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GOTV reminder: Dem action on RealPage, corporate price-gougers- talk living costs, NOT "econ growth" Updating, a little intro to why this is so important for our canvassing and GOTV and why this is our secret weapon to win in November This is basically a repost of Diary from last month, but we’re getting such strong positive traction with this...
by Tweedledee5
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on Sat May 25, 2024 at 08:31 AM PDT
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Campaign season is in full swing now, I have been out knocking doors in my district and asking about issues. You meet some nice people that way. (And others.) Democratic-leaning voters are fed up with our extreme abortion ban, the recent library bill...
by strawbale
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on Sun May 19, 2024 at 03:45 PM PDT
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The tl-dr For the headline tl-dr above the fold if skimming this Diary, there’s been a serious and dangerous misunderstanding fuelling the proposed TikTok ban in the House panel (a lot of Dem votes) already costing us dearly, just when we have...
by Tweedledee5
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:30 PM PDT
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Just a follow up on the recent top quality diaries by ericlewis0 and Kerry Eleveld on President Biden’s fundraising surge since the State of the Union address, and the strongly positive reception he and his policies have gotten. (Even more amazing...
by Tweedledee5
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 11:28 AM PST
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You are reading this on the Internet, and you might be wondering if meatspace interactions still matter when it comes to elections. The Superspreader-In-Chief had his massive rallies and lost to the guy who adhered to social distancing guidelines....
by RobertEnders
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on Sun Sep 03, 2023 at 05:19 AM PDT
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7 million seniors, low income people, and BIPOC live in subsidized housing. We know their addresses. We used to be homeless, now we live in a Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) building for seniors. We’re protected from arbitrary rent increases and evictions. We can survive on our SocIal Security, some of our neighbors survive just on SSI. Last...
by Pantone2583C
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on Tue Aug 22, 2023 at 07:19 PM PDT
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We get it. Not everyone is a people person. Some folks—like Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and war criminal-cum-cat painter George W. Bush—have a natural talent for glad-handing politics, while others, um ... don’t. But not only is Florida Gov. Ron...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Sun Jul 16, 2023 at 11:24 AM PDT
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Honestly, I'm surprised it took as long as it did for one of these stories to happen. Yesterday, while knocking on doors in rural western Albemarle county, Virginia, I noticed a man keeping an eye on me as I approached one of his neighbors. I was...
by SquireForYou
307 comments
on Sun May 21, 2023 at 08:50 AM PDT
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I read The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy by Anand Giridharadas (NY: Alfred A Knopf, 2022 ISBN 9780593318997) recently. It has a lot of good examples of effective organization and communication from...
by gmoke
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on Wed Mar 29, 2023 at 08:49 PM PDT
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For two years, the media pundits proclaimed that it was inevitable: Republicans would win the 2022 midterms in a "red wave" that would render Democrats and Joe Biden irrelevant. Never mind that MAGA Republicans had attacked our government on Jan. 6....
by Paul Hogarth
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on Thu Dec 08, 2022 at 09:05 AM PST
with 136 Recommends
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This is it, folks. The politicians and the pollsters don’t get to decide on the midterm elections. The voters do. And it’s on us to do all that we can to get out the Democratic vote for the FINAL FOUR DAYS.
by Paul Hogarth
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on Fri Nov 04, 2022 at 01:23 PM PDT
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Many people, my own kids included, would rather jump in a very cold lake than knock on the doors of strangers to Get Out The Vote. No amount of telling them they are talking to Democrats will persuade them. They have visions of angry people berating...
by shadowbot1
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on Thu Nov 03, 2022 at 08:59 AM PDT
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What did you do in the election against Fascism, Daddy (and Mommy)? Well, here’s something, right here! You can sign up at this link for buses to canvass in crucial districts if this weekend you are in or near NYC, Boston, Balt., DC, Phila., Jersey...
by Bethesda 1971
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on Tue Nov 01, 2022 at 10:39 AM PDT
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Three weekends ago, I traveled 100 miles in a car with three friends to go canvassing for Dr. Kermit Jones, the Democratic nominee for Congress in California’s 3rd Congressional District (a swing district that runs east of the Sacramento suburbs to the...
by Paul Hogarth
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on Mon Oct 31, 2022 at 02:27 PM PDT
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We are less than two weeks away from a midterm election that will test our freedoms like never before: our right to control our bodies, the future of our planet, the direction of education in our nation’s schools, gun control, and even whether we...
by Paul Hogarth
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on Thu Oct 27, 2022 at 06:30 PM PDT
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It's Get Out the Vote (GOTV) season, and more than two million Americans have already voted early. With only three weekends left before Election Day, I drove 100 miles this weekend to help Dr. Kermit Jones in California's 3rd Congressional District—a...
by Paul Hogarth
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on Mon Oct 17, 2022 at 02:39 PM PDT
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Georgia is ground zero for control of the Senate. 538 reports that Senator Warnock is the most endangered Democratic incumbent. As crazy as it seems, the latest Atlanta Journal poll shows Herschel Walker ahead of Senator Warnock 46 to 44 (within the...
by darrow
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on Sun Sep 25, 2022 at 05:19 AM PDT
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Yesterday was a beautiful late July day here in Virginia; I woke up early and headed to�the Albemarle County Farmer’s Market in Hollymead, Virginia. In my campaign for the Virginia House of ...
by SquireForYou
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on Mon Aug 01, 2022 at 06:57 AM PDT
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YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT I’M ANGRY. Enough is enough. The Radical Right is the ENEMY of the American Republic, and it intends to strangle our freedom and install itself in power permanently. It is our SACRED DUTY to stop them. The rogue, Federalist...
by Yosef 52
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on Tue Jun 28, 2022 at 05:04 PM PDT
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YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT I’M ANGRY. Enough is enough. The Radical Right is the ENEMY of the American Republic, and it intends to strangle our freedom and install itself in power permanently. It is our SACRED DUTY to stop them. The rogue, Federalist...
by Yosef 52
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on Mon Jun 27, 2022 at 05:45 PM PDT
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