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

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Don’t miss the last National Organize to Win Call of the year on
Monday, December 14th at 8:30pm EST!
We’ll get updates from Georgia and talk about our plan to hold
Biden accountable on progressive priorities like climate change
and health care from Sen. Jeff Merkley, Rep. Ro Khanna, Our
Revolution Chair Larry Cohen, newly elected District Attorney
Deborah Gonzalez of Athens, Georgia and former Bernie 2020
co-chair Nina Turner!

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In this week’s REVOLUTION REPORT: Sen. Ed Markey on why Georgia
is must-win, Rep. Jamie Raskin on marijuana legalization, updates
from Georgia and more!

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Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts joined over 100,000 Our
Revolution activists on this week’s National Organize to Win Call

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to talk about why we need to go all out to win the two Georgia
Senate races up for grabs on Jan. 5th. But first, he started by
thanking Our Revolution for organizing to help him win his
primary. “Our Revolution was there, having my back, as I ran on
Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and justice for all.” He
predicted the Georgia races will be “excruciatingly close” but
believes we have a “very real chance” of winning both seats, as
long as Our Revolution volunteers get involved and get out the
vote. “You’ve already done so much this year and made such a
difference. But there’s so much riding on this. We do not want
Mitch McConnell to block hearings on all the issues we care
about.” You can answer Sen. Markey’s call to volunteer by helping
to make Georgia GOTV calls here!
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GEORGIA PLAN TO WIN

Our Revolution is carrying out our strategic plan to win
Georgia. 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 are focused on
getting-out-the-vote with progressives through our canvassing,
phone and text banking operations. Read more below about our
canvassing operation in Georgia!

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GEORGIA GROUND GAME

A key part of our Georgia organizing strategy is the ground
game. The Washington Post recently wrote that “Democrats would
have won bigger [in 2020] if they knocked on doors.” Our
Revolution won’t let the political consultant class make the same
mistake twice. That’s why Our Revolution onboarded experienced
local organizers in Georgia to lead teams of volunteers to
conduct safe daily canvasses. We’re knocking on every door in
targeted rural and urban areas to boost turnout to record levels.
Early voting starts on Monday, and Joe Biden is campaigning there
next week. With new polls
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showing Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock - the pastor of Ebenezer
Baptist Church - leading GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler, and Democrat
Jon Ossoff ahead of Sen. David Perdue by very slim margins -
we’ll need every vote to get both candidates over the finish
line.

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Our Revolution Georgia volunteers are knocking on doors in
Gwinnett and Fulton Counties - the two most populous counties in
the state - to get out the vote for Jan. 5th. Michelle Sanchez
reported on our National Organize to Win Call
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that she’s been leading Covid-safe canvasses and knocked on
over 5,000 doors so far, handing out fliers and reminding
Georgians that there's another critical election coming up. “A
lot of people thought the election was over,” Michelle said.
“That’s why it’s so important for us to be on the doors to clear
up confusion and to let people know that early voting starts next
week. We’re also educating voters about what’s at stake - we’ve
spoken with lifelong Republicans who are voting Democratic for
the first time because they agree with us that the stakes are too
high to vote for a party that doesn’t believe in American
democracy.“

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Our Revolution Massachusetts (ORMA) member Henry Wortis says
Georgia is “one fight we have to win.” That’s why he joined with
other ORMA leaders to launch a fundraising campaign to encourage
local members to chip in and “adopt an Our Revolution organizer”
to do on-the-ground organizing in Georgia. To date, ORMA members
have raised over $3,000 to mobilize voters in the Peach State!
Thank you, Our Revolution Massachusetts!

You can support ORMA's "adopt an Our Revolution organizer"
fundraiser by contributing here!
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GEORGIA GOTV PHONE BANK

In addition to our ground game, hundreds of Our Revolution
volunteers have been hitting the phones to have deep organizing
conversations with Georgia voters about issues that matter to
them and help them register to vote, request absentee ballots,
and educate them about the voting process. In just three weeks,
we’ve called over 65,000 Georgians! Meet a few of our phone
bankers below.

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Join us and volunteer to help make Get-Out-the-Vote phone calls
everyday starting Sunday, December 13th from 6:30 - 8:30pm EST!

SIGN UP HERE!
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DONATE NOW to help us ramp-up our phone bank and canvass
operations in Georgia!
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Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin joined our Monday Organize to Win
Call
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with an update on the MORE Act, a historic bill passed by the
House last week that decriminalizes cannabis. Noting that
two-thirds of Americans favor decriminalization or legalization
of cannabis, and that most Americans live in states that have
already legalized or decriminalized it, Rep. Raskin said, “House
Democrats are finally catching up with the rest of the country,
while the vast majority of Republicans continue to stand with the
failed war on drugs and oppose any marijuana drug law reform.”
Our Revolution partnered with the National Organization for the
Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) to generate tens of thousands of
constituent letters to members of Congress and helped get several
more Democrats to sign-on and support the legislation!

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Our Revolution is working with Rep. Rashida Tlaib to demand
Congress include #DirectCashRelief to people and families in
upcoming COVID relief legislation. Nearly 800,000 people are
applying for unemployment each week. And as with the public
health crisis, our economic crisis is hitting Black and brown
communities especially hard. Since April, Republicans in the
Senate have blocked the many COVID relief bills that Democrats
have passed in the House to address these connected crises. Right
now, Congress is working toward an agreement that could actually
pass the Senate - and we are demanding that any deal must include
direct cash relief for working families.

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Between the Lines, a nationally syndicated radio show,
interviewed Our Revolution Executive Director Joseph Geevarghese
on the “battle” over Biden’s naming centrist corporate-backed
candidates to key posts in his new Administration: “The
Democratic party is funded by corporate donations and you’re
seeing a revolving door. When we look at Biden’s appointments,
people who worked for Black Rock or large military contractors
are going into government. Democrats should be on the side of
draining the swamp and not aligning ourselves with corporate
interests that want to privatize and plunder our government. And
what we’re doing at Our Revolution is really trying to push back
and hold Biden accountable.”

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After a “blue wave” failed to materialize in November and as
millions of Americans continue to struggle in the Covid economy,
Our Revolution and other progressive groups are calling on
Democrats to focus on economic issues. The Wall Street Journal
interviewed Our Revolution Campaigns and Communications Director
Paco Fabián about how the election results show that progressive
economic policies are popular. In Florida, which went for Trump,
voters passed a $15 minimum wage and in Arizona, where Biden
narrowly won, voters approved a wealth tax to raise teacher
salaries. For down-ballot Democrats, “the results could have been
different if Biden wasn’t focused on just running against Trump
and Covid but talking about pocketbook issues.”

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While a “blue wave” didn’t sweep over the national elections,
Our Revolution scored big wins in down ballot contests according
to Fox News.
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The story was based on research by the conservative think tank
Heartland Institute, which found that “far-left progressives and
socialists gained ‘significant’ ground in the 2020 election
compared to the midterms.” The institute tracked candidates
endorsed by Our Revolution and two other progressive groups and
concluded: “Of the 266 far-left or socialist candidates evaluated
in the races, nearly 90% won.” Our own analysis confirms that
progressives are gaining ground at the local level. During the
2020 election cycle, Our Revolution endorsed 450 progressive
champions - 88% of in down ballot races - and over 74% prevailed!

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Suzanna Ibarra, co-chair of Our Illinois Revolution and her
group, Will County Progressives, helped oust a 28-year incumbent
and get a slate of progressives nominated in a primary caucus to
lead the Township of Joliet, Illinois. Despite shenanigans by the
incumbents to depress their turnout, volunteers were able to
deliver 3 times more people to the caucus than the establishment
machine and win over 60% of the vote. Our Revolution members
nominated for office — and our first endorsements for 2021 —
include Angel Contreras (township supervisor); Alicia Morales
(township clerk); Vincent Alessio (township highway
commissioner); and Ranisha Brown, Cesar Escutia, Karl Ferrell,
and Suzanna Ibarra (township trustees). The group’s message: “We
beat the establishment, and if we can do it here, we can do it at
the county and state levels, too.”

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This week, Our Revolution New Jersey joined with a statewide
progressive coalition to launch the Better Ballots NJ campaign –
to redesign the state’s primary ballots and give
non-establishment candidates a fair shot. Currently, New Jersey’s
primary ballots are designed to favor candidates listed on a
“county line” - a list of party-endorsed candidates that has a
prime location on the ballot. According to a Rutgers University
study, candidates listed on the “county line” had an average 35
percentage point advantage in New Jersey’s 2020 primary. Very few
progressive challengers can overcome such a large deficit, which
helps explain why no New Jersey congressional incumbent with the
line has lost a primary in at least 50 years.

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Texas is number one in the nation for uninsured residents, and
Our Revolution Texas is working to change that by leading the
fight to pass Healthy Texas, a statewide Medicare for All
initiative. On a recent ORTX call, our members launched a
campaign to recruit state representatives to co-sponsor the bill.
They were joined by Texas House Reps. Anna Maria Ramos, Terry
Meza, and Jasmine Crockett.
To learn more, visit HealthyTexasAct.org
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Thomas Quay Williams, an Our Revolution Colorado activist, has
begun the filing process to put a complete fracking ban on the
ballot for 2022. Williams says the arguments of 2018 — that it’ll
cost the state millions in lost revenue as well as thousands of
jobs — don’t stand up anymore. “Our economy is based so much on
tourism, high tech and quality of life that the oil and gas
industry is threatening the rest of the economy,” he says. “They
have no leg to stand on; not economics, not environmentally and
not science.”

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On Thursday, Our Revolution Maryland's Lower Shore Progressive
Caucus held its Delmarva Rising event with Baltimore County
Executive Johnny Olszewksi, Maryland House Majority Leader Eric
Luedtke, and State Delegates Brooke Lierman and David Moon. A
major topic was bridging the so-called “urban/rural divide” and
how progressives can compete in rural and agricultural areas like
Maryland's Eastern Shore. Michele Gregory, a member of the
Salisbury City Council and an Our Revolution Maryland/Lower Shore
Progressive Caucus leader, said "Rural issues are progressive
issues. The things that rural Americans are dealing with on a
daily basis are what progressives are fighting for every single
day."

WATCH THE EVENT HERE
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Get involved and help us build the political revolution!

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Join Our Wisconsin Revolution’s Statewide Organize to Win
Meeting this coming Tuesday! Topics will include “Wall Street vs.
Main Street” and how we’re going to bring the political
revolution to the Badger State in 2021.

RSVP HERE ( [link removed] )

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With New York City elections happening in 2021, Our Revolution /
New York Progressive Action Network (NYPAN) is joining with other
groups to host the Manhattan Borough President Candidate Forum
this Wednesday!

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

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