I’ve spent nearly a year tracking down ballot races, and with the first congressional primaries 8 days away, I’m proud to debut my first election guide, a review of key races that we need to win to advance the progressive agenda on the national stage. docs.google.com/document/d/14K
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A Progressive Donor’s Guide to 2020: Making Sense of Who to Give Your Cents To covers 6 Senate races - 5 red seats and 1 blue primary, 3 governor’s races, 5 progressives looking to flip red House seats, and 24 progressives running for blue seats. docs.google.com/document/d/14K
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The Guide discusses how I evaluated candidates & elections - looking at my values, at what races build the most power, and at the factors that affect a candidate’s ability to win. From there I broke the races down into 3 buckets - strategic races, tactical wins, and underdogs.
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To summarize, strategic races are elections that build the most power - winning the Senate, building a progressive slate in red Texas, and primarying particularly powerful or protected Democrats who oppose the progressive agenda.
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Strategic elections to support include , , , , , , , @Marie4Congress, , , and .
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Tactical wins are progressives who are in particularly good shape and who need that last push over the top. That includes , , @remmons2020, @karaforcongress, , , , , & .
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Underdogs, by far the largest category, includes those whose districts are not quite as strategic or winnable, or who are just relentlessly out-funded, but who have some time to make it up. None of these elections are before May, and a lot can happen in between now & then.
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Underdogs include Stephen Smith and of , , , & of Oregon, the slate of , @Shaniyat2020, , & in New York City, …
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… Washington’s DSA contingent of , , & , Arizona’s , Florida’s @JENFL23, and & David Zuckerman, two progressive Berniecrats looking to take New England governor’s mansions back from the GOP.
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Please follow these great candidates. I hope you take a look at the Guide, find someone who you can believe, & help them out. We need #AllofUs supporting these great progressives to get them into office. Let’s go!! docs.google.com/document/d/14K
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