Progressive Turnout Project (PTP) today announced that 331 Campaign Fellows are on the ground with 235 competitive campaigns this cycle, adding direct voter contact (DVC) staff capacity in federal and state races. Fellows join campaigns as entry-level organizers and are trained on the job by PTP. The program is projected to generate 946,000 additional doors this cycle.
Campaign Fellows places entry-level organizers directly onto campaign staff, where PTP trains them in the field. This gives candidates, especially in down-ballot races that can’t otherwise afford to build out a full DVC operation, organizers who are new to the work but trained on the job and ready to knock doors and make calls. Campaigns get more people in the field, not a shortcut around building their own program.
“Great candidates lose winnable races every cycle because they don’t have the staff capacity to run a real voter contact program,” said Alex Morgan, President and Co-Founder of Progressive Turnout Project. “Our Campaign Fellows program solves that. We’re putting 331 additional organizers on campaigns that need them most, training them on the job, in the races that will decide the House and state legislatures.”
The 2026 Campaign Fellows program represents a $2.5 million investment, continuing PTP’s work building a pipeline of entry-level field staff for competitive campaigns up and down the ballot.
This cycle, PTP’s goal is to protect Democratic majorities in the Michigan Senate, Minnesota Senate, Nevada Assembly and Senate, and Pennsylvania House; flip the Arizona House and Senate, Michigan House, Minnesota House, New Hampshire House and Senate, and Pennsylvania Senate; and block Republican supermajorities in the Georgia House and Senate, Iowa House and Senate, North Carolina House and Senate, and Ohio House and Senate.
Campaign Fellows is one of six PTP programs deployed this cycle, alongside Distributed Organizing, Postcards to Swing States, Turnout Mail, democracyFIRST, and Shape Up The Vote, together representing a $36 million investment in direct voter contact and 28 million planned voter contact attempts across 288 competitive races in 30 states.
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Progressive Turnout Project has a single mission: Rally Democrats to vote. Since our founding in 2015, we’ve supported 2,277 Democrats in competitive campaigns, raised more than $368 million from more than 2.4 million unique donors, and deployed 38,962 paid team members. These organizers helped make more than 190 million voter contact attempts at doors and through our innovative field programs. Learn more and join the fight to rally Democrats to vote at https://www.turnoutpac.org.
