Turnout!

Turnout offers strategies for emergency elections like the 2020 races and addresses the nuts-and-bolts for civic groups and individuals to effectively turn out the vote. Indeed few elections in recent history represent the kind of apocalyptic turning point for our planet and democracy as the present one. Turnout is both a creative work of political vision combined with a detailed manual for turning out millions of new voters. Participation at local state and federal levels will have an outsized impact on the future of democracy and life itself. The elections also provide an opportunity to power-up social movements that can re-frame and re-define civic participation in an age of extreme inequality climate change and pandemics. Contributors include powerful movement leaders Maria Teresa Kumar (Voto Latino) Aimee Allison (She the People) Winona LaDuke (Honor the Earth) and Matt Nelson (Presente. org); leading public officials advocating greater voter engagement like Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Wisconsin Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes and councilors Helen Gym and Nikki Fortunato Bas. Turnout reveals strategies and real-world tactics to mobilize millions of discouraged apathetic or suppressed voters including women low-income Indigenous Black Latinx Asian LGBTQIA+ student and youth and working-class voters. . Language: English