Hi Arena Community,
I was recently at a meeting of resistance organizations when someone posed a question that changed the mood of the room:
What will we do if Trump wins?
We each took turns talking about what we would do in that scenario. The answers ranged from insufficient to apocalyptic.
When it was Arena’s turn to speak, we asked a different question:
What can we do now to defeat Trump and help beyond this cycle even if he wins?
We reframed the question because we as Democrats have done a terrible job of building long-term infrastructure. We stumble erratically from cycle-to-cycle, building up and tearing down new institutions while Republicans win more often than they should by investing in organizations and practices with longevity.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the states, where Republicans control 60 percent of legislative chambers. This imbalance has resulted in far too many states with anemic teacher pay, diminished voting rights, rigged districts, and a host of other major public policy failures.
That's why, as Politico recently reported, we’re teaming up with Future Now Fund to invest $7 million in flipping four battleground state legislatures: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, and North Carolina.
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