The midterm elections are approaching fast and you have the opportunity to get more involved in making sure that progressives turnout and vote this November.

People For the American Way needs your help in contacting our members to make sure our progressive voices are heard at the ballot box!

Over the past six years, we have seen an abuse of presidential powers undermining our country’s system of checks and balances, an erosion of fundamental civil liberties, irresponsible tax and spending policies and a disastrous foreign policy. It is time for a change – let’s make this A November to Remember!

People For the American Way has organized a series of phone banking nights to make focused calls to our members in key districts where important ballot measures and candidate races are taking place and WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Our first phone bank will be on Wednesday, October 4 from 6:00-9:00 pm at the PFAW Northeast Regional Office at 149 5th Avenue, 7th Floor, in New York City. Phone banking will continue every Monday – Thursday until the election on November 7. Light snacks and refreshments will be served and volunteers will be briefed with inside information about the midterm election.

Was talking to our MoveOn.org guest and it seems that they are hitting a harder period for phonebanking. The initial strong response from volunteers has reached something of a burnout level. It isn't that the phone calls aren't effective. It's just that they have started running low on volunteers.

With the election coming up, we really need these phone banks fully staffed. If you haven't yet committed to a candidate or activity between now and November 7th, please join in the MoveOn.org phone bank. Here is their announcement of a special, "emergency" night of phonebanking:

It's an emergency. With just 22 days left until Election Day, we're on the brink of a historic opportunity to take back Congress.

When we started Call for Change, the experts said only a handful of races were in play. But voters really want a change after the disaster of the last six years, and as a result a whopping 26 races are in a dead heat. There's just one problem: to take advantage of this once-in-a-generation opportunity, we'll need way more volunteers than we currently have.

So this Thursday, we're holding an emergency phonebank at the new MoveOn office in Brooklyn to call MoveOn members and ask them to join Call for Change. These are fun calls to make—you'll be talking to great people. And each new volunteer your recruit can call dozens or even hundreds of voters before the election.