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Tools that allow campaigns to coordinate and semi-automate one-to-one text outreach campaigns. Although they operate in a legal gray-zone, depending where campaigns acquired their target data, peer to peer texting offers the added benefit of conversational replies from an actual human.
Suggested reading:
- Inside the 2020 campaign messaging war that’s pelting our phones with texts. Texting has exploded in political campaigns, with over a billion texts expected to be sent during this election cycle. But how effective are they? Mark Sullivan brings us this informative longread at Fast Company (2020).
- The New York Times’s take on campaigns’ peer to peer texting.
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Built by experts from the Bernie 2020 campaign, Spoke Rewired is the lowest cost peer-to-peer texting tool on the market.
Open Progress
United States of America (the)We knock on Americans’ new, digital front doors one text at a time. Our volunteers’ actions directly impact millions and lay the long-term groundwork for a just, equitable, and progressive America.
Vote Force
San FranciscoRelational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family
CallHub
CaliforniaReach the right people at the right time with our Political Phone Banking, Robocalls, Peer to peer texting, and Text Broadcasting Software. CallHub is available in 200+ countries.
Best in class P2P texting and calling tools to help you reach your audiences at scale.
Interactive Text’s web platform sends, receives, and analyzes text messages so you can reach the people you serve with the technology already in their pocket, 24/7.
Handraiser
Austin, TXCutting edge software & mobile apps to help you manage any type of campaign. Turn Voters into Votes.
Support your favorite cause or campaign Anytime, Anywhere
Communicate with your supporters, constituents, parishioners or customers where they want to hear from you: text.
Peer-to-peer texting enables real conversations at scale. Raise money, boost participation, mobilize your base with Hustle's best-in-class P2P SMS software.
RumbleUp is an easy yet powerful P2P texting platform trusted by hundreds of campaigns and organizations to quickly engage any size audience via SMS or MMS
Impactive (formerly OutVote)
240 Elm Street, Somerville, MA 02144, USAOutvote is a friend-to-friend texting app for political campaigns. We allow you to digitally volunteer for campaigns by reaching out to your friends with
With Team, users join an online community of supporters and speak directly with their friends about the causes and candidates they care about.
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