Jack, Wisconsin just had a statewide election this weekâand the progressive candidate won by a 58-42 landslide. It bodes well for future Democrats running in this purple state and gives us hope that we can defeat Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) in 2022.
I know 2022 seems like it is ages away, but we need to start preparing NOW to defeat Ron Johnson and other Republicans up and down the ballot, all across the country. After our largest, most innovative, and most effective get out the vote campaign ever in 2020, we are already working on cancelling Republican voter suppression by turning out as many Democratic voters as possible in 2021 and 2022. You can help us in this fight by making a monthly donation of $5 to Daily Kos today.
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Democrats control the U.S. Senate by a 50-50 split, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking tie votes. With such narrow control of power in the Senate, there will certainly be a lot of focus on Democrats gaining seats in 2022 -- in particular Ron Johnson's seat in Wisconsin, a state Joe Biden narrowly won in 2020.
However, we can't focus solely on the Senate. For one, Democratic control of the House of Representatives hangs by a thread, with Republicans set to draw new maps to their advantages in many states. Further, at the state and local level, Democrats need to gain ground, all across the country, up and down the ballot. According to the Brennan Justice Center, Republicans in 47 states have introduced legislation to erode our right to vote.
Additionally, in many Republican-controlled states, we are seeing Republicans target medical care for trans youth, as well as the right of all people to access reproductive health care. We have to fight everywhere, in all 50 states and in every county and every town.
Over the years, Daily Kos has utilized innovative tools like Vote Forward and Mobilize to connect our grassroots audience to a wide variety of statistically proven get out the vote opportunities: writing letters and postcards, making phone calls and sending texts, knocking on doors, contacting friends and family, becoming poll workers and assisting with Election Protection efforts. We do this at a scale few other organizations can match. In 2018 we recruited nearly 38,000 volunteers to help get out the vote, and in 2020 that jumped to over 100,000!
We are not letting up in 2022--in fact, we aren't letting up in 2021! We are currently recruiting get out the vote volunteers for a special election in a suburban Texas congressional district, local elections in Georgia and the upcoming Virginia gubernatorial election. We have a unique ability to turn out Democratic votes all around the country, and so that is exactly what we intend to do.
The statewide Democratic win in Wisconsin proves that voters are still eager for progressive change. We need to make sure that Daily Kos has the capacity to connect tens of thousands of our grassroots activists with the tools needed to turn out more voters, cancel Republican voter suppression and elect more Democrats up and down the ballot in 2021 and 2022. And all of that starts NOW. Please, make a monthly donation of $5 to Daily Kos to help us turn out every Democratic voter possible around the country both this year and next.
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Keep fighting,
Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos
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