Join us on Sunday, October 27 to knock on doors in Germantown, MD and GOTV for Diversity Declaration champion Angela Alsobrooks!
Hey there, everyone! We’re excited to work with all of you to flip this seat together.
Join us in the Lehigh Valley to help Anna's State Rep campaign. We'll have a short training beforehand (no experience needed!) and we'll be talking to voters about why we need to flip this crucial state house seat in Northampton County.
Join Diversity Matters and Sister District DC for a weekend road trip! Join for either Saturday, Sunday or both to knock on registered Democrats' doors in Bethlehem, PA and help GOTV all the way up and down the ballot. We'll be working with a great state legislative candidate, Anna Thomas, who has a good chance of flipping this seat blue!
Join Sister District DC Metro Area and our co-sponsors, Diversity Matters, as well as members of The Woman's National Democratic Club, on Sept 5, to hear from two of our incredible candidates from Pennsylvania and North Carolina-- IN PERSON!
Our goal is to raise $5,000 each for Anna and Woodson at this event, so please consider donating $50 in advance of your registration. There also will be opportunities to contribute at the venue on Sept 5!
About Anna Thomas: Born and raised in her district by a family of immigrants from India and Malaysia, Anna is running to protect essential freedoms and unseat an entrenched Republican incumbent in a critical PA House district outside of Philadelphia. In 2022, control of the PA House was decided by 63 votes in ONE race, so it is imperative we win Anna's seat if we seek to protect our progress and drive votes up the ballot in PA.
About Woodson Bradley: Woodson Bradley is a domestic violence survivor and women's rights advocate running for election to the NC State Senate. After managing to stave off a GOP super majority in 2022, a single turncoat cost Dems dearly, enabling the NC GOP to enact severe restrictions on reproductive healthcare. We must elect Woodson if we hope to turn the tide and fight back against harmful anti-woman policies in the south.
Help us reach our goal and support these two fantastic candidates right now: Donate here when you register for the event and split a donation between Anna and Woodson! Every cent raised goes directly towards helping our candidates build winning campaigns.
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The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. However, this crisis did not begin or end with Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history – so much of which happens at the state level – reactionary white conservatives have strategically entrenched power in the face of massive demographic and political shifts. Journalist Ari Berman charts all of these efforts and the grassroots movement that’s fighting back in his new book.
The Importance of Grassroots Organizing
Join us on Zoom on Wednesday, July 17 at 7 p.m. EDT for an evening with award-winning author and historian Heather Cox Richardson. Her nightly newsletter on Substack, Letters from an American, reaches more than 1.5 million readers. She is also the author of the best-selling Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. Jane Mayer of The New Yorker called it an “essential history of America’s unending, enraging, and utterly compelling struggle… to live up to its own best ideals.”
Richardson will discuss the importance of grassroots political organizing in setting and correcting the course of American history. She’ll also provide time for questions and answers. We are certain that she will inspire you to make your own mark on history by doing all that you can to stop Trump, MAGA, and our country’s slide to toward autocracy.
We’ll also give you information on volunteering and a special fundraising initiative. You’ll have the opportunity to help flip the U.S. House by donating to a slate of key House candidates selected by NOPE and Silver Spring Progressive Action. All are challenging incumbent Republicans in tough but winnable races. NOPE and SSPA are combining forces with many other grassroots organizations to present Ms. Richardson, and we hope you can join us for this special evening of inspiration and action.
Teach - in to mobilize family and friends to save democracy
Woman’s National Democratic Club, Dupont Circle, Washington, DC
Diversity Matters is excited to support Sister District DC/VA/MD, State Bridges partners in Pennsylvania and the Woman's National Democratic Club for a walk across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge (Washington, DC) on Sunday, April 14. We are activating our volunteers across the country to raise money for two organizations in Pennsylvania, a key swing state in 2024: Pennsylvania Stands Up and Pennsylvania United.
The walk will end at All Purpose Pizza, where we will celebrate our phenomenal feat with cocktails and comestibles. All Purpose is located in the Navy Yards, just a short distance from the bridge.
Our crossing will begin at 11 am, rain or shine, at the southeast corner of the bridge in Anacostia. We will meet in the grassy area at the foot of the bridge. (More information here.)
Bring a bottle of water, comfortable shoes, AND your friends, and we will see you on April 14.
Pennsylvania Stands Up is a statewide organization made up of dues-paying members dedicated to winning a Pennsylvania that works for everyone. They organize for power across race, place, and generation.
Pennsylvania United is a grassroots organization with member-led chapters that build power for working-class families in Western PA. They develop long-term organizing relationships that reconnect working-class people to power, building a multi-racial working-class movement for statewide change.
Your contribution will help to build democracy from the ground up and ensure that everyone, no matter who they are, has a voice.
Diversity Matters is joining Sister District DC/VA/MD to canvass for Joshua Cole on October 15 and we are organizing carpools to leave from the DC area that day. All you have to do is show up, bring your friends, and help us knock on some doors! If you can help transport volunteers, great; if not, no problem! We will find a ride for you.
Canvassing is one of the most effective ways to increase voter turnout — and it's FUN if we do it together. Virginia's legislative elections can be very close. In 2021, Democrats lost the majority in the House by a total vote difference of 733 in the three closest districts. Joshua Cole's new 65th District is considered extremely competitive. Your canvassing efforts can make a critical difference!
On September 6, Sister District DC/VA/MD is joining Diversity Matters and members of WNDC who have formed a host committee for an evening with two amazing Virginia candidates, Lashrecse Aird and Joshua Cole! We'll have the opportunity to hear from the candidates about their work in the VA state legislature, goals for their districts, and how we can help them win in November.
Our goal is to raise $5,000 each for Lashrecse and Joshua, so please consider giving $50-$100 as part of this event.
Have accessibility questions? Reply to your registration email to confirm your requirements or request more information.
Here’s your chance to spend a lovely fall day outside with friends - and talking to voters about issues that matter to all of us! We’ll be door knocking with our wonderful Diversity Pipeline Pledge champion Izzy Smith-Wade-El in Lancaster, PA, talking to Democratic voters about why it matters to vote in EVERY race, local, state or national!
Lancaster is a two-hour drive from Washington, DC and we will arrange carpools. The event times include driving times (leaving DC area approximately 9 a.m.), time for orientation, lunch and approximately 2 - 3 hours canvassing.
Please join Team Izzy for our Final Stretch Fundraiser at Tellus360 in Lancaster, PA! We'll gather on the green roof at 7pm on Oct 13 for food, music, and more. Together we'll celebrate the work we've done together so far and talk about our plan to win on Nov 8.
Details:
Oct 13, 7pm
Tellus360 (24 E King St, Lancaster PA - on the roof!)
Get to know our latest Diversity Pipeline Pledge champion, Izzy Smith-Wade-El who is running to represent Pennsylvania’s House District 49 - and to work for a better country for all of us! And give us a chance to discuss with you why every race at every level can be so important.
Sign up here to receive the link to this event.
Read more about why Izzy is championing diversity, and why WE are so excited to support Izzy, in our latest Update.
With the Women’s National Democratic Club
Hybrid Event
We have hundreds of letters to write to voters in key swing states where Gubernatorial and Senate elections will help decide the future of our country. We will also have partner organizations hosting phone banks and text banks. Bring your passion, and we will provide you with the resources, tools, and community to help you make a difference!
You can stop by the Club from 6:00pm to 8:00pm on Wednesday, July 20th or attend via Zoom.
Mail letters on Saturday, October 29th.
Take Action: HOST A LETTER WRITING PARTY
Overview: Help encourage people from historically underrepresented communities in Pennsylvania to vote in the midterm elections by November 8th, 2022.
Background: Pennsylvania voters have the chance to choose important representatives in this election. By encouraging voters in Pennsylvania to turn out, we can help ensure that all voters' voices are heard.
Targeting: Fellow citizens who have historically been underrepresented in the electorate.
Diversity Matters joins a broad coalition of organizations for the relay the week of October 20-23rd that will start in West Virginia and end at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Make plans to join a national day of action on August 28, March On for Voting Rights. We'll be joining the Washington, DC action and welcome our DMV area friends to join us- just e-mail us to know you'd like to be part of our group!
This link will help you to contact your Senator.
This link is to sign up for the March On for Voting Rights.
Engage and Take Action! What are groups and individuals doing nationwide to challenge Asian hate? Join the virtual townhall to hear from leading national organizations for an important conversation on the AAPI issues, taking action, and becoming allies in the movement against racism and violence.
WHAT: Help encourage voters from historically underrepresented communities in Georgia to vote during early voting or on Election Day. Georgia voters have the chance to choose their next two U.S. Senators in this runoff election. By encouraging Georgians to show up at the polls, we can help ensure that all voters' voices are heard.
WHEN: join us via Zoom anytime Friday, Saturday or Sunday, December 4, 5 or 6, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. EST
HOW: RSVP to info@diversitydeclaration.com and Bryan from our steering committee will send you instructions.
WHAT: Help encourage voters from historically underrepresented communities in Georgia to vote during early voting or on Election Day. Georgia voters have the chance to choose their next two U.S. Senators in this runoff election. By encouraging Georgians to show up at the polls, we can help ensure that all voters' voices are heard.
WHEN: join us via Zoom anytime Friday, Saturday or Sunday, December 4, 5 or 6, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. EST
HOW: RSVP to info@diversitydeclaration.com and Bryan from our steering committee will send you instructions.
WHAT: Help encourage voters from historically underrepresented communities in Georgia to vote during early voting or on Election Day. Georgia voters have the chance to choose their next two U.S. Senators in this runoff election. By encouraging Georgians to show up at the polls, we can help ensure that all voters' voices are heard.
WHEN: join us via Zoom anytime Friday, Saturday or Sunday, December 4, 5 or 6, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. EST
HOW: RSVP to info@diversitydeclaration.com and Bryan from our steering committee will send you instructions.
Write letters to voters! Oct. 14 or 15 from 6:30pm ET to 8:30 pm ET. Help us flip Texas and elect some wonderful new DIVERSITY CHAMPIONS to Congress!
Write letters to voters! Oct. 14 or 15 from 6:30pm ET to 8:30 pm ET. Help us flip Texas and elect some wonderful new DIVERSITY CHAMPIONS to Congress!
PLEASE JOIN HOSTS
Wendy R. Anderson, Ben Klein, Matt Steckman and Diversity Matters
HOST COMMITTEE IN FORMATION
FOR A VIRTUAL RECEPTION IN SUPPORT OF
GINA ORTIZ JONES
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR TEXAS’ 23RD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
6:00 P.M. ET
Meeting Information Available Upon RSVP
Suggested Contributions:
Champion $2,800 | Host $1,000 | Friend $500 | Supporter $250 | Guest $100
RSVP to Justin at Justin@ginaortizjones.com or (316) 640-6231
Checks made payable to “Gina Ortiz Jones for Congress” can be sent to:
PO BOX 769261, San Antonio, TX 78245
https://ginaortizjones.com
Want to talk further about what you thought of Rigged, and what we all can do this year to support Diversity Declaration champions AND counter voter suppression? Sign up here for our follow up discussion group!
Note: Start time is 7:00 pm ET / 4:00 pm PT
Join us for a virtual screening of Rigged on July 21 at 7:00 p.m. ET to 9:00 p.m ET
The film will be introduced by Gina Ortiz Jones, a candidate for Texas' 23rd Congressional District (which is featured in the film).
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on the topic of: Democracy in the Time of COVID. Panelists include:
Leslie Fields, National Director, Policy Advocacy and Legal, Sierra Club
Leigh M. Chapman, Director of Voting Rights Program, The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
Mac Heller, Executive Producer, Rigged
Caryn Hines, Esq. Moderator
RIGGED: The Voter Suppression Playbook is an award-winning documentary that exposes the nefarious tactics used to suppress the vote and serves to spark discussion on the actions needed to protect our democracy.
Shot principally during the 2016 election, the film tracks a systematic, decade-long effort to reverse the impact of the growing demographic tide of non-white and younger voters who helped elect President Barack Obama in 2008. It details a variety of voter suppression “plays,” or tactics, ranging from the purging of voting rolls and passing of new, restrictive voter ID laws to gerrymandering and voter intimidation.
The film includes revealing interviews with Republican strategists detailing how the voter suppression game is played as well as cogent insights from leading voting rights advocates, law professors and Democratic strategists. It is narrated by Tony & Emmy award-winning actor, Jeffrey Wright.
This screening is co-sponsored by Do The Most Good Maryland, MoCoWomen, Six Hues, Indivisible, and They See Blue.
Join us for a a joint postcard addressing and texting for Virginia at the Women's National Democratic Club on the evening of October 23!
Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/postcards-for-virginia-at-womens-national-democratic-club-tickets-72935141973
Come and join us as we canvass Leeland Station with Alec Baldwin!
This upcoming Tuesday we also have Alec Baldwin coming and launching a canvass at the Leeland Station Belle Air Clubhouse (115 Riggs Rd, Fredericksburg, VA 22405) at 4 PM. We can't wait to get to see you all!
Co-sponsored NOPE, Diversity Declaration, and Indivisible MoCo Canvass for Josh Cole on October 19
We’ll convene at 9:30 am at the launch site located at Central Rappahannock Regional Library, 2001 Parkway Blvd, Stafford, VA 22554 -- please allow 1 hr 15 min for the drive time. You'll receive additional information about the canvass shortly before the event. The canvass leader is Dale Kaufmann.
Sign up here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/2a9348adf8094b9d848df38619720709
August 25 @ 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
PWC Democratic Committee, 5557 Mapledale Plaza
Dale City, VA 22193 United States
