Celebrities, Activists, and Politicians Join Swing Left to Encourage You to Get Out the Vote
Swing Left has partnered with dozens of its most prominent volunteers to send out one simple message ahead of the midterm elections this November: Get out the vote. And that doesn’t just mean your vote. In a new series of videos for their campaign, called The Last Weekend, Mandy Patinkin, Tracee Ellis Ross, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Vogue Editor in Chief and Condé Nast Creative Director Anna Wintour join together to ask Americans to volunteer in grassroots progressive campaigning on the last weekend before the midterms on November 6. We’re only one month away from the big day at the polls, so the pressure is on.
In “When We Win,” debuting today, Kerry Washington starts off by explaining why the midterms—though not as “sexy” as presidential elections—are still so vitally important. She’s joined by actors, activists, and political figures, including Kathryn Hahn, Jack and Rachel Antonoff, Uzo Aduba, Lena Dunham and her mother, Laurie Simmons, Keiko Agena, and Hillary Clinton, who all describe how this November is “our all hands on deck moment.”
Since it launched in July, The Last Weekend coalition has secured 350,000 hours of volunteering via phone banking, canvassing, and fund-raising toward its goal of 1 million volunteer hours ahead of the midterms. The campaign has seen more than 50 progressive organizations join with Swing Left to remind Americans not just to vote, but also to volunteer, in their home states and in swing districts—studies show that face-to-face conversations and phone banking in the four days leading up to an election result in more voter turnout than advertising.
See the rest of the Last Weekend videos on Swing Left’s YouTube channel; visit TheLastWeekend.org to sign up to volunteer.
