Join Us for the Last of Our Speaker Series
Our monthly meetings have brought together Airlift’s Partner Groups, special guests, and Airlift leaders to discuss the Airlift mission and explore how we can take action to ensure that democracy works for all of us. At our events you meet very special guests who have devoted their lives and careers to progressive political action - like Billy Wimsatt of the Movement Voter Project. And you meet the leaders of Airlift’s Partner Groups who work on the front lines year-round in battleground states to engage their communities about issues that are critical to their lives. Our meetings are lively, informative and inspiring.
We hope you will join us for the last of our events:
Looking to the Future
Robert Hubbell, author of Today’s Edition on Substack
It’s a new year, and time to prepare for the challenges ahead. We can think of no better person to kick off Airlift’s final Frontlines event than Robert Hubbell, stalwart defender of all we’ve been fighting for and the creator of Today’s Edition Newsletter. Hubbell knows that by any measure, investing in grassroots organizations continues to be one of the wisest and most cost-effective things we can do.
February 11, Tuesday, 5 pm PT/ 8 pm ET
+ Featured will be the national Movement Voter Project
& Airlift Partner Group: Down Home North Carolina
Celebrating Our Past Events
July 23, 2024
Michigan: Protecting the People’s Vote
With special guests Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s Secretary of State and winner of the JFK Profile in Courage Award; and Art Reyes, Founder and Director of We the People Action Fund.
Republican attempts to suppress the vote through restricting access, intimidation, and misinformation are painfully evident in many battleground states. Thankfully, Secretary of State Benson and We the People were instrumental in fighting back against Michigan’s GOP’s attempts to overturn the election results in 2020, and are ready again in 2024. We the People has been absolutely crucial in flipping the state legislature and turning out the vote in hard-to-reach communities throughout Michigan.
Watch this brief video clip from the event:
Jocelyn Benson describes how We the People saved Democracy in the 2020 election
June 11, 2024
Pennsylvania: Putting Democracy into Action
With special guests Heather Cox Richardson, Award-winning historian and author of “Letters from an American” and Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America; and Carrie Santoro and Edwin Stubbs of Pennsylvania Stands Up
The struggle for economic justice, expanding rights, and defending democracy has long been foundational to the American experiment, and this year is no exception. HCR inspires us to shape our future: "As I look around the country at all the people knocking on doors, writing letters, marching, raising money or the other things people on this call are doing, I think about the fact that we get to be part of this movement that speaks so highly to that long tradition in the United States of trying to expand rights and defend democracy, and I feel we can do it."
Watch this brief video clip from the event:
May 23, 2024
North Carolina: Turning Purple to Blue
With special guests Anderson Clayton, the new dynamic Chair of North Carolina’s Democratic Party; and Dreama Caldwell and Theo Luebke, leaders of Down Home North Carolina and Carolina Federation
There is no “purple” state in the nation more primed to transform into a solid progressive bulwark than North Carolina. “The road to the White House goes right through North Carolina,” Clayton notes, and she and Airlift’s Partner Groups are working tirelessly to win not just the Presidency, but blue victories for statewide offices and the legislature as well, this year and beyond.
Watch this brief video clip from the event:
Anderson Clayton and the Winning Strategy in North Carolina 2024
Would You Like to Host an Airlift Fundraiser?
In-person or virtual house parties have proven to be our most effective way of helping people understand why it’s so important to encourage political giving towards community-based grassroots groups. In this new pandemic environment, we shifted our format so we can still effectively expand and educate our network of supporters through virtual house parties.
Host an In-person or Virtual House Party
If you are interested in hosting a house party, please contact us.