People are craving authenticity. Agree with her policies or not, cooking with AOC and spur-of-the moment chats and comfy sweatpants and “hey, let’s take the dog for a walk” go a hell of a lot further and resonate more with people than polish and pedestals. You really need to start listening to your voters and get away from focus groups and polling. Find those authentic people who are comfortable sharing their lives as real Americans and young people will flock to you.
Prove it. Stop accepting money from AIPAC and ADL. People with actual morality don’t believe it’s a good thing that this country is complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian and Yemeni people
You left out “we tell our story, our mission, our goals, our achievements.” I can turn on TV any day and see ASPCA quickly in an ad tell a story a mission a goal, see St. Jude’s Hospitals and Shriners hospitals and the ACLU and Southern poverty law center and No Child Hungry all use ads to tell a story of mission, goal, accomplishments and ask for $19 dollars, nada from the DNC ZIP!. I am tired of texts and mailings from the DNC, the DSC, the DCCC, and numerous supposed Democrat PACS with no variable name asking for money but never know how the money is spent or what the goal is. We need the democrats to educate America with some quick simple ads telling our story, our achievements, our mission and our goals. If animal rights activists can do it the DNC can do it!!!
Looks like a good start. The previous 2 replies make good points.
1.Grassroots is far more than polls and focus groups- DNC needs to support and join in the work of existing community organizations that are already living the principles of democracy, compassion, and every kind of fair justice.
2. Principles: I will support a political party that opposes big / dark money donors. If DNC’s mission is to support working families in the US, it must walk its talk. It cannot accept donations from organizations that support injustice or oppression anywhere in the world.
Looking forward to the development of a dynamic, representative, engaged DNC that operates ethically in every aspect.
Practice what we preach and walk our talk with integrity!
Finally. A real organizing plan that doesn’t look like it was Xeroxed from the Obama 2008 playbook and handed to interns with clipboards. This isn’t just lip service to “grassroots” while funneling donor dollars into DC consultants’ Teslas.
The DNC is getting out of the Beltway and into the field, treating organizers like leaders instead of call-center temps. Coordinated digital and field? Human-centered tools? Year-round strategy? Yes, please. But let’s be clear: this is only the start. If we want to beat back the billionaire-fueled hellscape of Musk-Trump fascism, we need every ZIP code, every auntie, every union hall in motion.
Is the DNC a bastion of radical progressivism? Hell no. But when the house is on fire, you don’t argue about the color of the hose. You grab the damn thing and put out the blaze.
We can fight for deeper change within the infrastructure, but abandoning the field over ideological purity is handing the keys to the same billionaires gutting our rights, our wages, and our planet. Get in, push hard, organize smarter, and hold them accountable after we save democracy.
No one’s asking you to love the DNC, just help make sure we still have a country where you’re allowed to hate them in public.
I am thrilled to read the BluePrint and understand that a clear, comprehensive, cogent philosophy, strategy and action plan is developed and dynamically evolving. This is exactly what we need the DNC to be doing ! Thank You!
We seemed feckless and rudderless for so long… now I am feeling a glimmer of hope that the DNC will finally be our Allied Central Organizing Hub
Support the Democratic Party members & candidates. Support them because U love our Nation. The Democratic Party has to survive $end all you can to keep them opposing MAGA/GOP Project2025.
I’m not convinced that you are interested in long-term strategy because you organized around the FL special elections.
Let’s declare some promises. Something like by 2030 every single county in the US has a functional local Democratic group and every state legislative seat is contested.
Figuring out how to do that would change the party and the country.
The DNC is just another group of political elites that did very little to combat the Republican misinformation campaigns.
Plenty of emails requesting money though. Democrats could have codified Roe V Wade but didn’t, why? Most likely because they make a shitload of money keeping it on the edge for election purposes.
The Democratic Party is as corrupt as the right. It did nothing to prepare to combat Project 2025 plans, and is doing very little now.
From what I see, with the exception of a very few, democrats are more interested in their AIPAC money than actually doing anything.
Chuck Schumer is a disgrace.
Insider trading has to stop.
The whiny “but, but, the Republicans won’t let us” BS isn’t a winning attitude.
Citizens United? Hello, it’s no wonder the US thinks all politicians are crooks, because most of them are.
Selling their votes. Disgusting.
What I want to know is what is the Democratic Party going to do? Actually DO?
From what I can see, they do whatever AIPAC tells them to do, which is not in the best interest of anyone except criminals.
My local Democrat Party is almost silent, as the community is organizing protests, marches, card sending parties, sign making events etc. Why isn't the Democratic Party doing this and leading the way?
I guess you don't live in NH. We are very active here and collaborating and coordinating with other progressive community groups rallying, making signs, writing LTEs, postcards, etc.
I think this message is heading in the right direction. Humans, learning and communicating with and from each other from grass roots to up channel. And not viewing grass roots folks as simple task runners assigned from pompous operatives, but rather as stakeholders, like we are. You wouldn’t even need polling, or your polling could be validated more effectively if you had great people working at the grass roots levels in communication with people all across the country, and not ignoring red states. We can change the situation if people see this matters to everyone and not just whoever is going to win you an election. I am encouraged and looking forward to hearing more!
What are you doing to register new voters? Please see The Civics Center on Substack and Victor Shi’s Voters of Tomorrow. (Votersoftomorrow.org). It is a national disgrace that almost 85 million people did not vote in the last presidential election, per the environmental voting project at University of Florida.
People are craving authenticity. Agree with her policies or not, cooking with AOC and spur-of-the moment chats and comfy sweatpants and “hey, let’s take the dog for a walk” go a hell of a lot further and resonate more with people than polish and pedestals. You really need to start listening to your voters and get away from focus groups and polling. Find those authentic people who are comfortable sharing their lives as real Americans and young people will flock to you.
Prove it. Stop accepting money from AIPAC and ADL. People with actual morality don’t believe it’s a good thing that this country is complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian and Yemeni people
I second this
You left out “we tell our story, our mission, our goals, our achievements.” I can turn on TV any day and see ASPCA quickly in an ad tell a story a mission a goal, see St. Jude’s Hospitals and Shriners hospitals and the ACLU and Southern poverty law center and No Child Hungry all use ads to tell a story of mission, goal, accomplishments and ask for $19 dollars, nada from the DNC ZIP!. I am tired of texts and mailings from the DNC, the DSC, the DCCC, and numerous supposed Democrat PACS with no variable name asking for money but never know how the money is spent or what the goal is. We need the democrats to educate America with some quick simple ads telling our story, our achievements, our mission and our goals. If animal rights activists can do it the DNC can do it!!!
💯 agree with all of what you have said.
Looks like a good start. The previous 2 replies make good points.
1.Grassroots is far more than polls and focus groups- DNC needs to support and join in the work of existing community organizations that are already living the principles of democracy, compassion, and every kind of fair justice.
2. Principles: I will support a political party that opposes big / dark money donors. If DNC’s mission is to support working families in the US, it must walk its talk. It cannot accept donations from organizations that support injustice or oppression anywhere in the world.
Looking forward to the development of a dynamic, representative, engaged DNC that operates ethically in every aspect.
Practice what we preach and walk our talk with integrity!
Finally. A real organizing plan that doesn’t look like it was Xeroxed from the Obama 2008 playbook and handed to interns with clipboards. This isn’t just lip service to “grassroots” while funneling donor dollars into DC consultants’ Teslas.
The DNC is getting out of the Beltway and into the field, treating organizers like leaders instead of call-center temps. Coordinated digital and field? Human-centered tools? Year-round strategy? Yes, please. But let’s be clear: this is only the start. If we want to beat back the billionaire-fueled hellscape of Musk-Trump fascism, we need every ZIP code, every auntie, every union hall in motion.
Is the DNC a bastion of radical progressivism? Hell no. But when the house is on fire, you don’t argue about the color of the hose. You grab the damn thing and put out the blaze.
We can fight for deeper change within the infrastructure, but abandoning the field over ideological purity is handing the keys to the same billionaires gutting our rights, our wages, and our planet. Get in, push hard, organize smarter, and hold them accountable after we save democracy.
No one’s asking you to love the DNC, just help make sure we still have a country where you’re allowed to hate them in public.
Rage now. Reform next. But always, always resist.
ALSO: https://twvme.substack.com/p/top-25-focus-areas-for-a-progressive
The DNC is a lot of the problem.
The DNC democrats HAVE TO spend every day 💋 billionaires asses. (Selling legislation and votes to obtain dirty money!
Progressives, like Bernie and AOC are REALLY grassroots.
They ONLY ACCEPT donations from those of us that have known their honesty, and Dreams for ALL OF US!
The DNC are “corporate” shills that skew our our lives.
I am thrilled to read the BluePrint and understand that a clear, comprehensive, cogent philosophy, strategy and action plan is developed and dynamically evolving. This is exactly what we need the DNC to be doing ! Thank You!
We seemed feckless and rudderless for so long… now I am feeling a glimmer of hope that the DNC will finally be our Allied Central Organizing Hub
💪🏼👍🏼🙏🏼🎆
Support the Democratic Party members & candidates. Support them because U love our Nation. The Democratic Party has to survive $end all you can to keep them opposing MAGA/GOP Project2025.
I don’t have anything to add to the previous comments.
Support the following:
Communities
Workers
Health Care
Nutrition
Environment
Children
Care of all
Training for compassionate, therapeutic listening & problem solving.
I’m not convinced that you are interested in long-term strategy because you organized around the FL special elections.
Let’s declare some promises. Something like by 2030 every single county in the US has a functional local Democratic group and every state legislative seat is contested.
Figuring out how to do that would change the party and the country.
The DNC is just another group of political elites that did very little to combat the Republican misinformation campaigns.
Plenty of emails requesting money though. Democrats could have codified Roe V Wade but didn’t, why? Most likely because they make a shitload of money keeping it on the edge for election purposes.
The Democratic Party is as corrupt as the right. It did nothing to prepare to combat Project 2025 plans, and is doing very little now.
From what I see, with the exception of a very few, democrats are more interested in their AIPAC money than actually doing anything.
Chuck Schumer is a disgrace.
Insider trading has to stop.
The whiny “but, but, the Republicans won’t let us” BS isn’t a winning attitude.
Citizens United? Hello, it’s no wonder the US thinks all politicians are crooks, because most of them are.
Selling their votes. Disgusting.
What I want to know is what is the Democratic Party going to do? Actually DO?
From what I can see, they do whatever AIPAC tells them to do, which is not in the best interest of anyone except criminals.
I think we should go into deep red rural areas and see how people are affected by upcoming Medicaid and SNAP cuts.
Sounds great. Real organizing in the mode of Saul Alinsky, and now, George Goehl. Everybody should read Goehl’s Fundamentals of Community Organizing.
We knock doors not only to get out the vote but to build relationships. The addition of issue organizing to voter mobilization is a great advance.
My local Democrat Party is almost silent, as the community is organizing protests, marches, card sending parties, sign making events etc. Why isn't the Democratic Party doing this and leading the way?
P.S. Perhaps you can work to help energize your local Dems. Volunteers are necessary to build capacity!
I guess you don't live in NH. We are very active here and collaborating and coordinating with other progressive community groups rallying, making signs, writing LTEs, postcards, etc.
I think this message is heading in the right direction. Humans, learning and communicating with and from each other from grass roots to up channel. And not viewing grass roots folks as simple task runners assigned from pompous operatives, but rather as stakeholders, like we are. You wouldn’t even need polling, or your polling could be validated more effectively if you had great people working at the grass roots levels in communication with people all across the country, and not ignoring red states. We can change the situation if people see this matters to everyone and not just whoever is going to win you an election. I am encouraged and looking forward to hearing more!
What are you doing to register new voters? Please see The Civics Center on Substack and Victor Shi’s Voters of Tomorrow. (Votersoftomorrow.org). It is a national disgrace that almost 85 million people did not vote in the last presidential election, per the environmental voting project at University of Florida.