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The major focus of� Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] volunteers this year has been �CI-128, the Right to Abortion Initiative and re-electing Jon Tester.��
by snowbored
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on Tue Sep 10, 2024 at 12:47 PM PDT
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Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteers have lucky in Florida. There have been no East Coast hurricane landfalls since we’ve been canvassing there. When i was growing up in Florida decades ago is seemed like there was a bad hurricane hit the...
by snowbored
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on Tue Sep 10, 2024 at 09:10 AM PDT
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Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteers don’t always find evidence of MAGA canvassers every week. But we document it when we do. We have started to run across MAGA canvassers out when we were knocking on doors on Saturdays. That evidence was...
by snowbored
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on Mon Sep 09, 2024 at 09:24 AM PDT
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Last year, there was no Summer or Spring weekend where� Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] volunteers were unable to canvass in both the Phoenix and Tucson metro regions because of extreme ...
by snowbored
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on Mon Sep 09, 2024 at 12:52 PM PDT
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In Rivera v. Schwab (2022), the Kansas Supreme Court okayed partisan gerrymandering of Kansas Congressional districts. With In re Petition of Schmidt, decided concurrently with Rivera v. Schwab, it extended that imprimatur to partisan gerrymandering of...
by grim determined indolent
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on Mon Sep 09, 2024 at 12:21 PM PDT
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(This is a companion piece to yesterday’s diary, Just the Facts, Ma'am: Canvass Wrap up from AZ, FL, GA, MD, MI, MN, MT, NC, NV, OH, PA, TX & WI) I’ve broken up my weekend wrapup of the prior week’s canvassing by Hope Springs from Field PAC [website]...
by snowbored
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on Sun Sep 08, 2024 at 09:18 AM PDT
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“We had one task: get to 10 Millions Doors. Tell me we did it?” This was a text i got from one of our Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] organizers last Sunday. Way before i actually knew the answer. Impatient much? And as much as i emphasized that...
by snowbored
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on Sat Sep 07, 2024 at 09:36 AM PDT
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My practice has been to diary about the state where the most volunteers came out to canvass on the prior Saturday. This week, that state is Michigan. Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volun-teers needed to knock on 848,248 doors over the holiday...
by snowbored
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on Fri Sep 06, 2024 at 09:33 AM PDT
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We haven’t talked a lot about North Carolina this year, and when we did, it was in terms of our special voter registration project aimed at rectifying the historical injustice that has left African-American voters under-registered in counties with...
by snowbored
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on Wed Sep 04, 2024 at 09:29 AM PDT
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[This is our final monthly report; you can read the March report here, the April report here, the May report here, the June report here and the July report here.] Last year, after the Ohio Abortion Amendment success (and taking a month to recharge), i...
by snowbored
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on Tue Sep 03, 2024 at 09:19 AM PDT
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(This is a companion piece to yesterday’s diary, Just the Facts, Man: Canvass Wrap up from AZ, FL, GA, MD, MI, MN, MT, NC, NV, OH, PA, TX & WI) I’ve broken up my weekend wrapup of the prior week’s canvassing by Hope Springs from Field PAC [website]...
by snowbored
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on Sun Sep 01, 2024 at 11:02 AM PDT
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Can you believe it’s only been a week since the convention? It feels like so much has changed since it ended. Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteers continued our explosive growth since Kamala Harris announced her entry in the race. In these...
by snowbored
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on Sat Aug 31, 2024 at 09:42 AM PDT
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It’s been 9 weeks since we’ve been able to canvass in both the Phoenix and Tucson metro regions because of extreme heat concerns. But Saturday, of all days!, they passed and boy did volunteers turn out! Seriously, our own trend lines have always been...
by snowbored
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on Fri Aug 30, 2024 at 09:11 AM PDT
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Something is happening here. And what it is is exactly clear. Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteers basically flooded the zone last Saturday, especially in the 7 Toss Up Electoral College Battleground states. Four states saw turnout of over...
by snowbored
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on Thu Aug 29, 2024 at 09:06 AM PDT
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It’s been a busy Summer for� Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] volunteers.� It’s been even busier for me, working the convention for a couple of months while trying to maintain my ...
by snowbored
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on Wed Aug 28, 2024 at 01:17 PM PDT
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Sometimes, knocking on doors can lead to what you’d call “heart-warming stories.” Saturday, we had a little “crisis” that may have become one of those. Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteer turnout in Georgia made it third highest this week....
by snowbored
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on Wed Aug 28, 2024 at 09:23 AM PDT
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If the dominant theme (in this case, what volunteers said on Saturdays) was Freedom! when Kamala first entered the race, it was “we’re not going back” yesterday. Yesterday was the first day in awhile we didn’t have any weather incidents preventing...
by snowbored
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on Mon Aug 26, 2024 at 09:10 AM PDT
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I was talking last night to a former Democratic office holder, who wondered how things were going. It’s a common question. Old clients, Democratic office-holders and even old volunteers simply crave this information. If you are reading this, you...
by snowbored
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on Tue Aug 27, 2024 at 09:16 AM PDT
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So i tried to summarize what we found in the 13 states where Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteers have been canvassing this week. Largely, because we’ve focused a lot of attention on the 7 presidential Swing States through the Summer. This...
by snowbored
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on Fri Aug 23, 2024 at 09:02 AM PDT
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Arizona, Nevada and Montana have all succeeded in getting Reproductive Freedom initiatives on the ballot this Fall. Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteers have been critical to that success in each of them. In Arizona, Hope Springs volunteers...
by snowbored
14 comments
on Thu Aug 22, 2024 at 10:44 AM PDT
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