You Acted, Voters Responded
Updated December 4, 2022 – Look what you have achieved through all your hard work! Despite all the negative press about a red wave and…
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Grassroots Champions Don’t Have Off Years
Grassroots groups are still working, even now that the midterm election is over. These dedicated organizers work on the ground and don’t have off years.…
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Find Secretary of State Races
Secretaries of State – are we about to put foxes in charge of the hen house? Secretaries of State, an overlooked position in past years,…
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Twelve House Representatives to Support
Image from Politico Updated 10/26/22 by Barbara Head “If these poll results keep up, Expect Anything on Election Night,” says Nate Cohn. After a summer…
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Keep that Laser Focus
Two weeks to go until the final voting day, November 8. The media is busy whipping us into a frenzy, chasing ratings, and spinning polls.…
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IMPORTANT ELECTION BULLETIN: Q1. Do grassroots donations help now? Recently we spoke with Force Multiplier about this issue, and their response was a resounding YES!…
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Give No Ground
Update 10/11/22 A special appeal to support this important Indivisible Program. Can you donate $28 today? Last week, the National Indivisible team put together a…
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Nevada – Enigmatic Battleground State
Nevada, long a blue state and now purple, is pivotal for the midterms but difficult to call. Elections are uniquely challenging to forecast in Nevada,…
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Arizona Elections as a Total Abortion Ban Takes Effect
Update: 10/8/22 AZ Court blocks enforcement of total abortion ban. Let’s check in on Arizona after working hard for them all year. Senate: Democrat Mark…
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by Barbara Head Updated October 25, 2022 Democratic governors are our heroes and need our support! As the battle for federal legislation rages, Republicans have…
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Find Senate Races
Updated 10/25/22. This election has all the pundits baffled. Since 2020, we have faced unprecedented challenges, and old rules do not seem to apply. Polling…
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Georgia – The fight for Fair Elections and Voting Rights
Georgia’s story is one of a deep-red Southern state that has recently turned purple, transforming it into a fierce battleground. Before 2020, Georgia was staunchly…
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It’s a BFD: The Inflation Reduction Act
August 18, 2022 by Christine Brown The anger resulting from SCOTUS’s destruction of women’s rights has woken the electorate and the tide is turning in…
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Anti-Democratic Forces in Michigan
By Christine Brown, July 31, 2022 Update: 8/24/22: Good news that that the ringleaders of Governor Whitmer’s kidnapping attempt were convicted in Federal Court today.…
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Yes, NYT, Postcards Do Work
August 3, 2022 by Christine Brown Yesterday, the New York Times published an op-ed about Democrat’s failures. I agree that, yes, those fundraising emails are…
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4 MONTHS TO TAKE ACTION
Update: August 18, 2020. A lot has happened since July 1st. This article from Slate, summarizes it nicely, despite it’s flippant title “Voters Sure Do…
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Can We Win The Midterms?
I hear from so many people that the democratic party is poor at messaging and that our base is discouraged. Where are they getting these…
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Why should we care about state Supreme Courts? As we explained in an earlier Letter From the Editors (Unexpected Heroes: Secretaries of State and State…
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HARD WORK PAYS OFF: SUCCESS IN WISCONSIN!
Late last year, we did a postcard campaign to WI through Activate America. We were touting the accomplishments of the Dems with the Infrastructure bill.…
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Will the decimation of Women’s Rights finally wake up Americans?
Christine Brown, May 5, 2022 (updated May 17) Steven Cobert takes down the radical Scotus Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl…
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Climate Change and Economic Renewal in Nevada
By Barbara Head, 5/1/22. Nevada, a working-class blue state, is steadily turning purple! Working-class voters, which include many people of color, have long supported the…
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Empowering Marginalized Voters
By Barbara Head. 5/1/22, updated 5/14/22. We cannot save our democracy if we do not join forces with our communities of color. While our allies…
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On the Precipice in Arizona
by Denise Gieseke, 5/1/22. Political power in Arizona is balanced on a razor’s edge. In many ways, the 2022 Arizona midterms epitomize the struggle for…
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Pennsylvania – Stakes Couldn’t Be Higher!
PA played an outsized role in the 2020 election and will need to do it again in the midterms! In 2022, PA will have two…
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Autocracy in Massachusetts
David Pepper’s new book Laboratories of Autocracy examines the crisis of the Anti-democratic (small d) condition of Statehouses across our nation, using Ohio’s experience as…
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Autocracy in the USA
I don’t do politics All politicians are the same Democrats are as bad as Republicans There is no real choice Nothing ever changes My vote…
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Democracy vs Autocracy
by Barbara Head, March 31, 2022. In February, Russia brutally invaded Ukraine, in part to replace their democracy with Russian autocracy. As we witness the…
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What’s Happening in North Carolina?
by Barbara Head, Feb. 28, 2022. North Carolina is not only a swing state, it is a battleground in itself! The 2020 presidential election was…
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Unexpected Heroes: Secretaries of State & State Supreme Courts
Updated 7/5/22 Watch John Oliver explain the imortance of the Secretaries of States! by Barbara Head, Feb. 17, 2022. With federal voting rights legislation stalled,…
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Redistricting and Silver Linings
by Barbara Head, Feb. 7, 2022. Republicans boast that they will take back the US House of Representatives through redistricting alone. They have been encouraged…
Keep readingThe Critical Importance of Governors in 2022
by Barbara Head, January 9, 2022 (Updated January 26, 2022) Governors may end up being the star players of the 2022 election! Often hidden from…
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Red State in Blue New England? Not On Our Watch!!
Help Save New Hampshire in 2022. by Barbara Head, February 1, 2022. New England epitomizes a political blue alliance – a unified bastion of Democratic…
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January Spotlight
by Barbara Head, January 10, 2022 There are 36 (20R, 16D) governors races in 2022, and these may be the most interesting political races of…
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Bring Back the Blue Wall
By Christine Brown, December 1, 2021 Traditionally the Blue Wall referred to Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin because the union votes of these demographically white states…
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Activism in December – Donations
By Barbara Head, December 5, 2021 Is your inbox clogged with desperate appeals from candidates and groups you’ve never heard of to donate before a…
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Get Energized to Forge a Coup-proof Victory!
Updated 10/26/22: Here’s a sample of the State’s Project successes: With 20 active Giving Circles started by (Robert Hubbell’s) Today’s Edition readers, this community has…
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