building teams to reach
unreachable voters

There’s a long history of organizing including both volunteers as well as paid organizers, whether that’s people who knock on doors, people who stand on street corners or people who make calls for a phonebank. The law allows for campaigns and organizations to pay organizers, and every election cycle thousands of people do this work, sometimes paid and sometimes unpaid as volunteers.

Relentless’ programs are unique. We don’t give organizers lists of phone numbers to call, they decide who they would like to reach out to, and how they will do it.

We run programs that work hard to include voices that are excluded — people whose numbers aren’t on the voter lists that campaigns buy, because they moved recently or are new to the US or just don’t have a phone; people whose votes and voices have been suppressed by targeted laws; people who won’t pick up the phone for unknown numbers and won’t talk politics with a stranger. We do this work to expand the electorate rather than contract it.

To do that we also have to expand our organizing teams to include people who haven’t organized before — and people who have been locked out of participating in politics because they can’t afford to volunteer their time. We compensate them for their time because their time is valuable, and compensation is never ever tied to votes.