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DEMOCRATIC PARTY MESSAGING STRENGTH

In a recent polling of delegates by the California Democratic Party, the number one topic was to find ways to improve messaging of our successes to the electorate. These delegates understood the need to advertise our positive contributions as a party and that we should improve how we do it.

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NEWLY REGISTERED VOTERS TELL US THEIR “HOT BUTTON” ISSUES

On August 24, 2022, the Auburn Area Democratic Club Voter Outreach Team, led by Gail Barlow and Sandy Floyd, held their weekly voter registration drive at the Sierra College Quad to register voters and poll students on “what are the two main issues that would motivate them to vote.” This is what our future voters stated as their priorities for the upcoming election

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4 Reasons You Should Vote for Your School Board Candidates

Have you heard the following excuses for NOT voting for school board candidates? "I don’t have kids in school anymore" OR "I don’t keep up with school politics anymore" OR "I’ve done my time volunteering and fighting systems in the schools, it’s time for the next group of parents to act"? Let’s debunk those rationales.

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Democrats Deliver

The #DemocratsDeliver hashtag and slogan has been used by the Democratic Party nationally and here in California recently. You’ve probably seen it on social media or in your email. And, why not? It’s short, it’s sweet, and it’s accurate.

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UNITED WE MUST STAND, UNITED WE WILL WIN

The Blue Wave Tides of our Democratic Party are rolling in a positive direction toward possible Democratic control of Congress in the coming November elections. Moving forward, Democrats must be united on all levels to continue this momentum working for the election of our candidates.

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Hypocrisy and the GOP

Hypocrisy seems to be a cornerstone of GOP reasoning these days. Be it the price of gas, the murder of school children, the intrusion of government into our private lives, or a myriad of other issues, GOP candidates are serving as contortionists to justify their platform positions.

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JULY INTERLUDE

Interlude is defined as an intervening time period or a pause between the acts of a play. July is our short interlude between the June 7 Primary and the November 8 General Election.

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"Our lives don’t matter."

There are days in our lives when we know, for better or worse, our lives have been changed – not by our actions but by “others”. Pearl Harbor, the Twin Towers, Sandy Hook…events that shocked us to the core. Our U.S. Supreme Court has also changed lives…“Obergefell”, a decision that changed the lives of our gay population, Brown v Board of Education, that advanced the climb from blatant segregation, and Roe v Wade, that freed women from back alley abortions.

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Adventures in Volunteering

Communicating with voters directly is the best way to get them to support your candidate or position. Placer DCC offers several ways to help get our message out to voters. For all of these, volunteers are needed to deliver the message in any successful Get Out the Vote (GOTV) campaign.

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Women will die…and they don’t care

Feeling emboldened, many conservative legislatures across our nation have already introduced or strengthened legislation intended to severely restrict or outright abolish this access to safe care.

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There Oughta be a Law Against Unjust Laws

I personally believe there is something fundamentally wrong about giving any human being a job for life. Every paid human should be subjected to performance reviews and allowed to stay or move on. Maybe the guaranteed gig has made our Court less Supreme.

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Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of The Four Rights

Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” paintings illustrate an American working-class citizens exercising the rights created and enshrined by our country’s founders. The citizens knew and appreciated their freedom of assembly, of speech, religion, and freedom from want. These were the freedoms orated by President Roosevelt in 1941 during his “Four Freedoms” State of the Union address, stressing that every American has a right to those freedom as written in our U.S. Constitution and supported by the legislation enacted into law by our Federal and State government institutions.

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