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

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As 2020 draws to a close, the conservative movement is taking
note of Our Revolution’s work to transform America. This year, we
elected hundreds of progressive champions up and down the ballot
from Congresspeople to county clerks, we passed bold progressive
policies in states and cities - including expanding Medicaid in
Missouri and raising the minimum wage in Florida; we worked to
transform the Democratic party into a more progressive party by
winning reforms like eliminating “superdelegates”; and we
expanded our national network of progressive powerhouses from
four state organizations to over 30 state-level hubs. What Fox
News is starting to recognize is what we’ve been saying all
along: When we organize, we win!

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Read below to learn how we’re already gearing up to ORGANIZE TO
WIN in 2021!

Our Revolution is organizing to elect progressives up and down
the ballot across the USA! Read more ...

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This week, former Bernie 2020 campaign co-chair Nina Turner
announced she’s running for Congress in Ohio’s 11th Congressional
District! Nina joined Our Revolution members during our final
National Organize to Win Call
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of the year to talk about how she’s going to bring “passion,
commitment, and a humanitarian spirit” to Congress and continue
to push the political revolution forward. “Working class people
deserve better than what they are getting - and I’m going to
fight for them.”

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Our Revolution Board Chair Larry Cohen rallied our members in
Ohio - and nationwide - to get involved and organize to win
against the political establishment. “Stop for five seconds and
imagine Nina Turner in the U.S. Congress,” he said. “Imagine the
pride that all of us will have if a leader of Our Revolution ends
up in the House. We can make that a reality.”

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Immediately after Sen. Turner declared she’s running, leading
progressive champions across the country - including Minnesota
Attorney General & Our Revolution Board member Keith Ellison,
California Rep. Ro Khanna, and Congresswoman-elect Cori Bush -
lined-up to support her bid. Our Revolution also rolled-out our
national endorsement, and Executive Director Joseph Geevarghese
told Politico
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that our 16,000-strong army of supporters in Ohio's 11th
Congressional District are “ready to do phone-banking, texting,
and door-to-door canvassing” necessary to be a decisive force in
the election.

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Our Revolution continues to score victories up and down the
ballot. This month, Our Revolution Georgia helped Deborah
Gonzalez win a run-off election to serve as the first Puerto
Rican woman District Attorney in the nation! On our National
Organize to Win Call
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, Deborah thanked our volunteers. “You were instrumental in
phone-banking for me and in getting out the vote - it made a
difference in my race.” Deborah, who will represent Athens, ran
on a progressive platform of abolishing the death penalty,
tackling systemic racism, and addressing her state’s excessive
probation sentencing. Deborah is part of a new generation of
progressive DAs endorsed by Our Revolution who are committed to
reforming our broken criminal justice system.

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Our Revolution is already gearing up to win key 2021 local
elections across the nation. This week, Our Revolution/New York
Progressive Action Network, joined with Black Lives Matter,
Indivisible and other groups to host a Manhattan Borough
President Candidate Forum
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with all six candidates in the race. Local organizer Maria
Ordonez said that “We need to elect a bold progressive to this
office and our forum put the candidates on the record about where
they stand” on critical issues like housing, healthcare, and
police misconduct. Listen to the forum on WBAI New York
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Our Revolution is mobilizing to win the two Georgia US Senate
races that will decide control of Congress!

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Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon joined our National Organize to
Win Call
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, where he explained what’s at stake in the Senate races in
Georgia. “What happens in Georgia makes all the difference in the
world. Executive action can be powerful, but so much more can be
done if we have the House, Senate, and President working
together, and Mitch McConnell isn’t able to block everything.” He
also said that once we win the Senate, we also need to fight to
change the Senate rules and end the filibuster, noting that the
Founders explicitly called for a simple majority to pass
legislation, not a supermajority, and “we have a responsibility
to restore that.”

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Our Revolution is carrying out our strategic plan to win Georgia
by mobilizing our grassroots volunteers to get-out-the-vote
through canvassing, phone and text banking over 50,000 Our
Revolution supporters in Georgia. Read more below about our
ground game!

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On the first day of early voting in Georgia, Councilman khalid
from South Fulton joined our National Organizing Call
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to update us on Our Revolution Georgia’s canvassing efforts.
Our organizers are on the ground across the state leading teams
of volunteers who are knocking on doors and mobilizing voters.
“The door-knocking we’re doing right now is so important because
75% of voters in the presidential race voted early,” said khalid.
In addition to the Senate races, he noted that we’re turning out
the vote for important down ballot contests, including Daniel
Blackman for Georgia Public Service Commissioner. Daniel is
campaigning on bringing a Green New Deal to Georgia.

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In addition to our ground game, hundreds of Our Revolution
volunteers from across the nation 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. Over the last month, we’ve called over 100,000
Georgians, and texted an additional 90,000 voters! Meet a few of
our volunteers below!

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We’re in the home stretch - Join us and volunteer to help make
Get-Out-the-Vote phone calls to Georgia!

SIGN UP HERE!
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DONATE NOW to help us ramp-up our ENDGAME phone bank and canvass
operations in Georgia!
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Our Revolution is fighting to win progressive policies at every
level of government. Read more below!

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On our Monday Organize to Win Call
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, California Congressman Ro Khanna laid out a list of 2021
legislative priorities for the nearly 100-member Congressional
Progressive Caucus, of which he is First Vice Chair. They include
passing a $15 minimum wage, making defense spending cuts,
expanding Medicare, reducing health insurance premiums, and
making a $2 trillion investment over 10 years in clean technology
as a downpayment for a Green New Deal. He decried the current
defeatist attitude of the Democratic Party. “We shouldn’t
compromise with ourselves. We need to pass bold progressive
legislation in the House, then have a full court press to win
over Senators.” On Nina Turner’s announcement and the prospect of
her joining the CPC, he added, “I need Nina Turner in Congress.
She will be a fighter.”

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Our Revolution Maryland is leading the fight to reform criminal
justice in the “Free State” by leading a campaign to repeal the
Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights. The campaign urges state
lawmakers to revoke special privileges - including the ability to
delay interrogations - afforded police accused of crimes
including excessive force and brutality. Marylanders can join the
campaign here ( [link removed] )!

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On Friday, Joseph Marchica, an organizer with Our Revolution
Mercer County, NJ testified before the NJ Senate Budget and
Appropriations Committee about the so-called "Economic Recovery
Act," which in fact is a giant, $11.5 Billion tax giveaway to
corporations.

"The Legislature needs to do the right thing: prioritize New
Jersey residents over corporate profits and subsidies by
rejecting this bill or holding it in committee. Don't siphon
public funds away from the public good. Scrap this bill and focus
instead on individual stimulus payments, programs for small
businesses, and other policies with a proven track-record.
Corporate subsidies do none of this."

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Our Revolution Oregon’s Emma Easley Darden testified before the
Oregon Legislature this week to urge action on implementing real
campaign finance reform. Our Revolution Oregon was part of a
consortium of organizations that passed a campaign finance ballot
measure requiring the legislature to create statewide limits on
donations, taglines to reveal donors and other measures. Prior to
the passage of our ballot initiative, there were no statewide
finance limits in Oregon, making it one of five states in which
progressives struggle to compete against the corporate-backed
political establishment.

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Our Revolution is holding Biden and the Democratic establishment
accountable to progressive priorities!

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Over the past month, Our Revolution members sent thousands of
letters to Joe Biden in support of Rep. Deb Haaland for Secretary
of the Interior - and this week she was named to the post! If
confirmed, Deb will be the first Native American to serve in the
cabinet and she will bring a strong commitment to protecting both
Indigenous rights and the rights of the earth. As vice-chair
House Natural Resources Committee, Deb advocated for a Green New
Deal and a ban on fracking.

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While Our Revolution celebrates Deb Haaland’s historic
nomination, we continue to push back against Biden’s centrist
picks. Nominees like Neera Tanden, Rep. Cedric Richmond and
former pharmaceutical lobbyist Steve Richetti are raising serious
concerns among progressives about how Biden intends to govern. As
Our Revolution’s Campaigns and Communications Director Paco
Fabian told the Wall Street Journal: “There’s a lot of known
quantities, and if Biden is going to have an Obama term three, if
that’s what it’s going to be, that’s going to be insufficient to
meet the moment we’re in.”

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Our Revolution is joining with Sen. Jeff Merkley to call on Joe
Biden to declare a climate emergency and marshall the full power
of the US Government to combat the crisis. As Sen. Merkley told
our members this week, “If Trump can call building a wall an
emergency, then certainly the desecration of our planet is an
emergency. If we don’t pivot fast under Biden, we will fail. And
we can’t fail.”

TELL BIDEN: DECLARE A CLIMATE EMERGENCY!
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With one month to go until Biden takes the oath of office, Our
Revolution is joining with Demand Progress and other groups to
call on Biden’s Inaugural Committee to ban all corporate
donations and keep big money out of politics. As CBS News reports

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, the committee just sent a solicitation email offering perks
for big donors, including an invitation for a virtual event with
Biden and Kamala Harris for individual donors who give $500,000
or organizations that give $1 million.

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Our Revolution is organizing to make the Democratic party a
progressive party - read about our work below!

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Our Wisconsin Revolution held a Statewide Organizing Call
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featuring Bill Hogseth, a member of the Wisconsin Farmers Union
and Chair of the Dunn County Democrats, who wrote an opinion
piece in Politico
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about why Democrats keep losing rural voters. “There is
significant economic pain in rural Wisconsin,” he said. “And I
don’t see the Democratic Party at the national level telling a
story about what is causing this economic pain. That leaves a
huge vacuum for other stories to prevail in the minds of voters.
This has been a failure for decades.” Our Wisconsin Revolution
Organizer Andre Walton also joined the call to discuss his recent
election to the Sheboygan County Democratic Party Board. “I’m
really excited to do this. I get to bring some of the values that
I support working with Our Wisconsin Revolution directly to
Sheboygan County,” he said.

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Our Revolution Florida leaders are taking on corporate lobbyists
to win real power in state and local Democratic parties. Our
Revolution Volusia members won big at the Volusia County
Democratic Party Reorganization Meeting - Dr. Richard Thripp will
be the new Chair, and Valerie Duhl and Evans Smith will represent
our movement on the state committee. Other Our Revolution leaders
elected to Dem Party posts in the Sunshine state include: Larry
Douglas Snider (State Committee Member, Duval County); Nadia B.
Ahmad (Party Secretary, Seminole County); Sanjay Patel and Stacey
Patel (State Committee Members, Brevard County); Ricky Ly (State
Committee Member, Orange County); and William Bryant (State
Committee Member, Miami-Dade County).

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Our Revolution is building a national network of progressive
state and local organizations fighting for change from the bottom
up - Read more below!

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Building on 2020’s successful organizing efforts, Our Revolution
New Jersey (ORNJ) created a new State Organizing Committee to
lead statewide issue campaigns and coordinate efforts in upcoming
state legislature elections. The committee includes
representatives from 13 local county-based chapters as well as
four at-large members: Patricia Campos Medina, Derel Stroud,
Barry Brendel, and Peter Jacob. “All counties need a voice” at
the state level, said Neeharika Thuravil, chair of Our Revolution
Hunterdon County. “As ORNJ reaches more counties, we secure a
more united front as a movement. Supporting each other moving
forward is how we achieve change!”

READ MORE HERE
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Thank you to all our volunteers and donors for making 2020 a
breakthrough year for Our Revolution! We look forward to working
together in the New Year to bring liberty and justice to all in
2021. Be well & enjoy the holidays!

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