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Defending Democracy has become a full time effort!

It requires more than just your vote! Here are voter engagement activities to spread the truth about the issues and how elected representatives vote versus what they say they support.

Project 2025

It’s very important to learn more about Project 2025.

Use this link to access a brief summary-2025-Explained.pdf

Registered to Vote?

If you have had a change of address since the last election – even moving within Rossmoor – you must re-register. This is very important since every voter in California votes by mail, your ballot is mailed to you.

Learn About Voting

Writing Postcards

Write Postcards in the Gateway Oak Room! 4-6pm every Wednesday

Prefer to write at home? Order 25 or more postcards, names and addresses from our partner organization, Commit to Democracy and pick them up in Rossmoor. Campaigns vary, postcards and scripts are provided. You write them, stamp and mail them. 

Order postcards, names, addresses

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Phone Banks and Door To Door Canvassing 

Direct conversations is the most effective way to get out the vote. Phone banking and canvassing efforts can lead to a 3% increase in voter turnout, per CallHub

We organize in person phone banks here in Rossmoor and we organize door to door canvassing efforts in Contra Costa County and carpool to CA Congressional Districts to help elect Democrats. We engage people to get them registered to vote, we discuss the issues with them, and we encourage/remind them to vote.

For further information or to sign up for Rossmoor sponsored events, use the volunteer signup form.

See opportunities with Bay Area Coalition (BAC) Partner Organizations

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Texting

Send prepared messages on your computer or iPad. By working with Commit to Democracy’s “Democracy Text Team”, you will text with several different organizations that develop unique texting campaigns to potential voters, inconsistent voters, even to Democrats to encourage them to run for office. Sign up for training, text on your own, or join a “text bank” session.

Sign up for the Commit to Democracy Text Team https://www.commit2democracy.com/textbank

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Democrats of Rossmoor Action Alert Response Team

The DRAAT team conveys our opinions on important legislation to our federal, state, and local political leaders. Our elected officials rely on these calls to understand constituent attitudes. Their staff is required to log your opinion and report to the elected official. We supply contact information and a script, the calls take 1-2 minutes.

Contact Katha Hartley, 805-907-5096.
You will be alerted by email when calls are needed.

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Join the Voter Registration Teams-NEXT YEAR

From now until election day 2024 the focus is all about getting out the vote! Canvassing door to door and phone banking are proven to be the two best ways to reach low frequency voters.

For further information or to sign up, use the volunteer signup form.

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Financially Support Candidates & Organizations

Sometimes giving money is the action you want to take but the requests can be overwhelming. Democrats of Rossmoor recommend you focus on a few key elections and organizations and forget the rest.

Candidates

The more you focus your giving, the more effective your dollar will be. The following are suggestions:

Presidential Campaign  

Give a monthly or weekly amount to the Harris campaign! Regular donations helps the campaign by developing a record of unique small donors for fundraising purposes. A small amount (as low $10) is enough, $46 would be a nice amount.

Donate to Elect Kamala Harris

Congressional Campaigns

Winning the Congress runs through California! Democrats of Rossmoor suggests supporting the Democrats who are most likely to flip the District they are running in.

Organizations

Give to organizations you know about or have worked with or whose values you support. Forget the rest!

Organizations Activating Voters and Getting out the Vote

501(c)(3) Organizations (contributions are tax-deductible)

Trinity Center

Walnut Creek. Trinity Center offers meals, clothing, case management, and more to our homeless and working poor neighbors. Women over 55 years old are Trinity Center’s fastest-growing population segment.

  • Learn more about the Trinity Center
  • Contribute online
  • To contribute by check: Make payable to “Trinity Center” and mail to Jane Emanuel, 624 Shadowhawk Way, Walnut Creek, CA 94595.

Monument Crisis Center

Concord. Monument offers nutritious food, quality resources and referrals to low-income individuals and families. The Center would be glad to have donations of funds (preferred) and non-perishable foodstuffs.

The Food Bank of Contra Costa & Solano

One in nine county residents turns to the Food Bank. One in four are children. Food Bank distributes food directly to low-income people at community sites and supplies other nonprofits serving the ill, needy and infants.

Meals on Wheels Diablo Region

Meals on Wheels delivers subsidized meals to over 1,400 frail homebound elders in Contra Costa County. They served over 500,000 meals last year – and demand has increased since the pandemic.