Days

The election will continue for just 14 more days — two weeks. We're smack in the middle of this election, because it's happening right now! Voters across the country are casting their ballots by mail and early in-person voting is underway. Even so, most voters have not yet cast their ballots.

That's where you come in. That's where you can help.

We're now mobilizing for the final GOTV (Get Out The Vote) push, and we're contacting voters about their voting plans. In fact, everything we do from here on in is geared toward reaching our supporters to ensure they have a clear plan to make their vote count. If you haven't joined in this effort yet, now's the time to get on board for the final two weeks!

How do we help voters in battleground states make a plan to vote?
We call them on the phone.

You can too — let us show you how!

Sign up here to join us in a phone bank

• Sunday Oct. 25th 4:00pm–6:00pm
• Monday Oct. 26th 6:30pm–8:30pm
• Tuesdays 6:30pm–8:30pm
• Wednesdays 6:30pm–8:30pm
• Thursdays 6:30pm–8:30pm
• Fridays 4:00pm–6:00pm
  (Make calls to NH with other Mass Dems)

Phone bank details:

• Once you sign up, you will get a confirmation email and then another on the day of the phone bank with a link to the Zoom event that starts with a training by Cambridge for Biden volunteers. This email will provide important info about the night's calls that you can review before the session. If you are already trained you can participate in the intro, skip the training, and go make calls immediately.

• We use the national Biden campaign’s ThruTalk Dialer to call voters identified by the Biden campaign in crucial battleground states. You will need a phone (cell or landline) and a computer to participate but your personal phone number will not be displayed during the calling.

Four Days of GOTV:
October 31st to November 3rd

It's all coming down to the last four days and Getting Out The Vote. Please join us calling Democrats in battleground states to make sure they have the information they need to cast their votes for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Saturday Oct. 31: 4pm–6pm and 6pm–8pm
Sunday Nov. 1: 4pm–6pm and 6pm–8pm
Monday Nov. 2: 4pm–6pm and 6pm–8pm
Election Day, Tuesday Nov. 3: 4pm–6pm and 6pm–8pm

GOTV Phone Banks: Click Here to Sign Up

Door-to-door activists, we need you in New Hampshire

Join Maura Pensak of the Cambridge for Biden/Harris team and our New Hampshire teammates to distribute campaign literature to voters in the Hampton, NH area. Each weekend through election day, we will drop campaign literature at doors. This is a fun and effective way to reach voters we haven’t been able to contact by phone or text.
 
We will NOT knock doors or engage voters directly but simply deliver packets of information to doorsteps. No direct contact.
 
We will hit the streets in NH at 10:00 AM Saturdays and noon on Sundays. Shifts are approximately two hours long. This is about a four-hour commitment including travel time to and from Cambridge. If you participate you can claim a free Biden yard sign!
 
To sign up, drop us a line at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and put LIT DROP in the subject line. Maura will be in touch with details.

Not just phone calls! Texting for Joe and Kamala is moving into high gear

The Biden/Harris Campaign is moving into a new, more intensive phase of our texting operation and we want you to join us.

The campaign is now sending millions of texts daily. This is an effective, individual activity that enables us to reach voters around the country who we may not have been able to reach by phone. The campaign provides all the information and your phone number is not revealed in the process. Sign up for the national training session.

National Text Team Training: Sign Up Here

Make some calls, make a trip…
Get a Biden/Harris Lawn Sign

We have a few Biden/Harris lawn signs left to give folks who complete phone bank shifts or make a trip to NH (see above) to distribute campaign literature. These free yard signs are made available by the Cambridge Democratic City Committee and they'll soon be gone! To claim yours, email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

¿Hablas español?

Use our bilingual dialer to reach Spanish-speaking voters!
Sign up here — call anytime Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays before 9pm ET.

Facebook & Twitter Pages

Please like and share the Cambridge For Biden/Harris Facebook and Twitter pages!

And finally many thanks to the Cambridge for Biden/Harris Coordinating team, who are making all this happen — and special thanks to Sharon Britton and family who put out emails for the Cambridge for Biden/Harris team (from which we steal freely for this website).

Captain: Nancy Alach
Phone banks: Elizabeth Baldwin, Sara Masucci, Marc McGovern
Postcard writing: Helen Jackson
Social media: Pamela Thilo
Tech support: Bob Mallon and John Patrick
Texting for Biden: Bob Mallon and Maura Pensak
Volunteer coordination and Communication: Sharon Britton, Rose Hanig, Johanna Schulman

Michelle Obama's Closing Argument

Forty-Two Days Left

The election is just six short weeks from today. In some places, voting has already begun!

First things first — today is National Voter Registration Day. Go to iwilllvote.com right now to register and make a plan to vote — and make sure your family and friends do the same.

This week, Democrats are honoring the memory and legacy of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg by fighting tooth and nail for the democracy she served. Won't you join the fight?

Virtual Phone Banks

• Tuesday evening 6:30pm–8:30pm
• Wednesday evening 6:30pm–8:30pm
• Thursday evening 6:30pm–8:30pm

The main focus of our fight this week is phone banking, which is the most effective way to reach voters this year — and we need you to help reach voters all across the country in battleground states. As you might imagine, phone banking is different during a pandemic. We meet in groups over Zoom while calling, so the camaraderie is virtual but almost as real as in the Cambridge Dems physical office of past elections. And you don't even have to leave your house!

Each virtual phone bank will begin with a training for those who are new or need a refresher — if you're an old(ish) hand you can skip it.

Many thanks to the Cambridge for Biden/Harris Campaign Captain Nancy Alach for all her work and for organizing these phonebanks! Click on the links above to sign up!
 

Postcard Writing and Texting

• Some volunteers have signed up to work on postcards to voters in Florida to ensure that they have all the information needed to vote by mail. If you'd like to help, please contact Helen Jackson by email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone 617-945-0675 to request a packet of postcards. Note that the deadline for mailing postcards to Florida voters is Oct. 7, so if you're interested don't delay.
• Many folks have asked about text banks (like phone banks but texting instead of voice calling) — stay tuned, plans are in the works on the national level and we'll be up and running soon.

Cambridge for Biden/Harris Facebook Page

Please like and share the campaign's Facebook Page!


Great — let's get to work so we can win in November!

Systemic Racism
and Politics
During the Pandemic

Thursday September 10, 2020 at 7:00pm

We are excited and delighted that our good friend Brian Corr has agreed to be our speaker when the CDCC meets online to kick off the fall campaign on September 10th.

You know Brian as the esteemed Chair Emeritus of the Cambridge Democrats, but oh there is so much more. Until last year Brian served as president of NACOLE, the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement, and before that worked as the first statewide field organizer for the ACLU of Massachusetts, where among other accomplishments he organized a task force focused on civilian oversight in response to allegations of police misconduct and racial profiling in the City of Lawrence, Mass. He has also served on the board of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, a Boston-area nonprofit that assists and empowers both families who have lost children to homicide and families whose children have taken a life — while conducting education and advocacy work to raise awareness of the causes and consequences of violence on individuals, families, and communities.

Brian is also a member of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee, has chaired the advisory board of the Haiti Development Studies Center at UMass Lowell since 2016, and… well, you get the idea. This guy is awesome. Brian is stepping forward to take on one of the most pernicious and intractable strains of American life and history, and so he will speak to us on the topic: "Systemic Racism and Politics During the Pandemic"

Sadly the coronavirus still walks among us, so the meeting will be a Zoom videoconference that you can attend with your computer, tablet, smartphone, or even by calling in on your landline telephone if you're feeling old-school. Details of how to connect have been sent to the CDCC email list, and the meeting will also be live-streamed on YouTube Live and Facebook Live if you'd like to watch without participating.

This is our annual budget meeting, so we will take care of passing a budget and then take on more fundamental economic issues of housing as we debate and vote on a proposed resolution of support for Massachusetts House Bill H.3924, "An Act Enabling Local Options for Tenant Protections," which would remove the state's prohibition on rent control and provide tenant and foreclosure protections.

Where and When:

Thursday September 10th at 7:00pm
(wards may meet virtually at 6:30)
Location is wherever you happen to be!

Agenda:

I. Approve minutes of previous meeting
II. Officer reports
III. Budget discussion and approval
IV. Debate and vote on H.3924 resolution
V. Brian Corr speaks about systemic racism
VI. Announcements
VII. Adjourn