February 2020 Member Newsletter
2020 is a must-win moment for our movement. That's why we're
holding Organize to Win 2020 Summits all across the nation.
We are mounting a massive mobilization to move Our
Revolution's nearly 1 million supporters to become active in
local Our Revolution organizing groups, in their own communities.
To date, Our Revolution local groups have organized 23
Organize to Win 2020 kickoff events, with more than 200 local
grassroots groups in 15 states - including Iowa, Texas,
California, Florida, Ohio, and Michigan.
Together, we're building a grassroots network of
progressive, political powerhouses working to democratize local
and state Democratic parties; advance our top policy priorities -
like Medicare for All & the Green New Deal - and elect Bernie,
together with a bench of progressive champions, that will
represent US at every level of government.
Read on for updates from the political revolution. When we
organize - we WIN!
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TEXAS 2020
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The Texas Organize to Win 2020 Summit in Houston drew
hundreds of progressive activists from around the state. It was
led by Our Revolution Texas and other local groups, representing
over 40,000 progressive supporters.
"We have a long history of progressive power here in the
Lone Star state," said Our Revolution Texas founding organizer
Jim Hightower. Recent successes include: convening a Texas House
hearing on the single-payer Healthy Texas Act (HB 4127); building
a Green New Deal for Texas Act, and successfully helping to elect
more than half of Our Revolution's 60-plus locally-endorsed
candidates in 2018.
Special guests at the summit included Joca Marquez of the
San Marcos, TX City Council and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee
[TX-18]. Lee, the vice chair of the Congressional Progressive
Caucus, told the crowd: "Now is your time. We're gonna march for
the people, for the powerless, for the passionate. There are
chains in America that have to be broken."
Our Revolution HQ also announced 2020 endorsements for Texas
races - including Mike Siegel [TX-CD 10] and Scott Feuless
[Brazoria Cty Drainage Commissioner].
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CALIFORNIA 2020
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District Attorney Chesa Boudin, endorsed by Our Revolution
in September 2019, was in the house for the California Organize
to Win 2020 Summit with the San Francisco Berniecrats, the local
Our Revolution affiliate. "When we build movements based on
principles, based on people power, based on uplifting those
who've been excluded for generations, that's when we win," Boudin
told the crowd. "People said I was unelectable - and we proved
them wrong!"
State Senate candidate Jackie Fielder, who received a
national Our Revolution endorsement for her upcoming race, also
spoke about wealth inequality: "California has 157 billionaires
and the fifth largest economy in the world. Yet many of us in
this city are trying to hold on for dear life."
The group recapped their successes in collaboration with
allied local groups over the past year. Every endorsed candidate
won their election, including Boudin and Dean Preston - the first
democratic socialist on the SF Board of Supervisors since 1992.
Progressives are now a supermajority on the Board of Supervisors
and a clear majority on the Board of Education!
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FLORIDA 2020
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Leaders from Our Revolution Florida brought together groups
from Jacksonville, Orlando, Miami, Sarasota, Tampa, Brevard
County, Progressive Democrats of America - and even Our
Revolution Puerto Rico - for our Florida Organize to Win 2020
Summit in Orlando. With more than 30,000 Our Revolution
supporters in Florida, our members have been busy educating the
progressive base.
"Florida is ready to build our political revolution," said
Kriston Hoffman, a leader with Our Revolution Florida. "We're
fighting for returning citizens' voting rights, educating voters
about our closed primary, and registering new voters every week.
We're standing with refugees at immigrant concentration camps,
rallying for impeachment, and protesting for climate justice.
Multiple cities have passed resolutions in support of the
Medicare for All Act of 2019 - and we're just getting started!"
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MORE NEWS HERE!→
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