During last year's elections, MoveOn unleashed a secret weapon that helped push Democrats up and down the ballot to victory.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used it. And it was used to help elect other progressive champs, including Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Katie Porter, and Lauren Underwood.
This groundbreaking technology is called Spoke, and it's an open-source tool invented by MoveOn that allows grassroots organizers to send thousands of text messages to get out the vote, generate phone calls, and recruit people to attend rallies. There are other tools like it, but they have huge fees and are too expensive for insurgent campaigns and first-time candidates. That makes Spoke critical for the progressive movement.
And, in addition to using Spoke to win elections, we use it internally to mobilize MoveOn members. Our dedicated corps of volunteers that we call the Text Team sends millions of texts every month—to flood Congress with calls, drive turnout to events like our Families Belong Together and Nobody Is Above the Law rallies, and help breaking news spread quickly.
Now, we need your help to make Spoke an even more powerful tool and make a major investment in our Text Team, so we can beat Donald Trump in 2020. Will you chip in $5 a month to help double the impact of the secret weapon that helped power the 2018 wave election?
Yes, I'll chip in monthly to help power MoveOn's open-source texting tool, Spoke, so we can beat Trump and help elect more progressive champs in 2020.
No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
Spoke is a game-changer because it allows texts to reach people directly, in a way that email hasn't since the early 2000s. And it's especially useful in mobilizing young people and communities of color.
An email might sit in an inbox waiting to be read for hours or even days. A lot of emails never get read at all (thank you for reading this one!). But research shows that 90% of text messages are read within five minutes. That's a crucial difference when you're trying to mobilize rapid-response grassroots action.
Spoke isn't about just blasting out millions of bulk text messages. Spoke is about one-on-one conversations between real people.
MoveOn members have used this incredible tool not only to win elections but to help turn out huge crowds and flood Capitol Hill with phone calls to stop Trumpcare and end Trump's brutal family separation policy.
For some of our key campaign moments, texting through Spoke generated more actions by MoveOn members than email, Facebook, and Twitter combined.
But that's not all. MoveOn has built Spoke to be an open-source tool so that other progressive organizations and campaigns may use it, too. It's been used for everything from union recruitment of service employees, to winning marriage equality in Australia, to congressional elections and school board races.
In 2020, we aim to double the impact of our texting program compared to 2018. Your monthly donation will allow us to help even more campaigns, grassroots organizations, and MoveOn members use our open-source tool, Spoke. Will you chip in $5 a month to help make sure we have the resources to fund the programmers, organizers, and technology we'll need to pull it all off?
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