Swing Left Santa Cruz 2026 works with Swing Left National to empower individuals to take actions that impact elections that determine the balance of power in our country.
Our Goals
Flipping the House of Representatives and Senate.
Taking action where it makes a difference
CONTACT US
To join our group email list or to ask questions: Swingleftsantacruz@gmail.com
Our National Swingleft Santa Cruz website for the big picture.
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Actions Swing Left Santa Cruz Volunteers Can Take Now
SWING LEFT SANTA CRUZ KICKOFF 2026 BRUNCH!
Join us in a beautiful ocean-view space to reconnect, share a lovely complementary brunch and learn how to plug into actions to Flip the House in 2026!
Sunday March 15th Noon to 2PM
RSVP
CANVASSING
THANK YOU TO THE HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS THAT CANVASSED IN NEVADA AND CENTRAL VALLEY!! OUR GROUP MADE THE DIFFERENCE FOR ELECTING DEMOCRAT SENATOR JACKY ROSEN, DEMOCRAT ADAM GRAY AND THREE NEVADA HOUSE SEATS AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH. WE WILL BE PROVIDING MANY OPPORTUNITIES SOON!
Here is our first canvass opportunity. Join us in Patterson to support Congressional District 13. RSVP
Prepare for canvassing by signing up for this virtual canvassing training workshop:
Yes, you can(vass)! https://www.mobilize.us/cadems/event/596490/
LETTER WRITING
Thanks to everyone who wrote letters last year to voters in Pennsylvania (state supreme court races) and in California for Prop 50! The Vote Forward team is hard at work developing new campaigns and we'll present those opportunities when they are available.
POST CARDING
NEW POSTCARD CAMPAIGN FOR ARIZONA NATIVE DEMS!
We are again coordinating postcarding for the Arizona Native Dems (formerly Northeast Az Native Dems). Our (free!) postcards are specific to that group (pickup in Santa Cruz). Current message is about checking voter registration (often an issue in Az, especially for tribal members); one is geared to male voters. AZ-01 and AZ-06 are Swing Left target districts to Flip in 2026 so let's get these postcards in the mail to help Flip those districts! Mail as you go, up until May.
Contact Stephanie for more info: singersa@aol.com. Please include the number of postcards you’d like (multiples of 25) and your preferred pickup location – eastside or westside of SC.
PHONE BANKING
Along with our partners the Bay Area Coalition, our volunteers made hundreds of calls to Virginia voters (Gov, Lt Gov) and California voters for Prop 50!
2026 phone banks are up and running. Join us! RSVP
Thank you for joining our voter registrations and canvassing in Reno, Nevada, Merced County Fair, Patterson, Merced College, UC Merced, Los Banos College, and the Los Banos community. Several wonderful engaging canvasses in Patterson.
Nevada was our top priority in 2022 and 2024 to defend and build the Senate. Critical down ballot races for democracy, reproductive health, and all our issues. 12 weekends canvassing in 2024 with up to 50 of us. Senator Catherine Cortez and Senator Jacky Rosen won by just one percentage point.
We also organized for special elections in 2025 including the crucial Proposition 50 towards flipping the House and perhaps the Senate in 2026. Thank You!
Here’s where our hard work made a difference in 2024
In Nevada; re-election of Senator Jacky Rosen
Dems held every competitive US House Seat and defended majorities in the state Assembly and State Senate.
In Arizona, Democrat Ruben Gallego is the new Senator-elect.
Democrat Adam Gray won district CA-13 by 187 votes.
CANVASSING/VOTER REGISTRATION
Swing Left SC was the lead group in Nevada with 187 canvassing shifts as well as poll watching and ballot curing. And as support for other groups from the Bay Area.
42 of our members completed multiple canvassing shift in CA-13 for Adam Gray.
Many weekend canvassing trips to CA-22 for Rudy Salas
Voter Registration at Los Banos & Merced County colleges and at the County Fair.
VIRTUAL PHONE BANKING
We completed 288 virtual phone bank shifts in conjunction with our partner the Bay Area Coalition calling voters in Nevada, Arizona and the Central Valley.
LETTER WRITING
Swing Left SC volunteers wrote 40,000 + Vote Forward letters to voters in our target districts and races as well as other important races throughout the country.
POSTCARD WRITING
Approximately 60 volunteers wrote 15,128 postcards to native voters in Arizona as well as thousands of postcard to voters in CA-22
VOTER ASSISTANCE HOTLINE
Swing Left SC volunteers, after significant training, answered voters’ questions across the country on all aspects of the voting process.