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Posted by | May 7, 2015
Women on the Run

Join us for best practices and cautionary tales from women running for office. What unique skills and leadership challenges present for women candidates? Hear from women on the front lines.

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Posted by | May 7, 2015
A New 50 State Strategy: Reversing the Democratic Collapse in the States

The 2014 election was catastrophic for the progressive movement and the Democratic Party. Republicans gained a record number of seats in state legislatures and seized the governorships of several more...

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#EpicFail: A Look at GOTV Failures (So You Don’t Repeat Them)

We love to talk about our GOTV successes: registering 10,000 voters on a shoestring budget, creating a great video that went viral, developing a tech innovation that changed the game....

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Black Mess on Black Mesa

What is happening on Black Mesa, Arizona today compared throughout the years to what has happened in mountain communities in Appalachia by the coal industry? Shared human rights abuses at Black...

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Border Vigilantes and their Bullshit: Countering the Falsehoods that Fuel Violent Nativist Movements

Last summer saw the return of the vigilante border-watch 'Minutemen' movement, a revival of the bad old days when far-right extremists prowled the borderlands with weapons and threatening rhetoric. The...

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Bring Wine and Whiskey: Tactics for Engaging and Activating Millennial Women

Many women's organizations don't connect well with younger women, especially those who are not politically engaged. Join us to learn some unique ways to organize ambitious, badass, millennial women and...

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Building a Pipeline of Digital Talent

2016 will bring not only a presidential contest but many other fights, from winning back control of the Senate to policy advocacy and state ballot initiatives. Progressives need a pipeline...

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Confronting Exploitation, Retaliation and Deportation to Build Power for Immigrant Workers

The fear of deportation has made it easy for bad employers to exploit and retaliate against workers who try to assert their rights. This has played into the power divide...

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Detention, Determination and New Organizing Behind Bars

Hunger strikes and challenges to individual cases of abuse have exposed the harsh conditions inside for-profit detention centers and galvanized organizing in the migrant rights movement on the outside. Former...

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Do Details Matter? Why and How We Sanitize Our Stories

Storytelling is an important, effective tool for activism. Sharing a personal narrative is powerful and should be done both effectively and carefully. Our panelists regularly use their lived experiences with...

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