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Imagine if Democrats fought to make community college free. If we fought to pass a higher minimum wage. If we fought to expand voting rights and abortion rights.

Well, in 2013, DFA launched Purple-to-Blue (P2B), our multi-year strategy to reclaim Republican-led state legislatures. Just last year, we successfully completed our multi-cycle effort in Virginia, resulting in Democratic control of both the Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate. But our work is not done. We have been working in purple states across the country, with the goal of achieving the same outcome we saw in Virginia. Our Campaigns team is working hard to recruit, train, and support state legislative candidates who will fight for working people and send greedy and self-serving Trump Republicans packing.

We’re talking about Trump Republicans who are so dangerous and extreme that they justify keeping children in cages and oppose providing healthcare for all Americans. They’d rather keep regressive tax systems so they benefit big corporations and the wealthy, instead helping those who need it most.

There are a growing number of states where we can replace extremist Republicans with progressive Democrats. That’s why we are expanding our Purple to Blue program in 2020 to include even more states.

But we need your help to win the few seats in those states where we can flip those legislatures from red to blue. Help support us as we recruit, train, and support these amazing progressive candidates--- candidates who we know will fight for working people every day.

Chip in $3 or more to help elect DFA’s candidates and flip some of these state legislative chambers from Purple to Blue today!

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In these crucial races, DFA is supporting candidates like Jasmen Rogers-Shaw, running in Florida State House D-95, a child of immigrants who was raised with a heart for service and justice. Her experience and passion rests at the intersection of racial and gender justice, and she has worked for several years to advance legislation that centers Black women and co-created curricula that makes the political process accessible. Jasmen has built a base of women of color committed to Reproductive Justice.

Candidates like Mokah Johnson, running in Georgia State House D-117, against an incumbent who voted for a hate crime bill in 2019 that would provide protections for protected classes, including LGBTQ people. Mokah has been fighting for justice and equality since she founded the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement and she will take this passion and energy to Atlanta to continue to fight for the district.

Candidates like Jessica Benham, running in Pennsylvania State House D-36, the development director for the Pittsburgh Center for Autistic Advocacy, a grassroots self-advocacy project run by autistic people for autistic people. Jessica co-founded the organization to ensure that individuals with disabilities are treated fairly in the legislative process. She has fought against the forced institutionalization of disabled people, stood against the injustices of transgender people at the Allegheny County Jail, advocated for reproductive justice and for an overhaul of our healthcare system to ensure universal coverage.

We must continue the important work of recruiting, training, and supporting progressive champions all over this country, and reclaim Republican-led state houses so that they benefit and serve all Americans.

Our candidates are running people-powered campaigns, and they need your help now. Chip in $3 or more to help DFA turn states’ legislature from purple to blue: