We will get through this. Together.
❤️🩹We’re holding you and each other close in this moment.
Thousands of us swapped our votes. Millions spread the word and swarmed the polls. We can truly say we did all we could. While we didn’t defeat Trump at the ballot box, we will resist MAGA wherever it threatens us and the people we love.
Reach out to your vote swap buddies. Be there for each other. Whatever happens, you have joined together to be a part of something beautiful and powerful - and your connection will withstand whatever outcome comes to pass. We will get through this. Together. 💞
Right now, the right-wing wants the rest of us to be divided and isolated. Let’s not give that to them. Instead, let’s celebrate our connection. They can’t sever the direct lines we’ve just drawn across this map.
As a participant in Swap Your Vote, look at all you have to be proud of: we closed Election Day with 15,000+ voters in 5,000+ matches who swapped their votes through our site *in just the last week* and many, many more who organically swapped their votes by phoning a friend or connecting in the comment threads of viral social posts.
Each of our new connections is a nucleus of mutual support. At the heart of our Swap Your Vote effort was an invitation to forge trust-based relationships with strangers across state lines. These newfound connections — you can think of them as a kind of “intimate coalition building” — can be the foundation around which powerful resistance movements can coalesce.
Take a moment to watch and read the moving swap stories so many of you shared. More here: @swapyourvote.
Vote swapping became a viral part of the election conversation, discussed everywhere from influencer posts, to trusted movement leaders, to canvassers offering the vote-swap option at the doors and on the phones. In the past few days our 11th hour effort gained traction in the media—read beautiful articles about our movement here—including Rep. Pramila Jayapal sharing her support for Swap Your Vote in an interview with Medhi Hasan, and John Oliver naming vote swapping in his passionate final show before the election. Georgia State Rep Ruwa Romman and Pennsylvania State Rep Chris Rabb championed vote swapping as a meaningful way to engage alienated voters in this election. In under two weeks we reached 875,000 accounts on Instagram, gaining 6,300+ followers and 50,000+ total engagements all through organic content. In addition, our facebook ad campaign generated over 4.7M impressions!
We will continue to push for an arms embargo to end US support for the bombardment of Gaza, meaningful action in the face of the climate emergency, and fundamental reforms to our election system. Together, let’s keep dreaming into, and working toward, a more just and beautiful future.
As Billy Wimsatt of Movement Voter Project, and an early advocate for vote swapping, wrote earlier today, “We need each other now more than ever… Our job is to build a bigger and better coalition. This will require us to stretch ourselves, our hearts, and our comfort zones in new ways. Let us be compassionate, joyful warriors for the world we want to see.”
We want to share with you this heartfelt and instructive post from Movement Voter Project: Worst Election Ever… now what do we do?
A huge thank you to everyone who volunteered to make this effort happen in such a heartfelt way.
Let’s keep each other grounded and safe in these tender times. ❤️🔥
With love,
The whole team at Swap Your Vote
