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HEADS UP: EARLY VOTING starts this week in GA (10/15 to 11/1) , IA (10/16 to 11/4), KS (10/16-11/4), LA (10/18-10/29), MA (10/19-11/1), NC (10/17-11/2), NV (10/19-11/1), RI (10-/16-11/4), TN (10/16-10/31), and WA (10/18-11/5) and is ONGOING in AZ (thru 11/1), CA (thru 11/4), IL (thru 11/4) , IN (thru 11/4), ME (10/6-10/31), MN (9/20-11/4), MS (9/23-11/2), MT (10/7-11/4), NE (10/7-11/4), NM (10/8-11/4), OH (10/8-11/3), PA (9/16-11/4), SD (9/20-11/4), VA (9/20-11/2), VT (10/1-11/4), and WY (10/8-11/4) . Please get out and vote as soon as you can to get the 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

Heads up: if you live in IA, MT, NJ, NM, or SD your state & presidential primaries are 6/4/24. If you live in ME, NV, ND, or SC, you have state primaries on 6/11/14. If you live in OK or VA you have state primaries on 6/18/24. Finally, if you live in CO, NY, or UT your state primaries are on 6/26/24. Please plan to vote in the Democratic primaries in your state. And to help you pick the best candidate, load the address you are registered at at the Blue Voter Guide website. This website provides you all Democratic candidates running down to county levels AND the organizations endorsing them. In the General Election, Dem leaning non-partisans are provided for school board and judges.

www.bluevoterguide.org

Hey Iowa Progressives, your got a shot at getting rid of Chuck Grassley. I know the guy Grassley is running against is not a Progressive, but wouldn't it be great to have someone as Senator who actually isn't a Rethuglican ahat? And maybe the vote will flow down to any progressives you do have on the ballot. Please do what you can! https://www.alternet.org/2022/10/chuck-grassley-begs-for-donations/

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.

If you're interested in getting involved or just curious, come to the statewide launch tonight at 7:30pm. Register to get the direct link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkfuCtqzMrGtSbFxPfQaF-UPEroN9lrqBk

There's a website too: https://www.betterballotiowa.org/

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!

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 would like to offer us some financial support but also get something in return, we have some items available at our new merch store. We sell t-shirts, hoodies, stickers, and more, all designed by our merch team.

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.

We are a group that advocates for and endorses progressive candidates and policies. We endorse progressive candidates and help them in elections by making thousands of calls to voters on their behalf.

We also pressure centrist politicians that are already in office into supporting policies like Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, Debt-Free College, and getting corporate money out of politics.

We’re sick of half-measures and incremental changes that do nothing to help average, working-class people. We’re tired of being told to wait for reforms that are long overdue.

We will never refuse to endorse a progressive candidate based on who their opponent is. We refuse to ignore those that are in races against powerful people, as these are often some of the most important races to be won.

We will rescind an endorsement if a candidate backs an establishment candidate over a progessive, if they take any corporate money, or if they compromise the progressive values that we endorsed them for in the first place.

We’re sick of a status quo that only works for the wealthy and the elite.

If these issues interest you and you would like to learn more about us, you can visit our website at this link.

There you can find more information about us and the policies that we support, as well as the candidates we have endorsed. If someone you know is looking for an endorsement, they can apply for one there as well.

You can also apply to volunteer to help us carry out our mission. This is an entirely volunteer-run organization, and we welcome anyone that would like to volunteer their time to fight for these policies. You can meet plenty of other young, like-minded progressives from all over the country, and the application only takes about 30 seconds.

You can also follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

Hey y'all! We are just over a week away from the most important election of our lifetimes! We have an opportunity to help people get out to vote during these unprecedented times, but we can't do it without your help. Sign up to volunteer with us in the Final Five days before the election:

Phonebanking: https://www.mobilize.us/nextgenia/event/324216/?utm_source=IA_1C

Textbanking: https://www.mobilize.us/nextgenia/event/324221/?utm_source=IA_1C

Y'all, ballots have dropped in Iowa and people are already casting their vote all over the state! If you want to make a difference while staying safe at home, sign up to volunteer with us to reach out to voters and help them elect progressives this year! https://www.mobilize.us/nextgenia/event/324206/?utm\_source=IA-1C

To protect yourself from COVID-19 exposure, vote by mail this year! Fill out an absentee ballot request and return it to your County Auditor's Office.

Let's get young people out to vote this November! Pledge to vote, so that you'll get election reminders and updates on volunteer opportunities.

NextGen Iowa is hosting a progressive organizing academy with two cohorts for the 3 session progress starting this Tuesday and Wednesday. It’s a fun way to learn about organizing, sharpen your skills, and meet other progressives! Learn more and signup!

I know we just had elections, but if your living situation has changed (or will change) before the November elections OR if you just need to register to vote, you can do so here. We've got such an important election coming up in November and it's important that all of our voices are heard!

Especially younger people (whose college plans for the fall are up in the air) will probably have some updating to do, so I'd challenge everyone here to get this link out to as many people as you can.