RUN FOR LEADERSHIP OF DEMOCRATS ABROAD FRANCE!

Democrats Abroad France is conducting its biannual election and seeks candidates for National Officer positions, and to elect our Voting Representatives to the global organization of Democrats Abroad. All members of Democrats Abroad France may stand for election; people from under-represented communities are encouraged to apply.

American citizens living abroad have an important role to play in US elections, influencing policy, and in political activism. Engagement in Democrats Abroad France allows Americans living in France to take positive action. 

The Call for Candidacies is now open for the following 11 National Officer Positions, and for 10 Voting Representatives. For details on the positions, click here.

• National Chair
• First Vice Chair
• Second Vice Chair (Chapter Liaison)
• Secretary
• Treasurer
• Counsel
• Database/IT Manager
• GOTV Officer
• Communications Coordinator
• Issues, Programs & Events Coordinator
• Membership Outreach/Volunteer Coordinator
• DPCA Voting Representatives 

QUESTIONS? Join us for a public information session, to answer your questions about running for leadership. Or email us at [email protected].

• Monday, March 10th from 7 - 8pm. RSVP here. 

WANT TO RUN FOR SOMETHING? Interested parties may self-nominate, or nominate someone by Friday, March 14th by submitting a candidate statement to [email protected]. 

• If you are self-nominating, please include your name and the position for which you are running. If you are nominating another person, please be sure to copy them on the email.
• Candidates are asked to provide a candidacy statement not exceeding 200 words about who they are, and why they are running. Please also indicate your gender (male, female, or non-binary), and also whether you can be contacted by voters for questions about your candidacy. Final candidate statements with a photo should be submitted before the nominations period closes on March 14th.
• Candidates should be prepared to attend the Leadership Elections and the AGM on April 5th and to speak for their candidacy. (Details to follow). Results will be announced at the meeting after the close of voting, and time needed to tabulate results. 

Early voting via an online absentee ballot will be available via an email to all DA France members; those who wish to may wait to hear candidate speeches at the Election and AGM meeting on April 5, prior to the closing of voting. Results will be tabulated and announced at the meeting. 

RSVP for the Election and the AGM here.

Have questions? Contact us!

Democratically yours,

Democrats Abroad France National Election Board

Donna SEN GHOSH

Jennifer HODGE JERZYK

Scott BAKER

[email protected]

Candidate Statements for the 2025 DA France Black Caucus Leadership Election

The nominations and call for candidates period for the 2025 DA France Black Caucus Elections has now closed. Please find below statements for the candidates standing for the two Co-Chair positions up for election. 

All members of the DA France Black Caucus will receive a ballot by email on March 1. Online voting will end on March 15 at midnight.

New members are welcome to join and vote — please do so by March 10. You must be a U.S. citizen living overseas and at least 18 years old at the time of the next federal election to join Democrats Abroad, and be living in France to vote in this election (join here: https://www.democratsabroad.org/join), and also be a Black member of the Global Black Caucus (join here: https://www.democratsabroad.org/bc). 

Questions? Contact the Black Caucus Election Board at [email protected].

The positions advertised for election were two Co-Chairs.

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We hope you're okay ❤️

• Trump's withdrawals from the Paris Climate Accord, UN Human Rights Council, UNESCO, and the World Health Organization have received loud pushback.
• High schoolers are staging large walk-outs in support of immigrants.
• The State of New York is refusing to extradite doctors being prosecuted for providing abortion services or medication.
• Trump has already had to sharply reduce proposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico (which experts predict will raise US gas prices at least 15 cents).
• Judges are ruling against Trump's illegal executive orders, including banning birthright citizenship.
• Thousands protested outside the US Treasury Tuesday, calling for Elon Musk's arrest.

With new DNC leadership elected last weekend, and leaders like Rep. Jamie Raskin thinking out of the box by having Judiciary Dems sit with social psychologists to get a new perspective, things are now in high gear. We have the momentum: No one likes that an unelected billionaire is running the country and stealing our personal data, and many of us are furious Trump "hired" this guy.

However you feel, make sure all your leaders know what you want from them. They work for us, and together, we all work for a better world.

A federal Democratic trifecta, with a Sineanchin-less Senate majority, will be prepared to end the Jim Crow filibuster and pass the structural change needed to end our political crisis, and expand the safety net that Frances Perkins (witness of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and eventual US Secretary of Labor) started. We have under 70 days to find every vote we can to enact our agenda:

• Checking the corruption of the Supreme Court, addressing their lawless decisions in recent decisions like Dobbs, Shelby County, Rucho, Loper Bright Enterprises, and Trump v. United States.
• Climate action
• Federal protections for reproductive rights and the Equality Act
• A global deal to tax billionaires
• Gun control
• DC statehood
• Federal voting rights, clean-elections laws, an end to partisan gerrymandering
• The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which restores the right of workers to form a union and bargain together for workplace changes
• Family policy that will cut child poverty with a refundable expanded child tax credit of up to $3,600 (with $6,000 for newborns), paid leave 
• Millions of new units of affordable housing, including $40 billion to jumpstart community land trusts and revolving loan programs for social housing 
• Attacks on corporate price-gouging

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