From the Campaign Trail: Faith and Politics in Texas

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Monday, December 8, 2025, 10:00 am EST

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Act Now

What direction do you want our country to take? You have more influence than you think.

We can all impact what is going on by using our talents and networks to fight misinformation, boost voter turnout, and learn how to be effective advocates.

We’ve made it easy for you with the items below.

Empower Your Voice: Take Action Today!

Click on a category below to learn what you can do and exactly how to do it.

Learn from vetted organizations

Attend Informational Trainings

What You’ll Do:  Learn voter organizing strategies, civics essentials, how to spot disinformation, and more.

Some Details:  Sit back in the comfort of your own home and learn.

Take Part in the Next No King’s Day on October 18th!

Participate in various training calls leading up to the October 18th protests–learn about safety, meassaging, digital engagement. And find a protest near you. There are so. many ways to get involved and learn.

How to Hold Your Own Swing State, In-Person Voter Drive

Registering voters us the #1 most direct, effective way to swing elections – and it's also incredibly fun. Learn how to implement your own voter drive with Field Team 6. States they are targeting: Arizona, California, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, but you can use these techniques anywhere!

Book Club Recommendations

Check out books to read and videos by the authors. Brought to you by Building Bridges for America.

Read the Authoritarian Playbook

Learn what we can expect and what we can do.

Find Your Elected Officials

Find your local officials at every level and connect with them.

Spot and Stop Disinformation

Disinformation ends with you—learn to spot it and stop it from spreading.

Engage Directly with voters from home

Phone Banking

What You’ll Do:  Call  voters, donors, and supporters.

Some Details:  Requires a bit of training, but you typically work off of a script and can get support from organizations leading the initiative.

Yes on Prop 50

California is responding to MAGA gerrymandering with Proposition 50 (Election Rigging Response Act) to even the playing field. Call to identify supporters and motivate them to vote.

Take a Stand – Pennsylvania Friend & Phone Bank

Connect with PA voters and urge them to contact their representatives—speaking out for pro-democracy policies and against harmful legislation.

Good Neighbors Fight for Home: Phone Bank Virginia

Join these weekly phone banks to reach Virginia voters—alerting them to threats to essential services, sharing how they can act now, and encouraging them to vote in Virginia for leaders who will fight for a future we all believe in.

Make an Impact without leaving your sofa

Text Banking

What You’ll Do:  Text voters, donors, and supporters via text message.

Some Details:  Requires minimal training and doesn’t involve direct engagement.

BYOP Text Bank – Register Voters in All Swing States

Join Field Team 6's free BYOP text team - and text millions of unregistered likely Democrats in key swing states to win 10 key elections in 2025, and more in '26! Training included

Write Voters In Swing States

Letter & Postcard Writing

What You’ll Do:  Write letters and postcards to voters encouraging them to vote.

Some Details:  Requires a bit of training, but you typically work off of a script and can get support from organizations leading the initiative. To host your own letter writing party, learn how here

Write a Letter to the Editor: People’s Promise

Write a Letter to the Editor calling on your representatives to uphold the People’s Promise: equal protection and freedom from discrimination for all. Template and button to submit to local paper included!

Ensure Your Voice Is Heard

Contact Your Lawmakers

What You’ll Do:  Call your lawmakers about specific issues important to you.

Some Details:  An essential part of our democratic process. Enter your ZIP code to instantly receive your lawmakers’ phone numbers and a ready-to-use script.

Help stop the plan to open 1.56 million acres of the Arctic Refuge to oil and gas drilling.

Sign a petition calling on Alaska’s Congressional Delegation to step in now and stop this now.

Extend the Affordable Care Act Premium Tax Credits

Affordable Care Act plan premiums are projected to increase by 75% starting in January 2026, driven largely by the expiration of ACA plan tax credits at the end of 2025. Urge your representative to act now to protect millions of Americans’ health insurance.

Stop the Trump Administration’s Election Interference

This administration’s attacks on voting rights and independent elections threaten our democracy. Demand your state leaders stop Trump’s interference and protect election integrity.

Protect Head Start

The Government Accountability Office has found the Trump administration illegally blocked Head Start funds, jeopardizing vital services for children and families. Call your representative to demand immediate release of these funds.

Oppose the Sharing of Medicaid and IRS Data with ICE

Call your representative to demand action against the Trump administration’s misuse of federal data to fuel fascism and ICE’s attacks on immigrant communities.

Investigate Trump’s Extortion of Media Companies

Demand your representatives call for an immediate investigation into the Paramount deal and Trump’s authoritarian takeover of the news media.

Protect America’s National Parks

Our National Parks belong to all of us and must be funded at levels to protect and preserve the lands for future generations. Demand your representatives restore funding to the NPS and end the attacks on our cherished national parks.

Oppose S. 1748 The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)

Conservative lawmakers often use “protecting children” as a pretext to censor speech. KOSA would give the Trump administration and others power to silence legal speech. Call your Senators—regardless of party—to urge them to oppose it.

Condemn Trump’s Firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner

Call your representative to demand that Congress take action to protect the nonpartisan reliability of the BLS and hold Trump accountable for this blatant attempt to manipulate economic data to protect himself politically.

Demand Fair Maps in TX & Nationwide!

Call your governor now using the provided script and demand that they publicly oppose the unprecedented, anti-democratic attempt to redraw district lines mid-decade—rather than waiting for the next U.S. Census.

Send an Email to your Member of Congress

Now’s the moment to speak up. Lawmakers must protect clean energy tax credits and reject efforts to sell off or privatize America’s public lands.

Write Letters to Lawmakers

Your lawmaker will get your signed letter on letterhead with your name and address—so they know you’re a constituent. BigTent friend Jessica Craven always has letters ready; follow the button below to sign the latest.

Call your Lawmakers to Influence Policy

Calling is the most effective way to make sure your representative hears you. Pick an issue, enter your location, and make your calls—script included!

Your Town Square

Be Part Of Our BigTent

The work is going to be long and hard, but if we don't start it now, it's going to be that much more difficult two, three, four, five years from now... It took us a long time to get here, it's going to take us a long time to get out. That doesn't mean we should wait...there's a lot of work that can and should be done."

Reed Galen

President, The Union

In this pro-democracy circuit... Yes, call your member of Congress. Yes, write letters to the editor. Engage in social media. Go to these protests - by the way, I think the protests are very important because as protests continue to grow, it sends a strong message... Get back to demanding Town Halls - we need to get back to Town Halls from members of Congress and the Senate.

Adam Kinzinger

Founder, Country First

Community Accolades

See what our members are saying and learn how to take action today!

"I feel like you guys have tapped into what we are all feeling, we want to help but don't really know where to start. I particularly like that everyone seems comfortable asking questions and it is reassuring to find that our questions are so similar. The fact that it isn't super "polished" and you all are very honest about what you know and don't know makes it less intimidating. I also like that you have actionable things like the letter writing and phone banking."
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"Well done! Thanks for inspiring, educating, guiding, corralling and empowering all of us so that together we could make our voices heard loud and clear! Onward!"
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"What BigTent is doing is absolutely essential."
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PROTECT DEMOCRACY
"First of all, congratulations!!!! Second, thank you for organizing all of those wonderful and informative programs. Your work helped inspire me to volunteer for the Democratic Party Voter Assistance Hotline for the past two months, to canvass in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, and to be a poll worker."
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