Cville Dems

The Charlottesville Democratic Committee

Outreach

Jan. 10, 2026 IMPORTANT Volunteer Appreciation and Biennial Reorganizational Meeting

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All Democratic voters are invited to can attend our important meeting in January (location details to come). The entire Volunteer Appreciation and Biennial Reorganization Meeting will be Saturday, Jan. 10, from 5-7:30pm.

There will be a dinner and appreciation event for volunteers from 5-6:30pm, followed by the Caucus and& First Members Meeting, 6:30-7:30pm. 

Please come out and show your support and interest in Charlottesville Democrats!

 

Early Voting Begins Friday for the Primary Election

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Photo of a political metal button reading “Early Voting” in the middle third with white stars above and below it (set against a blue background at top and a red background at bottom)Early voting begins this week at your Registrar’s Office for June’s primary races, running from this Friday, May 2 through June 14. Voting on Election Day, Tuesday, June 17, is done at your precinct polling location.

Cville voters will be able to vote via ranked-choice voting for City Council candidates (see below for more on ranked-choice voting). The other primary races will be for Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General. Abigail Spanberger is not being opposed as our Gubernatorial Candidate.

The Voter registration deadline is Tuesday, May 27, 2025. Voters can also apply for a ballot to be mailed to you through Friday, June 6.

The Office of Voter Registration and Elections (Registrar’s Office) for Charlottesville is located at the City Hall Annex, 120 7th St. NE, Room 142 (mailing address is PO Box 1219, same zip code), and phone number is 434-970-3250.

Join Cville Canvassing for Abigail Spanberger for Governor

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The Abigail Spanberger for Governor Campaign will be canvassing the next two weeks and then some. If you’d like to knock doors to talk to LeanDemocrats and Strong Democrats who don’t always turn out to vote, see below. Canvassers will meet up at Belmont Park every Saturday at 10am and 1pm, and every Sunday at 1pm.

Here are the links to sign up:

CAMPAIGN NEWS: Sierra Thomas has just arrived in Virginia as campaign’s regional organizer for the 5th and 6th districts. Jimmy Flood (jimmy@abigailspanberger.com) is the 5th District organizer we’re in touch with for now; soon six organizers for the 5th District will be helping throughout the election cycle.

“Thursdays at Ix Park” Will Begin in June

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We’ll remind you again in the coming weeks, but the volunteer activities at Ix Park will resume this year after the June 17 primary, once we know which candidates will be on the final election ballot for Charlottesville voters. The time will be 5-7pm for Ix Park activities.

This year we’ll also be helping Lily Franklin in the Blacksburg (VA-41) House of Delegates District with cards, calls, and texts. She lost by under 200 votes in her last try, and we want to bring her over the finish line with a seat in Richmond.

Help Jack Trammell Get Elected by Phone Banking!

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Flyer for candidate Jack Trammell VA Senate D10 showing his picture and a quote from Susan Sweker "...dedicated advocate for better schools, stronger support for educators, improved infrastructure, and expanded access to affordable healthcare"

A special election is coming this Tuesday, January 7, and there’s an important phone banking opportunity. Jack Trammell would like volunteers to help him win the VA Senate District 10 seat John McGuire vacated when he unfortunately won the 5th District race. Trammel is the Democratic nominee in the special election for the seat (his nomination received strong support from the SD-10 Democratic Nominating Committee).

Note that Senate District 10 covers a lot of our Fifth Congressional District. It borders Charlottesville and Albemarle County, and consists of part or all of the following counties: Amelia, Appomattox, Buckingham, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico (one tiny part), Louisa (Jack’s Home County), Powhatan, and Prince Edward. It includes the more Democratic and populated areas of Ashland, Lake Monticello, and Farmville.

The biggest way to help is to make calls and reach as many voters as possible (some sessions start today!):

GOTV for Jack Trammel

Thurs. 1/2 (Today!) and Friday 1/3

Saturday 1/4 – Tuesday 1/7

More ways you can support Jack’s candidacy

Questions? Please contact:
Chris Burton
Campaign Manager
Trammell for Senate VA-10
434-987-5983

How You Can Help with Our Final Pre-Election Push

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Mobilize logo for Coordination Campaign Harris-Walz-Kaine 2024 Final Stretch Canvasses. Candidate names are in white letters with a Bigger VA2024 at bottom.Final Canvasses 4 days leading up to Tuesday Tuesday (including some special Sunday attractions)

  • Saturday 11/2: 9am–12pm, 12–3pm, 3–6pm, 6–9pm — sign up sign up here
  • Sunday 11/3: 9am–12pm (11am donuts for this and next shift courtesy of Network Nova), 12–3pm, 3–6pm (launched by Gloria Witt and Katrina Callsen!), 6–9pm — sign up here
  • Monday 11/4: 9am–12pm, 12–3pm, 3–6pm, 6–9pm — sign up here
  • Tuesday 11/5: 7–9am, 9am–12pm, 12–3pm, 3–5pm, 5–7pm — sign up here

Phone Banking

Last chance to cure ballots in swing states and GOTV!

Text Banking

Last chance to cure ballots in swing states and GOTV!

Help Us Use YouTube Videos to Elect Democrats

Graphic with 3-step instructions about how to best use the Cville Dems YouTube Channel. Photos from several Gloria Witt videos appear at the bottom.Videos are one of the most powerful communications tools available. Viewers retain 95% of a message when they watch it in a video compared to 10% in text! And people are 52% more likely to share video content than any other type of content.

We need YOU to help us build up our YouTube subscriber count! We have 19 now, and we’d love to get to 50 by Election Day.

Please take a minute (that’s all) to go to the Cville Dems YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/@CvilleDemsVote and then follow the three steps in the graphic:

  1. Subscribe (and enable all notifications)
  2. Once subscribed, you can then (focusing on the Gloria Witt videos) Like, Comment, and most importantly Share the videos to your own social media channels by clicking on “Share” under a video, copying the video link, and pasting it into your own social media post on Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, etc. Feel free to add an appropriate caption.
  3. Please share the link to our YouTube channel with folks in your network and ask them to also subscribe to and share our videos.

If you take your minute above, and also ask your friends to join you, it will, as Gloria Witt would say, put the butterfly effect into action!

Other (Nice-Looking) Ways to Help

  • Get our new Cville Dems coffee mug
  • Get our NEW Cville Dems T-shirts and/or sweatshirts so you can wear them for canvassing (and around town too, to publicize us and by extension our candidates). We’re having an Election 2024 Special Sale this Saturday 11/02 from 12-2pm at 107 Christa Court in Cville — drive by to get a free Cville Dems mug with purchase of any 2 or more garments! We’ll accept cash, check, or credit card.

Photo of Cville Dems Tshirt/Sweatshirt for sale - has our 2 shades of blue logo of the Blue Ridge Mountains on the front with the words "Cville Dems"     Photo of Cville Dems coffee mug for sale - has our logo of the Blue Ridge Mountains on the front with the words "Cville Dems" in white capital letters