Tag: organizing

  • Tennessee Needs An Army of Rural Organizers

    Tennessee Needs An Army of Rural Organizers

    Its been eight years since Tennessee made the transformation from a purple state to a solidly red state. Now, nearly all the Democrats in the General Assembly hail from urban areas. To win back Tennessee we have to start competing in rural districts. That means building an army of rural organizers.

  • Leadership means organizing

    Leadership means organizing

    There’s new leadership at the Democratic National Committee. Saturday, the members of the DNC met in Atlanta and elected former Labor Secretary, Tom Perez as the new Chair of the party. The contest was very tight, with Perez barely edging out Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota. Many folks cast this race as a replay of…

  • Democrats need leadership from bottom to top

    Democrats need leadership from bottom to top

    An era of prosperity ends on January 20th, replaced by an era of twitterstorms and uncertainty. To win in the future, we’ve got to organize now.

  • Movements and Moonshots

    Movements and Moonshots

    As I noted in my last post the blamestorm made it to Category 5 in record time this year. I think its fair to say that this will continue for a while. That’s not what this post is. See, I’ve written my fair share of denunciations of Democratic Party establishments, from the now defunct SCDP…

  • Congratulations Delegates #SCDP

    The Shelby County Democratic Party held the first part of their biennial convention Saturday, and with it comes a fresh crop of delegates to the Convention on March 28th. It doesn’t matter if you’ve already picked a candidate for Executive Committee to represent your House District, or if you’ve settled on a candidate for Chair,…

  • Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice…

    Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Forty-Five years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by an assassin’s bullet as he stood on the balcony…