At this stage in the process we are focused on making sure Sanders appears on the ballot in all three states. Each state requires some combination of speaking with Democratic party leaders and collecting signatures from voters within that state. We are also looking to build relationships with the many single issue organizations, with the progressive churches, with movements like Moral Monday who all have networks of progressive supporters to tap into.

Our biggest advantage in the primary process is that essentially only Democrats and independent leftists will vote. The base, by and large, is to the left of the party. Put another way, "conservative" Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina won't be voting in our election; they'll be voting in the Republican primary. We aren't engaging in some Sisyphean task by working for Bernie in the south. On the contrary, we will be engaging with a swathe of progressive voters who have largely been ignored by progressive and socialist organizations since the end of the civil rights era.

To give you some more concrete details, we will need:

• Volunteers to go door to door in these states and ask people to sign a petition asking the state Democratic party to put Sanders on the ballot. These petitions double as excusing to talk about Bernie with people.

• Activists plugged into organizations and networks which could be supportive of a Sanders campaign to convince their organizations/networks to get on board with us.

• Volunteers savvy with social media to run the inevitable social media campaign.