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

Actions Swing Left Santa Cruz Volunteers Can Take Now

KNOCK

Prepare for canvassing by signing up for an online training.

Then, select a date below to register for an event.

CD-13 canvassing for Adam Gray

CD-22 canvassing for Randy Villegas


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CALL

  • Thursdays - 5:30-7:30p online - 2026 phone banks are up and running. Call voters in our priority House Districts in CA. The House Majority runs through California!

  • Sundays and Wednesdays - 3-6p online

WRITE

Letter Writing Parties

Select a date to sign up for a letter writing party.

Do-it-yourself Postcards

NEW option! CD22 for Randy Villegas
We now are reaching out to primary voters in CD22 to vote for Randy Villegas for US House. If everyone who voted for Randy or his Democratic opponent in the primary turns out for Randy in November, we will flip this seat!

Postcarding for Arizona Native Dems continues:  The current message is about checking voter registration (often an issue in AZ, especially for tribal members).  Let's support a blue Arizona!

Postcards for both campaigns are free for pickup in Santa Cruz.  Contact Stephanie for more info: stephanie@swingleftsantacruz.org.  Please include the campaign, number of postcards you’d like, and your preferred pickup location – Eastside or Westside of SC.

Do-it-yourself Vote Forward Letters

Pick up packets of 20 letters at these locations

  • 310 Nobel Dr., Santa Cruz 95060 (upper west side)

  • 3382 Ashwood Way, Soquel, 95073 (off Soquel Dr. near Park Ave.)

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Past Work

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.