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Morgan Harper
Morgan Harper is a Senior Advisor at the American Economic Liberties Project. She's a lawyer and, most recently, was a grassroots candidate to represent Ohio’s Third Congressional District in Columbus, Ohio.
December 8, 2020
Rural Margins Matter
Sarah Jaynes
Rural voters made the difference for Joe Biden in key states this year. And if Democrats hope to control the Senate in 2022 and 2024, the vote in small cities and...
December 8, 2020
For UNITE HERE’s Hospitality Workers, Democracy Is Essential Work
D. Taylor
In the year of COVID-19, no one thought that door-to-door canvassing could be done. Union housekeepers, cooks, and casino workers proved them wrong....
December 8, 2020
On Postcards and Superpowers
Lara Putnam
Restricting volunteers’ understanding of the ways they can make political change to the kind of one-off anonymous voter contacts most easily reported as...
Lara Putnam
Lara Putnam is UCIS Research Professor in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh.
December 8, 2020
Winning an election is good. Building the power to run the place is better.
Deepak Pateriya
We won, but we still have a lot of work to do to build the breadth and depth of electoral power our movements need to durably govern.
Deepak Pateriya
Deepak Pateriya has been an organizer, campaigner and alliance builder since the 1990’s, in community organizing, the labor movement, and electoral politics.
December 8, 2020
Elections Are Not About Elections. They Are About Voters and Their Lives.
Matt Morrison
This year provided the hard evidence, in the hardest of election environments, that building movements based on the needs and concerns of working people...
December 8, 2020
A Radical Take on Voter Turnout in Rural America
Katey Lauer Stephen SmithSarah Hutson
Last spring, West Virginia Can’t Wait transformed our gubernatorial campaign’s field operation into a COVID response team. The program ended up...