Next DFA-MC Meeting
Next DFA-MC meeting is on Wednesday, February 7th at 6:30pm. Location and speakers to be announced.
Message & Framing
DFA Campaign Academy
Do you want to elect more candidates that think like we do and are more concerned with Main Street than Wall Street? If so we need knowledgeable, trained candidates with trained staff to run for office. What is a tweet and why would we send one? How do we get the media to show up [...]
Things You Can Do…
The August meeting of DFA-MC had three excellent speakers, Corrine Horowitz of UFCW, Tim Hogan of The Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest (ACLPI) and Tim Schmaltz of Protecting Arizona Families Coalition (PAFCO). They each gave us something we can do to help improve Arizona. Corrine asked that we send letters to the [...]
Eric Cantor is wrong
Either House Majority Leader Eric Cantor doesn’t understand how Social Security works or he doesn’t care. Just hours after President Obama said that Social Security cuts and privatization are off the table, Cantor said that Social Security had to be cut to balance the budget. But here’s the thing: Social Security does not and never [...]
Howard Dean on the State of the Progressive Movement
We’ve come a long way together over the years. We’ve had many victories and our share of setbacks. The next few years aren’t going to be easy either. It’s going to be a fight to stop right-wing Republicans from rolling back progress and forcing gridlock in Congress. We’ll need to work harder than ever to [...]
Time for Civility
Although I don’t think Sarah Palin or Glen Beck or Michelle Bachmann are directly responsible for the disaster in Tucson, I do think their vitriol contributes to the angst of the country. As DFA-MC works on messaging for the next election, I hope we will set the example of civility for Arizona and the USA. [...]
December 1st Meeting
Democracy For America – Maricopa County (DFA-MC) Monthly Link-Up 6:30pm, Wednesday, December 1 Old Spaghetti Factory 1418 North Central Avenue Phoenix (So. Of McDowell by the light rail station) Democracy For America – Maricopa County held its monthly Executive Committee meeting on November 17, and invited local progressive leaders to join us in exploring the [...]
Help with "Talking Points"
There seems to be a lot of Republican revisionist history going around: Rudy Giuliani claimed “we had no domestic attacks under Bush — we’ve had one under Obama.” Then we had Mary Matalin: “We inherited a recession from President Clinton and we inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation’s history,” [...]
What Do You Think the Democratic Message Should Be?
We are just about one year from the 2010 elections. As we prepare for the upcoming election year, what do you think the message of the Democratic Party should be? How are we going to get voters to mark their ballots for Democrats? What would your message be? Bring your ideas to the November 4th [...]
Gov. Dean Gives Urgent Update on Healthcare
Next week, Congress will begin making the actual decisions about what reforms will make it into this year’s healthcare bill. Our actions over the next few days and weeks will be critical in building the support we need to win. Meanwhile, conservative groups have launched a new assault on inclusion of a public healthcare option [...]
