After the loss in November, pundits and politicians across the Democratic Party conceded that we need better messaging if we’re going to start winning elections again. Still, a messaging orthodoxy has a hold on many.

Despite the sobering loss and the well-reasoned conclusion that we need to figure out how to better connect with everyday Americans, Seth received a media backlash for attempting to do just that.

Seth wrote in a late November op-ed that “when Democrats don’t engage honestly on real issues important to Americans, we give the impression that we either don’t understand or, worse yet, simply don’t care. He continues to urge the party to develop a reasonable position on a range of issues, including participation of transgender athletes in competitive sports, in order to stop ceding ground to Republicans.”

Right on queue, Seth took heat for these comments. The kneejerk response from some is symbolic of the very issue Seth was getting at – that we have developed an endemic inability to connect with everyday Americans and don’t have the courage to let some of our positions hold up to dialogue.

Show you have Seth’s back in the fight to reshape our messaging, rebuild our party, and retake the House by rushing a contribution today.

In case you missed it: a newly published column in the Boston Globe reports that Seth and our team brought in more than $500,000 between Election Day in November and the end of the year. At a time when fundraising typically plummets, ours soared.

The piece notes: “Moulton, it would seem, is closer to the pulse of Democratic voters than some activists give him credit for. He may be helping the party more, too.”

In the age of sophisticated social media, disputed polling, and competing news sources, it can be hard to know where the majority of Americans stand on various topics. But the least we can do is have open and honest conversations on the issues that matter most. For Democrats, we can’t afford not to.

Team Moulton