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Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is coming soon to a house party near you, albeit digitally.

On July 29, the Sanders campaign will host coordinated house parties and organizing rallies around the world. And while Mr. Sanders would love to be at all of them, he is bound to his Senate duties in Washington.

So he’ll beam himself in via a livestream link.

“We have a technology available to us that Barack Obama and Howard Dean did not have,” Mr. Sanders said in an interview with First Draft. “And the idea that I can simultaneously be speaking to people located in 1,000 different places is pretty, pretty exciting.”

The party planning for the event will also be almost entirely digital. Hosts will set up events on the campaign website, and “super volunteers,” or “builders” as Mr. Sanders calls them, will help.

Attendees will walk away not just energized, but also with the campaign’s numbers, able to text the campaign to join a local team and pick a volunteer role. And depending on the level of interest, the campaign will maintain contact with attendees through text messages.

Large-scale, grass-roots events have been used in previous campaigns, but with lesser technology; Mr. Dean used to call in by phone to parties in 2004. But Mr. Sanders’s inspiration came from 300 upstarts in Birmingham, Ala., who held their own Sanders rally without any help, motivation or coordination with the campaign.

“We wish we could take credit for them,” Mr. Sanders said, but his campaign didn’t even know about the event until “we read about it in the paper.” He loved the spontaneity, and is hoping to organize around that.

“We want to capture the energy of people,” he said.