Race to 222 Update!
It's another election year, and 2022 may hold the most important midterm elections of our lifetime! To make sure that Democrats hold the House and Senate (and maybe pick up some Governorships and Secretaries of State along the way), Democrats Abroad needs to mobilize all of our members, as well as registering new voters!
You can help!
First, go to VoteFromAbroad.org to register to vote and/or request your ballot(s) for 2022.
To make the voter registration process more fun for our members, we have created a "Race to 222" campaign. What does this mean? We are trying to register 222 members by 2/22/2022. Here's where we stand on February 7th:
Already requested your ballot?
THANK YOU! You should be receiving a message from a DACH leader in the coming days with a special "Race to 222" graphic you can add to your social media accounts to help get the word out!
Read moreRace to 222 Update!
It's another election year, and 2022 may hold the most important midterm elections of our lifetime! To make sure that Democrats hold the House and Senate (and maybe pick up some Governorships and Secretaries of State along the way), Democrats Abroad needs to mobilize all of our members, as well as registering new voters!
You can help!
First, go to VoteFromAbroad.org to register to vote and/or request your ballot(s) for 2022.
To make the voter registration process more fun for our members, we have created a "Race to 222" campaign. What does this mean? We are trying to register 222 members by 2/22/2022. As of January 31st, we have passed the halfway mark!
Already requested your ballot?
THANK YOU! You should be receiving a message from a DACH leader in the coming days with a special "Race to 222" graphic you can add to your social media accounts to help get the word out!
Read moreRace to 222 Update!
It's another election year, and 2022 may hold the most important midterm elections of our lifetime! To make sure that Democrats hold the House and Senate (and maybe pick up some Governorships and Secretaries of State along the way), Democrats Abroad needs to mobilize all of our members, as well as registering new voters!
You can help!
First, go to VoteFromAbroad.org to register to vote and/or request your ballot(s) for 2022.
To make the voter registration process more fun for our members, we have created a "Race to 222" campaign. What does this mean? We are trying to register 222 members by 2/22/2022. As of January 24th, we are almost halfway there!
Already requested your ballot?
THANK YOU! You should be receiving a message from a DACH leader in the coming days with a special "Race to 222" graphic you can add to your social media accounts to help get the word out!
Read moreRace to 222 Update!
It's a new year, and 2022 may hold the most important midterm elections of our lifetime! To make sure that Democrats hold the House and Senate (and maybe pick up some Governorships and Secretaries of State along the way), Democrats Abroad needs to mobilize all of our members, as well as registering new voters!
You can help!
First, go to VoteFromAbroad.org to register to vote and/or request your ballot(s) for 2022.
Then, join DA Switzerland at a Virtual Voter Registration Training tonight to learn how to request your own ballot and how to help others do the same. Voter registration will be an all-hands-on-deck situation this year!
To make the voter registration process more fun for our members, we have created a "Race to 222" campaign. What does this mean? We are trying to register 222 members by 2/22/2022. As of January 18th, we are over a third of the way there!
Already requested your ballot?
THANK YOU! You should be receiving a message from a DACH leader in the coming days with a special "Race to 222" graphic you can add to your social media accounts to help get the word out!
Read morePrimary Elections for 2022
Election Day 2022 is November 8, but before we get there, there are primary elections as well! Check the chart below for your state's primary date as well as the registration deadline. Make sure you visit VoteFromAbroad.org as soon as possible to register to vote and/or request your ballots.
(Requesting your ballot now, before the primary deadline, will also ensure that you are sent ballots for the general election as well as any runoff or special elections this year.)
State | Primary Date | Registration Deadline | Ballot Request Deadline | Ballot Return Deadline |
Texas* | March 1, 2022 | Rec'd by February 9, 2022 | Rec'd by February 18, 2022 | Rec'd by March 7, 2022 |
California's 22nd Congressional District, special election | April 5, 2022 | March 21, 2022 |
Postmarked by April 5, 2022 and rec'd within 7 days |
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Indiana | May 3, 2022 |
Mail: Rec'd by April 25, 2022 Email or Fax: Rec'd by April 25, 2022 at 11:59 PM |
Mail: Rec'd by April 21, 2022 at 11:59 PM Email/Online/Fax: Rec'd by May 2, 2022 at Noon |
Mail: |
Ohio | May 3, 2022 | Rec'd by April 4, 2022 | Rec'd by April 30, 2022 at Noon |
Sent by May 3, 2022 at 12:01 AM Rec'd within 10 days |
Nebraska | May 10, 2022 |
Mail: Email or Fax: |
Rec'd by May 2, 2022 at 6 PM | Rec'd by May 10, 2022 at 6 PM |
West Virginia | May 10, 2022 | Rec'd by April 19, 2022 | Rec'd by May 4, 2022 |
Email or Fax: Mail: |
Idaho | May 17, 2022 | Rec'd by April 22, 2022 | Rec'd by May 6, 2022 | Rec'd by May 17, 2022 |
Kentucky | May 17, 2022 |
Mail: Email or Fax: |
Rec'd by May 10, 2022 | Rec'd by May 17, 2022 at 6 PM |
North Carolina* | May 17, 2022 |
Rec'd by May 16, 2022 at 5 PM |
Rec'd by May 16, 2022 at 5 PM |
Email/Online/Fax: |
Oregon | May 17, 2022 |
Mail: Email or Fax: Online: |
Mail: Email/Online/Fax: |
Postmarked by May 17, 2022 Rec'd within 7 days |
Pennsylvania | May 17, 2022 |
Mail: Email or Fax: |
Rec'd by May 16, 2022 |
Signed by May 16, 2022 at 11:59 PM Rec'd by May 24, 2022 at 5 PM |
Alabama* | May 24, 2022 | Postmarked by May 9, 2022 | Rec'd by May 17, 2022 |
Postmarked by May 24, 2022 Rec'd within 7 days |
Arkansas* | May 24, 2022 | Postmarked by April 25, 2022 | Rec'd by May 17, 2022 |
Postmarked by May 24, 2022 Rec'd within 10 days |
Georgia* | May 24, 2022 | Rec'd by April 25, 2022 | Rec'd by May 13, 2022 |
Postmarked by May 24, 2022 Rec'd within 3 days |
California | June 7, 2022 |
Mail: Online or Fax: |
Rec'd by May 31, 2022 |
Mail: Fax: |
Iowa | June 7, 2022 | Not required | Rec'd by June 6, 2022 |
Mail: Online or Fax: |
Mississippi* | June 7, 2022 | Rec'd by May 28, 2022 | Varies; check with your local election official (LEO) |
Mail: Email or Fax: |
Montana | June 7, 2022 | Rec'd by June 7, 2022 at 8 PM | Rec'd by June 7, 2022 at 8 PM |
Mail: Email/Online/Fax: |
New Jersey | June 7, 2022 | Rec'd by May 17, 2022 |
Mail: Email or Fax: |
Postmarked by June 7, 2022 Rec'd within 6 days |
New Mexico | June 7, 2022 |
Mail: Email or Fax: |
Rec'd by June 2, 2022 | Rec'd by June 7, 2022 at 7 PM |
South Dakota | June 7, 2022 | Rec'd by May 23, 2022 at 5 PM | Rec'd by June 6, 2022 at 5 PM | Rec'd by June 7, 2022 at 7 PM |
Maine | June 14, 2022 | Rec'd by June 13, 2022 at 5 PM | Rec'd by June 13, 2022 at 5 PM | Rec'd by June 14, 2022 at 8 PM |
Nevada | June 14, 2022 |
Mail/Email/Fax: Online: |
Mail/Email/Fax: Rec'd by June 14, 2022 Online: Rec'd by June 14, 2022 at 7 PM |
Mail: Email/Online/Fax: |
North Dakota | June 14, 2022 | Not required | Rec'd by June 13, 2022 |
Mail: Email/Online/Fax: |
South Carolina* | June 14, 2022 |
Email/Online/Fax: Mail: |
Rec'd by June 14, 2022 at 7 PM |
Email or Fax: Mail: |
Washington, DC | June 21, 2022 | Rec'd by May 31, 2022 | Rec'd by June 18, 2022 |
Email or Fax: Mail: |
Virginia | June 21, 2022 | Rec'd by May 30, 2022 | Rec'd by June 10, 2022 at 5 PM | Postmarked on June 21, 2022 and rec'd within 3 days by Noon |
Colorado | June 28, 2022 |
Postmarked by June 28, 2022 Rec'd within 8 days |
Varies; check with your LEO |
Postmarked by June 28, 2022 at 7 PM Rec'd within 8 days |
Illinois | June 28, 2022 | Rec'd by May 29, 2022 | Rec'd by June 18, 2022 |
Postmarked by June 28, 2022 Rec'd within 14 days |
Maryland | June 28, 2022 |
Mail: Online: |
Mail: Fax: Email/Online: |
Postmarked by June 28, 2022 Rec'd within 10 days |
New York | June 28, 2022 |
Postmarked by June 3, 2022 Rec'd by June 8, 2022 |
Rec'd by June 21, 2022 |
Postmarked by June 27, 2022 Rec'd within 7 days |
Oklahoma* | June 28, 2022 |
Mail: Email or Fax: |
Rec'd by June 13, 2022 at 5 PM | Rec'd by June 28, 2022 at 7 PM |
Utah | June 28, 2022 |
Mail: Online: |
Rec'd by June 23, 2022 at 5 PM |
Mail: Email or Fax: |
Arizona | August 2, 2022 | Rec'd by August 2, 2022 at 7 PM | Rec'd by August 2, 2022 at 6:59 PM | Rec'd by August 2, 2022 at 7 PM |
Kansas | August 2, 2022 |
Mail: Email or Fax: |
Sent by August 2, 2022 | Rec'd by August 2, 2022 |
Michigan | August 2, 2022 | Varies; check with your LEO | Rec'd by July 30, 2022 at 2 PM | Rec'd by August 2, 2022 at 8 PM |
Missouri | August 2, 2022 | Rec'd by July 29, 2022 | Rec'd by July 29, 2022 |
Mail: Email or Fax: |
Washington | August 2, 2022 | Rec'd by August 2, 2022 | Not required |
Mail: Email/Online/Fax: |
Tennessee | August 4, 2022 | Rec'd by June 28, 2022 | Rec'd by June 28, 2022 | Rec'd by August 4, 2022 at 8 PM |
Connecticut | August 9, 2022 | Rec'd by August 4, 2022 | Rec'd by August 8, 2022 | Rec'd by August 9, 2022 at 8 PM |
Minnesota | August 9, 2022 | Rec'd by August 9, 2022 | Rec'd by August 9, 2022 | Rec'd by August 9, 2022 at 8 PM |
Vermont | August 9, 2022 | Rec'd by August 9, 2022 | Sent by August 8, 2022 at 5 PM | Rec'd by August 9, 2022 |
Wisconsin | August 9, 2022 | Postmarked by July 20, 2022 | Rec'd by August 4, 2022 at 5 PM | Rec'd by August 9, 2022 at 8 PM |
Hawaii | August 13, 2022 | Postmarked by August 3, 2022 | Rec'd by August 6, 2022 at 4:30 PM | Rec'd by August 13, 2022 at 7 PM |
Alaska | August 16, 2022 |
Mail: Email or Fax: |
Mail: Email/Online/Fax: |
Mail: Fax: |
Wyoming | August 16, 2022 | Rec'd by August 1, 2022 | Rec'd by August 15, 2022 | Rec'd by August 16, 2022 at 7 PM |
Florida | August 23, 2022 | Postmarked by July 25, 2022 |
Mail: Email/Online/Fax: |
Mail: Fax: |
Delaware | September 13, 2022 |
Mail: Email or Fax: |
Mail: Email/Online/Fax: |
Rec'd by September 13, 2022 at 8 PM |
New Hampshire | September 13, 2022 | Rec'd by September 13, 2022 | Rec'd by September 12, 2022 at 5 PM | Rec'd by September 13, 2022 at 5 PM |
Rhode Island | September 13, 2022 | Rec'd by August 14, 2022 | Rec'd by August 23, 2022 | Rec'd by September 16, 2022 |
Massachusetts | September 20, 2022 | Not required | Rec'd by September 14, 2022 | Rec'd by September 20, 2022 at 8 PM |
Louisiana | None |
* State has a Primary Runoff. See the next chart for this information.
Read moreRace to 222 Update!
It's a new year, and 2022 may hold the most important midterm elections of our lifetime! To make sure that Democrats hold the House and Senate (and maybe pick up some Governorships and Secretaries of State along the way), Democrats Abroad needs to mobilize all of our members, as well as registering new voters!
You can help!
First, go to VoteFromAbroad.org to register to vote and/or request your ballot(s) for 2022.
Then, join DA Switzerland at a Virtual Voter Registration Training on January 18th to learn how to request your own ballot and how to help others do the same. Voter registration will be an all-hands-on-deck situation this year!
To make the voter registration process more fun for our members, we have created a "Race to 222" campaign. What does this mean? We are trying to register 222 members by 2/22/2022. As of January 10th, we are a quarter of the way there!
Already requested your ballot?
THANK YOU! You should be receiving a message from a DACH leader in the coming days with a special "Race to 222" graphic you can add to your social media accounts to help get the word out!
Read moreWe need YOU!
DA Switzerland has a few open positions in leadership and we're looking for fresh faces to fill them! If you've been looking for a way to get more involved, read on:
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Volunteer Coordinator 🧑🏫
A new role we have created and are seeking to fill, our Volunteer Coordinator will welcome new volunteers and find them the right opportunities to be of service.
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Content Curator
Help us gather content for our newsletter 📰, website 💻, and social media 📱 channels!
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General Volunteer 🙋
Not ready to step into a specific leadership role, but still looking to get more involved? No worries! Complete this Volunteer Sign Up Form to let us know your interests!
If you have questions about any of these roles or are interested in finding out more, please send an email to our Chair, Eric Burns.
Herstory from the Women's Caucus - bell hooks
As a way to highlight the impact of the many female glass-breakers over time, and to show examples of women who have successfully fostered equality and women's rights, the DACH Women's Caucus will occasionally share herstories. We hope you enjoy reading about the groundbreaking bell hooks, a Black feminist author. She insisted that feminism needs to be intersectional in order to actually make progress.
If you would like to receive other information from the DACH Women's Caucus, please email them to let them know you would like to join.
bell hooks, Pathbreaking Black Feminist, Dies at 69
She insisted that the fight for women's rights had to take into account the diverse experiences of working-class and Black women.
By Clay Risen
December 15, 2021
bell hooks, whose incisive, wide-ranging writing on gender and race helped push feminism beyond its white, middle-class worldview to include the voices of Black and working-class women, died on Wednesday at her home in Berea, Ky. She was 69.
Her sister Gwenda Motley said the cause was end-stage renal failure.
Starting in 1981 with her book “Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism,” Ms. hooks, who insisted on using all lowercase letters in her name, argued that feminism’s claim to speak for all women had pushed the unique experiences of working-class and Black women to the margins.
“A devaluation of Black womanhood occurred as a result of the sexual exploitation of Black women during slavery that has not altered in the course of hundreds of years,” she wrote.
If that seems like conventional wisdom today, that is in large part because of the enormous impact Ms. hooks had on both feminism and Black women, many of whom had resisted aligning with a movement they felt was designed to diminish their experiences.
“I think of bell hooks as being pivotal to an entire generation of Black feminists who saw that for the first time they had license to call themselves Black feminists,” Kimberlé Crenshaw, a law professor at Columbia, said in an interview. “She was utterly courageous in terms of putting on paper thoughts that many of us might have had in private.”
Womanhood, Ms. hooks said, could not be reduced to a singular experience, but had to be considered within a framework encompassing race and class. She called for a new form of feminism, one that recognized differences and inequalities among women as a way of creating a new, more inclusive movement — one that, she later said, had largely been achieved.
She applied a similar, and equally trenchant, criticism to Black antiracism, which she said was often grounded in a patriarchal worldview that excluded the experiences of Black women. But she also recognized, in books like “We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity” (2004), that such a worldview resulted from centuries of oppression and exclusion of Black men.
Ms. hooks resisted the title “public intellectual,” but by the 2000s she had achieved celebrity status. Her books, written in a flowing, jargon-free style, were required reading across a wide range of college courses. She appeared onstage with the actress Laverne Cox and activists like Janet Mock, and on the bookstand of the model and actress Emily Ratajkowski, who cited Ms. hooks as inspiration while writing her recent essay collection, “My Body” (2021).
Part of Ms. hooks’s appeal was the sheer diversity of her interests. Her work, across some 30 books, encompassed literary criticism, children’s fiction, self-help, memoir and poetry, and it tackled not just subjects like education, capitalism and American history but also love and friendship.
In “Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom” (1994), she argued that the American education system had been constructed to quell dissent and shape young people into productive workers — and that it was therefore up to teachers to push against the grain by showing students how to use knowledge to resist.
She did just that in her own classes, instructing her students to see critical thinking and reading as liberating acts.
“She was a foundational influence on how I understood the possibility of my becoming a writer,” Min Jin Lee, the author of the novel “Pachinko,” who took two classes with Ms. hooks at Yale, said in an interview. “She taught me how to read. But more than that, she taught me how to read as a global person.”
bell hooks was the pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins, who was born on Sept. 25, 1952, in Hopkinsville, Ky., a small city in the southwestern part of the state not far from the Tennessee border.
Though her childhood in the semirural South exposed her to vicious examples of white supremacy, her tight-knit Black community in Hopkinsville showed her the possibility of resistance from the margins, of finding community among the oppressed and drawing power from those connections — a theme to which she would return frequently in her work.
Her father, Veodis Watkins, was a postal worker, and her mother, Rosa Bell (Oldham) Watkins, was a homemaker. Along with her sister Ms. Motley, Ms. hooks is survived by three other sisters, Sarah Chambers, Valeria Watkins and Angela Malone, and her brother, Kenneth.
Her early education took place in segregated schools, though she moved to white-majority schools once the state integrated its education system — an experience in navigating complex racial and gender hierarchies that she later drew on in her memoir, “Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood” (1996).
She was an avid reader, vacuuming up books and reading long past her bedtime. She dreamed of becoming an architect, and of leaving small-town Kentucky behind.
The 2022 Midterms
The 2022 midterm elections aren't until November but the primaries start in March with Texas. We highlighted some key races to watch that could turn State Capitols blue or change the balance in Congress.
Here are our races to watch. Which races are you watching in your state?
Texas: March 1st will be a rematch between incumbent House Democrat Henry Cuellar and progressive Jessica Cisneros who gave the incumbent a run for the money and held him to 51.8% in 2020. Will redistricting make this district ripe for Republican picking?
North Carolina: The state Supreme Court postponed the primaries from March to May because of two pending lawsuits that challenged legislative district maps. The U.S. Senate race has candidates on both sides vying for November since incumbent Richard Burr will not seek reelection. Will North Carolina turn blue?
Maryland: Republican Governor Larry Hogan is term-limited and the June 28th primary will be crowded including former DNC Chair, Tom Perez and state Comptroller, Peter Franchot. Will Democrats be able to keep this deep blue state blue?
New York: Andrew Cuomo is out of the picture but his replacement, Kathy Hochul, faces primary challenges from Representative Tom Suozzi and former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. Will New Yorkers disenchanted with the Biden administration turn the Empire State red?
Florida: Governor Ron DeSantis will face Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, one of only a few Democrats in the Republican run state, or former Governor and current House Democrat Charlie Crist. Can Republican Marco Rubio win a third term against House Democrat Val Demings?
Georgia: Stacy Abrams is back in the Governor race. Georgians are hoping for a Rocky-style knockout against Governor Kemp in November. Can Senator Raphael Warnock stave off a challenge from former NFL player Hershel Walker?
Join Us in the Race to 222!
It's a new year, and 2022 may hold the most important midterm elections of our lifetime! To make sure that Democrats hold the House and Senate (and maybe pick up some Governorships and Secretaries of State along the way), Democrats Abroad needs to mobilize all of our members, as well as registering new voters!
You can help!
First, go to VoteFromAbroad.org to register to vote and/or request your ballot(s) for 2022.
Then, join DA Switzerland at a Virtual Voter Registration Training on January 18th to learn how to request your own ballot and how to help others do the same. Voter registration will be an all-hands-on-deck situation this year!
To make the voter registration process more fun for our members, we have created a "Race to 222" campaign. What does this mean? We are trying to register 222 members by 2/22/2022.
Already requested your ballot?
THANK YOU! You should be receiving a message from a DACH leader in the coming days with a special "Race to 222" graphic you can add to your social media accounts to help get the word out!
Read more