All of us at NDTC want to wish you a restful, joyful holiday season.
We are taking a break for the next two weeks so we can come back recharged and energized for the big things in 2024. We have some exciting programs in the works that we cannot wait to share with you in the new year!
You can go ahead and register for this slate of January virtual live trainings using the links below! For the full list, visit our upcoming events page.
Running in a Red District
Tuesday, January 9 at 1pm ET
There are Democrats everywhere – even in the most ruby red districts. When Democrats step up to run in these conservative areas, they play a large role in mobilizing voters for change.
This training will lay out the special considerations campaigns should keep in mind if running in a red district. Learn basic messaging as well as field tactics you can use to better identify Democrats or undecided voters in your community.
What is a Democratic Precinct Chair?
Wednesday, January 17 at 1pm ET
Your local Democratic infrastructure, from volunteers to precinct captains, is the key to victory come Election Day.
This training goes over many of these essential components, including understanding the positions within local Democratic Parties as well as ways to engage local membership.
NDTC Expert Q&A: The 2024 Rundown
Thursday, January 18 at 1pm ET
In our first NDTC Expert Q&A of 2024, we’re bringing together presidential campaign experts and veterans to discuss their own experiences reaching and rallying voters. NDTC Expert Q&As are special virtual events where you have the opportunity to hear candidly from multiple experts and ask your own questions.
Our experts will set the tone for 2024, discussing key messaging points, tactics for aligning with the Biden reelection efforts, and ways to overcome Republican misinformation. Don’t miss out on this fantastic panel!
And it doesn’t stop there! You can always visit the Online Academy’s Course Catalog, set up a free account, and keep track of your progress while taking advantage of our extensive course offerings.
ACLU Supporter –
It’s too easy to lose track of progress, but we need you to know we accomplished so much together in 2023.
Anti-democratic politicians have come after our most cherished, fundamental rights. They came after abortion. They tried to censor teachers and what students learn. They discriminated against the LGBTQ community, particularly trans youth. They tried to enact unfair voter maps to shut out Black voters from the ballot box.
But each and every time, with the support of this community, we fought back and secured important wins across the nation.
With the new year upon us, our work will not slow down. And because you’re an engaged supporter of the ACLU, we’re eager to know what issues matter to you most as we close out 2023 and begin the new year. We’ve put together a super quick (it’s only 2 questions) priorities survey for this very reason and are hoping to get 1,000 responses – including yours – before 12/11 at 11:59 p.m.
Thank you,
The ACLU Team
ACLU of Washington
P.O. Box 2728
Seattle, WA 98111-2728
Summer is in the air, and we are 198 days from the presidential elections. We’re checking in.
So far this year, Women’s Marchers have:
✅January: Tens of thousands of us marched in 35 states and Washington, DC, on the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade — to secure abortion access, counter far-right extremism, and start galvanizing voters toward the November elections.
✅February: 5,000 of us became Digital Defenders and learned critical skills in having difficult conversations about Trump, MAGA, and Fascism.
✅March: On Super Tuesday, thousands of us participated in mass, online disturbed actions, strategizing to defeat defendant Trump and stop his threat to democracy in its tracks.
✅March: Hundreds of us put our bodies on the line in DC, and 13 of us got arrested in defense of Mifepristone.
In the weeks and months to come, Women’s Marchers will:
⏩April 22-23: Hundreds will engage in decentralized actions to spread the word all across the country: women are watching the compromised Supreme Court and the politicians that back them & feminists will always trump fascists.
⏩April 24: Dozens of Jezebels will gather in Washington, DC, to take action at SCOTUS while they decide the fate of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
⏩April 25: Hundreds of us will assemble Washington, DC to sound the alarm that #JusticeCantWait as SCOTUS decides if Defendant Trump will be held accountable for his failed insurrection.
⏩May: Thousands will join the Digital Defense Night School: a virtual gathering to learn the skills necessary to counter election disinformation, misinformation, and deep fakes and to correct false narratives as we approach the elections.
⏩June: Thousands of us will be back out in the streets as the compromised Supreme Court announces the fate of Mifepristone, EMTALA, and Defendant Trump – all around the anniversary of their gutting of Roe v Wade.
⏩July: Hundreds of us will get to know our neighbors better as we launch “Knock Your Block” Parties across the country.
And these are only some of the actions in the pipeline. There are many more fights to come – in the streets, at the voting booth, and at state capitols all over the country. We need to stay sharp so that feminism trumps fascism in 2024.
Women’s March is conducting a nationwide survey to see how our movement is holding up and what levels of action our base is willing to take now that the 2024 election season is in full swing. The survey only takes a minute to fill out. And it’s important for us to get 100% participation — so please click the link below to finish your survey.
Thank you,
Women’s March
| Women’s March is a 501c(4) organization. Your generous support helps us prepare for fights we see coming and those we don’t. Donations are not tax-deductible. If you prefer to make a tax-deductible gift, we encourage you to support the Women’s March Network. Gifts to the Network support our organizing, communications, advocacy, and public education efforts. |
2024 is right around the corner, and we want you to see what’s on the horizon at NDTC 
While our 2023 events have all wrapped up, our holiday treat to you is an exclusive preview of our January lineup.
You can go ahead and register for this slate of January virtual live trainings using the links below! For the full list, visit our upcoming events page.
Running in a Red District
Tuesday, January 9 at 1pm ET
It sounds obvious, but there’s nowhere more important for Democratic leaders to step up than red, conservative districts! Just by running, Democrats can build community and infrastructure for future elections.
This training walks you through the essential considerations of running for office in a red area. With a special emphasis on precinct prioritization, you’ll walk away with more confidence in reaching out to potential Democratic voters.
What is a Democratic Precinct Chair?
Wednesday, January 17 at 1pm ET
A big priority for 2024 needs to be mobilizing voters. Using the momentum of a Presidential election year, Democrats have the chance to energize voters for the down ballot races that really affect their communities.
A precinct chair or captain plays a critical role in this process in the field. Learn about engaging precinct chairs and other components of organizing year-round in this fundamental training.
NDTC Expert Q&A: The 2024 Rundown
Thursday, January 18 at 1pm ET
In our first NDTC Expert Q&A of 2024, we’re bringing together presidential campaign experts and veterans to discuss their own experiences reaching and rallying voters. NDTC Expert Q&As are special virtual events where you have the opportunity to hear candidly from multiple experts and ask your own questions.
Our experts will set the tone for 2024, discussing key messaging points, tactics for aligning with the Biden reelection efforts, and ways to overcome Republican misinformation. Don’t miss out on this fantastic panel!
And it doesn’t stop there! You can always visit the Online Academy’s Course Catalog, set up a free account, and keep track of your progress while taking advantage of our extensive course offerings.
ACLU Supporter –
Decline to sign I-2113 and I-2081.
People are gathering signatures on petitions to qualify six initiatives for the November 2024 ballot. One of these initiatives takes aim at laws protecting Washingtonians from dangerous, high-speed police pursuits – the second leading cause of deaths from police activities. Another seeks to erode the trusted relationship between students, their teachers, and their health care providers, putting students, and their personal information, at risk.
The initiative numbers are I-2113 and I-2081. You can take action now to prevent these initiatives from qualifying:
- Don’t sign these initiative petitions.
- Tell your friends and family not to sign them.
- Report any signature gatherers you see for these initiatives to this hotline run by our partners:
(425) 553-2157
The Washington State Legislature has taken important steps in recent years to prevent deaths and injuries resulting from unnecessary high-speed police pursuits, and to ensure that all students feel safe in Washington’s public schools. Let’s not allow reactionary forces to roll back this progress for civil liberties and civil rights.
Thank you,
ACLU of Washington
ACLU of Washington
P.O. Box 2728
Seattle, WA 98111-2728
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
Hello Democrats and happy Friday!
I hope all of you were able to relax and recharge with the people who matter to you most during this past Thanksgiving week. I was very grateful to have some time to reflect on what has been an incredible year for me personally, and for our Party. Thank you to each and every one of you for believing in our work as Democrats, and the continued importance of supporting terrific candidates and helping ensure they have what it takes to win, lead, and build a better future for the people of Washington State.
As 2023 comes to a close, it is of critical importance that we all take time to remember what we are fighting for and why we choose to be Democrats every single day. We are the Party of democracy, the Party of choice, the Party of working people, the Party of equitable access to healthcare and education, the Party of environmental preservation, and so much more.
I hope you will take some time this month to charge up your Democratic batteries – both by reaffirming your belief in our work, and getting some much needed rest. We all need to be ready to hit the ground running come January and we will be able to accomplish so much more together if we use the time we have now to take care of ourselves and make sure we’re bright eyed and raring to go next year!
Thank you as always for all you do – we have a truly remarkable Democratic team statewide and I’m so glad you’re on board!
WA Dems Holiday Party – Please RSVP!
Now that December is here, we wanted to follow-up about the WA Dems Holiday Party on 12/12. We are pleased to announce that Attorney General Bob Ferguson will be joining us as a featured speaker!
WA Democrats Holiday Party Tuesday, December 12th 4:30pm Sponsor Reception | 5:30pm Main Event 1932 1st Ave, Seattle, WA
Tickets $30 - General Admission | $55 - VIP (Main Event + Sponsor Reception)
Individual Sponsors $100 - Grassroots Sponsor (1 VIP Ticket + Special Recognition) $250 - Grassroots Champion (2 VIP Tickets + Special Recognition)
Organizational Sponsors $500 | $1,000 | $2,500 | $5,000 | $10,000
Please note that an earlier invitation incorrectly listed 12/7 as the date of this event –
12/12 is the correct and official date of this event.
We anticipate a terrific event with Democrats from across Washington State and inspiring addresses from some of our top Democratic leaders.
Please address all questions and sponsorship inquiries to joebarden@wa-democrats.org
Thanks so much – we hope you will be able to join us!
LOOKING AHEAD TO 2024
Many folks have raised concerns about a recent poll from our friends at the Northwest Progressive Institute that shows Republican Dave Reichert slightly ahead of AG Bob Ferguson in a gubernatorial matchup. First of all I encourage everyone to take a look at the content of the poll and NPI’s analysis as there’s some great information there that is very helpful for understanding the current landscape and the environment we are heading into next year.
Secondly, I want to encourage people to take this information with a boulder-sized grain of salt – but also to recognize that the race for WA Governor could be very competitive and we cannot take anything for granted heading into 2024. The single most important thing we can do to ensure we hold the Governor’s office is to show up and execute the critical GOTV work needed to get our candidate over the finish line.
This strategy has worked for the last 40 years, and there’s no reason it won’t work in 2024, but it counts on each and every one of us doing our part. Whether that’s door-knocking, donating, making phone calls, helping with voter registration and protection, or any number of other democracy-fueling activities – we all need to show up. That’s how we’ve won before, and it’s how we’ll win in 2024.
DEMOCRATS IN THE NEWS
Democrats look to take momentum from Virginia win into 2024 statehouse fights
After Democratic wins in Virginia, both parties chart paths forward through legislative elections across the country in 2024.
Murray negotiated and secured passage of bipartisan SUPPORT Act in 2018 as top Democrat on Senate HELP Committee; Bipartisan Promoting Maternal and Child Health Through Substance Use Prevention Act would reauthorize portion of legislation dealing with post- and prenatal health
DOT Launches New, Cantwell-Created Office to Prevent Costly Supply Chain Snafus
After pandemic-era freight congestion clogged NW ports, Cantwell wrote provision creating Multimodal Freight Office & secured its inclusion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
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Keep in touch, stay engaged, and as always, thank you for all you do!
With gratitude,
Chair Shasti Conrad Washington State Democratic Party
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ACLU Supporter, over the last year, we’ve witnessed unprecedented attacks on our personal liberties. But at every turn, our lawyers, advocates, and organizers responded fast and fervently because when it comes to people’s freedoms, our rights can’t wait. They are just too important.
You know this fact well. It’s why you showed up with steadfast support across our work this year. And that’s why before the holiday season sets in, we wanted to give our thanks to you and let you know just what a tangible difference you made.
Our lawyers secured 80 legal wins thus far in 2023 – in courts across the country and all the way up to the Supreme Court.
This work was bolstered by your activism: You and your fellow ACLU community members took nearly 663,000+ digital actions this year – signing petitions, contacting Congress, and demanding change from national leaders nationwide.
Plus, over 700,000 volunteers mobilized as part of ACLU’s grassroots People Power network to advocate and organize for change on the ground in communities across all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
In response to a wave of unprecedented book bans and restrictions on curriculums across the country, the ACLU has moved swiftly to protect students’ and educators’ right to learn and teach nationwide – including challenging classroom censorship laws in Florida, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma.
When Roe was overturned and a wave of extreme abortion bans swept the nation, we didn’t wait to take action. From Florida to Idaho, the ACLU and our affiliates have swiftly taken legal action in 16 states plus Guam to block abortion bans.
In the face of discriminatory voter suppression tactics and as a major national election in 2024 looms before us, our attorneys are working nonstop to protect and expand the rights of voters across the country, with 8 active voter suppression suits across 7 states, and 11 legal challenges against discriminatory and gerrymandered maps.
The ACLU team, our affiliates, and millions of ACLU supporters (including you!) also worked to protect our rights to be authentically ourselves, to seek asylum, and to simply be treated with humanity, including 10 challenges against laws that target lifesaving, gender-affirming healthcare for trans people, a major litigation against the newest asylum ban that aims to protect the legal rights of hundreds of thousands of people, including more than 500,000 asylum seekers subject to the ban already this year, and so much more.
ACLU Supporter, as we’ve demonstrated this year and throughout the last 100 years, the ACLU is the best-equipped organization to take on urgent fights to protect our liberties.
For all our rights that could not wait this year – and for all the rights that cannot wait up ahead – we thank you for never hesitating to show up to support our critical mission.
With endless thanks,
The ACLU Team
Get this giving season started early today with a matched gift that will have a major impact on ACLU’s work to defend all rights:
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This is sinister.
Washington’s wealthiest MAGA donors have teamed up with the state Republican Party and Tim Eyman to launch an insidious slate of regressive initiatives.
Their initiatives would cut taxes for the ultra wealthy and let our biggest polluters off the hook. They would cut nearly $900 million from public schools and child care, while increasing Big Oil profits and rolling back our investments in clean energy. They would also repeal Washington’s capital gains tax, defund long term care for seniors, and more.
There’s 3 simple things you can do to help stop these initiatives now:
- Don’t sign any initiative in the next three months. The bad ones are the only initiatives out there right now
- Make sure your friends and family members don’t sign them
- Report any signature gatherers you see for these initiatives to this hotline run by our partners: (425) 553-2157
Don’t get fooled. The petitioners are paid by the signature, and will often lie shamelessly about what the initiatives do to get you to sign.
These “Backwards Washington” initiatives are an extreme Republican agenda aimed directly at our kids and their schools, working families trying to afford childcare, seniors who benefit from long-term care, and clean energy solutions that tackle the growing climate crisis.
Here’s the initiatives and what they do:
- I-2109: Repeals Washington’s capital gains tax on top 0.2%, defunding early learning and education
- I-2117: Ends Washington’s program to fund clean energy and fight climate change by making polluters pay and repeals the Climate Commitment Act
- I-2124: Repeals long-term care coverage for working Washingtonians
- I-2113: Repeals best practice safety standards for dangerous high speed chases
- I-2081: A confusing mishmash of existing law designed to entice parents into signing the other initiatives while doing nothing for kids and schools
- I-2111: Ensures that Washington’s wealthiest 1% won’t contribute to our communities by banning progressive income taxes at the city, county, and state levels
Right-wing multi-millionaire Brian Heywood is bankrolling these initiatives in a cynical effort to dodge the taxes he owes to our communities. Heywood is joined in this effort by his co-sponsors: Washington’s MAGA Republican Party Chair Jim Walsh, and serial initiative con artist Tim Eyman. These are initiatives to the Legislature, and signatures are due at the end of the year.1
We’re joining our partners across the progressive community to fight back against these harmful initiatives. The first step is to decline to sign any of them and encourage your friends to do the same! And please call the hotline if you see signature gatherers – (425) 553-2157.
They are counting on holiday shoppers to sign their petitions. Let’s make sure they don’t succeed!
Thanks for all that you do,
Aaron and the entire team at Fuse
P.S. We need to ramp up our campaign right away to stop this initiative from ever reaching the ballot. Will you chip in $5 to help us stop these initiatives?
- Initiatives to the Legislature go before lawmakers before they appear on the ballot. The Legislature has three options. They can 1) approve them as is, 2) do nothing and let them go to the ballot, or 3) pass an alternative that would appear on the ballot alongside it.
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Hello fellow Democrats,
The application for Institute for a Democratic Future’s (IDF) Class of 2024 is open on our website. We’re on a mission to uplift the next generation of progressive leaders from across Washington State.
If you know someone who should be part of our dynamic community, please share the application form available here. The early application period is open until Nov. 20, 2023 at a reduced fee of $35, and the late application period continues through Nov. 27, 2023 at a fee of $75. Financial assistance is available, and the age range is 21-39 years old.
Much of our recruiting is done with the help of our extensive network of alumni, allies, and partners. We ask for your support in ensuring that we continue to be a program where opportunities are available for those who might not otherwise be as connected to our state’s political ecosystem.
Questions can be sent to info@democraticfuture.org.
Thank you for your support and collaboration!
Sincerely, Nicole Gomez, Executive Director Institute for a Democratic FutureEmail: execdirector@democraticfuture.org Cell: 206.310.7672
Support the Class of 2024 by donating here. Donations help us offer scholarships and keep the cost of the program affordable. Applications for 2024 are live at this link.
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