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Early Voting starts this week in AZ, CA, IN, MT, NE, NM, OH, and WY. Please get out and vote as soon as you can to get a blue wave 🌊 started. Use Blue Voter Guide (it's in ALL 50 states) to assist in choosing who to vote for down to county levels. Just input the address you're registered at. www.bluevoterguide.org

Any political rev progressives interested? This is Monday 8/5 at 8 pm est/ 5 pm pdt. If yes, Sign up here:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/progressive-for-harris-kickoff-call

Heads up: if you live in AL, AR, CA, NC & TX, your state primaries are 3/5. If you live in MS, your state primary is 3/12. If you live in IL & OH your state primary is 3/19. Please plan to vote in the Dem primary in your state. To help you pick the best candidate, check out Blue Voter Guide which provides your ballot with all Dem candidates running down to county levels AND the PROGRESSIVE organizations endorsing them.

www.bluevoterguide.org

CA residents: 2024 primary ballots are dropping NOW. Fill yours out and turn it in ASAP! Learn more about Our Revolution's progressive power slates across CA here ➡️ https://ourrevolution.com/progressive-champions/

The California Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) Coalition is an all-volunteer, non-profit, non-partisan organization educating voters and advancing the cause of ranked choice voting (both single-winner and proportional multi-winner) across California. Visit us at www.CalRCV.org to learn more.

RCV is a method of electing officials where a voter votes for every candidate in order of preference instead of picking just one. Once all the votes are cast, the candidates enter a "instant runoff" where the candidate with the least votes is eliminated. Anyone who chose the recently eliminated candidate as their first choice has their vote moved to their second choice. This continues until one candidate has passed the 50% threshold and won the election. Ranked choice voting ensures that anyone who wins an election does so with a true majority of support.

• Here is a 1 minute explainer from MPR News - How does ranked-choice voting work?
• Here is a 2.5 minute explainer from FairVote - What is Ranked Choice Voting?
• Here is a 1.5 minute video Fair Vote - Facts about RCV
• How Proportional Ranked Choice Voting (PRCV) works from MPR News - How Instant Runoff Voting works 2.0: Multiple winners

If you're interested in getting a reproductive choice candidate elected to the US Congress in UT you might consider getting on a phone bank to support Dem candidate Kathleen Riebe in the 11/21 special election. A website to volunteer is included in this article as are statistics showing that a majority of UT voters support reproductive choice:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/15/2206093/-Utah-voters-stro

Join Indivisible MA (IN-SLWM) on Monday, August 7th, to hear from national expert, Jenifer McKenna, who literally wrote the book on this very topic ("Designed to Deceive: A Study of the Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry in Nine States.") Jenifer will discuss the current status of CPC's, who funds them, and how we can fight back effectively to strengthen our reproductive freedom!

Jenifer McKenna

Exposing & Defeating the Right's Hidden War on Bodily Autonomy

Monday, August 7th, 7-8pmET

(Zoom opens at 6:50pm)

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMoc-2rqD0iGtEx7Xc-7EBJOXy8n0RjgoQz

"Corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. That matters because we don't run this country for corporations, we run it for people." Elizabeth Warren

It would be nice if we finally taxed corporations in this country, but at least President Biden is proposing an increase in taxes for people with annual incomes over $400,000. It would be nice if this bill also included corporations, since our society effectively treats corporations as equals to people if not better.

https://www.rawstory.com/biden-tax-boost/

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors just announced a special meeting taking place TOMORROW, Thursday January 5 at 9:30am, regarding the usage of Ranked Choice Voting in the County.

If you can make a public comment tomorrow, please CLICK HERE FOR INSTRUCTIONS

Also, please forward this action to other supporters.

From Bernie: this is definitely a concern of many people, myself included. Please this last weekend, do what you can to get out the Blue vote! https://www.facebook.com/berniesanders/videos/5497319113718370

Indivisible has a tool called Neighbor to Neighbor. When you put in your address, you are provided the names and addresses of 5 people near you who vote Democrat. This program is available in the IL-14 Congressional District and in the following states: AK, AZ, CA, CO, GA, MI, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, TX, WA, and WI. I used it and it was great to meet some sane neighbors and give them voting information.
Get your list of neighbors here: https://indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/neighbor_to_neighbor

Although not a priority Progressive issue, a key to advancing Progressive policies is insuring we have a Democracy where these policies can be advanced. https://progressivehub.net/progressives-should-unite-against-the-fascistic-republican-party/ Please vote Blue and if you're in one of these states (AZ, CA, FL, GA, NC, NV, PA, TX, WI), use https://bluevoterguide.org/ to vote Blue down the ballot.

These are calls to undecided voters in battleground states To Save our Democracy and try to advance Progressive policies, we need everyone who will be voting for Democrats out voting this election. Please Consider joining the Joan's Democracy Campaign phone banks! Sign up at this website: https://events.democrats.org/event/492248/

If you want to vote Blue down the ballot and you're in one of these battlegrounds (AZ, CA, FL, GA, NV, NC, PA, TX, WI), this website provides Democrat's endorsements down to county races to include judges, school boards and ballot proposals. PLEASE PASS this on to anyone you know who could use it. The battlegrounds will be down to the wire and everyone needs to be out there and voting!
https://bluevoterguide.org/

Our Rev is phone banking Sun to Thursday from now until election day on November 8th. If you don't mind calling voters, please sign up to GOTV for Progressives.! If you haven't tried it, it can be a lot of fun: sign up at the website below to find out if phone banking is for you.

https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/435743/?followup\_modal\_context=email\_shift\_followup\_same\_event&timeslot=3492279

Cook rates this race as lean Democrat. I am not convinced we need to call out the vote here (there are 31 critical races rated toss ups), but this is a request from Pramila Jayapal to call out the vote for Progressive Mike Levin in CA on Tuesday 9/27 at 7:30 est/4:30 pst, and Pramila is super progressive! If you are interested, please sign up here:

https://www.mobilize.us/pramilaforcongress/event/515507/

Folks, billionaires are trying to insure that "We the People" do not have our voices heard in the 2022 election. An unbelievable record $1.6 billion contribution to a conservative PAC was made to make sure those elected will do what the billionaires want versus what "We the People" want for our country. I hope everybody is in favor of taxing the crap out of these greedy SOBs. Personally, I'm thinking instead of immigrants, these are the people who should be deported. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/08/22/politics/dark-money-donation-conservative-group-invs/index.html

The veto is likely to have been prompted in part by retaliatory spite over crushing US and EU sanctions on Russia, as Syria grapples with a prolonged killer drought and the world with dwindling grain supplies because of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Idlib, the rebel-held province bordering Turkey that is home to more than two million internally displaced civilians and to which the aid directly flows, would be the worst hit. Should the aid be cut off, it would likely trigger a further influx of refugees to Turkey even as anti-immigrant feelings there turn violent. Amid all the hand-wringing, one London-based oil company that produced oil in Syria before its descent into war in 2011, is lobbying for an initiative that would see the proceeds of Syrian oil being used for aid, with the money going to the UN rather than Damascus.

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to advocate the common risk of Iranian policies in the region, particularly with the current situations in Lebanon and Syria. The expected return of a nuclear deal with Iran also represents an opportunity for this Sunni alliance to present a united front to the US, with a clear vision and expectations of how to deal with Iran.

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Nina is a progressive candidate running for representative in Ohio’s 11th district.

Her platform is meant to secure social, racial, economic, healthcare, and environmental justice for all of us. She supports Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, free public college and cancelling student debt, increasing the minimum wage, and she takes no corporate money.

Turner made history in 2005 as the first African American woman to represent ward one on the Cleveland City Council, and again in 2008 as the first woman to serve as a state senator in Ohio’s 25th District. She led the effort to create Ohio’s first task force on police and community relations in the wake of tragic police killings in Ohio and across the country.

In 2016 she was a national surrogate for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. In 2020, she was the national co-chair for Bernie’s campaign.

You can find more information about Nina Turner and her campaign at her website. You can also volunteer to help her campaign by doing things like phone banking or text banking, or you can donate to her campaign if you would prefer to support Nina in that way.

Nina can be followed at the following social media accounts:

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We hope you decide to help out the campaign in any way possible. If you can’t, we hope that, above all, you stay safe and healthy.

Nina Turner continues to speak truth to power and to fight to secure justice for us all.

Her platform is meant to secure social, racial, economic, healthcare, and environmental justice for all of us. She supports Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, free public college and cancelling student debt, increasing the minimum wage, and she takes no corporate money.

You can find more information about Nina Turner and her campaign at her website. You can also volunteer to help her campaign by doing things like phone banking or text banking, or you can donate to her campaign if you would prefer to support Nina in that way.

Nina can be followed at the following social media accounts:

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If you would like to join Done Waiting and help us campaign for Nina and other candidates like her in the future, you can fill out our 30-second application here.

There, you can also learn more about our organization and the policies we support.

If you know a progressive that is looking for an endorsement and could use the help that a volunteer army can provide, go to this link to learn about the kinds of candidates we want to endorse and to fill out the endorsement application.

Done Waiting is a progressive, grassroots organization that advocates for and endorses progressive candidates and policies around the country.

In our first 2 months, we made 60,000 calls (without a dialer) for Adam Christensen, a progressive candidate that ran in Florida’s 3rd Congressional District. Since the election, we have made calls to constituents urging them to call their representatives to support the Green New Deal, and we have made calls to people in Georgia to get them to register and vote in the runoff election.

We are a completely volunteer-run organization, mainly consisting of students. If you would be so generous as to give us any financial support, it would go toward things like:

Investing in infrastructure to help our dedicated army of phone bankers reach even more people per hour (current output exceeds 1200 hours/week)

Buying essential voter data to bolster our proprietary advocacy software and increase voter outreach in strategic areas

Covering minimal overhead costs related to communications and legal compliance

Your donation would only go toward operating costs, nobody working in this organization gets paid so none of the money will enter our pockets.

Our donation link can be found here.

If you can’t support us financially but would still like to assist us in another way, you can volunteer with us by filling out this application, which takes about 30 seconds.

Here is our website so you can learn more about us. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!

We greatly appreciate any contribution you’re able to make. We recognize that this is a very difficult time so, above all, please stay as safe and healthy as possible. Thank you.

Done Waiting is a progressive group that endorses and advocates for progressive candidates and policies all around the country.

The application can be filled out at this link and it takes about 30 seconds to complete.

You can apply to be an intern, which is 4-6 hours per week, or a fellow, which is 8-12 hours. Note that this is a fully volunteer-run organization, so all positions are unpaid. Because of this, we try and keep hours flexible.

Much of what you would be doing would be voter outreach, usually through phone banking. There is also a weekly mandatory meeting on Wednesdays at 9 pm EST. The availability of leadership opportunities in the organization can vary, as our need for more positions increases as we grow. Leadership positions could include managing social media accounts, leading phone bank shifts, helping create graphics, and more.

Any work you would be doing would be completely remote, and we accept people from any location.

If you would like to be a part of an organization advocating for progressive values, while also learning how to organize and lead or manage teams, apply to Done Waiting. You can meet hundreds of other young, like-minded progressives from all over the country. In addition to our organizing, we also have an org-wide book club and policy discussions that any members can participate in if they want. Letters of Recommendation will be provided for strong performance in the organization.

You can learn more about us and our values here.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!