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CALL TO ARTISTS: Share your story: 3 minutes from the field

Already doing arts-based work to support free and fair elections, or about to? Record a message of about 3 minutes on your phone and answer three questions:

• Who are you? Your name, where you are, and what you do.
• What are you up to? How you are using your creative skills and strategies to support and protect free and fair elections.
• How come? Why you are doing this. If others can join you, tell us how.

Record and send it HERE We'll weave as many voices as we can into upcoming episodes.

One-stop election protection directory by state

Every opportunity in one place: who, what, where, when, and how to reach them. Start with Anywhere in the U.S., then find your state. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov 3, 2026. Entries are nonpartisan unless marked.

For any Center for Artistic Activism project without its own link, write to Rachel Gita Karp, Rachel@c4aa.org — she connects volunteers to the local team.

Anywhere in the U.S.

• Civic Culture Club (featured guest: Jiva Manske) — Artists and cultural workers as strategists for election protection, voter mobilization and civil resistance that lasts past Election Day. Host an Election Eve: Rebirth party tied to the organizers' live event in Brooklyn; build a crew with the Sustain the Movement! toolkit; join pre-election calls; share art organizers can use free (Create Joy). When: Election Eve, Nov 2; pre-election calls now. Contact: civiccultureclub.org/take-action (free toolkits, email sign-up); join: form.typeform.com/to/gm3AYc1R
• Power the Polls — Become a paid poll worker. Where: your county. When: apply now; most trainings close in October. Contact: powerthepolls.org
• Election Protection (Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law) — Nonpartisan poll monitor or hotline volunteer. Where: your home state only. When: early voting through Nov 3. Contact: 866ourvote.org/volunteer; lawyers epvol@lawyerscommittee.org
• Voter hotlines to share — 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) · Spanish 888-VE-Y-VOTA (888-839-8682) · Asian languages 888-API-VOTE (888-274-8683)
• Center for Artistic Activism — Free office hours to plan your own creative voter project. When: doubled through October. Contact: c4aa.org/office-hours, Rachel@c4aa.org, (646) 832-2454
• DJs at the Polls (founder Anton Moore) — Paid DJ sets at polling places. When: Nov 3. Contact: djsatthepolls.org/djs
• HeadCount — Register voters at concerts and festivals; see the show free. When: through Election Day. Contact:

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