot


eta: And a spreadsheet of BIPOC-led organizing groups in Georgia: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ho5HxLJhuWxy1QKzi4_7Ryt6Nvk2wm3RakOgeGiOWK0/htmlview#gid=0

[sathari]

Oooh, thanks so much for adding those! This community is AMAZING.

[tanaqui]

And some more details on what the campaigns are looking for in terms of volunteering

Raphael Warnock:
https://secure.warnockforgeorgia.com/page/s/website_vol - sign up for updates about phone/text banking opportunities, door knocking, online messaging, etc.
https://www.mobilize.us/warnockforgeorgia/event/362553/ - sign up for virtual phone bank (Sundays)

Jon Ossoff:
https://www.mobilize.us/electjon/event/362688/ - sign up for virtual phone bank (daily)

Fair Fight:
https://fairfight.com/join-our-fight/ - sign up for phone banking opportunities, volunteer to be a poll worker, etc. (NOTE: This is the link to volunteer in GA, specifically. Here's the link to volunteer nationally: https://fairfight.com/fair-fight-2020/)

Vote Forward is about to launch a letter writing campaign to write to voters in Georgia:
https://votefwd.org/

Also, there's a joint donation page for Raphael Warnock, Jon Ossoff, & Fair Fight:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/georgiasenate - donations will be split evenly between Raphael Warnock, Jon Ossoff, and Fair Fight. You can also customize your donation to each.

(Thanks to the people who posted these links at FFA!)

[rydra_wong]

A collection of Tweets/posts for people who are exhausted and braindead but have a Twitter or Tumblr and can click "reblog" on something:

https://twitter.com/seressia/status/1324391894558904322

https://twitter.com/CherylStrayed/status/1324587681708306432

https://kawuli.tumblr.com/post/634172904529100800/the-new-georgia-project-helping-georgians-get

Or, if you want something more savage:

https://twitter.com/mixbecca/status/1324816291203526658

[satsuma]

One more link, Georgia's postcards to voters project: https://www.gapostcard.org/