CANVASSING

Knocked on the doors of  193,605 local voters

VOTER ENGAGEMENT

 Made contact with 102,836 area voters

PHONE CALLS

Made 200,261 phone calls to local voters

DIGITAL ADS

Reached 661,745 voters with targeted digital ads

CONVERSATIONS

Held 45,154 conversations on phones and doors

VOLUNTEERS

Distributed campaign literature to 23,094 local voters

TEXT MESSAGES

Sent 57,682 text messages to voters in the region

TOTAL VOTER REACH

 Reached a total of 787.675 local voters

Foxx Nominated

Despite an aggressive challenge from justice reform opponents, our mobilization helped secure Foxx's win.

Newman Nominated

By leveraging grassroots voting power, our field campaigns tipped the contest in favor of progressive newcomer, Marie Newman.

Collins Nominated

UWF ran a far reaching field campaign to build broad support behind health care worker and union leader, Lakesia Collins.

POC Voter Turnout

In the vast majority of wards that we organized in, voter participation significantly exceeded overall citywide rates.

Peters Nominated

Our comprehensive voter engagement program helped elect a champion of justice reform to the state senate.

POC Voter Unity

All of our successful candidates won with a broad multiracial base of voters from across the county.

Field Campaign

In order to ensure a victory for State's Attorney Kim Foxx, our organizations mounted a far-reaching voter mobilization program. Our field campaigns, which included residential canvassing and phone banking, directly engaged tens of thousands of local residents and deployed 285 community volunteers.

Digital Campaign

Through our targeted texting campaign, our organizations sent tens of thousands of messages encouraging Black and Latinx voters to support Kim Foxx in the primary election. Additionally, digital relational organizing tactics allowed our members to disseminate campaign messages through their personal social networks.

Social Media Ads

In the weeks leading up to the primary election, our organizations launched extensive social media advertisement campaigns which targeted voters throughout Cook County. Through a series of video ads, we reached 661,745 local voters, with more than one million ad views.

Narrative Shaping

In order to unify support behind Foxx, we worked with a broader ecosystem of movement organizations to help advance a narrative linking public safety with racial justice and liberation. To that end, we secured media coverage, ran opinion pieces, aired radio stories and interviews, and disseminated research reports.  

Field Campaign

In order to mobilize grassroots support behind progressive newcomer Lakesia Collins, United Working Families carried out a comprehensive field program, engaging thousands of district voters through phone banking, canvassing, and volunteer recruitment.

Digital Campaign

UWF sent thousands of text messages to build a robust volunteer and GOTV operation for Collins. UWF also released a candidate slate video featuring Collins which reached more than 20,000 voters through digital relational organizing.

Field Campaign

In order to ensure a primary victory for Senator Peters, CRGE carried out a comprehensive field program, holding conversations with 3,278 Black voters in the district through phone banking and canvassing. CRGE also released a racial justice scorecard highlighting Peters' legislative achievements.

Digital Campaign

Leading up to the 2020 primary CRGE launched an extensive texting campaign encouraging thousands of district voters to turn out in support of Peters. CRGE also initiated a digital relational organizing program, which allowed our members to mobilize voters through their personal social networks.

Field Campaign

In order to ensure that progressive challenger Marie Newman edged out a conservative congressional incumbent in the primary, CRGE focused field efforts on mobilizing Black constituents. Through canvassing and phone banks, we held conversations with 2,396 Black voters in the district.

Digital Campaign

CRGE sent thousands of text messages encouraging district voters to support Newman in the primary election. We also launched a digital relational organizing initiative, which empowered our members to directly mobilize voters through their individual social networks.

Field Campaign

UWF and GIA worked together to run the largest bilingual program in Cook County for Kim Foxx.  This included canvassing, phonebanks, and volunteer recruitment on the northwest and southwest sides of Chicago. On the northwest side, including in the majority-Latinx 3rd House District, where GIA and UWF-endorsed candidate, teacher Nidia Carranza, was narrowly defeated by a machine-backed corporate lobbyist, GIA continued to build on years of local organizing, including combating anti-Black racism and securing some of Foxx’s best margins with Latinx voters. UWF members also organized bilingual canvasses for Lakesia Collins and sent thousands of bilingual Kim Foxx mailers to Latinx voters on the southwest side.  This resulted in us winning 7 of the 10 majority-Latinx wards that we worked in this cycle, for Kim Foxx. This was after early polling showed Foxx losing the Latinx vote, and after Conway spent big on Spanish-language ad buys. Our field program was able to cut through the noise and misinformation to engage Latinx voters in thoughtful conversations about community priorities, combatting racism and real criminal justice reforms.  

Digital Campaign

GIA sent 9,440 texts to Latinx voters to build support for Kim Foxx, while UWF got anti-Conway digital ads in front of hundreds of thousands of Latinx voters and released a slate video linking Black and Latinx progressive candidates together and encouraging our members to mobilize voters through their personal social networks.