What if you had a simple way to know which friends are infrequent voters? You could personally help each one vote.
Extremely bad news: If everyone who wants a free, democratic future buries our head in the sand this election and hopes someone else will do it, we will get fascism by 2025.
Extremely good news: at least 200 million Americans don’t want fascism.
18-29 year olds, for example, especially don’t. If they vote in 2022 at the same levels they did in 2020, we will sweep the elections with democracy believers who support (or can be pressured to support) a beautiful future.
More good news: it turns out that the most effective way to get lots more people to vote is also the easiest and fastest: personal communication with people you already know
Landslide makes that extremely easy by automatically separating your frequent and infrequent voter friends
By focusing 1-10 hours on getting our friends to get their friends to vote, we can create a landslide for democracy in 2022 that will solidify it for years to come
Here are the kinds of things that we can get by working all together to win the election and pressure the winners (we have a plan for that, too)—things that vast majorities of people want:
Climate
A just transition to 100% renewable energy by 2030
Energy
Electrify Everything
Abortion
Legalize it everywhere
Justice
Eliminate mandatory minimum sentences
Healthcare
Medicare for All
Transportation
$2,000 instant rebate for e-bikes
Voting Rights
1 person, 1 vote. End the Electoral College
Human Rights
Include LGBTQ in the Equal Rights Act
Houselessness
Homes for everyone
Guns
Universal background checks
Our Wallets
$15/hr minimum wage
Corporatocracy
Make big companies pay fair taxes
Immigration
Citizenship for DREAMers
(scroll down for the big list)
Check it out
Volunteer to what?
The party that holds the presidency almost always loses control of congress in the midterm elections. Right now, election-denying MAGAs are favored to take control of congress—because most voters will stay home and not vote. But a wave of volunteers helping people vote will completely change that. This is what we can do in targeted, highly effective ways:
invite friends to Landslide* together
knock on doors
make calls
poll watch/work
fight online disinfo
remind friends to vote
*Landslide (active verb): getting all your friends to get all their friends to vote
About
Landslide is a collective of designers, programmers, activists, and corporate accountability specialists giving people powerful new ways to take on the crises we all face, transform their root causes, and kickstart the post-carbon, just and beautiful future.
Despite the realities and dangers of polarization, on many of the most biggest issues of our times, 60–80% of the population actually agrees. For example, more than 80% of all Americans think “corporations and corporate CEOs have too much political power and influence.”
Said another way, we actually have way more than enough people and agreement. Did you know that every time in history that at least 3.5% of a population has risen together in non-violent resistance, their movement has won?
We just need to act in unison. That’s what Landslide is all about: a new kind of collective action.
Here’s the plan, in short:
Mobilize a million volunteers to help people vote in the midterms
Win the midterms
Put new kinds of collective pressure on the corporations standing in the way of what the vast majority of the people want
Put new kinds of collective pressure on the politicians
Leverage people power + corporate power to legislate the world we want
A new American Dream
Experiencing a world headed in many scary directions, it’s easy to think that’s just what most people want. But it isn’t. If you look at actual polls, here are the kinds of things most of us want—often as many as 80 percent of us. By acting together in very specific, strategic ways, we can get this world, and we can get it very soon. If this list is somewhere in the neighborhood of a world you’d love, let’s work together to make it a reality. (This list is illustrative, not exhaustive; it comprises many of the policies that poll the highest among Americans. We welcome suggestions for improving it.)