With 14 primaries and runoffs behind us, we’re making progress and winning!  Join our discussion to fine-tune our course for the summer of primaries and runoffs, filled with issue advocacy and strategies for tackling the still unfinished business of building back better. 
 
Is your top issue on our Unfinished Business list? Student loan justice. Meaningful climate action. Campaign finance reform. Medicare for All. Strong unions. Reparative justice. Voting rights. Reproductive rights…
 
Let us know what is at the top of your list AND nominate your favorite motivational songs to open and close our meeting by email to [email protected]

RSVP below for the Zoom link!

You can make a difference for election day in November. Your gift informs and mobilizes Americans around the world to vote for progress and Democratic wins in the midterms. Give thousands of DA volunteers the tools they need for our 2022 blue wave and help America build back better. Please donate whatever you can today. Thank you!

India Walton (2021 Buffalo mayoral primary winner and New York Working Families Party Senior Advisor), Bill Whitmire & Gianna Reeve (Starbucks Workers United Organizers), and Larry Cohen (Chair of Our Revolution) discuss and take questions on:

• The lay of the land
• What’s at stake
• Early trends + what to expect on the road ahead
• Opportunities to take action

RSVP below to join with proDA to discuss how we can unite our voices for progress and win!

Optional resources to prepare for the discussion:

• Videos
  • Pramila Jayapal. Status of Build Back Better, CNBC, January 12, 2022.
  • David Sirota and Nina Tuner. Progressives Win Key Races Despite Millions Spent to Back Corporate Democrats. Democracy Now. May 19, 2022
• Book
  • Timothy Kuhner. Capitalism vs. Democracy. Money in Politics and the Free Market Constitution. Stanford University Press, 2014
• Articles
  • Jake Johnson. Dark Money Is Dark Money': Sanders Calls on DNC to Ban Super PAC Cash in Primaries. Common Dreams. May 17th, 2022.
  • David Siders. ‘We’re chewing people up’: The left fights back against primary attacks. Politico. May 14th, 2022.

This event is part of the series Monthly Mondays for Progressive Minds.

Thanks to our co-sponsors: Global Black Caucus, Reparations Task Force, proDA Austria, proDA Germany.

RSVP below for the Zoom link!

You can inform and mobilize members around the world to make progress and win in the midterms. The Fight for (at least) $15. Meaningful Medicare expansion. Student debt relief. Reparative justice. Climate change action. Voting rights. And more. Will you help America build back better and get out the vote for progress? Please donate here.  Donate $1 (number of Congressional Progressive Caucus Senators) to $100 (number of CPC Representatives), perhaps an amount equal to the number of new members you want to join the CPC in November.  Thank you!

Join Democrats Abroad North and Central Bavaria for a lunch outing to get together and discuss our goals for 2022!  Bring other Americans with you!  And it is also family day!

Let's gather at the famous Erlangen beer festival, socialize, and enjoy the fun atmosphere with one another!  We will also discuss ways to get involved and get out the vote for 2022!  RSVP below by June 5.  Meeting location TBA.

Recording and Slide Deck from January 22nd, 2022

View the slide deck (with lots of of resource links)

This event took place on January 22nd, 2022.

Join the next Progressive Caucus monthly members meeting Progress for Progressives on Feb 5th, 2022. 

In July of 2020, presidential nominee, Joe Biden, and Senator Bernie Sanders announced their Unity Task Force recommendations for a Democratic presidency. Their bold plans to address the pressing needs of working-class families, combat climate change, and much more helped us win the presidency and Senate majority, as well as hold the House majority. We entered 2021 with high expectations! 

As we begin 2022, many of our expectations remain unfulfilled. The scope of the Build Back Better Act has narrowed dramatically, remaining two votes short of passage. Existing filibuster rules stand in the way of passing the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Delivering victories for all three of these and more is crucial to millions of us and for Democratic electoral success in the midterms. 

Join members of proDA to learn about and discuss the negotiations for all three bills, the prospects for their passage, and the consequences of further delay. We will advocate for action, urging all of us to intensify our efforts. Time is very short and so, too, is the patience of those whose needs are not being met!

CO-SPONSORS: DA Austria, DA Canada, DA Guadalajara, proDA Austria, proDA Germany, and proDAUK

Double your impact! A generous donor in Asia Pacific will match donations to DA through proDA’s donate page, up to a total of $2500. Donate to help inform and mobilize members around the world to support our unfinished business. The Fight for (at least) $15. Meaningful Medicare expansion. Tuition-free community college. Student debt relief. Reparative justice. Truly ambitious climate change mitigation. Federal Voting Rights legislation. And more.  Will you donate today to help America build back even better? Please donate here. Thank you!

January Newsletter

In July of 2020, presidential nominee, Joe Biden, and Senator Bernie Sanders announced their Unity Task Force recommendations for a Democratic presidency. Their bold plans to address the pressing needs of working-class families, combat climate change, and much more helped us win the presidency and Senate majority, as well as hold the House majority. We entered 2021 with high expectations!

As we begin 2022, many of our expectations remain unfulfilled. The scope of the Build Back Better Act has narrowed dramatically, remaining two votes short of passage. Existing filibuster rules stand in the way of passing the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act. Delivering victories for these and more is crucial to millions of us and for Democratic electoral success in the midterms. Let’s get to work!

BIDEN-HARRIS PROGRESS REPORT #8 TAKING CARE OF UNFINISHED BUSINESS
JANUARY 22nd

The House has passed three substantive bills to protect voting rights in the face of massive Republican voter-suppression efforts, including extreme partisan and racially-discriminatory redistricting schemes. Two of those bills, the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, are supported by all 50 Democratic Senators. But Republicans have used the Senate filibuster rule to block even beginning formal debate on them.

As Grace Segers recently reported in The New Republic, Senate Democratic leadership is still committed to enacting voting rights legislation this year. The time is short and the stakes are high! 

Check out this short commercial with John Legend and this humorous ad featuring Mark Ruffalo and Jonathan Scott, from our friends at Represent Us. Share these with those you know and please call your senator at 1-202-224-3121. This number works 24 hours a day; often you speak to a person if you call 9-5 ET. See Senate contact info for individual Senators, including options for email and fax. 

Represent Us has an online “Stay in Washington Until Our Democracy Is Safe” petition.

*Thanks to Bruce Miller (proDA Steering Committee member) for drafting this article and the Global Veterans and Military Families Caucus for select materials.

Democrats Abroad elects eight members every four years to represent DA to the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

DNC members represent DA and its priorities to the DNC Chair, Executive Committee, staff, other state party DNC delegations, the 75 (appointed) at-large DNC members, dignitaries, and others attending two annual DNC meetings (pre-Covid). They represent DA when attending DNC committee, council, and caucus meetings.

Under current DNC Rules, they also serve as automatic delegates to the Democratic National Convention to nominate the Democratic candidates for President and Vice President.

proDA supports transparency, fairness, accountability, and democratic principles in Democratic Party policies and practices, which is why we provided a candidate survey and candidate forums for the 2020 election of the current DNC members, who will serve until the end of the 2024 National Convention.

Here is the information DA provides about our DNC members.

Here are the resources provided by the Progressive Caucus for the 2020 election of our current DNC members (with the exception of DA’s International Chair and Vice Chair who are elected differently)

• About DA’s DNC members and how they are elected (2020)
  
  
• Candidate Survey (2020)
  
  
• Recording of Candidate Forum (2020)

The seventh Biden-Harris Progress Report meeting is scheduled for October 28th, 2021 -- please RSVP!

Our Monthly Members Meeting is ready for your confirmation -- please RSVP!

WOW! 

Thanks to the many activists who participated in our monthly meeting on October 9th 2021.  We discussed what we can do to deliver for the planet, working families, and all who count on us to do just that with a truly big and bold Build Back Better Act, the Freedom to Vote Act, and much much more. Our momentum is surging to work toward progressive victories in 2021, 2022, and beyond. 

WHAT'S NEXT?

We host follow-up working-group meetings next Saturday and need your help!

When?

Saturday, 16 October at 2:00-3:00 pm CET--Terms of Reference Review (see Terms of Reference published here)

Saturday, 16 October at 3:00-4:00 pm CET--Communications

Saturday, 16 October at 4:00-5:30 pm CET--Working Groups/Collaboration/Events:

    Topics:

• DA Environmental and Climate Crisis Council formation
• Democracy and diversity reform in DA, the DNC, and state parties/primaries 
• Foreign Policy Coordinating Committee
• Medicare for All campaigns
• Student debt relief efforts
• Voting rights legislation
• Issue advocacy priorities

Where?

Zoom: Please RSVP to the individual events above to receive the link.

There is plenty of work to do and your help is needed. 

THE NEEDS ARE CLEAR AND OUR TIME IS NOW!