🌊WHAT IS TEXT TROOP? 🌊

The Open Progress Text Troop is a diverse community of committed volunteers from across the country engaging in candidate and issues-focused conversations with voters via person-to-person text messages. Here’s some of the work we do:

Ask citizens their opinions on specific issues such as abortion and vaccination

  • Advocate for specific progressive candidates and campaigns

  • Mobilize voters to turn out and march, call, and vote for progressive causes.

Our volunteers are trained by the best in order to create rich conversations with a better-informed electorate. Worried you don’t have time? Even just 2 hours a week will allow you to reach thousands of people.

Texting does not use your cell phone or your personal phone number.
We text from our web browser-based platform that is accessible by PC or Mobile.

 👩‍💻HOW IT ALL WORKS TOGETHER 👨‍💻

 

STEP 1: JOIN OUR SLACK TEAM

You will join Slack to communicate with the Text Troop. Slack is our virtual campaign office, where volunteers, leaders, and staff gather to work on campaigns together. Here you can get use the chat to get real-time answers to your questions, bond with other volunteers, and fight for progress together!

*PRO TIP: 🔥We suggest downloading the app version of Slack as it is a bit faster, and can be downloaded right to your toolbar. 🔥

 STEP 2: LEARN HOW WE TEXT

Text Troop texts with TextOut - a peer-to-peer texting web application that we use to reach thousands of voters.

Slack* and TextOut both live in your internet browser like Chrome or Firefox. To create a TextOut account: enter through our Slack team (see Step 1). All you have to remember to ever start texting is, “Make it to the Slack team!”

 STEP 3: CHOOSE A TEXTING PROGRAM TO TEXT FOR

Text Troop supports non-partisan voter registration and ballot initiatives, as well as campaigns for progressive causes.

You help create change by having comprehensively scripted, in-depth conversations with voters in key districts. Thousands of people learn about what’s happening on their ballot via timely and targeted text messages.

Choose your favorite candidate or organization and start connecting! You can view our texting schedule below.

 🗓️ OUR TEXTING SCHEDULE 🗓️

Text Troop Hours are (ET): M-Sat 9a-11p, Su 12p-11p