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28 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Just an idea: If you were an organizer on a campaign this year, you should consider running for local office. Organizers have the skills, network, and work ethic to make for great candidates. @runforsomething will help you. runforwhat.net
Ditto for all volunteers, whether you were working IRL or on a distributed team. And ditto anyone who organized their friends into doing calls/texts, or ran a giving circle, or stood up a mutual aid program. You should all consider running. We’ll help you: runforwhat.net
If you spent the last year (or ten) working on political campaigns (paid or not) you may have this idea of “candidates” as a category of people that you could never be included in.

That’s not true. The way to become a candidate is by running. runforwhat.net
If you’re looking to organize a call specifically for your org’s membership or former/current staff/volunteers (or any other decent sized cohort, really) about running for office as a next step, email hello@runforsomething.net

We can help.

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19 Nov
On @crookedmedia today, @RossMoRock & I laid out some principles the entire Democratic Party — operatives, funders, electeds, volunteers, all of us — needs to embrace to move forward. /1 crooked.com/articles/democ…
(1) Treat every election like it’s the most important election of our lives, and treat every month like October. Next year is not an “off year,” just like 2017 and 2019 were not “off years.” Do not wait for the deadline to start doing the work. /2 crooked.com/articles/democ…
(2) Resource every state like a battleground. @GovHowardDean’a 50 State Strategy was smart; bring it back. That means fully funding all 50 state parties, recruiting candidates everywhere, & giving them the resources they need as early as possible. /3 crooked.com/articles/democ…
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16 Nov
In today’s @runforsomething feel-good update: Where we go from here.

The TLDR: Local, local, local. 🎯 rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-goo…
First: Wow oh wow we have accomplished so much in four short (long) years. 479 winners, 54% women, 56% BIPOC, 21% LGBTQ. Our pipeline is up to 64k - 1000+ of whom signed up since 11/3. 👀 rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-goo… Image
Our mission stays the same: Recruit and support young diverse progressives running for local office at scale.

We are just reprioritizing. Local races made up 40% of our endorsed candidates in the past vs 60% state leg. We expect to flip that ratio. rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-goo…
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10 Nov
This is hard to do but it’s not rocket science: The next DNC chair needs to invest in year-round local organizing in all 50 states (& in both urban/rural areas) & set a tone for working w/ grassroots groups. Donors need to fund it in Jan 2021 (or now), not in Sept 2022.
That organizing should be both IRL (when safe) & online. The tech should be stable & accessible. Messaging & outreach should be driven by locals who know their communities. The DNC & state parties should exist to make Democrstic electeds, candidates, & vols’ lives easier.
The DNC has come a longggg way since 2016 (and 2014, and way before that.) The team there has rebuilt an A+ foundation. Now that they’re no longer starting from scratch, they can reorient with a longterm focus on organizing & infrastructure. Can’t wait to see it happen.
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9 Nov
Fun @runforsomething facts: In less than 4 years, we've elected 459 young people to local office across 46 states. Those winners are 54% women, 55% BIPOC, 20% LGBTQ. 41% won seats in state legislatures, 41% won municipal office, 15% won education offices & 3% won legal positions.
@runforsomething We've got more than 62k people in the candidate pipeline -- nearly a third of whom signed up in the last 8 months, considering a run in 2021, 2022 or beyond. runforwhat.net
Four years of annual @runforsomething budgets add up to less than $8 million.

We would love to grow that (by a lot!) next year. You can help. secure.actblue.com/donate/rfs?ref…
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4 Aug
Been hearing rumblings about (a) people mad that Dems aren't canvassing; (b) some funders holding back $$ "until canvassing comes back” & (c) candidates feeling pressure to canvass. I want to be as clear as possible: It's unethical & dangerous to canvass in a global pandemic. /1
I get it. Every study shows that canvassing is the tried & true most effective way to get people to show up to vote. We all want to do the thing that we know works! /2
And maybe you saw that the Koch network is sending out canvassers & you're nervous we're falling behind. That should be a negative cue for you: They're willing to do it because they don't a single fuck about peoples' health or safety, and they blatantly ignore science. /3
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In NY's primary, I didn't vote for Biden. (I believe in voting your ❤️ in primaries, even in long-over races.) But I want to tell you a story -- in a long thread, sry! - about why I'm not just voting *against* Trump but actively *for* Biden this fall. TL;DR: It's about grief. /1
In May 2017, I was invited to join a small meeting in DC with a handful of other org leaders to give updates to the VP on our work. Honestly, I was terrified -- I was the youngest one in the room & feeling very out of my league. /2
(As an aside, I remember it vividly because this meeting was the same day Comey got fired -- the push notifications popped up on all our phones in the middle of the meeting & we all got a bit distracted...) /3
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