Labor Day marks the traditional pivot to the home stretch in electoral politics. After the dedicated year-round work of listening, engaging and persuading, and turning non-voters into voters, it’s time to mobilize for victory in November! Airlift Partners are ready to do just that–expanding their chapters and membership, training organizers and volunteers, and launching their biggest outreach efforts ever–on doors, on phones, online, wherever folks gather. Let’s support our partners and win–here in our home base of California and across the country!
The DROP - August 2022
The DROP - July 2022
The Supreme Court’s reckless overturn of constitutionally protected abortion rights has triggered chaos, grief, and rage across America. As Movement Voter Project’s Billy Wimsatt notes, “We’re in for a long fight and there are no shortcuts! Grassroots organizing in battlegrounds is the most robust way to win elections and transform our country — and the Supreme Court! — over the long run. In every period of history, from the depths of despair come the most transformational changes.”
The DROP - June 2022
“Death by a thousand cuts” has afflicted abortion rights for years. Now the right-wing Supreme Court seems poised to deliver the final blow, erasing 50 years of a constitutional right supported by a large majority of Americans. No doubt the SCOTUS leaked draft will be tidied up before its official release. But it’s impossible to mask the stench of this radical decision, which threatens not only the right to control one’s own body, but so many other fundamental rights.
The DROP - May 2022
The DROP - April 2022
The DROP - March 2022
The DROP - February 2022
For over 20 years Republicans, with the aid of allies such as the Heritage Foundation and the Koch brothers, have been assiduously building political grassroots power from school board races on up. The Democratic Party and most of its donors, however, have focused primarily on the top of the ticket, often investing millions in un-winnable races.
The DROP - January 2022
Think back to a year ago. No, not the insurrection, but the day before. On January 5th, both Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff won their Georgia run-offs, turning the U.S. Senate the palest – but still lovely! – shade of blue. Honestly, to most of us, the likelihood of not just one but both of these men prevailing seemed preposterous. But we opened our checkbooks, rolled up our sleeves, and got to work anyway. Their victories felt miraculous.