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Georgia Runoff Races 2020

Georgia Voices for a Blue Senate: A Virtual Concert Tonight at 8pm Eastern

by WaterGirl|  December 13, 20207:45 pm| 197 Comments

This post is in: Black Votes Matter, Election 2020, Georgia Runoff Races 2020, Music, Open Threads, Political Action, Politics

This is a benefit for Fair Fight, Warnock and Ossoff Campaigns – as I told raven when he brought this to my attention, Good Music + Georgia Runoffs is right up our alley.

Posting this now for anyone who might be interested, so you can plan ahead.  Then I will pin it to the top of the blog at 7:30 for the duration of the concert.

The concert is free.  They will ask for donations between performers.

I have never heard of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations, but just reading that name brought tears to my eyes.

Open thread.

Georgia Voices for a Blue Senate: A Virtual Concert Tonight at 8pm EasternPost + Comments (197)

Georgia: Organizing, Organizing, Organizing

by WaterGirl|  December 4, 20203:34 pm| 69 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Georgia Runoff Races 2020, Open Threads, Political Action, This Fight Is For Everything

I’ve been so busy with the calendar that I haven’t had time to get up a Georgia post in about two weeks.  Sorry about that!  Not enough time in the day.

I think a lot of us have concluded that money spent on organizing is better spent than money spent on advertising or TV.  Well, here’s a chance to contribute to organizing on the ground in Georgia.

I asked DougJ if he could make us a BJ thermometer for this group, and of course he came through.

America Votes – Georgia

Goal Thermometer

If you donate to America Votes – Georgia, they are making sure they get distributed directly as needed to groups that are having the biggest impact on the ground.

AMERICA VOTES – Georgia

Organizations include:

  • Asian American Advocacy Fund
  • Black Male Voter Project
  • Black Voters Matter
  • BlackPAC
  • Care in Action
  • Collective PAC
  • Color of Change
  • Georgia Alliance for Progress
  • Georgia Conservation Voters
  • Georgia Equality
  • Mijente
  • New Georgia Project Action Fund
  • Poder Latinx
  • UNITE HERE

I also want to share a couple of great articles:

Stacey Abrams On Finishing the Job In Georgia “It can be undone just as quickly and as effectively as we did it.”

In the math-addled hours after polls closed on Election Day, as the New York Times needle tipped delicately toward blue in Georgia, the nation’s attention followed, homing in on one of its most transformative political figures: Stacey Abrams.

She is extraordinary, partly because she has one of the most detailed-oriented, forward-looking, compulsively organized brains in politics. Abrams — who served as minority leader in Georgia’s state legislature for seven years before running for governor in 2018, losing narrowly to Georgia’s then–Secretary of State Brian Kemp, in one of the most flagrantly voter-suppressed elections in recent memory — has been working to turn her state from red to blue for more than a decade. Now that her promise has (this time at least) been made manifest, many in the Democratic Party are looking toward Abrams as a kind of silver bullet: a figure who can be installed — in the Cabinet or as head of the DNC — to perform her magic across the nation.

In the flood of post-election analysis of muddied results and still-emerging data, answers can seem simple and obvious. But real life, real states, and real political organizing don’t always lend themselves to easy explanations or diagnoses. And what’s been missing from some of the adulation of Abrams is a view of how much work — by so many people, from so many angles, over so many years — has always undergirded her efforts in Georgia; I wanted to hear a fuller story, from the woman whose capacious vision sets her apart from so many currently telling the story of politics and power in America.

In Georgia, get-out-the-vote operations that helped Biden win haven’t stopped

For Deborah Scott, executive director of Georgia Stand-Up, it’s as if Election Day never ended.

The get-out-the-vote efforts of civic engagement groups like hers, which helped Joe Biden become the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state in nearly three decades, have been ongoing since Nov. 3. The group is still knocking on doors, calling voters and signing up new registrants, with a big push involving 100 volunteers planned for this weekend. Another group that works to mobilize voters of color set up tables at a recent high school graduation to register newly eligible young voters. A third group is reaching voters at transit stations.

The efforts are a continuation of the groups’ relentless push to register, engage and turn out voters ahead of a pair of high-stakes Senate runoffs on Jan. 5, which will determine which party controls the Senate and potentially whether a President Biden will be able to enact an ambitious agenda or be blocked by a restive upper chamber.

Scott is executive director of Georgia Stand-Up, which is focusing on registering more voters ahead of the state’s Senate runoffs in January. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
“At this point, it’s a turnout game,” said Scott, whose group focuses on Atlanta. As excited and proud Black voters are about their role in the outcome of the general election, Scott said the challenge is to remind them “we’re not done yet. We have to get them to go back. We have to show them why this race is so important because a lot of people will not be as engaged.”

What’s everybody doing to help with Georgia?

Update: Open thread, also.

Georgia: Organizing, Organizing, OrganizingPost + Comments (69)

Georgia: Volunteer, Donate and Discuss

by WaterGirl|  November 18, 20204:23 pm| 53 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Georgia Runoff Races 2020, Open Threads, This Fight Is For Everything

This fight for the two senate seats in Georgia is a fight for everything.  Imagine a world without Mitch McConnel running the show in the senate.  Imagine that.  And let’s make it happen.

Lots of good information below – if you’re interested in learning more about Georgia and the organizing that helped turn Georgia blue.

I learned that Stacey Abrams is sharing some of the money that comes in to Fair Fight with some of the smaller organizations that have been on the ground for years – the ones that helped turn Georgia blue.  So fo folks who specifically want to give to organizers, that’s one more reason to give to Fair Fight rather than giving directly to the campaigns themselves.  Or want to do both!

Fair Fight provided a link to their events.  There are two new events: a training for both phone and text banking and one for phone banks for the coming weekend.

? Make a Difference in the Georgia Runoff Elections

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 9

Stacey Abrams and Fair Fight are distributing some of their donations to organizations on the ground that need help.  So donating to Fair Fight is a great choice if you really want to make a difference.

Donate to Fair Fight.

Donate to GASenate.com  (donations split evenly between Ossoff, Warnock, and Fair Fight)

Fair Fight Georgia  Volunteer request form.

Phone bank into Georgia with Fair Fight.

Learn more about Fair Fight.

Stacey Abrams thanked these organizations for the win on Nov 3.

  • New Georgia Project
  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta (AAAJ – Atlanta)
  • Black Voters Matter
  • Georgia Democrats
  • GALEO

*You can learn about these organizations below.


 

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 10

The New Georgia Project is a nonpartisan effort to register and civically engage Georgians.  It was founded by Stacey Abrams in 2010.

​Georgia’s population is growing and becoming increasingly diverse. Over the past decade, the population of Georgia increased 18%. The New American Majority – people of color, those 18 to 29 years of age, and unmarried women – is a significant part of that growth. The New American Majority makes up 62% of the voting age population in Georgia, but they are only 53% of registered voters.

Phone bank into Georgia with the New Georgia Project.

Learn more about The New Georgia Project.


 

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 8

Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta  (AAAJ – Atlanta)

Protecting the civil and human rights of Asian Americans in Georgia and the Southeast.  We defend, protect, and advance the rights of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Native Hawaiians and other immigrants at all levels of government.

Learn more about AAAJ – Atlanta.


Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 6

Our goal is to increase power in our communities.  Effective voting allows a community to determine its own destiny.

Donate and text bank for Georgia with Black Voters Matter.

Learn more about Black Voters Matter.


 

Help With Georgia Listen to Stacey Abrams 4
Georgia Democrats

Learn more about the Georgia Democrats.


Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 11

GALEO’s mission is to increase civic engagement and leadership of the Latino/Hispanic community across Georgia.

Learn more about GALEO.


Take Action. Get Involved!

Warnock Volunteer request form.

GA Runoff Interest Form – fill this out if you want to help with the runoff

Jon Ossoff Campaign – get started here

Ossoff Upcoming Virtual Field Training


Volunteer for Georgia with Vote Save America.


Write postcards for Georgia with the Georgia Postcard Project.

 


Write postcards for Georgia with Postcards to Voters.

 

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 5
Write postcards for Georgia with Postcard Patriots.

 

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 4
Write letters to Georgia with VoteFWD.

 


Donate!

Balloon Juice for Fair Fight

Goal Thermometer


Jon Ossoff, Georgia Senate Runoff!  (starting at 311,771, hoping DougJ can do a new BJ thermometer for the recount) and YES, this includes the 2018 race.

Goal Thermometer


Raphael Warnock, Georgia Senate Runoff!  (starting at 27,997, hoping DougJ can do a new BJ thermometer for the recount)

Goal Thermometer


Some Great Resources

How to help in Georgia (from Sam Wang)

Georgia Runoff Information Sheet (crowd sourced)

Toolkit for BIPOC & Civic Engagement GOTV for GA Runoff Election

Mobilize Events for the Georgia Runoff

Please let me know if you guys come across any great resources.

Georgia: Volunteer, Donate and DiscussPost + Comments (53)

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams

by WaterGirl|  November 14, 202011:00 am| 186 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Georgia Runoff Races 2020, Open Threads, This Fight Is For Everything

Listen to Stacey Abrams.  I mean that literally.  Lsten to Stacey Abrams in her 15-minute interview on Pod Save America last night. Her interview starts at the 52-minute mark.

Stacey believes that can win both seats in Georgia.  I believe her.  Do you?  We can win both seats, but only if we believe we can and we donate and work our collective behinds off to make it happen.

Here’s my challenge:  Listen to the interview with Stacey Abrams and then come to the Georgia thread I’ll put up on Monday, and then let’s talk about what she said.  Is anyone game for that?

In the meantime, opportunities to help Georgia are rolling in so fast I can’t get them all organized and in one place.

Donate!

Balloon Juice for Fair Fight

Goal Thermometer


Jon Ossoff, Georgia Senate Runoff!  (starting at 311,771, hoping DougJ can do a new BJ thermometer for the recount) and YES, this includes the 2018 race.

Goal Thermometer


Raphael Warnock, Georgia Senate Runoff!  (starting at 27,997, hoping DougJ can do a new BJ thermometer for the runoff)

Goal Thermometer


America Votes – Georgia

Goal Thermometer

If you donate to America Votes – Georgia, they are making sure they get distributed directly as needed to groups that are having the biggest impact on the ground.

AMERICA VOTES – Georgia

Organizations include:

  • Asian American Advocacy Fund
  • Black Male Voter Project
  • Black Voters Matter
  • BlackPAC
  • Care in Action
  • Collective PAC
  • Color of Change
  • Georgia Alliance for Progress
  • Georgia Conservation Voters
  • Georgia Equality
  • Mijente
  • New Georgia Project Action Fund
  • Poder Latinx
  • UNITE HERE

Make a Difference in the Georgia Runoff Elections

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 9

Stacey Abrams and Fair Fight are distributing some of their donations to organizations on the ground that need help.  So donating to Fair Fight is a great choice if you really want to make a difference.

Donate to Fair Fight.

Donate to GASenate.com  (donations split evenly between Ossoff, Warnock, and Fair Fight)

Fair Fight Georgia  Volunteer request form.

Phone bank into Georgia with Fair Fight.

Learn more about Fair Fight.

Stacey Abrams thanked these organizations for the win on Nov 3.

  • New Georgia Project
  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta (AAAJ – Atlanta)
  • Black Voters Matter
  • Georgia Democrats
  • GALEO

*You can learn about these organizations below.


 

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 10

The New Georgia Project is a nonpartisan effort to register and civically engage Georgians.  It was founded by Stacey Abrams in 2010.

​Georgia’s population is growing and becoming increasingly diverse. Over the past decade, the population of Georgia increased 18%. The New American Majority – people of color, those 18 to 29 years of age, and unmarried women – is a significant part of that growth. The New American Majority makes up 62% of the voting age population in Georgia, but they are only 53% of registered voters.

Phone bank into Georgia with the New Georgia Project.

Learn more about The New Georgia Project.


 

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 8

Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta  (AAAJ – Atlanta)

Protecting the civil and human rights of Asian Americans in Georgia and the Southeast.  We defend, protect, and advance the rights of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Native Hawaiians and other immigrants at all levels of government.

Learn more about AAAJ – Atlanta.


Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 6

Our goal is to increase power in our communities.  Effective voting allows a community to determine its own destiny.

Donate and text bank for Georgia with Black Voters Matter.

Learn more about Black Voters Matter.


 

Help With Georgia Listen to Stacey Abrams 4
Georgia Democrats

Learn more about the Georgia Democrats.


Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 11

GALEO’s mission is to increase civic engagement and leadership of the Latino/Hispanic community across Georgia.

Learn more about GALEO.


Take Action. Get Involved!

Warnock Volunteer request form.

GA Runoff Interest Form – fill this out if you want to help with the runoff

Jon Ossoff Campaign – get started here

Ossoff Upcoming Virtual Field Training


Volunteer for Georgia with Vote Save America.


Write postcards for Georgia with the Georgia Postcard Project.

 


Write postcards for Georgia with Postcards to Voters.

 

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 5
Write postcards for Georgia with Postcard Patriots.

 

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 4
Write letters to Georgia with VoteFWD.

 



Some Great Resources

How to help in Georgia (from Sam Wang)

Georgia Runoff Information Sheet (crowd sourced)

Toolkit for BIPOC & Civic Engagement GOTV for GA Runoff Election

Mobilize Events for the Georgia Runoff

Please let me know if you guys come across any great resources.

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey AbramsPost + Comments (186)

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