Elections are decided by conversations that happen long before the ballots are counted, and few people in the conservative movement have built more around that idea than Cliff Maloney. As CEO of Citizens Alliance, Maloney turned a simple slogan, “Doors Win Wars,” into an operation that hires full-time ballot chasers, trains volunteers, and sends them back out to knock doors cycle after cycle. His publisher says his teams have knocked more than nine million doors nationwide.
The proof of concept came in Pennsylvania two years ago. After the state adopted no-excuse mail-in voting, Democrats built a machine to chase ballots for 50 days while Republicans largely sat on the sidelines. Democrats took roughly 80% of mail-in ballots, a gap that sank GOP candidates in close races. In late 2023, Charlie Kirk’s team called Maloney and asked him to do something about it.
The answer was the PA Chase. Over 50 days, about 124 full-time ballot chasers knocked 510,000 doors. According to Maloney, President Donald Trump’s share of the mail-in vote climbed from roughly 22% to 34.5%, helping him carry the state. Those numbers come from Maloney and his organization, not an independent audit, and the 2024 win belonged to many hands, including Turning Point Action, America PAC and the campaigns themselves.
Still, the model worked well enough that Maloney has committed to chasing Pennsylvania ballots every election.
Maloney wrote it down. His book, Run Right: A Complete Election Playbook to Win, written with Joshua Lisec and published by Regnery in April 2026, is billed as a step-by-step manual for building a team, mobilizing a community and turning values into policy. Its argument is blunt: the Left wins because it organizes, while the Right has lacked a practical handbook.
The book promises the field tactics behind the Pennsylvania result and how to replicate them in any battleground, starting from nothing. The pitch is that volunteers can become leaders and strangers can become a team, even in communities where the Left has outworked conservatives for years.
Now that playbook is running in New Hampshire. Citizens Alliance and Turning Point say paid and volunteer canvassers are on the ground in four states, with goals of 750,000 doors in Pennsylvania, 500,000 in Arizona, 200,000 in Nevada and 400,000 in New Hampshire, about 1.85 million before polls close on November 3.
In the Granite State, the effort backs former U.S. Sen. John E. Sununu (R-N.H.) in the open Senate race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). Canvassers help voters request ballots, remind them to vote, and follow up until voters cast their ballots, using the same chase method the book teaches.
So is the New Hampshire race in play because of them? The honest answer is partly. Public polling has U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) ahead, around 50% to 43% or 44% in the latest Saint Anselm and Rasmussen surveys. But Shaheen won this seat by about 16 points in 2020, and Republicans are now contesting it within single digits.
A ground operation at this scale is likely a big part of the reason Sununu is still in the fight, and in a state where a few thousand ballots can matter, that matters.
None of this can be separated from Charlie Kirk. It was Kirk who recruited Maloney for Pennsylvania, according to the book’s own author biography, and Kirk’s organization divided up the battleground states so each effort had a clear lane. The idea underneath it, that conservatives must go find low-propensity voters instead of conceding them, is Kirk’s at its core.
Since Kirk’s death in September 2025, Maloney and his professional door knockers have carried that mission forward as friends and inheritors. Canvassers still meet hostility on doorsteps, including Kylie Kloewer, a Turning Point Action field representative, who reported on October 27 that a man shouted a cruel remark about Kirk’s death from his truck while she was door-knocking.
They kept walking, and they kept knocking.
That is the legacy Maloney says he is carrying on: show up, listen, ask them to make a plan to vote, one door at a time, and do the work between elections as well as during them. With Election Day approaching, what those doors add up to will be known on November 3.
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Tim Young is a commentator and content creator. Follow him on X at @TimRunsHisMouth.
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