Election
2024
Resources

Welcome! This page will share resources for working on the 2024 Election so that you can create a group on your own or work individually on protecting our democracy.

Post are organized in reverse chronology - from most recent to least. Questions? Contact Liz through the contact page.

Getting Started

December 2023

Group Structure:

Goal: Assemble local people to work together (and/or alongside) on the 2024 election.

When: 1 meeting/month Jan - June.

2 meeting/month (July - Election)

2 ish hours

What: Discussion on issues, sharing of work, of obstacles, ideas, building

collaborations and working in community, collaboratively and/or

independently. (aka – let’s get stuff done!)

What: A "menu" of 3-4 activities (ie: sending emails, writing postcards etc.)

Participants can bring their own project and/or choose from the

menu.

Where: Rotating homes or in rented spaces

Initial Email Template

December 2023

Initial Email Template - edit as desired

Hello everyone,

We are concerned about the state of democracy in the US and are building a group to work on the 2024 Election. Heather Cox Richardson recently called this moment in democracy a “five alarm fire”. It is clear that the very best work we can do for justice (racial, LGBTQ+, Reproductive etc ) is to work to elect officials who embody these values – nationally, state level and locally.

We propose to spend the next year (ish) putting regular time and resources towards this goal – preferably in community with others.

The details:

Who: People in the [locality] area who feel similarly.

What: A coalition of local folks working together - including both

discussion and action.

When: Meet 1x/month for 2 hours (dates noted below), shifting to

2x/month closer to the election.

Food: YES potluck snacks – low pressure no fuss.

Plus: a Slack channel to stay in communication between meetings.

The work:

We will have some ideas ready to go each month and will have activities ready to go - participants will be able to choose from a menu of options.
You may also have a particular area you wish to focus on (ie climate change). Bring your own ideas and work on them, find peers to work with you.

Guiding Principles

We all have the same end goal, our paths may be different – that is OK.
Our actions will not be perfect. We need to act, now, and if our attempts aren’t quite right, we will adjust.
Lock step thinking is highly discouraged.
We MUST prioritize our own well-being (this is a tenet of DEI work – for all of us – even us white people). This work will not succeed if we burn ourselves out.

What now?