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INSIDER NEWS FROM THE FRONTLINES OF THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION

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HEADLINES: Fight Trump & The Oligarchs | Our 2025 Plan of Action | DNC
Leadership Elections | 2025 Downballot Elections | & MORE!

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On Monday, Trump and the Oligarchs will take control of our government.
Progressives need to be ready.

The Oligarch’s Mission: Plunder our tax dollars by privatizing our
government and selling-off agencies and public assets to the highest
bidder, gutting regulations for corporations and rolling back protections
for working people; and slashing taxes for the rich by cutting public
programs.

This week, in the Senate, we heard directly from Trump’s wealthy, far
right political picks —

Hedge fund executive Scott Bessent (Treasury) said NO to raising the
minimum wage, while vowing to expand Trump’s tax cuts for the rich; Oil &
Gas CEO Chris Wright (Energy) denied the climate crisis and pledged to
double down on drilling; and billionaire Doug Burgum (Interior) vowed to
hand over our public lands to Big Oil.

In addition to extremist political appointees, Trump will start sowing
policy chaos on Day 1, pledging to sign 100 Executive Orders to try to
undermine the progress we’ve made on climate, healthcare, taxing the rich,
and much more.

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We’re getting ready for the fight of our lives, and it starts with our
2025 3-Point Action Plan:

OUR MISSION: This moment calls for a total reboot. We’re fighting for our
future by mobilizing a Citizen Army of grassroots activists to fight back
against Trump and the Oligarchs, seizing the reins of the Democratic
Party, and electing the next generation of Progressives in hundreds of
down-ballot races across the country.

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Since the holidays, over 30,000 Our Revolution supporters have shown
they’re ready to fight — participating in organizing meetings, strategy
huddles, and taking strategic actions to get ready for Trump’s Second
Term.

Despair is not an option. Our Citizen Action Team is preparing for battles
ahead in 2025. We need to know you’re with us. Sign here to show our
activists that you have our backs.

[ [link removed]- ]PLEDGE TO SUPPORT OUR GRASSROOTS ARMY

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WORKING TO TRANSFORM THE PARTY

“The Democratic Party cannot win back the working class without first
addressing its own structural decay,” Our Revolution leader Joseph
Geevarghese wrote in a recent [ [link removed]- ]Common Dreams opinion piece.

“The party has grown too reliant on corporate donors, consultants, and
top-down strategies that ignore the real needs of working people,” he
said. “It’s unlikely that the insiders who built a system that enriches
themselves—guaranteeing profits whether the party wins or loses—will
willingly dismantle it.”

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In looking at the contest for DNC chair and reforming the party’s
operations, Our Revolution Board Chair Larry Cohen told [ [link removed]- ]Sludge his goal
is: “Organizing in, dirty money out.”

Larry sees an opportunity for us to organize and win in “more than 3,000
counties nationwide where there is virtually no Democratic Party
presence.” This is fertile ground for progressives to take over — but it’s
just the start.

Looking at the totality of the party and its failures, the prescription is
clear: Cut off the party’s reliance on corporate donors, abandon the
consultant-driven strategies that fail working people, and rebuild a Party
that serves the grassroots base.

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That’s why Our Revolution - working in coalition with progressive allies -
organized a LIVE [ [link removed]- ]DNC Candidate Forum this week.

More than 25,000 Our Revolution supporters engaged with over a dozen
candidates running for key DNC Leadership positions, including Chair
candidates like Ken Martin and Ben Wikler, and Our Revolution leaders
running for Vice Chair positions such as Jane Kleeb, Jim Zogby, and
others.

This was an important event to give the grassroots a say in the party
election process because as we know — just 448 voting members of the DNC
will choose the new leadership — despite it being the rank-and-file
volunteers who do the work to mobilize voters each election cycle and
build the party in their counties and states.

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Our Revolution Executive Director Joseph Geevarghese opened the forum by
summarizing the state of the party after the November election.

The Democratic Party has “ceased to be the party of the working class —
MAGA won voters who make less than $100k a year. The Democratic Party also
lost young people, voters of color, and women.

“Let me put it another way,” Joseph said, “the Democratic Party is now the
party of the college educated suburban elite. At the end of the day, the
corporate hacks who got the party in trouble in the first place aren’t
going to be the ones to save us.”

Read more about our DNC candidate forum in [ [link removed]- ]Common Dreams.

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Robert Borosage wrote about our candidate forum in the [ [link removed]- ]The Nation,
zeroing in on the most important issue to our members: Banning Dark Money
from Democratic Primaries.

Borosage reported that while Chair candidate Ken Martin used the forum to
state his commitment to rooting out Corporate Money from the party, other
candidates were less clear.

For example, when Ben Wikler, Wisconsin State Chair, was asked directly
about outside money on our call, he claimed the party “couldn’t do
anything because it can’t pass laws—but this was, if not disingenuous,
clearly wrong,” Borosage wrote. “For example, the chair of the DNC could
ostracize pollsters, ad producers and consultants who work with outside
groups to attack Democratic candidates.”

Borosage also noted how State Parties “can ban outside PAC money and
enforce that ban by disqualifying any candidate that benefited from such
spending.”

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Coming out of our DNC Candidate Forum, we are proud to announce the
endorsement of Our Revolution leaders for Vice Chair positions in the
party: Shasti Conrad, James Zogby, and Michelle Deatrick - and Jane
Fleming Kleeb for ASDC Chair.

Shasti is the Washington State Party Chair and worked on both of Bernie’s
presidential campaigns, Jane is an Our Revolution founding board member
and Nebraska Party Chair, Michelle is an Our Revolution Michigan leader
and DNC Climate Council Chair, and Jim, also Our Revolution founding board
member who has been working to transform the party for three decades.

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So far, more than 10,000 grassroots volunteers, donors and local leaders
have signed on demanding new DNC leadership sign on to these critical
party reforms.

Some of our progressive allies in Congress are also calling on DNC
candidates to commit to these reforms, including Pramila Jayapal and Greg
Casar — the new chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

We need a massive groundswell of demand ahead of the Feb. 1st DNC election
— urging party leaders and candidates to reject corporate money, increase
transparency and accountability and rebuild a multiracial, working-class
base.

[ [link removed]- ]SIGN THE PETITION

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On Thursday, Jan. 30th, Our Revolution is turning out our supporters to
make our voices heard during the last official DNC Candidate Forum in
Washington DC.

If you live in or around DC - the District of Columbia, Maryland, or
Virginia - join us to make our voices heard again before the DNC votes on
Feb 1st. Our movement for change must have a presence every step of the
way in the DNC election process.

[ [link removed]- ]SIGN UP TO JOIN US IN DC!

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BUILDING PROGRESSIVE POWER IN 2025

2025 isn’t an off-year for elections -- in fact, there are thousands of
races at the state and local level with progressives running for mayor,
city council, state offices, and more.

Our goal is to build power. Our movement elected a progressive voting bloc
in Congress with the Progressive Caucus — and this year is a chance to do
the same in cities and counties across the country.

Proof of concept: In St. Louis, Our Revolution Board Member Megan Green
ran for city alderman and realized she needed allies serving alongside her
to move a progressive agenda. So she partnered with Our Revolution and ran
progressive slates over multiple cycles, creating a governing majority in
the city — from mayor to council and more.

If progressives are going to build power in the United States, we have to
return to our roots and do it from the bottom up.

If you’re a candidate running for election or re-election, join Megan
Green and the Our Revolution Political Team for a 2025 Candidate Meetup to
learn about our endorsement process and how we support candidates with
strategic resources to win elections and build power for the long haul.

[ [link removed]- ]REGISTER HERE (ANNOUNCED CANDIDATES ONLY)

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Over 30,000 Our Revolution supporters have already stood up and shown
they’re ready to fight back against Trump and the Oligarchs.

We know that despair is not an option. Our Citizen Action Team is
preparing for battles ahead in 2025, and we need to know you’re with us.
Sign here to show our activists that you have our backs.

[ [link removed]- ]PLEDGE TO SUPPORT OUR GRASSROOTS ARMY

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Mood. We know the frustration, but as Bernie says: “Despair is not an
option.” Get this mug and enjoy a moment of self-care with a hot coffee or
cocoa as we re-energize for the political battle of 2025. Fun trivia: this
image comes from Bernie’s interview with the New York Times during his
2020 campaign. [ [link removed]- ]Get yours here!

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[ [link removed]- ]WHEN WE ORGANIZE, WE WIN!

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