It occurs to me that I don't brag about this enough, because people occasionally still ask why they should support the Great Slate in 2020 when we only flipped one seat out of 13 attempts in 2018. We were the most successful, cost-effective progressive effort that year!https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1278918768731672576 …
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If you want to hear me occasionally chin-scratch about Great Slate Theory, lessons we learned from trying to build socialism in Lancaster and Arkansas in 2018, and stuff like that, there's a low-volume mailing list you can join. It's nicer than tweeting: http://eepurl.com/dmnmUY
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But overall the Great Slate Guarantee™ is that we won't fail the same way twice. If stuff works, we'll do more of that. If stuff doesn't work, we'll stop doing that. The point is to try something and feel less paralyzed and despondent, rather than waiting for change to come
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Since people are curious, here's the Great Slate post-mortem email I sent out on November 10, 2018, analyzing the results of our fundraising efforts for the midterms: https://idlewords.com/great_slate_post_mortem.htm …
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If you want to read about our efforts in 2020, here's the summary page: https://techsolidarity.org/resources/great_slate.html … We reunited with four of our 2018 candidates who are running again in a state that also has a competitive Senate race. Let's see what happens!
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