Our Mission

We are a non-partisan, non-profit, all-volunteer organization dedicated to increasing voter turnout at scale in every U.S. election via the Captain Method.

This method simply helps volunteer Voting Captains commit to helping ten friends, classmates, coworkers, neighbors or family members to vote. We are looking for individual volunteers to help us in this mission and are particularly interested in working with non-partisan clubs, organizations, communities, teams, etc who may like to try this with their members.

Friends Help Friends Vote

Talking to your friends and family in an organized and supported way is the most effective way to increase voter turnout.

We give volunteer "Voting Captains" guidance, structure, and support to help ten of their close contacts vote.

All this takes individual volunteers as well as non-partisan communities and organizations who want help making this method available to members.

I Helped my Friends Vote

Our Approach Works

Research showing effectiveness of voter turnout methods
  • 🚀 Over ten times more effective than door-to-door canvassing, texting, letter writing, or phone banking.
  • 📈 Increases turnout by 13.2 % points, largest turnout effect ever tested in a Randomized Control Trial.
  • 📱 💬 Built on personal relationships and genuine conversations between friends

Explainers

One Min Explainer Video

Why This Matters

What if strengthening democracy wasn't about spending more money or shouting louder, but about doing something real, right now, with people you already know?

Every election cycle, we get the same flood of panic, ads, and headlines, all focused on national races, while local elections that shape everyday life are ignored. That constant pressure doesn't motivate people, it exhausts them. And democracy gets weaker because of it.

Turnout Nation takes a different approach. It's calm, year-round, and built on trust. Instead of short, transactional campaigns, we focus on building the habit of voting inside real communities.

The core idea is the Captain Method. A Voting Captain is a regular person who helps ten people they already know, friends, family, coworkers, classmates, neighbors, vote. Ten is manageable, it scales naturally, and it works because help from people we already trust can actually changes behavior.

This isn't guesswork. The impact is measured using rigorous randomized control trials, showing significantly higher turnout when people get help from someone they know.

Turnout Nation is entirely volunteer-run, with shared leadership and no paid staff. We're a community of thoughtful, committed people working on one very specific thing, helping each other vote, consistently.

If you care about democracy and want to do something that actually works, join us. Let's build this, together, right now.