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Democratic stickers
I started compiling this list for myself because I love stickers and thought I could combine my love of stickers with supporting good causes. But I'm also on a tighter budget than I was four years ago when I filled my sketchbook with progressive stickers, so this was also a bit of a wish list to send to my friends. And then someone said I should post this here, so I'm sharing.
I'm conflicted on what the strategy is with supporting state Democratic Parties. Should you put money into the "swing" states? Put money into the "red" states in the hopes of moving the needle? Shore up the "safe" states because we can't take them for granted? (When I was spending money in 2020, I kind of just went with whichever states had the coolest stickers because I'm shallow like that.)
I perhaps unfairly gauge a state party's optimism by how many sticker designs they offer and it was sort of interesting to see who has a huge and interesting selection and who doesn't even attempt to sell merchandise.
Most of the states that sell stickers, do so in packs of two which means even if you collect them yourself, you've got a spare to share with the world. (I like to put them on the backs of my letters when I write to an elderly relative who keeps sharing right-wing talking points when we talk on the phone.)
The links that I've provided go to each state's official Democratic Party's merchandise site (if they had one), but you can easily navigate from that page to just sending a donation directly. (I also compiled this list over two days a week ago, so some of the information may already be outdated. At least one site that only had one sticker design when I first looked already has more now.)
Alabama: You can't sort by product, but I saw at least three sticker designs available if you scroll through the store.
Alaska: 2 sticker designs
Arizona: Arizona has 10 different sticker designs. (11 if you count "Demócratas Protegen El Aborto" as distinct from the English version.)
Arkansas: Three sticker designs and two of them are pretty terrible. Why is Arkansas printing stickers about FOIA? Maybe it makes sense if you understand local politics, but it seems like they've missed the point that slogans should be catchy and clear. (They also have a magnet that says "STOP SHS" and I had no idea what that meant and google's first guess at what "SHS" meant was Sheridan High School. It took a minute to figure out they meant Sarah Huckabee Sanders. And I just want to say one of my biggest pet peeves is when they tell you who to vote against, but don't tell you who to vote for. Why give the competition free publicity?)
California: You can't sort by stickers but if you scroll through, you can find about three designs. (I like that one of them is the number for the California Voter Hotline.)
Colorado: They have a solid merch game going. Three pages full of different sticker designs. (This was the only place I saw the "kamala" on the chartreuse background sticker. They also have a "Proud Union", "Democrat AF", "Roe Roe Roe your vote!", and a variety of adorable donkeys.)
Connecticut: Six designs, one of which is Ruth Bader Ginsburg and two of which feature Connecticut women (that I don't recognize because I don't know Connecticut politics, but it's cool that they're promoting their local history -- I googled one of the women and she died in 1980 and I'm not sure if the others, listed only by first names, are also historical or if there is a mix of modern).
Delaware: 5 designs. (Can anyone from Delaware explain the roosters to me? I don't get it. It's cute, but I don't get it.)
Florida: 2 designs
Georgia: technically 11 designs, but half of them are still Biden-themed.
Hawaii: 5 designs. (This was the hardest merch store to find. The link was buried under another menu.)
Idaho: 10 designs (a repeat of the "Democrat AF" design that I first saw in the Colorado store, plus some uniquely Idaho ones like "Idaho for Kamala Harris" in the shape of the state and "Idaho is pretty gay.")
Illinois: 4 designs (including "I'm voting for the freedom to love" over a pride flag, "I'm voting for the freedom to be" over a trans flag, and the Chicago flag in the shape of a Donkey.)
Indiana: 13 designs (but 6 of them are Indiana area code maps, which I don't quite get the branding of, and THREE of them are "Fire Mike Pence" which ... y'all need to update your merch, just saying.)
Iowa: 1 design (and it's of a woman named Rita with glowing red eyes. I assume people in Iowa know who she is.)
Kansas: no stickers! I'm sad. They have a really cute sunflower logo too, but you can only get it on buttons and tote bags.
Kentucky: 18 designs! (The Kentucky Democrats Bourbon label isn't new, but it still amuses me.)
Louisiana: 15 designs (a couple of which are outdated Biden stickers and they also do that thing where they put a little too much energy into giving free publicity to the people they are against, but they've got a "Y'all means all" sticker and a "Jesus didn't ride an elephant" sticker with a donkey on it that got a chuckle out of me.)
Maine: 10 stickers
Maryland: no stickers! (This crab waving a Maryland flag T-shirt amused me, so I'm linking to it in lieu of stickers.)
Massachusetts: 2 designs
Michigan: 11 designs. I like several of these designs.
Minnesota: 19 designs (including a few outdated Biden ones, but they do have Harris with "Madam President" and I also like the black-and-white "VOTE" sticker {The pink uterus on the color version is more obvious, but I kind of like the subtlety of not noticing at first glance that the T in VOTE is a uterus.})
Mississippi: 3 designs
Missouri: 9 stickers
Montana: no merchandise at all that I could find, but you can still give them a donation.
Nebraska: They have T-shirts and hats, but no stickers.
Nevada: 2 options of 2 designs each, so 4 total designs.
New Hampshire: 14 designs
New Jersey: I couldn't find any merchandise, but you can still donate directly.
New Mexico: 5 sticker options, all pretty unique. (I really like the pro-choice and climate change designs. The multi-colored Deb Haaland stickers are cool too.)
New York: 4 sticker options.
North Carolina: They mix their buttons and stickers together so I lost count of how many stickers, but there were quite a few options. Notable ones include: "Hillbillies vote blue (no elegy necessary)" and "On Wednesdays we wear pink, but on Tuesdays we vote blue."
North Dakota: Miscellaneous merchandise, but no stickers.
Ohio: There was only one sticker when I looked just the other day and now they have three, including "Ohio Demobrats" (I'm uncool enough that I don't understand what the coconuts have to do with this) and "ohio and it's the same except we protected abortion rights so it's not."
Oklahoma: 10 designs including "Hot People Vote" (in rainbow colors) and "Ban Hunger Not Books".
Oregon: 10 options, but at least four of them were outdated Biden Harris stickers.
Pennsylvania: 11 options, including a 4-pack with different designs.
Rhode Island: I didn't find any merchandise, but you can donate directly.
South Carolina: 6 designs, including "Yellow Dog Democrat" which was a term I had to google.
South Dakota: This does not bode well for their organizational skills. They have a "store" link at the bottom of their website, but I just get an error message when I click on it. (I've reported it to them.)
Tennessee: Miscellaneous merchandise but I didn't see any stickers (oddly there's a sticker in the banner of items at the top, but it doesn't seem to be available for sale).
EDIT: I found a Gloria Johnson for Senate stickers at her site.
Texas: Texas has the best sticker selection hands down. If I counted right there were 45 different options (some of which are multi-design packs). Including, "Ban AR-15s not Drag Queens", "Legalize and Expunge", "Blunts, Boots, and BBQ", and some great Ann Richards stickers to remind people that Texas once had a governor who was both a woman and a Democrat. I also appreciate the whole "Freedom to..." series. (Freedom to Unionize, Teach, Vote, Love, Chose, Be)
Utah: 12 sticker options, including "Utah for Kamala Harris", "Trans Rights are Human Rights", "Pro-Choice Voter", "Protect Utah's Public Lands, Vote for Your Local Democrat", and my personal favorite "Vote your ass off!"
Vermont: 19 sticker options, including "Vote like Democracy depends on it."
Virginia: Clicking on their "store" link currently takes you to a password-protected page. ?
Washington: no stickers but some other general merchandise including magenta Kamala shirts.
West Virginia: officially the worst website. The default wvdemocrats.com website took me to their events calendar and I had to dig around to even find the donation link.
Wisconsin: 15 sticker options (and the "Roe Roe Roe Your Vote" one has five different designs sold as a set).
Wyoming: 6 options, including "black lives matter #RealProLife", "Love is Love" (with rainbow bunnies), and "Protect Our Public Lands".
And of course...
Harris Victory Fund: At least 20 sticker options, including "Control Guns Not Girls"
and
National Democratic Party: At least 22 sticker options, a couple of which were multi-design packs.
Does anyone have an option about MoveOn? I saw they have a lot of progressive stickers (and they have the only site that sells them in packs of 10 instead of just 2 like most of them do), but I'm not sure if that's helping the cause or redirecting money away.
Are there any other progressive candidates or organizations selling stickers?
I'm conflicted on what the strategy is with supporting state Democratic Parties. Should you put money into the "swing" states? Put money into the "red" states in the hopes of moving the needle? Shore up the "safe" states because we can't take them for granted? (When I was spending money in 2020, I kind of just went with whichever states had the coolest stickers because I'm shallow like that.)
I perhaps unfairly gauge a state party's optimism by how many sticker designs they offer and it was sort of interesting to see who has a huge and interesting selection and who doesn't even attempt to sell merchandise.
Most of the states that sell stickers, do so in packs of two which means even if you collect them yourself, you've got a spare to share with the world. (I like to put them on the backs of my letters when I write to an elderly relative who keeps sharing right-wing talking points when we talk on the phone.)
The links that I've provided go to each state's official Democratic Party's merchandise site (if they had one), but you can easily navigate from that page to just sending a donation directly. (I also compiled this list over two days a week ago, so some of the information may already be outdated. At least one site that only had one sticker design when I first looked already has more now.)
Alabama: You can't sort by product, but I saw at least three sticker designs available if you scroll through the store.
Alaska: 2 sticker designs
Arizona: Arizona has 10 different sticker designs. (11 if you count "Demócratas Protegen El Aborto" as distinct from the English version.)
Arkansas: Three sticker designs and two of them are pretty terrible. Why is Arkansas printing stickers about FOIA? Maybe it makes sense if you understand local politics, but it seems like they've missed the point that slogans should be catchy and clear. (They also have a magnet that says "STOP SHS" and I had no idea what that meant and google's first guess at what "SHS" meant was Sheridan High School. It took a minute to figure out they meant Sarah Huckabee Sanders. And I just want to say one of my biggest pet peeves is when they tell you who to vote against, but don't tell you who to vote for. Why give the competition free publicity?)
California: You can't sort by stickers but if you scroll through, you can find about three designs. (I like that one of them is the number for the California Voter Hotline.)
Colorado: They have a solid merch game going. Three pages full of different sticker designs. (This was the only place I saw the "kamala" on the chartreuse background sticker. They also have a "Proud Union", "Democrat AF", "Roe Roe Roe your vote!", and a variety of adorable donkeys.)
Connecticut: Six designs, one of which is Ruth Bader Ginsburg and two of which feature Connecticut women (that I don't recognize because I don't know Connecticut politics, but it's cool that they're promoting their local history -- I googled one of the women and she died in 1980 and I'm not sure if the others, listed only by first names, are also historical or if there is a mix of modern).
Delaware: 5 designs. (Can anyone from Delaware explain the roosters to me? I don't get it. It's cute, but I don't get it.)
Florida: 2 designs
Georgia: technically 11 designs, but half of them are still Biden-themed.
Hawaii: 5 designs. (This was the hardest merch store to find. The link was buried under another menu.)
Idaho: 10 designs (a repeat of the "Democrat AF" design that I first saw in the Colorado store, plus some uniquely Idaho ones like "Idaho for Kamala Harris" in the shape of the state and "Idaho is pretty gay.")
Illinois: 4 designs (including "I'm voting for the freedom to love" over a pride flag, "I'm voting for the freedom to be" over a trans flag, and the Chicago flag in the shape of a Donkey.)
Indiana: 13 designs (but 6 of them are Indiana area code maps, which I don't quite get the branding of, and THREE of them are "Fire Mike Pence" which ... y'all need to update your merch, just saying.)
Iowa: 1 design (and it's of a woman named Rita with glowing red eyes. I assume people in Iowa know who she is.)
Kansas: no stickers! I'm sad. They have a really cute sunflower logo too, but you can only get it on buttons and tote bags.
Kentucky: 18 designs! (The Kentucky Democrats Bourbon label isn't new, but it still amuses me.)
Louisiana: 15 designs (a couple of which are outdated Biden stickers and they also do that thing where they put a little too much energy into giving free publicity to the people they are against, but they've got a "Y'all means all" sticker and a "Jesus didn't ride an elephant" sticker with a donkey on it that got a chuckle out of me.)
Maine: 10 stickers
Maryland: no stickers! (This crab waving a Maryland flag T-shirt amused me, so I'm linking to it in lieu of stickers.)
Massachusetts: 2 designs
Michigan: 11 designs. I like several of these designs.
Minnesota: 19 designs (including a few outdated Biden ones, but they do have Harris with "Madam President" and I also like the black-and-white "VOTE" sticker {The pink uterus on the color version is more obvious, but I kind of like the subtlety of not noticing at first glance that the T in VOTE is a uterus.})
Mississippi: 3 designs
Missouri: 9 stickers
Montana: no merchandise at all that I could find, but you can still give them a donation.
Nebraska: They have T-shirts and hats, but no stickers.
Nevada: 2 options of 2 designs each, so 4 total designs.
New Hampshire: 14 designs
New Jersey: I couldn't find any merchandise, but you can still donate directly.
New Mexico: 5 sticker options, all pretty unique. (I really like the pro-choice and climate change designs. The multi-colored Deb Haaland stickers are cool too.)
New York: 4 sticker options.
North Carolina: They mix their buttons and stickers together so I lost count of how many stickers, but there were quite a few options. Notable ones include: "Hillbillies vote blue (no elegy necessary)" and "On Wednesdays we wear pink, but on Tuesdays we vote blue."
North Dakota: Miscellaneous merchandise, but no stickers.
Ohio: There was only one sticker when I looked just the other day and now they have three, including "Ohio Demobrats" (I'm uncool enough that I don't understand what the coconuts have to do with this) and "ohio and it's the same except we protected abortion rights so it's not."
Oklahoma: 10 designs including "Hot People Vote" (in rainbow colors) and "Ban Hunger Not Books".
Oregon: 10 options, but at least four of them were outdated Biden Harris stickers.
Pennsylvania: 11 options, including a 4-pack with different designs.
Rhode Island: I didn't find any merchandise, but you can donate directly.
South Carolina: 6 designs, including "Yellow Dog Democrat" which was a term I had to google.
South Dakota: This does not bode well for their organizational skills. They have a "store" link at the bottom of their website, but I just get an error message when I click on it. (I've reported it to them.)
Tennessee: Miscellaneous merchandise but I didn't see any stickers (oddly there's a sticker in the banner of items at the top, but it doesn't seem to be available for sale).
EDIT: I found a Gloria Johnson for Senate stickers at her site.
Texas: Texas has the best sticker selection hands down. If I counted right there were 45 different options (some of which are multi-design packs). Including, "Ban AR-15s not Drag Queens", "Legalize and Expunge", "Blunts, Boots, and BBQ", and some great Ann Richards stickers to remind people that Texas once had a governor who was both a woman and a Democrat. I also appreciate the whole "Freedom to..." series. (Freedom to Unionize, Teach, Vote, Love, Chose, Be)
Utah: 12 sticker options, including "Utah for Kamala Harris", "Trans Rights are Human Rights", "Pro-Choice Voter", "Protect Utah's Public Lands, Vote for Your Local Democrat", and my personal favorite "Vote your ass off!"
Vermont: 19 sticker options, including "Vote like Democracy depends on it."
Virginia: Clicking on their "store" link currently takes you to a password-protected page. ?
Washington: no stickers but some other general merchandise including magenta Kamala shirts.
West Virginia: officially the worst website. The default wvdemocrats.com website took me to their events calendar and I had to dig around to even find the donation link.
Wisconsin: 15 sticker options (and the "Roe Roe Roe Your Vote" one has five different designs sold as a set).
Wyoming: 6 options, including "black lives matter #RealProLife", "Love is Love" (with rainbow bunnies), and "Protect Our Public Lands".
And of course...
Harris Victory Fund: At least 20 sticker options, including "Control Guns Not Girls"
and
National Democratic Party: At least 22 sticker options, a couple of which were multi-design packs.
Does anyone have an option about MoveOn? I saw they have a lot of progressive stickers (and they have the only site that sells them in packs of 10 instead of just 2 like most of them do), but I'm not sure if that's helping the cause or redirecting money away.
Are there any other progressive candidates or organizations selling stickers?
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Thank you! I've fixed that link.
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The link for Oregon goes to Oklahoma. I think the link ought to be https://store.dpo.org/stickers/?
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Thank you! I've fixed it now.
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Excellent news on Pressley.
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Some of the designs are really clever.
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Thank you so much for compiling all these!
Thank you!
Thanks for the link. I'd seen the coconut tree clip but for some reason my brain didn't even connect it to the sticker with "OHIO" spelled with coconuts. (I was being far too literal and trying to figure out what coconuts had to do with Ohio.)
I love that it started as Republicans trying to make fun of her and Democrats just embraced it. The quote has genuine meaning that resonates ("the context of all that came before"). It's refreshing to hear laughter that isn't mean. And it's telling that Republicans thought there was anything bad in the clip.