I applaud the outreach to all 50 states. Although the emphasis is often on the purple places, I've wondered what would happen if appeals were made even to red voters in red states, touching on their sense of right and wrong, their needs, their vision for the future. Get to issues and positions, and specific candidates, rather than parties (Dems stand for X, Republicans for Y). Stay practical and functional, without arousing tribal sensibilities.
Susan, 3 points here 1) please watch the interview and read the companion materials and perhaps come back and revisit this comment 2) Of course we have to prioritize turning out Democrats, winning over swing areas/voters before speaking to hard core Republicans. 3) The Town Hall project we discuss is all about showing up in Republican areas 4) This is the single largest investment in red states in the history of the party. Thank you.
I love listening to Jane; her energy is contagious! I'm so glad to hear that along with much-needed cash, the national party will be helping local parties to set goals and measure them.
Democrats Would Be Advised To ReEstablish Gold Standard
Inflation is a major issue that is and will continue to confront the average American everyday and tariffs will make inflation worse Bandaids such as housing subsidies and giving more govt handouts is understandably not bought by all Americans They have to be convinced that there is a real solution Therein lies the need for education of the public electorate
The point is that America doesn't know how to get out of the economic mess we're in and both political parties are incoherent on the subject because they have bought into the Keynesian economic narrative that has crippled Western economies We need better economic leadership
The point is that the fiat dollar has lost 90% of its purchasing power since 1971 when the country went off a gold standard With the Fed using QE to pour more money into the pot America and the global economy has become awash in dollar causing the markets to go sky high and created a billionaire class of citizens who now want to govern with a huge wealth gap
This will not end well unless Democrats take charge of this narrative
and needlessly restrict money supply that makes it hard to respond to crisis?
FDR abandoned it in 1933 for a reason. The gold standard and tarrifs contributed to deepening and prolonging the great depression. It will do the same in today's world.
We probably should listen to the well trained economists rather than hooey like this administration is doing.
FDR didn't abandon the gold standard NIxon did in 1971 The Smoot Hawley tariff act tapped into the credit bubble that was created by the economy of the roaring twenties
The Nazi regime has not currently considered a gold standard
The "well trained economists" that you allude to are Keynesian group think that have the macroeconcomic views that support the concept of QE ie money printing
Yea FDR actually did suspended it in 1933 with the approval of congress so that he could inject more liquidity in the money supply and pay for his New Deal programs. The Bretton Woods system post war sort of brought it back but probably one of Nixon better moves was shifting the world to more floating currencies, which honestly is closer to what money actually is fundamentally, which at the end of the day, is a representation of our society's wealth and production power, not a value in and of itself.
A constrained money supply might ease inflation, but expect your pay to get cut and hiring to fall. And fun fact, the largest Keynesian inject into the US economy was WWII's spending, which worked.
All this to say though, that we as Dems should advocate for fiscal responsibility by making sure everyone pays their fair share, especially the upper middle class, working rich and wealthy, and if we're running deficits, at least make it sustainable. Biden's industrial policy did actually help to spur jobs and that's what we need. Dems have lately been better at that.
Trying to go back to a foregone system is going to bring us as much pain as these current tarrifs are. It would be folly to waste our time with it.
Both FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Nixon (Richard Nixon) played a significant role in the end of the gold standard FDR initially suspended it during the Great Depression but later determined the convertibility to $21 to 35/oz for a dollar Nixon later terminated the convertibility of the U.S. dollar to gold, effectively ending the gold standard for international transactions "golden era" of fiat currency which allowed endless QE which has created the largest credit/debt bubble in history The dollar is a transactional piece of paper with no value except what the government says it is and it has counterparty risk The only historical standard is gold which has not counterparty risk which all credit instruments have The rest of your statement is Keynesian nonsense that the Fed continues to defend
BTW the reason is $3000+/oz is that it reflects the loss of the purchasing power of the fiat dollar
And governments/national economies function differently than a regular persons.
We had near routine depressions when we backed our money to a valuable metal we couldn’t mine enough of to keep up with the growing production post civil war until 1933. Backed currency does not accurately reflect the economic value of a society/entity that uses that currency. That’s what money is fundamentally.
We go back, we get hit with hyperinflation and then deflation, both really bad for the economy. Japan’s Lost Decade was marked by deflation which they’re finally exiting from. China’s sputtering economy is trying to fight deflationary pressure. It’ll be extremely hard to raise funds for national emergencies. Pricing isn’t tied to goods production and demand but rather whether we can mine more gold or not or control its supply. Not very sustainable is it?
So, Dems are VERY correct in not going with past economic ideas like huge tarrifs and going back to the gold standard.
Routine recession occurred on a gold std but historically they were brief What's different about this oncoming recession is that it's associated with a huge credit bubble built up over the decades by the Fed and QE bailing out bad corporate debt eg dot com 2008 bailout of banks car companies irresponsible executives thereby diluting the purchasing power of the dollar(90% of what is was in 1971) all due to increased M1 money supply thus diluting the fiat currency value Sooo one could make the argument that if the Fed had not done any QE the fiat dollar would be ok and we would not be confronted with a serious inflationary picture
Backed currency does at least a couple of things Prevents government overspending and therefore bailouts Does away with the monetary policy of interest manipulation And can support high debt as in China’s case Japan’s highly overleveraged fiat currency banking system is still sputtering and indeed China has its economic problems(300% debt to GDP ratio) but it’s sitting on 30k+ tonnes of gold and probably the largest global silver reserve as well The Chinese have been quietly sequestering metal for 5 decades and now is making moves to supplant the dollar as the reserve currency with the yuan Trouble in river city The price of gold is not going up It’s the price of credit that’s going up
You make a fundamental Keynesian argument that denies Say's Law We produce to consume Keynes essentially altered it to support his own General Theory
As far as purchasing power? Well my new computer I bought before the tarrifs is much more powerful, for about the same price, as the one I bought for college in 2007. The gold comparison is flawed because we haven’t mined that much gold compared to economic growth. Probably better for the environment that we didn’t do that.
The gold standard wouldn't fix any of what you're talking about. The lack of purchasing power has a lot more to do with what portion of the total money supply is in the hands of various classes of Americans. Right now the rich have almost all the wealth, pay very little of it in taxes, and yet the middle class is shrinking. If the rich paid their fair share of taxes in the last 40 years then Social Security wouldn't be in jeopardy, we could have Medicare for all (or something similar) and the budget deficit would be a surplus. My entire life has been a slow march towards more fiscal irresponsibility and more by the wealthy and political elites of this country and it's culminating with Trump. That's part of why Trump has appeal. Nobody's telling this story from the left but Bernie and it MUST somehow be a part of the narrative. I don't know if Biden would have raised taxes on the ultra wealthy if he even had the political capital and the Congress to do it, and that's kind of the problem.
The post-WWII era was full of people who faced scarcity, death and destruction on a mass scale, and they invested heavily in their communities and civic life as well as defined benefit pensions rather than financialized gambling for your retirement. Once they cut taxes in the 80s we began the slide to where we are now.
The COVID stimulus accelerated the sucking sound of money going to the upper class. The government spent all that money and nobody in the working class has any of it. The businesses and rent-seeking properties of the ultra wealthy ended up with all that money ON TOP OF a tax cut. They became even more fantastically wealthy and decided a man working with Russians to get elected wasn't that big of a deal and they decided to help buy the election through their media and influence networks, and now they want to let us eat cake.
As you said the lack of purchasing power is to the expansion of M1 and M2 money supply This occurred due to QE by the Fed not once but over and over again bailing out bad debt now creating the largest debt/credit bubble in the world's history It is now beginning to implode aided by the Orange Cheeto's tariff plan A partial gold standard would stabilize this
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
I smell a money grab!!! Amazing, the Dolos regime has closed the Office of Net Assessment (the Pentagon’s own think tank) designed to give us a non-partisan take on future defense needs. Now, we have political donors with their own economic agendas trying to make national security policy by pushing their respective firms with untested (battle?) hardware.
Also, didn’t Dolos say he wanted this year’s defense budget to be the largest in history: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/07/hegseth-trump-1-trillion-defense-budget-00007147 ? So, Wiskeyleak will cut tens of thousands of staff members, including the auditors, as history’s largest defense budget hits the Pentagon. This is perfect timing for the greatest grift yet seen. DEMOCRATS get ahead of this process!! Yes, the current MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX is now our friend (smile).
CARTHAGO DELENDA EST (via nonviolence).
P.S.: Do the following now! FIRST, TEACH CIVICS. Second, register voters. THIRD, TEACH CIVICS. Rinse. Repeat.
P.P.S. : Dolos or the nation, you can only have one! The other side must choose! The madness will only subside until the next urge for “narcissistic supply” arises. This is not 4-D chess. It is most likely a form of something else. The new media must promote mental health practitioners— like the MSM has lawyers and other professionals.
YES! Daily talking points from the DNC!!! Terrific idea. I look forward to having that. We can then know of up-coming actions and then amplify them on our social media. LOVE that!
Terrific May Day Protest, & turnout at Rep. Juan Cuscomani's office this morning. I am sure we hit our 1,000 person strong. That is my self reporting for the day. Have to recoup from the heat and re-hydrate. I look forward to hearing of others' actions.
I have made the decision I am going to work with only partisian voter registration. I appreciate the 'non-partisan' groups, but I absolutely do not wish to add to Rep voter registration.
There’s a Dem voter reg group called Field Team 6 if you’re interested in checking them out.
The DNC has a substack called The Blue Print. One weekly series is called The Ground Game. They have The Network Strategy & have opportunities for ppl to sign up now. They also have a toolkit for people to share posts on their own social media.
I get emails from the DNC with a lot of info on what they’re doing now. Do ppl just not read the emails because they end with a fundraising ask? 🧐
Thanks Yvette, I've been working with FT6 for a few years now. I was not aware of the DNC Substack though; thanks for that info. As far as the DNC emails go I have never noticed that there was much info included as they always seemed to be about fundraising.
It's always assumed that New York, as a blue state, has everything in hand. But the State Dem Committee is weak and the Chair has been an old-fashioned type, part of the Cuomo operation. What is the NDC doing to move a state like NY to a more modern operation that captures the many millions of sympathetic voters who just don't turn out because the State Committee is so moribund
As Jane mentions in the interview they are sending in teams to evaluate and upgrade every state party in the country, including NY. Possible the NYS Party refuses the help but I don't think they will.
This is such a terrific initiative! Under its new leadership, the DNC is quickly becoming a powerful catalyst for positive change. This means identifying and continually embracing "best practice" so as to upgrade every level of our party organization.
You wrote the Democratic Party needs to see members as “partners in the fight and not donors to the cause.” YES YES YES YES YES!!! Every day I write STOP and send it back on roughly a dozen requests for money. I have recurring donations to the Democratic Party, my Senators, (so far there’s been no Democratic candidate for the House for years), and some other political causes, and that is all I can afford. But there is never any allusion to what I am already donating. (My family thinks I donate too much as it is.)
I want to be useful. I go to the rallies.
There’s more, but I’ll stop now. Maybe they’ll let me register voters.
I was surprised by some of the discussion because in 2016 in Florida, there was A LOT of partisan voter registration done by the Clinton campaign. I spent most of that summer doing it.
The problem now seems to be punitive laws that would affect the party and possibly individuals doing it. For example, if you have someone fill out a form fraudulently, I think you can be liable, or the campaign. I thought that might've been what froze those efforts. I saw very few voter registration efforts, and none (as far as I could tell) were organized by the Harris campaign.
Really Florida was abandoned for reasons I don't fully grasp after 2016. It has trended red but it's like we've given up. I'm hoping that can change and I'd like to do voter registration here again if someone gets behind it, and we can figure out how to navigate the laws.
I recall back in 2020, that one of the keys to victory in GA was the work Stacey Abrams did to significantly increase new voter registrations. In your interview today, it sounds like the Republicans took notice and used this strategy to its' benefit in the 24 election. It is disappointing to hear the Dems didn't apply the same Georgia learnings on a national basis in 24.
Nonetheless you have energized me to get involved in voter registrations in my state. Thanks for all that you do!
The DNC has a new No Talk Without Action NTWA plan which is being promoted through the DNC organizing calls and our local Democratic Party. But nowhere in that plan is partisan voter registration. It's all about engaging and communicating with registered voters. If voter registration is going to have renewed focus by the DNC seems like it should be in this new NTWA plan.
Today I got selected to be a "proxy delegate" from TCDCC to the state Democratic convention at the end of May. Tonight I will be helping to chair a table for the TCDCC at the May 1 rally. I am giving my telephone a rest today.
Simon/Jane - This was great. Ive been struggling to find "my" area of focus, pulled among so many critical needs, especially, 1. Climate, 2. Voting 3. Health Care. I've decided Voter Reg might be the best place for me and will contact State, County, & Local Dems for further guidance. Thanks for an excellent program.
I applaud the outreach to all 50 states. Although the emphasis is often on the purple places, I've wondered what would happen if appeals were made even to red voters in red states, touching on their sense of right and wrong, their needs, their vision for the future. Get to issues and positions, and specific candidates, rather than parties (Dems stand for X, Republicans for Y). Stay practical and functional, without arousing tribal sensibilities.
Susan, 3 points here 1) please watch the interview and read the companion materials and perhaps come back and revisit this comment 2) Of course we have to prioritize turning out Democrats, winning over swing areas/voters before speaking to hard core Republicans. 3) The Town Hall project we discuss is all about showing up in Republican areas 4) This is the single largest investment in red states in the history of the party. Thank you.
Please add Les Leopold to your list of pro-democracy Substackers.
This is a must read by Frank Bruni, should be a free article. Enjoy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/opinion/democrats-trump-slotkin-sanders.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D08.AHk7.Ao9o6EqgmLHM&smid=url-share
I love listening to Jane; her energy is contagious! I'm so glad to hear that along with much-needed cash, the national party will be helping local parties to set goals and measure them.
Democrats Would Be Advised To ReEstablish Gold Standard
Inflation is a major issue that is and will continue to confront the average American everyday and tariffs will make inflation worse Bandaids such as housing subsidies and giving more govt handouts is understandably not bought by all Americans They have to be convinced that there is a real solution Therein lies the need for education of the public electorate
The point is that America doesn't know how to get out of the economic mess we're in and both political parties are incoherent on the subject because they have bought into the Keynesian economic narrative that has crippled Western economies We need better economic leadership
The point is that the fiat dollar has lost 90% of its purchasing power since 1971 when the country went off a gold standard With the Fed using QE to pour more money into the pot America and the global economy has become awash in dollar causing the markets to go sky high and created a billionaire class of citizens who now want to govern with a huge wealth gap
This will not end well unless Democrats take charge of this narrative
IMHO a gold standard needs to be reinstated
to Consider ReEstablishing Gold Standard
and needlessly restrict money supply that makes it hard to respond to crisis?
FDR abandoned it in 1933 for a reason. The gold standard and tarrifs contributed to deepening and prolonging the great depression. It will do the same in today's world.
We probably should listen to the well trained economists rather than hooey like this administration is doing.
FDR didn't abandon the gold standard NIxon did in 1971 The Smoot Hawley tariff act tapped into the credit bubble that was created by the economy of the roaring twenties
The Nazi regime has not currently considered a gold standard
The "well trained economists" that you allude to are Keynesian group think that have the macroeconcomic views that support the concept of QE ie money printing
Yea FDR actually did suspended it in 1933 with the approval of congress so that he could inject more liquidity in the money supply and pay for his New Deal programs. The Bretton Woods system post war sort of brought it back but probably one of Nixon better moves was shifting the world to more floating currencies, which honestly is closer to what money actually is fundamentally, which at the end of the day, is a representation of our society's wealth and production power, not a value in and of itself.
A constrained money supply might ease inflation, but expect your pay to get cut and hiring to fall. And fun fact, the largest Keynesian inject into the US economy was WWII's spending, which worked.
All this to say though, that we as Dems should advocate for fiscal responsibility by making sure everyone pays their fair share, especially the upper middle class, working rich and wealthy, and if we're running deficits, at least make it sustainable. Biden's industrial policy did actually help to spur jobs and that's what we need. Dems have lately been better at that.
Trying to go back to a foregone system is going to bring us as much pain as these current tarrifs are. It would be folly to waste our time with it.
Both FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Nixon (Richard Nixon) played a significant role in the end of the gold standard FDR initially suspended it during the Great Depression but later determined the convertibility to $21 to 35/oz for a dollar Nixon later terminated the convertibility of the U.S. dollar to gold, effectively ending the gold standard for international transactions "golden era" of fiat currency which allowed endless QE which has created the largest credit/debt bubble in history The dollar is a transactional piece of paper with no value except what the government says it is and it has counterparty risk The only historical standard is gold which has not counterparty risk which all credit instruments have The rest of your statement is Keynesian nonsense that the Fed continues to defend
BTW the reason is $3000+/oz is that it reflects the loss of the purchasing power of the fiat dollar
And governments/national economies function differently than a regular persons.
We had near routine depressions when we backed our money to a valuable metal we couldn’t mine enough of to keep up with the growing production post civil war until 1933. Backed currency does not accurately reflect the economic value of a society/entity that uses that currency. That’s what money is fundamentally.
We go back, we get hit with hyperinflation and then deflation, both really bad for the economy. Japan’s Lost Decade was marked by deflation which they’re finally exiting from. China’s sputtering economy is trying to fight deflationary pressure. It’ll be extremely hard to raise funds for national emergencies. Pricing isn’t tied to goods production and demand but rather whether we can mine more gold or not or control its supply. Not very sustainable is it?
So, Dems are VERY correct in not going with past economic ideas like huge tarrifs and going back to the gold standard.
Don’t get distracted
Routine recession occurred on a gold std but historically they were brief What's different about this oncoming recession is that it's associated with a huge credit bubble built up over the decades by the Fed and QE bailing out bad corporate debt eg dot com 2008 bailout of banks car companies irresponsible executives thereby diluting the purchasing power of the dollar(90% of what is was in 1971) all due to increased M1 money supply thus diluting the fiat currency value Sooo one could make the argument that if the Fed had not done any QE the fiat dollar would be ok and we would not be confronted with a serious inflationary picture
Backed currency does at least a couple of things Prevents government overspending and therefore bailouts Does away with the monetary policy of interest manipulation And can support high debt as in China’s case Japan’s highly overleveraged fiat currency banking system is still sputtering and indeed China has its economic problems(300% debt to GDP ratio) but it’s sitting on 30k+ tonnes of gold and probably the largest global silver reserve as well The Chinese have been quietly sequestering metal for 5 decades and now is making moves to supplant the dollar as the reserve currency with the yuan Trouble in river city The price of gold is not going up It’s the price of credit that’s going up
You make a fundamental Keynesian argument that denies Say's Law We produce to consume Keynes essentially altered it to support his own General Theory
As far as purchasing power? Well my new computer I bought before the tarrifs is much more powerful, for about the same price, as the one I bought for college in 2007. The gold comparison is flawed because we haven’t mined that much gold compared to economic growth. Probably better for the environment that we didn’t do that.
Price of eggs?
Well that is a terrible idea.
The gold standard wouldn't fix any of what you're talking about. The lack of purchasing power has a lot more to do with what portion of the total money supply is in the hands of various classes of Americans. Right now the rich have almost all the wealth, pay very little of it in taxes, and yet the middle class is shrinking. If the rich paid their fair share of taxes in the last 40 years then Social Security wouldn't be in jeopardy, we could have Medicare for all (or something similar) and the budget deficit would be a surplus. My entire life has been a slow march towards more fiscal irresponsibility and more by the wealthy and political elites of this country and it's culminating with Trump. That's part of why Trump has appeal. Nobody's telling this story from the left but Bernie and it MUST somehow be a part of the narrative. I don't know if Biden would have raised taxes on the ultra wealthy if he even had the political capital and the Congress to do it, and that's kind of the problem.
The post-WWII era was full of people who faced scarcity, death and destruction on a mass scale, and they invested heavily in their communities and civic life as well as defined benefit pensions rather than financialized gambling for your retirement. Once they cut taxes in the 80s we began the slide to where we are now.
The COVID stimulus accelerated the sucking sound of money going to the upper class. The government spent all that money and nobody in the working class has any of it. The businesses and rent-seeking properties of the ultra wealthy ended up with all that money ON TOP OF a tax cut. They became even more fantastically wealthy and decided a man working with Russians to get elected wasn't that big of a deal and they decided to help buy the election through their media and influence networks, and now they want to let us eat cake.
As you said the lack of purchasing power is to the expansion of M1 and M2 money supply This occurred due to QE by the Fed not once but over and over again bailing out bad debt now creating the largest debt/credit bubble in the world's history It is now beginning to implode aided by the Orange Cheeto's tariff plan A partial gold standard would stabilize this
Trump killed Santa Claus
Thank you, Simon,
Yes, I meant to support the outreach. Great interview.
Wonderful. Can't thank you guys enough for your energy and good work!
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
The NETWORK STATE - For the best synopsis of the objectives of the “Tech Lords”, please listen to this 45-minute podcast and share widely (these folks are going to leave a huge blast radius - if we let them): https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-nerd-reich-podcast-episode-1-the-network-state-2/.
Simon et al.:
PLACE ON YOUR RADAR. Wiskeyleak has been at the Pentagon with great drama for less than 100 days (7-day gift link):https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-01/hegseth-wants-streamlined-army-focused-on-advanced-weapons?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NjEyOTM2NywiZXhwIjoxNzQ2NzM0MTY3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVkw0TjdUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI5QzY4NzRGNzMzODA0QkNCOTI0ODYzQUEzRDhFODcwMiJ9.Gug_nYdqlftAhpOT__jf_RkPL73wE5Fh7eNOs3BWilY . His “new” initiatives are not actually new but map exactly to ONE COMPANY that has substantial investments from our extremely problematic “Tech Lords”: https://www.anduril.com/ and https://foundersfund.com/ . I’m sure this decision by the SecDef is just a coincidence relative to this new set of “Tech” donors. Remember how these military geniuses who never served or worked previously in the defense industry (Leon?) wanted to end the F-35 program that until recently (after Dolos started threatening allies) has been the world’s most desired fighter platform: https://veteranlife.com/gear/elon-musk-f-35.
I smell a money grab!!! Amazing, the Dolos regime has closed the Office of Net Assessment (the Pentagon’s own think tank) designed to give us a non-partisan take on future defense needs. Now, we have political donors with their own economic agendas trying to make national security policy by pushing their respective firms with untested (battle?) hardware.
Also, didn’t Dolos say he wanted this year’s defense budget to be the largest in history: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/07/hegseth-trump-1-trillion-defense-budget-00007147 ? So, Wiskeyleak will cut tens of thousands of staff members, including the auditors, as history’s largest defense budget hits the Pentagon. This is perfect timing for the greatest grift yet seen. DEMOCRATS get ahead of this process!! Yes, the current MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX is now our friend (smile).
CARTHAGO DELENDA EST (via nonviolence).
P.S.: Do the following now! FIRST, TEACH CIVICS. Second, register voters. THIRD, TEACH CIVICS. Rinse. Repeat.
P.P.S. : Dolos or the nation, you can only have one! The other side must choose! The madness will only subside until the next urge for “narcissistic supply” arises. This is not 4-D chess. It is most likely a form of something else. The new media must promote mental health practitioners— like the MSM has lawyers and other professionals.
YES! Daily talking points from the DNC!!! Terrific idea. I look forward to having that. We can then know of up-coming actions and then amplify them on our social media. LOVE that!
Terrific May Day Protest, & turnout at Rep. Juan Cuscomani's office this morning. I am sure we hit our 1,000 person strong. That is my self reporting for the day. Have to recoup from the heat and re-hydrate. I look forward to hearing of others' actions.
I have made the decision I am going to work with only partisian voter registration. I appreciate the 'non-partisan' groups, but I absolutely do not wish to add to Rep voter registration.
There’s a Dem voter reg group called Field Team 6 if you’re interested in checking them out.
The DNC has a substack called The Blue Print. One weekly series is called The Ground Game. They have The Network Strategy & have opportunities for ppl to sign up now. They also have a toolkit for people to share posts on their own social media.
I get emails from the DNC with a lot of info on what they’re doing now. Do ppl just not read the emails because they end with a fundraising ask? 🧐
Thanks Yvette, I've been working with FT6 for a few years now. I was not aware of the DNC Substack though; thanks for that info. As far as the DNC emails go I have never noticed that there was much info included as they always seemed to be about fundraising.
It's always assumed that New York, as a blue state, has everything in hand. But the State Dem Committee is weak and the Chair has been an old-fashioned type, part of the Cuomo operation. What is the NDC doing to move a state like NY to a more modern operation that captures the many millions of sympathetic voters who just don't turn out because the State Committee is so moribund
As Jane mentions in the interview they are sending in teams to evaluate and upgrade every state party in the country, including NY. Possible the NYS Party refuses the help but I don't think they will.
This is such a terrific initiative! Under its new leadership, the DNC is quickly becoming a powerful catalyst for positive change. This means identifying and continually embracing "best practice" so as to upgrade every level of our party organization.
Yes, Olav, this is all true. Ken Martin knows what he is doing and is assembling a very strong and ambitious team.
You wrote the Democratic Party needs to see members as “partners in the fight and not donors to the cause.” YES YES YES YES YES!!! Every day I write STOP and send it back on roughly a dozen requests for money. I have recurring donations to the Democratic Party, my Senators, (so far there’s been no Democratic candidate for the House for years), and some other political causes, and that is all I can afford. But there is never any allusion to what I am already donating. (My family thinks I donate too much as it is.)
I want to be useful. I go to the rallies.
There’s more, but I’ll stop now. Maybe they’ll let me register voters.
I don’t think I’m alone in my frustration.
I was surprised by some of the discussion because in 2016 in Florida, there was A LOT of partisan voter registration done by the Clinton campaign. I spent most of that summer doing it.
The problem now seems to be punitive laws that would affect the party and possibly individuals doing it. For example, if you have someone fill out a form fraudulently, I think you can be liable, or the campaign. I thought that might've been what froze those efforts. I saw very few voter registration efforts, and none (as far as I could tell) were organized by the Harris campaign.
Really Florida was abandoned for reasons I don't fully grasp after 2016. It has trended red but it's like we've given up. I'm hoping that can change and I'd like to do voter registration here again if someone gets behind it, and we can figure out how to navigate the laws.
Simon
I recall back in 2020, that one of the keys to victory in GA was the work Stacey Abrams did to significantly increase new voter registrations. In your interview today, it sounds like the Republicans took notice and used this strategy to its' benefit in the 24 election. It is disappointing to hear the Dems didn't apply the same Georgia learnings on a national basis in 24.
Nonetheless you have energized me to get involved in voter registrations in my state. Thanks for all that you do!
The DNC has a new No Talk Without Action NTWA plan which is being promoted through the DNC organizing calls and our local Democratic Party. But nowhere in that plan is partisan voter registration. It's all about engaging and communicating with registered voters. If voter registration is going to have renewed focus by the DNC seems like it should be in this new NTWA plan.
Self-reporting for May 1, 2025
Today I got selected to be a "proxy delegate" from TCDCC to the state Democratic convention at the end of May. Tonight I will be helping to chair a table for the TCDCC at the May 1 rally. I am giving my telephone a rest today.
Susan Snow Burnett
July 4th... wow, we have only 2 months!!!
Simon/Jane - This was great. Ive been struggling to find "my" area of focus, pulled among so many critical needs, especially, 1. Climate, 2. Voting 3. Health Care. I've decided Voter Reg might be the best place for me and will contact State, County, & Local Dems for further guidance. Thanks for an excellent program.