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Welcome to The Revolution Report — the weekly e-newsletter of
our national grassroots organizing network!

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We’re down to the wire. That’s why Our Revolution is launching
Operation Endgame to make a final round of targeted phone calls
into strategic areas where our work will be game changing.
Volunteer to make calls TODAY!

OUR REVOLUTION NEEDS YOU! SIGN UP HERE
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CALL TO ACTION
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US Rep. Ayanna Pressley inspired over 70,000 Our Revolution
members who joined our final National GOTV Rally by urging us to
“stay uncomfortable” and do the “inconvenient work” of phone
banking and texting our friends, neighbors and even strangers to
get out the vote in the endgame. Every action we take matters -
the future of the political revolution depends on what we do
right now!

WATCH - INSPIRATION FROM REP. PRESSLEY!
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OUR THEORY OF CHANGE
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As America votes, Our Revolution members are carrying out our
4-POINT PLAN to fight for a progressive future by #1) Defeating
Trump; #2) Electing more progressives to Congress; #3) Building a
down-ballot bench; and most critically, #4) Organizing a powerful
grassroots movement to win transformative change after the
election!

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WHEN WE ORGANIZE … WE WIN!
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Our Revolution’s army of grassroots volunteers are powering our
“Get Out the Vote” efforts in their local communities all across
America. This month, over 600,000 people joined our rolling
national and state virtual rallies, and we’ve made over 3.4
million one-on-one voter contacts through
phone calls and texts!

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A New Era of Contactless Campaigning

CBS News interviewed Our Revolution Executive Director Joseph
Geevarghese about how we scaled up our organizing in the midst of
the pandemic: “The truth is that we are making significantly more
voter contacts now than if we only relied on in-person rallies
and door-to-door canvassing.” The broadcast story highlighted how
Our Revolution made a strategic pivot once the lockdowns hit -
from ramping up phone bank operations to hosting massive virtual
get out the vote rallies.

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#1 - We must go all out to defeat Donald Trump by winning back
working-class voters in the Midwest.

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MIDWEST "PIVOT COUNTY" STRATEGY

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As Trump campaigns in Midwestern battleground states, he’s using
the slogan “Promises Made, Promises Kept” to lie about his
promise to deliver “more jobs and better wages” and “stop the
offshoring” of manufacturing jobs abroad. That’s why Our
Revolution is organizing laid-off workers to set the record
straight - especially in the “pivot counties” that voted twice
for Obama-Biden before going for Trump in 2016. Read below to
learn more about the deep grassroots organizing our members are
doing in key swing areas in swing states to expose Trump’s
betrayal of working class voters!

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Michigan Congressman Andy Levin joined over 70,000 Our Revolution
activists for our final National GOTV Virtual Rally
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before the election. He noted that the job losses that have
hit Ohio and other Midwestern states happened in his district,
which includes Macomb County - a critical “pivot county” that
could decide Michigan. “Donald Trump sold people a bill of
goods. He told Michigan auto workers there would be more jobs,
but plants have closed here under his watch.”

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This week, Our Revolution activist Chuckie Denison directly
confronted Donald Trump, Jr. about the President’s failure to
save his job - and the jobs of over 5000 autoworkers - at the GM
plant in Lordstown, OH. The video has been watched
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and was featured on the Randi Rhodes Show
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WATCH THE VIRAL VIDEO HERE!
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United Electrical Workers Union President Carl Rosen joined Our
Revolution Pennsylvania’s Get Out the Vote Rally
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administration has spent the past four years trying to divide the
working class and install a pro-corporate government that aims to
strip working people of our rights – and our jobs. Under Trump’s
watch, Pennsylvania lost 8,100 manufacturing jobs in 2020 alone,
including hundreds of UE members laid off from Erie’s locomotive
plant.

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Trump Left Ohio Workers Behind

Our Revolution activist Dave Green, former leader at the GM plant
in Lordstown, OH wrote a scathing opinion piece
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calling out Trump's betrayal of Ohio workers. “Trump’s lies
feel like a punch in the gut to me and the 5,000 workers I used
to represent at the General Motors Lordstown plant. Our
6.2-million-square-foot facility was shuttered last year,
shattering what remained of the American Dream for thousands of
working families. Trump has the worst jobs record of any
president in modern history. Between 2016 and 2018, 1,800
factories closed and, since the pandemic began, our economy has
lost nearly half of the 11.6 million jobs gained during the
Obama-Biden years. And all Trump can do is lie about it.”

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Trump Claims Industrial Jobs Are “Booming” - Local Organizers
Tell a Different Story

This week, journalists Sarah Jaffe & Michelle Chen interviewed
Our Revolution activists Chuck Jones, the former union leader,
and Shannon Mulcahy, a laid-off worker, to get the real story
behind Trump’s bluster about “saving” the Carrier plant in
Indianapolis and making Lordstown into a “booming town” after its
GM plant closed.

LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEWS HERE
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Along with 900 of his fellow workers, union leader Joe Baratta
was laid off from the Electrolux factory in St. Cloud, MN. He
joined Our Revolution Minnesota’s Get Out the Vote Rally
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save their jobs. “We sent Trump hundreds of actual letters when
we began to hear rumors of the plant closing, and we got no
response. They don’t care. We couldn’t even get a tweet.” Now,
Baratta is fighting to defeat Trump and elect progressive
candidates up and down the ballot who will undo a corrupt
political culture that favors corporations over working people.

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Help us make ONE FINAL PUSH in key Midwestern “Pivot Counties”
and win back working-class voters betrayed by Trump’s false
populism!
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#2 - We must elect more progressives to the U.S. House and flip
the Senate to advance progressive policies.

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US Rep. Ilhan Omar joined Our Revolution Minnesota’s Get Out the
Vote Rally ( [link removed] ) to talk about why
it’s so important to elect more progressives - like Cori Bush,
Mike Siegel, Marie Newman and Jamaal Bowman - to Congress. In
January, she noted that we will have a “new cohort of
progressives” who will be ready to fight for the Green New Deal,
Medicare for All and other progressive priorities when Biden
takes office. Rep. Omar also spoke about efforts to make the
Congressional Progressive Caucus a more powerful force on Capitol
Hill. This story in The Intercept
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goes deeper on details on how the CPC is getting ready for
2021!

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Donate NOW to help us get BOLD PROGRESSIVES over the finish line
& into the House!
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#3 - We must build a bench of down-ballot progressive elected
officials and policies to fight for change from the bottom up.

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2020 POLITICAL TOPLINES: This election cycle, Our Revolution HQ
- in partnership with our state and local organizations -
endorsed 450 progressive champions - and most importantly, over
88% are running in down-ballot races! Between now and Election
Day, our members are mobilizing to elect them to serve on local
water commissions, school boards, city councils, and county
commissions.

CHECK OUT OUR ENDORSEMENTS ON OUR WEBSITE!
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Our Revolution Minnesota’s Get Out the Vote Rally
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candidates and elected officials. Minnesota House Majority
Leader Ryan Winkler talked about the promise of a progressive
wave electing a state Senate majority. After the election, he
plans to lead the fight to pass transformative policies to defend
workers’ rights, protect the climate, and expand health care.
St. Paul City Councilor Nelsie Yang - an Our Revolution member -
said that the grassroots organizing our local groups are doing is
critical to electing progressives to down-ballot positions of
power.

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Our Revolution Missouri featured several down ballot progressive
champions on their Statewide GOTV Rally.
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Derrick Nowlin, candidate for state rep. in District 134, said
a key priority for him is getting money out of politics. “All of
the issues I'm running on stem from the fact that our government
is largely bought and paid for by the big-donor class. Our
representatives don't represent us, our government doesn't work
for us, and that’s why I'm running for office.” Kimberly-Ann
Collins, candidate for state rep. in the 77th District, is a
public health professional who says her heart is with the
homeless. When a St. Louis shelter closed, she helped organize
pop-up shelters all over the city to care for the unhoused.
“Housing is a right, period — and we cannot move forward as a
city, state, or country until we help our most vulnerable.”

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Texas Voter Turnout Hotter than Any Texas BBQ

This article
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featured Our Revolution GOTV Organizer Kevin Patterson, who’s
working to turn TEXAS blue - “Patterson, a student at UT Dallas,
and Our Revolution Texas is focused on flipping the nine state
House seats Democrats need to take the majority, including one in
the Dallas area with Lorenzo Sanchez, the son of Mexican
immigrants. “Our goal is to tell people to vote down-ballot and
not just the top,” said Patterson, who exudes more energy than a
Texas refinery gas flare. “We are organizing phone banks, zoom
meetings, text banking, and sending postcards.”

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Your support will help us BUILD A BENCH of progressive candidates
and policies up and down the ballot!
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BALLOT MEASURES
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In addition to supporting down ballot candidates, Our Revolution
is organizing to win down ballot initiatives to advance our
progressive public policy agenda!

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Florida ranks second in the nation for income
inequality. That’s why Our Revolution Florida is organizing
support for Amendment 2: the $15 Minimum Wage Initiative. If the
measure passes, Florida will be the second most populous state to
raise the minimum wage - and will show the next President and
Congress that passing a federal minimum wage of $15 an hour
should be a DAY 1 priority.

As Our Revolution Executive Director Joseph Geevarghese told The
Huffington Post
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this week, “If $15 passes in Florida, it will send a clear
message to the incoming Biden administration that raising the
minimum wage is not just good policy but also good politics.”

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Nearly 40% of America’s jobs are now “gig” jobs.
Workers in these positions are denied minimum wage and other
basic labor protections because companies like Uber and Lyft
exploit long-standing legal loopholes. California recently passed
model legislation to fix the problem - and now gig companies are
trying to roll-back worker rights with Proposition 22. Uber and
Lyft have spent $200 million on their campaign — making it the
costliest ballot measure in the state’s history. This week, Our
Revolution’s National Phone Bank Team made a final push to get
Californians to Vote NO on Prop 22!

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Four out of five Coloradans don’t have access to paid family and
medical leave, and the pandemic has made this need even more
urgent. That’s why Our Revolution Colorado is organizing to
pass Prop 118: Colorado Families First, which would give 2.6
million workers up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave.
Passing this measure in the Rocky Mountain state will make it the
9th state to pass such a measure, creating more pressure for a
new President and Congress to take action.

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#4 - We must build a movement in the streets and inside the
halls of power to win progressive change.

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Trump’s remarks that he may lose the November election yet
dismiss the results or refuse to relinquish his power are so
concerning that Our Revolution HQ is partnering with a coalition
of progressive organizations to Protect the Results
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are getting ready to mobilize if Trump tries to undermine our
democracy!

LEARN MORE HERE
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HOLDING BIDEN ACCOUNTABLE
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Progressives Push for Warren at Treasury, Signaling Bigger
Ideological Battle If Biden Wins

Our Revolution Board Chair Larry Cohen spoke with NBC News about
the possibility of Sen. Elizabeth Warren becoming Treasury
Secretary in a Biden Administration.
“There's a huge gap between Sen. Warren and any other likely
candidate. She understands finance capital and is prepared to
wrangle with it. Some of the other candidates I've heard about
are not prepared to wrangle with it.”

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Unions Hope For Turnaround Under Biden

Workers’ rights advocates are getting ready to push a potential
Biden administration to take bold action on DAY 1 to help workers
by leveling the playing field on federal procurement rules and
other labor regulations that has been tilted in favor of
corporations for far too long. Our Revolution Executive Director
Joseph Geevarghese talked about how Biden should issue pro-worker
executive orders immediately to avoid repeating Obama/Biden’s
first term mistakes. “Biden does not have to wait for Congress
to act. We don’t have to fix the filibuster for him to be bold
on this issue.”

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VOLUNTEER!
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We’re down to the wire. That’s why Our Revolution is launching
Operation Endgame to make a final round of targeted phone calls
into strategic areas where our work will be game changing.
Volunteer to make calls TODAY!

OUR REVOLUTION NEEDS YOU! SIGN UP HERE
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LIVE FROM THE FIELD!
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On Election Day, Our Revolution members around the USA will be
broadcasting LIVE from the polls with our endorsed candidates
and posting updates on progressive victories.
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! And if your local group is
out on Election Day, fill out this form
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to send us pictures so we can share them on social media!

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Our Revolution’s work is powered by YOU — our members,
volunteers, and donors.

Thank you for your solidarity and commitment!

Together, we are building a powerful independent political
organization that is organizing to win a progressive America in
2020 and beyond!

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