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To: Ken Martin, Chair of Democratic National Committee
Tell Democrats: Give 10% of their billions toward rebuilding local parties
In the 2024 election, Democrats spent $4.5 billion on advertising. They lost the presidency, the Senate and the House. There are no enduring benefits from that enormous investment.
If Democrats had spent just 10% of that money on grass roots organizing, local party development and rural outreach, we’d now have $400 million worth of organizing infrastructure to help rebuild and broaden our base before the midterms.
By signing this petition, you join with thousands of others to encourage Democratic leadership to restructure the party from the bottom up and immediately begin major long-term investment in rural and working-class communities, people and candidates.
Why is this important?
Twenty percent of the country is rural, and nearly two-thirds don’t have a college degree–these are huge percentages of the electorate that the Democratic Party has neglected. In every recent electoral cycle, the Party’s losses with rural and working-class voters of all races have deepened, turning once winnable races, like Sherrod Brown’s and Jon Tester’s, into losses. This shift has happened in state legislatures and local offices as well, cementing what amounts to one party rule across much of the nation.
Until Democrats reverse this trend, many local, state and national elections are unwinnable.
Democrats can earn back the trust and support of many small towns and factory town voters by increasing their year-round presence in local communities, listening to everyday people's concerns, and laying out a populist economic agenda with universal, cross-racial appeal to working and middle-class voters.
Strong majorities already support things like increasing the minimum wage, cracking down on monopolies and price-gouging, supporting small family farmers, and raising taxes on the richest Americans. What's missing are thriving local Democratic Parties who know and respect their fellow citizens and know how to talk like a neighbor about the things that matter to them the most.
Until Democrats reverse this trend, many local, state and national elections are unwinnable.
Democrats can earn back the trust and support of many small towns and factory town voters by increasing their year-round presence in local communities, listening to everyday people's concerns, and laying out a populist economic agenda with universal, cross-racial appeal to working and middle-class voters.
Strong majorities already support things like increasing the minimum wage, cracking down on monopolies and price-gouging, supporting small family farmers, and raising taxes on the richest Americans. What's missing are thriving local Democratic Parties who know and respect their fellow citizens and know how to talk like a neighbor about the things that matter to them the most.