Texas Democratic Party Support Hub

Getting Started with Texas VAN 4

• What is VAN?
• Appropriate VAN Usage
• VAN FAQ
• 2025-2026 VAN Pricing Memo

VAN Training Videos 1

• Texas Democratic Party VAN Training Videos

Logging in 5

• Forgot ActionID Password
• Using your ActionID and Two-Factor Authentication
• Accepting ActionID and Signing into VAN for the first time
• How to debug basic login issues
• Action ID, Multi-Factor Authentication - MFA & VAN Login (txdem.co/2fa or txdem.co/actionid) / [External]

Finding Voters 4

• Printing and Exporting Lists
• Searching by Precincts/Districts
• Managing data in Non-Partisan Elections
• Quick Look Up

Admin Responsibilities 3

• Uploading Phone/Dialer Responses
• Appropriate VAN Usage
• Admin Responsibilities

Creating & Managing Users 7

• Creating New Users
• Debugging Basic Login Issues
• Impersonating User Accounts
• Using Export Approval Profiles
• How to Deactivate Or Reactivate Users

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Using Lists 5

• Using your lists - VPBs, Turf, and more
• How to lit drop with MiniVAN
• Create A List
• TDP VAN Targeting Scores
• Survey Questions Guide

Scripts 7

• Creating Scripts in VAN
• Branched Scripts
• Canvass Result Options in VAN Scripts
• 2025-2026 Cycle Survey Questions (SQ) documentation
• TDP Shared VAN Scripts - txdem.co/tdp-scripts

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MiniVAN 3

• Running a Block Walk
• MiniVAN AutoCommit
• MiniVAN Overview

Targets 1

• 2024 TDP Targets txdem.co/TDP-Targets

Data Entry 2

• Ethnicity and Demographic Data
• Best practices for uploading phone responses to VAN

Virtual Phone Banks 6

• Introduction to Virtual Phone Banks (VPBs)
• Creating your VPB and OpenVPBs
• Virtual Phone Bank (VPB) and Open Virtual Phone Bank (Open VPB)
• Using a Virtual Phone Bank
• Best practices for uploading phone responses to VAN

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MyV vs. MyC 4

• MyVoters vs. MyCampaign
• Uploading People into MyCampaign
• Linking People from My Campaign to My Voters
• Merging Duplicates in MyCampaign

Miscellaneous 3

• Fixing mistakes in VAN -- Rollbacks
• Google Sheets - VAN Integration for Bulk Upload and Export
• Bulk Uploads

Distributed Canvass 2

• Blockwalk a Distributed Canvass
• Distributed Canvassing: A “How To”

Reports 0

Counts and Crosstabs 1

• Counts and Crosstabs - FAQ

Early Vote System 1

• EV - FAQ

CAR Dashboard 1

• CAR Dashboard - FAQ

MobilizeAmerica 1

• Mobilize - FAQ

Hustle 1

• Hustle Best Practices

API Keys 3

• Requesting an API Key
• API Key Expiration Dates
• API Keys and Application Integrations