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Hat-tip to

jjhunter:

Since they've already raised nearly $500,000 for the first two slates, we now have slate 3:

ActBlue: Give Smart 3 -- six pivotal candidates in downballot races in North Carolina, Ohio and Michigan

Data For Progress: data for politics #31: Give Smart 3, LaunchProgress -- you can read about the candidates individually here

(My post about the first two slates is here.)

rydra_wong

This time, a deliberate, data-driven attempt to flip state legislatures:

The Intercept: Small Donors Suddenly Pour In to Flip Eight State-Level Seats — and Legislatures

Remember, state governments control drawing of districts and writing of voting rules, as well as having power over things like abortion restrictions, should Roe v. Wade be overturned.

Data for Politics: Give Smart -- with details of the individual candidates and who they're opposing

Most memorable opponent, IMHO, Sylvia Allen: She’s also a creationist who wants to make church attendance mandatory, and when her prison guard son was investigated for bribing inmates for sex she tried to pass a law to make that legal.

Act Blue: Give Smart -- donate here!

And between the time I started to draft this post this morning and posting it this evening:

Data For Politics: data for politics #30: Give Smart 2, EveryDistrict -- -- the first slate took off so well that they teamed with EveryDistrict to fund 8 more candidates who might have a significant impact

Act Blue: Give Smart 2 -- donate to the second slate here

tassosss

It's been a busy week as focus goes back to the midterms. It's also a good time to check your voter registration deadlines for your state and double check your registration as there have been numerous reports of voter purges, notably in Georgia and Indiana.

Upcoming Elections - New
Find a DNC event near you and phonebank with MomsRising
If you fancy some long shots in your rage-donating
Encourage your friends to vote with VoteWithMe app
North Dakota is making it harder for Native Americans to vote
Get out the vote with letter writing and texting, focus on local elections
Volunteer to help elect Democrats
BallotReady.org lets you research all races in your location
Motivote sort of "gamifies" the midterm voting process (you sign up at the site and as you complete various actions to prepare to vote, you're entered to win prizes.)
Help ProPublica by installing their Political Ad Collector

Immigration - New
The administration is trying to sneak through a change in the immigration definition of a "public charge." Under the proposed rule, immigrants could be turned away if they earned less than 250% of the federal poverty line and use any of a variety of programs such as Medicaid or SNAP (food stamps).

Attack on First Amendment Protests
Comment on proposed changes restricting protest in DC by Monday 15 October

Voter Registration, Voting Rights and How to Vote
Useful How-to Guide For Voters
Link(Spam): US Voter Information
Deadlines to register: in table format and in graphical format.
There have been more reports of people being removed from rolls so check your registration and tell others to as well.
Cancelled voter registrations: If You're In Indiana Or Know People In Indiana
Check For Availability Of Provisional Ballots, And Resist And Win Calls

( Ongoing Actions -- Elections )

( Ongoing Actions -- Immigration )

( Ongoing Actions -- General )

( Housekeeping )

Poll #20576 This week:

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9

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called my one senator
4 (50.0%)

called my other senator
2 (25.0%)

called my representative
1 (12.5%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
2 (25.0%)

attended a town hall
2 (25.0%)

donated money to a cause
5 (62.5%)

attended an in-person activist group
0 (0.0%)

participated in phone/online training
2 (25.0%)

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went to a protest
0 (0.0%)

signed up for alerts
2 (25.0%)

took care of myself
4 (50.0%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
2 (25.0%)

did something else
6 (75.0%)

committed to action in the coming week
3 (37.5%)

rydra_wong

The SPLC have started an Action Fund -- differently registered for tax purposes, so donations to it can be used for electoral and legislative campaigning.

And:

Planned Parenthood Announces Multi-Million Dollar Plan to Protect and Expand Abortion Access In Face of Hostile Supreme Court

rydra_wong

Here's The Great Slate of thirteen House candidates: "Each of them is a first-time progressive candidate with no ties to the political establishment, an excellent campaign team, and a clear path to victory in a poor, rural district that is being ignored by the national Democratic Party. None of the candidates takes money from corporations."

The Great Slate is from from Tech Solidarity:

The Verge: Meet the campaign connecting affluent techies with progressive candidates around the country

You can read up on their candidates and read interviews with each of them here:

Tech Solidarity: The Great Slate

As with #GrabYourBallot, you can donate to the whole slate or individually to personal favourites (they have a dude who was inspired by the Women's March to run, running against Steve King, "possibly the worst man in Congress"!).

So. These are all long shots, but they're not no-hopers, and they have potential to cause Republicans trouble and at least make them have to fight for places they don't expect to have to fight for (which soaks up money and energy which they then don't have for fights elsewhere).

rydra_wong

This is brilliant and needs to go viral:

The #GrabYourBallot List

The 31 candidates on this list have one thing in common: they’re all Democrats running in especially tight midterm races for the U.S. House, U.S. Senate or U.S. governorships.

ActBlue: Donate to the #GrabYourBallot candidates

ETA:

plaidadder makes an extremely important point:

I hate giving money to political campaigns because if they lose you feel like you just set it on fire but I now try to look at it this way: even if your candidate loses, if s/he makes the election more competitive that makes the RNC spend more money on it and that depletes their resources.

tanaqui

This week has seen more revelations about how unsuitable Kavanaugh is as a nominee for the Supreme Court, so it's important to keep the pressure on your Senators. We've also had lots of great posts in the comm around the upcoming elections and voting rights.

Upcoming Elections and Voting

Deadlines to register: in table format and in graphical format..

There have been more reports of people being removed from rolls so check your registration and tell others to as well.
Cancelled voter registrations: If You're In Indiana Or Know People In Indiana

Check For Availability Of Provisional Ballots, And Resist And Win Calls

Donation matching at the Brennan Center for Justice until Sept 26 (The Brennan Center are, among other issues, concerned with voting rights.)

Ongoing Actions -- Kavanaugh confirmation

Background on Dr Blasey's accusations: There Is Some Serious Wobble Happening and Unfortunately They're Stabilizing The Wobble
Buttons In Support Of Dr. Blasey

Another Problem With Kavanaugh if you don't want to talk to your Senators about sexual assault.

Phone script for pro-"life" Republican senators

Vote tracker and directory of undecided senators and their phone numbers
… particularly important for for anyone in Missouri
… and Maine

( Ongoing Actions -- Immigration )

( Ongoing Actions -- Elections )

( Ongoing Actions -- General )

( Housekeeping )

So, what have you all been up to in the last week or are planning to get involved in next week?

Poll #20480 The Week

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5

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This week, I...

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called my one senator
3 (60.0%)

called my other senator
2 (40.0%)

called my representative
1 (20.0%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
2 (40.0%)

attended a town hall
1 (20.0%)

donated money to a cause
3 (60.0%)

attended an in-person activist group
0 (0.0%)

participated in phone/online training
1 (20.0%)

went to a protest
0 (0.0%)

signed up for alerts
2 (40.0%)

took care of myself
3 (60.0%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
1 (20.0%)

did something else
2 (40.0%)

committed to action in the coming week
1 (20.0%)

tanaqui

The focus this week has again been on immigration and family separation, with rallies across the country. If you were able to attend a rally and would like to talk about your experiences in the comments, we'd love to hear about them.

The conversation widened to cover the Muslim Ban, which was upheld in the Supreme Court -- just one of several 5-4 decisions in the last few weeks that have also rolled back rights for many Americans. Which was all topped off by the news that Justice Kennedy is resigning, giving the Orange Menace another Supreme Court pick. SCOTUSblog has a round up of coverage of the main events involving the court in the last week, if you want to dig a little deeper into the cases and the implication's of Kennedy's decision.

What's next? It's been quiet in the comm, but we still have lots of ongoing actions relating to these issues and to the vital mid-term elections.

Ongoing Actions -- Immigration

Family Separation
RAICES fundraiser on Facebook (This post also includes a link to a Google Doc where you'll find lots more resources and ideas for action if you scroll down.)
#Families Belong Together Recess Toolkit

Ongoing Actions -- Elections

Make a difference in the 2018 Midterms - organization organizing for all levels of elections
District funds for the mid-terms
Support progressive Congressional candidates in competitive rural districts
Information on State Primary Dates and list of pro-NRA Republicans who are vulnerable

Ongoing Actions -- General

Call your Reps about the Census
Protect the Americans with Disabilities Act -- Call your senators
Action: SNAP benefits -- the comment period is closed, but you may still want to contact your reps about this to help move it up their agendas.
Planning Ahead in Case of Mueller Firing
Information and organizing to end police violence
Racial Justice Toolkit (see comments for a shorter link)
Information on the Poor People's Campaign, an anti-poverty campaign.

( Housekeeping )

So, what have you all been up to in the last week or are planning to get involved in next week?

Poll #20165 The Week

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11

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This week, I...

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called my one senator
3 (27.3%)

called my other senator
3 (27.3%)

called my representative
2 (18.2%)

called my governor
2 (18.2%)

called my state reps
1 (9.1%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
4 (36.4%)

attended a town hall
0 (0.0%)

donated money to a cause
4 (36.4%)

attended an in-person activist group
0 (0.0%)

participated in phone/online training
0 (0.0%)

went to a protest
8 (72.7%)

signed up for alerts
2 (18.2%)

took care of myself
2 (18.2%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
2 (18.2%)

did something else
1 (9.1%)

committed to action in the coming week
0 (0.0%)

tanaqui

The focus this week has been on immigration and the separation of immigrant families. There are plenty of things you can do to oppose these vile policies (and the vile way they're being implemented) laid out in the posts below -- and don't forget to check the comments, too.

(Also, don't think for a moment that the Orange Menace's Executive Order really helps -- while it's obviously better that children aren't separated from their families,

teaotter linked to one of many articles explaining why it's likely to create worse problems for asylum seekers and immigrants later.)

Current Actions -- Immigration

Family Separation
June 30: Rallies against Family Separation!
RAICES fundraiser on Facebook
Action: Protest June 30 for Families Belong Together
Coalition for Human Needs Quotes Washington Post: EO will end separation of children in detention
More Tripe from the Scum
#Families Belong Together Recess Toolkit

Ongoing Actions -- General

Call your Reps about the Census
Protect the Americans with Disabilities Act -- Call your senators
Action: SNAP benefits -- the comment period is closed, but you may still want to contact your reps about this to help move it up their agendas.
Planning Ahead in Case of Mueller Firing
Information and organizing to end police violence
Racial Justice Toolkit (see comments for a shorter link)
Information on the Poor People's Campaign, an anti-poverty campaign.

Ongoing Actions -- Elections

Make a difference in the 2018 Midterms - organization organizing for all levels of elections
District funds for the mid-terms
Support progressive Congressional candidates in competitive rural districts
Information on State Primary Dates and list of pro-NRA Republicans who are vulnerable

( Housekeeping )

So, what have you all been up to in the last week or are planning to get involved in next week?

Poll #20135 The Week

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

View Respondents

This week, I...

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called my one senator
4 (50.0%)

called my other senator
3 (37.5%)

called my representative
3 (37.5%)

called my governor
1 (12.5%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
2 (25.0%)

attended a town hall
1 (12.5%)

donated money to a cause
5 (62.5%)

attended an in-person activist group
0 (0.0%)

participated in phone/online training
0 (0.0%)

went to a protest
0 (0.0%)

signed up for alerts
2 (25.0%)

took care of myself
3 (37.5%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
0 (0.0%)

did something else
0 (0.0%)

committed to action in the coming week
3 (37.5%)

rydra_wong

Reunite an immigrant parent with their child

Money raised goes into their bond fund and providing legal representation.

CNN: $4,000 a minute pours in to help reunite separated immigrant families (warning for autoplaying audio of crying children being separated from their families)

They couple who started the fundraiser were initially aiming for $1500 -- they've now raised over $8 million and are aiming for $11 million.

ETA: now over $10 million, aiming for $15 million.

Very good FAQ, including recs for other ways to help, including details on rallies and contacting representatives: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RTxk4mfg7f9E_Or1y9GFg9BtindehUOmGwIzlDle7LY/edit#heading=h.gh20iccux1mx

In comments on my DW, I was discussing how easy it is to feel overwhelmed and immobilized by the sheer level of evil; sometimes it can be easier to act on things that are less horrific. Stories like this can be an antidote to the frozenness, and so can make it easier to act (in ways including but not limited to donating). So if that makes sense to you, consider passing it on.

tanaqui

https://www.gofundme.com/adapt-warriors-in-indiana-jail

30 ADAPT Warriors were arrested this morning in Indiana where they held a non violent demonstration to stop the shock and torture of disabled people at the Judge Rotenberg Center. They went to the Indianapolis home of HHS Secretary (US) Alex Azar to demand that he tell FDA to release the regulations that would stop the shock.

Indianapolis police are putting power chair users in manual chairs for transit and threatening 36 hour holds with fines for storing power chairs. Even if they are lying about storage costs, Indianapolis has one of the country's most repressive police and criminal justice systems. Fines and Legal fees are excessive and ADAPTers have to change travel bookings and pay those penalties as well.

Please give all that you can to help with legal fines, equipment and travel costs.

ADAPT is "a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom."

tanaqui

Tech Solidarity is raising funds for progressive Congressional candidates fighting competitive races in eight winnable rural districts.

Each of the candidates here is a first-time candidate with a credible path to victory, an enthusiastic team of volunteers, and a day job, running in a winnable district that has nevertheless been neglected by the Democratic Party. These are the places where our support can flip a red seat blue!

https://techsolidarity.org/resources/great_slate.html

We've previously posted about Swing Left, Sister District and Get Her Elected, which are all doing similar things.

(Also, I don't say this nearly often enough, but I really appreciate all the people who bring great links to the US Politics thread at FFA that I can repost over here - thanks!)

rydra_wong

Time: Democrats Have So Many Candidates They Could Go Broke. A New Group Might Have the Fix

Being in the UK, I had not appreciated the "spending all the money fighting each other in the primaries" issue, nor that nobody had really managed to tackle this by setting up funds for "whoever the Democratic candidate for this seat ends up being".

Anyway, Swing Left appear to be on the case with designated "district funds", as well as generally mobilizing people to fight and put resources into in swing districts near them.

tanaqui

This week started with a State of the Union address and ended with a memo, both of which were, uh, "factually challenged". Which is pretty much situation normal for this administration....

And as is normal for this comm, we had some great posts that provide positive ways to respond.

Actions

Toolkits for responding to the State of the Union address

Feel displeased by Devin Nunes? Donate to Andrew Janz!

Housekeeping (the usual stuff)
Reminder that we now have a Friending Meme and a (locked) post where you can connect with others with live in the same area. We hope you find both of these posts useful!

We also have a suggestion post if there’s a topic that you’d like to see discussed but would like to ask the mods to look into. This can be anything from general information, or a how-to-do-a-thing, or something you may want to discuss as a community. Folks are welcome to post directly to the comm as always, but if you’re not comfortable/don’t have spoons, we can help too.

As we don't always get the time to pull things out of the suggestions post into their own separate posts, it may be worth checking every week (or tracking the post) to see if there's any new information you're interested in.

Also if you need help with tags, PM

redbird, who is our tag guru. Both

tassosss and I are very grateful for the help.

So, what have you all been up to in the last week or are planning to get involved in next week?

Poll #19417 The Week

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 2

View Respondents

This week, I...

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called my one senator
0 (0.0%)

called my other senator
0 (0.0%)

called my representative
0 (0.0%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
1 (50.0%)

attended a town hall
1 (50.0%)

donated money to a cause
0 (0.0%)

attended an in-person activist group
0 (0.0%)

participated in phone/online training
0 (0.0%)

went to a protest
0 (0.0%)

signed up for alerts
0 (0.0%)

took care of myself
0 (0.0%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
0 (0.0%)

did something else
0 (0.0%)

committed to action in the coming week
0 (0.0%)

rydra_wong

Mother Jones: There’s a Brutal New Campaign Ad Targeting Devin Nunes and His Memo

NatashaBertrand: Some news: Devin Nunes’ Democratic opponent, @JanzforCongress, raised over $100,000 today alone with news of the memo release, per a senior campaign aide.

Note: past election results make this look like a pretty safe seat for Nunes; it isn't the most obvious one to try to flip.

However.

Andrew Janz For Congress

rydra_wong

Hope Not Hate are fundraising to make a documentary out of Patrik Hermansson's secret footage:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1971131677/a-year-undercover-inside-the-alt-right

tanaqui

Happy New Year -- and let's hope it is a happier year, and that some of the good things that happened at the end of last year (like the success of the Get Out the Vote operations in Alabama) are carried forward into 2018.

Also, another reminder that we now have a Friending Meme and a (locked) post where you can connect with others with live in the same area. We hope you find both of these posts useful!

Posts in the comm since the last check-in covered:

Actions
Helping take back the House by finding and getting involved with your nearest swing district
Record 5Sec video for #StandwithBearsEars
Sign up to the new ballotpedia service covering primaries
Link Roundup from

snickfic

Donations

We had several posts over the holiday period suggesting places to donate. While match funding may have ended, there are lots of great suggestions here if you're looking for causes to support in 2018:

Even more matchy matchy stuff, and some not-matchy stuff
More matchy-matchy
Matchy-matchy

Housekeeping (the usual stuff)
Reminder that we have a suggestion post if there’s a topic that you’d like to see discussed but would like to ask the mods to look into. This can be anything from general information, or a how-to-do-a-thing, or something you may want to discuss as a community. Folks are welcome to post directly to the comm as always, but if you’re not comfortable/don’t have spoons, we can help too.

As we don't always get the time to pull things out of the suggestions post into their own separate posts, it may be worth checking every week (or tracking the post) to see if there's any new information you're interested in.

Also if you need help with tags, PM

redbird, who is our tag guru. Both

tassosss and I are very grateful for the help.

So, what have you all been up to in the last week or are planning to get involved in next week?

Poll #19278 The Week

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 1

View Respondents

This week, I...

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called my one senator
1 (100.0%)

called my other senator
1 (100.0%)

called my representative
0 (0.0%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
0 (0.0%)

attended a town hall
0 (0.0%)

donated money to a cause
0 (0.0%)

attended an in-person activist group
0 (0.0%)

participated in phone/online training
0 (0.0%)

View Answers

went to a protest
0 (0.0%)

signed up for alerts
0 (0.0%)

took care of myself
0 (0.0%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
0 (0.0%)

did something else
0 (0.0%)

committed to action in the coming week
0 (0.0%)

rydra_wong

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (who do vital work fighting voter suppression) now have people tripling donations made before the end of the year.

As do Planned Parenthood. In other words, if you donate $1, they get $3.

People who don't have big donors matching funds but who are highly deserving and worthy of consideration:

The National Network of Abortion Funds

Mother Jones

ProPublica

The National Immigration Law Center

The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund

If you've got more suggestions, please leave them in the comments!

rydra_wong

In addition to those previously mentioned, the following are matching donations until Dec 31st:

Planned Parenthood

The Brennan Centre For Justice

The ACLU (h/t to

redbird)

Note: lots of smaller but extremely organizations don't have the mega-donors needed to do donation matching, and don't deserve to be forgotten. Nonetheless, if matching reminds you to donate (and enables you to do so at a time which multiplies the financial impact), 'tis good.

rydra_wong

The following have all got people matching donations until December 31st:

Lambda Legal

Center for Reproductive Rights

Southern Poverty Law Center

Reproductive Health Access Project

Earthjustice

I'm sure there are other good organizations that do too, so please let me know in comments.

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