When they vote red, we register blue.

Thanks to everyone who helped register new citizens at the naturalization ceremony yesterday in downtown L.A.! Nearly 200 new Americans became new Democrats! Susan was there: Ear to ear smiles and tears of joy. It was a beautiful 90 minutes I got to spend with proud brand new American citizens. It was an amazing unforgettable…

Just what do you say when door-to-door canvassing? Leadership LAB has been figuring out how to be most effective. What they’ve found is  summed up in this NYT Magazine article. And here’s LAB’s Dave Fleischer spelling it all out in a TEDx talk. TL;DR: Listen.

“I’m going to put together a voter registration training?” Yes, you are!  Hosting a voter registration is simple. The ingredients: a trainer, a venue, and an audience. You can put them together. We’ll help. Here’s a short guide you get started: Hosting a Voter Registration Training: A Quick How-to Guide. Are there unregistered voters nearby who…

Two new voter registration trainings have been added to the Register Blue calendar. Join Register Blue and Swing SoCal Left at St. Andrew’s Lutheran in West L.A. on Wednesday, March 22nd. Or come south to the Torrance Civic Center for another training, organized by members of Indivisible South Bay. Or attend the pair! Seasoned organizer Christian Esperias…

Thanks to everyone who came to last night’s event! And thanks, of course, to Christian and Ani. And to everyone who helped out. If you missed it–or want to see yourself in action pitch developing–the video is on Facebook in two parts: the first 40 minutes (which kick in around 20:00) and the rest. Speaking of…

Represent the resistance! We’ve got buttons coming. And stickers. And, if you’re coming to a training in the L.A. area soon, we can have a Register Blue t-shirt waiting for you. Just place your order (pretty cheap because it’s done this group way). Register, and otherwise be awesome, in style.

By semi-popular demand, here are Register Blue’s annotated voter registration training slides for California. The slides are an expanded version of a L.A. County set. Notes are based upon voter registration training by Ani Kelemdjian and Christian Esperias. Thanks to Ani & Christian and to Maria Abraham for the notes! To be able to more easily…

We got our resource page up and running. It lists organizations that can help with voter registration and/or are fighting for expanded, unsuppressed voting rights. Take a look. What’d we miss? Please let us know. Thanks!

Our next voter registration training will be on Monday, March 6th, from 7-9pm, in Silver Lake. Save the date! If you missed the first training, this is for you. If you made it to the first training, this is for you. That is to say, this is for you! Here’s the Facebook event–RSVPing there helps…