Monday, September 10, 2018

Monday 9/10 Call to Action

Focus on Congress

There were two Congressional polls this weekend. Although they have a small sample size, they put MN-08 (Stauber vs. Radinovich) at 44-43 and MN-03 (Phillips vs. Paulsen) at 51-42.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/elections-poll-mn08-1.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/elections-poll-mn03-1.html

The New York Times consider MN-08 Democrats' most vulnerable current seat.

1. If there's one thing that seems to be clear, it's that the president obstructed justice.  There was a bunch of action on that late last week.  First, Trump will not answer Mueller's questions on obstruction, according to Giuliani, though Giuliani later walked this back.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/giuliani-says-trump-will-not-answer-investigators-obstruction-questions-n907316

2. Obama gave a speech that should united Democrats, calling Trump a "threat to democracy."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/obama-slams-crazy-stuff-coming-out-trump-white-house-hits-n907546

Text Your Way to Victory!
Many of us may feel overworked, over scheduled, and under-slept, but have the desire to GOTV for the November midterms. We can join MoveOn’s texting team and transform the tiny bits of time in our week into progressive action in key jurisdictions across the country. https://front.moveon.org/join-moveon-text-team/

Tweet Your Way to Victory!
Here’s a way to use social media to support candidates we support. Let’s take a look: https://sterbalssundrystudies.miraheze.org/…/Helping_the_ca…

Redistrict Your Way to Victory!
From 2009 to 2016, Republicans had all the momentum in state-level elections, and they used those tremendous gains to stymie President Obama and the federal government generally. Now that the GOP has seized power at the federal level, though, we have a chance to flip that dynamic, to turn their president's unpopular malevolence and bumbling into big gains for Democrats in gubernatorial and state legislature races across the country. And we need to, in order to protect the people from what a right-wing White House, Congress, and Supreme Court could/would foist upon us (https://www.bloomberg.com/…/democrats-focus-on-governors-ra…). So, let's support organizations like the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, and find a race or two to support directly as well (even if it isn't in your own state). https://democraticredistricting.com/2018-targets/

Candidates cannot win without help from us. Commit today to doing your part.
Each candidate on the November ballot has a website where you can sign up to volunteer.
Walz/Flannagan https://walzflanagan.org/
Amy Klobuchar https://www.amyklobuchar.com/
Tina Smith https://www.tinaforminnesota.com/
Julie Blaha https://blahaforauditor.org/
Steve Simon https://stevesimonmn.com/
Keith Ellison https://keithellison.org/

District 1 Daniel Feehan https://danfeehan.com/
District 2 Angie Craig https://www.angiecraig.com/
District 3 Dean Phillips https://www.phillipsforcongress.org/
District 4 Betty McCollum https://www.mccollumforcongress.com/
District 5 Ilhan Omar https://www.ilhanomar.com/
District 6 Ian Todd www.iantoddforcongress.com
District 7 Collin Peterson http://www.petersonforcongress.com/
District 8 Joe Radinovich https://www.joeradinovich.com/

Minnesota House Campaigns
Check out these calendars for upcoming events near you.
https://cd2action.com/calendar/
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ac5omvigbundbjhj2dbdna88hg%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FChicago

This And That


Study after study shows that the most effective way to get people to vote is by having conversations with them in the four days before Election Day (Saturday, November 3rd–Tuesday, November 6th). Volunteer here to be part of the last big push. https://thelastweekend.org/?source=MN02

Sister District Action Network did a study on the impact of postcards on voter registration and released the results showing positive results: https://whystatesmatter.sisterdistrict.com/vpc-sdan-postcarding-experiment-results-18a284461e01 Let’s read the report and keep on writing postcards!

Klobuchar-202-224-3244
Smith (202) 224-5641
House of Representative switchboard: (202) 224-3121
MN Legislators: https://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/legislators
Resistbot: https://resistbot.io/
Governor Dayton- https://mn.gov/governor/contact-us/

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