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

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Our Revolution wishes you and your family a wonderful and safe
Thanksgiving holiday next week!

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This week’s REVOLUTION REPORT features updates from Georgia, our
Top 3 Takeaways from the 2020 elections, breaking election
victories and more!

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This week, over 700,000 absentee ballots are hitting mailboxes
in Georgia, where the Jan. 5th runoff results will determine
control of the US Senate. That’s why Our Revolution is kicking
off our Georgia Ground Game Campaign by deploying dozens of
grassroots organizers to hit the doors in both urban and rural
areas. This weekend, Our Revolution Georgia will be safely
canvassing in South Fulton, Georgia — a city that is 90% Black —
with Councilman khalid, to boost turnout in this critical
election and ditch Mitch!

On Monday, Councilman khalid joined over 80,000 Our Revolution
members on our Weekly Organize to Win National Call
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to discuss our Georgia Ground Game Campaign and what we’re
doing to mobilize massive voter turnout. “Black voters matter and
we’re going all out to win. Our Revolution Georgia will be
partnering with the Movement for Black Lives, unions and other
allies to launch a strong field campaign to knock doors, make
phone calls and send texts, to register everyone we can and turn
out the vote.”

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In addition to on the ground canvassing, Our Revolution has
launched our virtual Get Out the Vote phone and text banking
operation. The map above represents the distribution of over
50,000 Our Revolution supporters in Georgia - between now and
January 5th, our army of grassroots volunteers will be focused on
making sure we contact every progressive voter and ramp-up
turnout to record levels!

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Volunteer to help make Get-Out-the-Vote phone calls to Georgia!
We’ll be holding our next virtual phone bank on this Sunday, Nov.
22nd from 6.30 - 8.30pm EST!

SIGN UP HERE!
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Donate to help us ramp up our GROUND GAME in GEORGIA so we can
win the Senate!
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The reality is that more than the Senate hangs in the balance in
Georgia. There are important down ballot races, including Daniel
Blackman’s run for the Georgia Public Service Commission. Daniel
spoke on our Organize to Win National Call
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about how he’s running to bring a Green New Deal to Georgia and
lower energy costs for ratepayers. “Georgia has the 5th highest
utility bills in the country, while 1.9 million of its residents
are living at or below the poverty line. We must treat
environmental issues as social justice issues.”

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Bloomberg’s City Lab writes that while a “blue wave” didn’t
sweep over the national elections, progressives scored big wins
in down ballot contests. The article quotes University of
Virginia Prof. Richard Schragger on his take on the 2020 election
- “There’s a dramatic progressive turn taking place on the local
level.” We totally agree. During the 2020 election cycle, Our
Revolution endorsed 450 progressive champions - 88% of in down
ballot races - and over 74% prevailed!

We analyzed our strong win rate and identified our Top 3
Takeaways from the 2020 elections that demonstrate that the
progressive movement has momentum.

Takeaway #1 is that progressives are beating Democratic
establishment picks in tight races. In San Francisco, for
example, Our Revolution: San Francisco Berniecrats volunteers
helped Connie Chan win her race against the mayor’s machine
candidate by just 123 votes, and Our Revolution in Contra Costa
CA powered Ellie Householder’s bid to take out an 8-year
incumbent to become the next Antioch City Clerk with only 29
votes to spare. These tight margins indicate that when it comes
to taking on corporate-backed candidates, our grassroots
organizing plays a decisive role.

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Takeaway #2 is that our progressive candidates are beating
Republicans at the local level. For example, Our Revolution Maine
helped 28-year-old Chloe Maxim defeat a two-term Republican
incumbent in a rural state senate district, and Our Illinois
Revolution helped Eric Rhinehardt beat the sitting Republican
“tough on crime” State’s Attorney in Lake County. In addition,
progressives who flipped GOP districts in 2018 - like State Rep.
Courtney Neron in Oregon and State Rep. Anne Stava-Murray in
Illinois - held on to their seats in 2020 with comfortable
margins.

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And Takeaway #3 is that our progressive policies are more
popular than ever, even in states that went red this election
cycle. In Florida, for example, even though Trump carried the
state with 51% of the vote, a measure raising the minimum wage to
$15 an hour passed with 61% of the vote; in Colorado, paid leave
won more votes than Biden; and drug decriminalization measures
also proved to be more popular than presidential candidates in
places like Arizona and Montana.

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The right wing commentariat is having a full meltdown as we
score down ballot victories. This week, The Heartland Institute’s
post-election report
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sounded the alarm that Our Revolution and the rest of “the
far-left progressive and socialist wings of the Democratic Party
gained significant ground in 2020 compared to previous elections,
and that a greater proportion than ever of legislative seats will
be filled by far-left progressives or socialists in 2021 and
2022.”
Stop it, Heartland Institute, you are making us blush.

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Our Revolution Arizona helped elect Gabriella Cázares-Kelly to
be the first new county recorder in Pima in almost three decades,
and the first indigenous woman to hold elected office in the
county’s history. She campaigned on making voting more accessible
and addressing systemic issues around voter access, suppression
and disenfranchisement, especially in communities of color.

Across the nation, 57% of our candidates won their races for
city and county positions.

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Our Revolution Florida helped criminal justice reformer Monique
Worrell beat her “law and order” opponent in the race for
Orange-Osceola state attorney. “Now, the real work begins,” she
said in a statement on Facebook.
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justice system is a huge undertaking that will require your
ongoing support and enthusiasm. Please stay involved and help me
build the fair and just system we deserve.”

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Our Revolution Ohio helped Charmaine McGuffey defeat a pro-Trump
sheriff with 52% of the vote. During her campaign, McGuffey
described herself as a progressive who would focus on
“rehabilitative, rather than punitive strategies” to reduce
recidivism. She will become the first openly gay sheriff in
department history.

Overall, Our Revolution’s slate of criminal justice reform
champions won 75% of their races!

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Our Revolution California helped Alex Lee make history when he
won California’s 25th District Assembly race on Nov. 3rd. At 25,
he’ll become California’s youngest Asian American state
legislator ever, the first openly bisexual state legislator and
the first assembly member from Generation Z.

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Anne Stava-Murray upset an incumbent GOP state representative by
less than 1,000 votes in 2018. As a legislator Stava-Murray
earned the Our Illinois Revolution endorsement for her stands on
issues from gun safety to healthcare as well as being a strong
voice for political reform. Although she was outspent 2 to 1,
Anne Stava-Murray won re-election to her seat by over 5 points in
2020 and is currently among the group of Democratic leaders in
the Illinois House opposing Democratic Boss Mike Madigan’s
continued tenure as Speaker of the House.

Nationwide, over 81% of Our Revolution’s candidates won in
state-level races!

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While centrist Democrats lost ground in the Senate and the
House, progressives won big on Election Day. We helped to send
Squad members – Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Rashida Tlaib
(D-MI) back to Congress -- and grow the Squad with victories for
Cori Bush in Missouri, Jamaal Bowman and Mondaire Jones in New
York, and Marie Newman in Illinois. Overall, 76% of our federal
candidates won their races!

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Our Revolution Arizona worked with the “Red for Ed” movement to
pass Proposition 208, one of the most progressve tax measures in
the country that will provide $1 Billion in new education
funding. The ballot measure, which was approved by a very thin
margin despite tens of millions of dollars spent to defeat it,
adds a 3.5% surcharge to taxable income for individual filers who
make more than $250,000 or for couples who bring home more than
$500,000.

Nationwide, 76% of Our Revolution's endorsed ballot measures
won, proving our issues are popular across the country.

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In our post-election survey, Our Revolution members
overwhelmingly agree that President Joe Biden must use executive
action to make key progressive changes - beginning on Day One.

88% of Our Revolution members said that Biden should bypass
Congress - which may or may not swing to the Democrats - and sign
executive orders to create policies that just can’t wait. From
the moment he takes office, Biden should use the power of the pen
to cancel billions of dollars in student debt, raise the minimum
wage for federal contract workers to $15 per hour, declare the
climate crisis a national emergency — and more.

In addition to leading with bold executive action, our members
also want President Biden to turn his promises into policy on
these Top 6 issues:

#1- Climate Crisis. The survey results show that Our Revolution
members are deeply concerned about our planet’s future. Our
members want Joe Biden to keep his promises to end federal
government fossil fuel subsidies and push for a massive jobs bill
that includes significant infrastructure investments as the
foundation of a Green New Deal.

#2 - Health Care. While Medicare for All is the ultimate goal of
Our Revolution, the survey shows our members want to hold Biden
accountable for creating a public option, allowing Medicare to
negotiate drug prices, and lowering the Medicare eligibility age
to 60.

#3 - Corporate Power. Our members want Biden to lead on getting
money out of politics and challenging corporate power. A key way
President Biden can accomplish that is by reversing Reagan-era
policies and strengthening antitrust enforcement against
corporate monopolies.

#4 - Income and Wealth Inequality. Our survey showed that our
members want Biden to fight against economic inequality by
holding him accountable to enacting a $15 minimum wage,
protecting the freedom of workers to form unions, and deliver
immediate economic relief — similar to the HEROES Act — to
struggling workers and their families.

#5 - Criminal Justice Reform. Our members want criminal justice
reform to be a priority for the Biden Administration, and that
means using his power to end private prisons, cash bail,
mandatory-minimum sentencing and the death penalty.

#6 - Immigrant Rights. The survey also showed high support for
President Biden to undo the damage done to immigrants and our
values as a nation by four years of Donald Trump’s shameful
policies - beginning with ending the caging and separation of
families and creating a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers.

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Our Revolution joined thousands of members of the American
Postal Workers Union (APWU) from coast to coast on Nov. 17th to
protest Trump’s Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s ongoing attacks
on the U.S. Postal Service and demand the US Senate pass a $25
Billion COVID relief package. As part of the #SaveThePostOffice
Day of Action, Our Revolution members held nearly a dozen actions
and press events - broadcast LIVE on our Facebook page
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- outside postal facilities in Washington DC, Maryland,
Massachusetts, South Carolina, Colorado, Texas, Indiana and
Georgia. Before the action, APWU President Mark Dimondstein
joined our Weekly Organize to Win National Call
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to brief our members on what’s at stake.

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Thanks to the grassroots organizing work of Our Illinois
Revolution: Will County Progressives, the electrical service
provider Ameren will not disconnect any services during the
winter months. Our groups organized on behalf of their neighbors
to make sure no one loses power because they can't pay their
bills during the pandemic.

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Our Revolution Somerville is mobilizing in support of workers’
rights in Massachusetts. This summer, our members got the city to
enact a new wage theft ordinance and recently helped win over
$100,000 in grant funding to set-up a new Workers’ Center to
educate workers about labor laws. Our members are also calling on
the State Senate to pass emergency paid sick time legislation to
aid 1.8 million workers.

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Days after the passage of New Jersey's Cannabis Legalization
ballot measure, the State Senate tried to rush through a
regulatory framework that favors corporate growers and the
police, instead of communities most harmed by cannabis
prohibition. Thanks to Our Revolution New Jersey’s early action -
launching a petition with a clear list of demands, generating
hundreds of calls to senators, and providing written testimony to
the Assembly Appropriations Committee, the state legislature has
slowed their process and begun adding racial-justice focused
amendments to the legislation.

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Led by its Lower Shore Progressive Caucus chapter, Our
Revolution Maryland is leading the fight to stop the Del-Mar
pipeline proposed for Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Rather than pivot
to the Eastern Shore’s abundant clean green solar and wind power,
Maryland Republicans - led by Governor Larry Hogan - are
doubling-down on dirty fossil fuels. The pipeline would transport
fracked Pennsylvania natural gas through environmentally critical
wetlands and less affluent black and brown communities. Our
activists organized a campaign to send over 450 emails to members
of Maryland’s Board of Works warning that risks of a catastrophic
leak or deadly explosion have been minimized, as well as the lost
opportunity to reduce dependence on climate crisis-causing fossil
fuels.

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We are thankful this season for all our volunteers and donors
for your solidarity and commitment. Together, we are building a
powerful independent political organization that is organizing to
win in 2021 and beyond!

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