WASHINGTON — This summer, with Americans hunkered down at home as the Covid-19 pandemic raged, teams of organizers located in a half-dozen battleground states made thousands of phone calls and put a ...

Deep Canvassing is a canvassing method that will be critical in getting undecided voters to support Joe Biden because it involves building a deep connection with people who are suffering through this ...

On a Thursday in May, a 77-year-old man, whom I’ll call L., answered the phone. L. said he lived at the end of a long driveway in the woods of Wisconsin. The voice on the other end of the call ...

It’s Nov. 1, and Precious Cogwell is canvassing in Alamance County, North Carolina, encouraging people to go to the polls the next day. No one answers Cogwell’s knock at the front door of a brick ...

A national network of grassroots organizations says a new form of canvassing can help change the preferences of voters, including those living in rural areas, to generate more support for progressive ...

It is becoming axiomatic that you can’t talk people out of hardened views. Particularly on political subjects; the common view is that we are in a “post-persuasion” era. Perhaps that depressing ...

“Deep canvassing” offers a model for how anti-racist Americans can practice what they preach and work to promote racial justice narratives. Sonali Kolhatkar, award-winning multimedia journalist, ...

The nation is locked in a state of polarization unprecedented in the past half-century, with deep, volatile divisions around issues of politics, race, religion and the environment. These issues can ...