"There are two kinds of people in this world: people who, when engaged in a fight, knock someone down and walk away when the enemy hits the pavement; and those who see the enemy's fall as an opportunity to finish him. Be that second one."
-Madison Paige, Co-Founder Bold Blue Media Alliance, Inc.
Here’s what I know. This cycle is a real opportunity for Team Blue.
It’s our opportunity to deliver a devastating electoral blow to the American right, from the top of national ticket to the bottom of the smallest local race.
Some of you know me. It’s been a while since I’ve been around regularly because...busy with that political start up. This summer, we launched our BLUENAMI 2016 project with the express intent to deliver devastating losses to the Republican Party from top of ticket nationally, to bottom of ticket locally. Our three initiatives are:
Narrative Coalition — a sort of listserv of narrative, messaging and preferred talking points GOTV LOCAL — a list of volunteers willing to help make calls for local and state candidates Blue Ballot Buddies — a pledge to take or influence one person to vote blueWith just a few weeks left until this election, I think the time is now to twist the knife.
NARRATIVE COALITION
The latest blast included this: Refusing to allow the GOP to divorce itself from Trump and his rhetoric. He represents everything they've stood for for decades. He's just being less subtle about it. All their pearl clutching and SHOCK! and OUTRAGE! make me want to barf. So we’ve sent out of of our (rare) email blasts to those who are signed up for the Narrative Coalition at our site.
Here’s what it said:
From here out, every time you mention Trump, you say: Trump and the Republican Party. Whether you’re saying it, typing it, tweeting it, facebooking it, meme-ing it, podcasting it, broadcasting it, or blogging it, it’s: Trump and the Republican Party. Or Trump and the Republicans. Or Trump and the GOP.
EVERY TIME. Capische?
x YouTube VideoBTW, we will not be ending the Narrative Coalition after this cycle. So if you want to be involved, please sign up for the Narrative Coalition at the Bluenami 2016 website. It’s high time we organized our messaging and made sure we used it to influence the media and ultimately our legislators.
This is that.
GOTV LOCAL
One of my passions (as you know) is local and state campaigns. Not only do they effect the everyday lives of everyday people so much more quickly and directly, but we have so much power to make progress there. Each year, tens of thousands of Democratic candidates throw their hats into the ring — some in very challenging places — because they believe they can make a difference.
But unlike many federal campaigns, they lack resources and staff and volunteers. This is a problem my husband and I set out to solve when we launched Bold Blue Media in 2013 — announcing it first here at Dkos.
Right now, some campaigns need help with GOTV.
RIGHT NOW, I am looking for 50-100 people to sign up to volunteer an hour or two to help make calls for Democrats running in local and state races across the country.
If you’d like to be notified of opportunities to help, please sign up for GOTV LOCAL. We are matching campaigns who don’t have many volunteers with people willing to help them. We are providing the platform and any training callers wish to have. There’s never any obligation to call. We simply notify you when an opportunity arises.
All you need is a phone, a computer and one hour. Early and absentee voting is happening NOW. Please help me help local and state candidatesLOCK THIS ELECTION DOWN.
NO TIME TO HELP CALL?
We’d like to raise enough for 50,000 minutes of talk time. The first 20,000 minutes (nearly 340 HOURS) is only $599. Incredible, right? The next 30,000 minutes (another 500 hours) is about $1,500. All told we can reach tens of thousands of voters across the country for small campaigns for as little as .04/minute.
(P.S. For those of you who have been supporting our efforts on a recurring basis, you have helped facilitate so much of this already. THANK YOU SO MUCH!)
And if you happen to be a state or local candidate or a staffer for one, and think you need some help, please call me at 202-660-1461 x705. Hopefully (with enough willing callers!) we can help you in the crunch.
I feel like this is a moment. This election really isn’t about Trump or even Hillary. It’s about what kind of nation we are going to be. Trump and the Republicans must not only be defeated but they must be demolished to sent the strongest possible message that we will never allow what’s happening in this cycle to happen again. That is sort of xenophobia and bigotry and ignorance and circus will never be acceptable for any person or party that wants to hold power.
I’m greedy. I want the headlines to say not only that Hillary is our President-elect and secured the top spot in a LANDSLIDE, but that Democrats swept the Senate, made unexpected gains in the House and dealt a serious blow to Republicans in statehouses and local municipalities across the nation. I want a BLUENAMI!
THIS IS OUR CHANCE.