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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
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
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
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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