🌊WHAT IS TURNOUT TROOP? 🌊

The Open Progress Turnout Troop is a diverse community of committed volunteers from across the country who are engaging with voters via person-to-person non-partisan text messages. Here’s some of the work we do:

  • Encourage citizens across the country, whether English or Spanish-speaking, to register to vote

  • Help voters request absentee or vote-by-mail ballots

  • Help voters find their polling locations

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 👨‍💻

 ✊ HOW TO TEXT WITH TURNOUT TROOP ✊ 

 STEP 1:

FILL OUT OUR VOLUNTEER INTEREST FORM & JOIN OUR SLACK

Once you’ve filled out your form, you will be invited to join the Turnout Troop workspace in TextOut. This texting channel is how you will communicate with the Open Progress texting staff and moderators.

Slack is our virtual headquarters, where volunteers, leaders, and staff gather to work on text banking programs 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. 🔥

Click here to view our Community Guidelines »

Click here to watch video introduction to Slack »

STEP 2:

JOIN OUR TURNOUT TROOP WORKSPACE ON TEXTOUT

In order to text you will need to join the Turnout Troop workspace in TextOut. Turnout Troop texts with TextOut - a peer to peer texting web application that we use to reach thousands of voters.
TextOut works on your Desktop (like Chrome or Firefox) or Mobile internet browser.

STEP 3:

Select a TEXTING PROGRAM

Turnout Troop supports non-partisan voter education campaigns ONLY.

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 a texting program in the TextOut workspace and start connecting!

  🗓️ OUR TEXTING SCHEDULE 🗓️

Turnout Troop Hours are (ET): Monday-Sunday 2p-6p