How to involve those who live in the boundaries of your precinct
- Invite your State Senator or Representative for a Q&A session
- Invite a member of the Federal Delegation or their Staff to give a Report and/or a Q&A Session
- Organize to help a GOP Candidate
- Organize a Meet-the-Candidate event
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Ideas for Involvement in the Political Arena
Talk About It
- Tell your neighbors
- Talk to the newspaper if coverage is unbalanced
- Express appreciation when the coverage is fair
- Call into local and national talk radio shows
- Use social networking sites like Facebook to share links and commentary with your friends
- Ask questions of elected officials at town hall meetings
Write About It
- Write to your Republican and/or Democrat elected officials to express your views
- Write letters to the editor – keep it respectful, intelligent and to the point
- Create a powerful viral e-mail or video that people can forward to their friends
- Comment on blogs and online news stories
- Start your own blog
- Submit an op-ed piece to the local news paper
- Participate in an online discussion group
Join Forces With Others
- Join a conservative group that is organizing to protest bad policies
- Start a caucus group if one does not exist
- Attend a rally
- Work on a campaign for a candidate, party or issue you support
- Participate in existing political action groups
- Be the Change
- Attend your precinct caucus and recruit others to join you
- Serve as a State Delegate
- Donate money to a candidate, cause or party
- Organize an event to draw attention to a specific issue
- Run for office
