I'M ASKING YOU TO BE A PART OF THIS...

David --

When Onward Together launched earlier this year, we were supporting five groups that encourage people to organize for progressive change and to run for office: Indivisible, Color of Change, Emerge America, Swing Left, and Run for Something.

Seven months and some incredible victories later, I’m even more proud and inspired to work alongside these organizations.

We’ve got big plans for 2018. 

We aren’t stopping with five organizations, either. Across the country, new groups like these are cropping up, powered by activists of all ages, backgrounds, and experiences -- and we’re working every day to find the most promising and support them.

There is so much to be done. Let’s do it together.

Thank you,

Hillary

IS IT BAD FOR WOMEN? REPUBLICANS TRIED TO PASS IT.

David,

Abortion bans. The tax scam bill. Obamacare repeals.

Name a bill that's terrible for women, middle class families, or the most vulnerable, and Republicans have tried to pass it.

Which is why we're determined to find strong candidates who can help flip the House AND Senate next year and stop President Trump and congressional Republicans' dangerous agenda.

But we need to support all of our pro-choice Democratic women running for re-election and defeat dozens of vulnerable Republicans to help make that happen.


Republicans' majority control of Congress puts them in a position to pass legislation that's bad for women and families, confirm unqualified judicial nominees, and even put an end to the investigation of Trump's ties to Russia.

But next year, that could change.

We need to re-elect all of our women in Congress and flip 24 seats in the House and two seats in the Senate for Democrats to take control. We've already endorsed 21 red-to-blue challengers to help get it done (with more to come), so taking back both chambers of Congress, with a wave of pro-choice Democratic women, is well within reach.

All of them need our strongest support to win next year and turn Congress blue.


Thanks,

Christina Reynolds
Vice President of Communications, EMILY's List

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2017 ACCOMPLISHMENTS.- VIRGINIA HOUSE DEMOCRATS.

David -

As 2017 winds down, I want to take a minute and look back at what we've accomplished together in 2017.

- We recruited as many candidates as possible across the Commonwealth, running Democrats in 88 of Virginia's 100 districts -- a record in modern times for Democrats.

- We held three candidate training weekends to train candidates to run professional campaigns that emphasize voter contact, door knocking, and volunteer engagement.

- We helped campaigns in primaries hire qualified staff so that our Democratic nominees were ready to go on Day 1.

- We invested early in 50+ paid organizers in 16 districts all across the Commonwealth.

- We guaranteed that nearly 80 candidates for the House of Delegates were included in the state-wide Coordinated Get Out the Vote program.

- We conducted research and helped lead a paid voter contact program in 20+ districts all across the Commonwealth.

- We helped put 12+ candidates on television in critical markets.

- We worked to ensure aggressive digital buys behind 20+ candidates.

- We stretched our budget and spent wisely to reach as many voters as possible.

- We raised nearly $500,000 from grassroots supporters alone (!!!)

- We worked with partner and volunteer organizations to spread the map even further -- including the DLCC, the Virginia AFL-CIO, Daily Kos, Emily's List, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, Flippable, Forward Majority, LCV, Indivisible, NARAL, Virginia's List, Sierra Club, Emerge, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Sister District, Run for Something, Planned Parenthood, New Virginia Majority, ARS, AFSCME, IBEW, Carpenters, CWA, Giffords PAC, Teamsters, UAW... and many more...

We've picked up a record 15 seats in the House of Delegates -- and we're still fighting hard for the voters of HD-28 and HD-94 to have their voices properly represented in Richmond. We won't stop working until we're confident that every vote has been counted fairly and that (we could have never imaged this would be a thing) voters who live in a district are given the ability to actually vote in the district they live in.

The hard work and dedication of our committed volunteers and supporters made this year possible. I can't tell you how many candidates who are now Delegates-Elect I said the following phrase to, "We want your surfboard waxed and ready for the wave." Thanks to you, we were ready and rode that wave to the biggest Democratic pickup in the modern history of Virginia.

So once again -- THANK YOU -- for your support throughout 2017. House Democrats will continue fighting for voters in HD-28 and HD-94...

Sincerely,

Trent Armitage
Executive Director
Virginia House Democrats.