Sheldon Whitehouse: 'There is a plan, and this is just part of it.'

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34. Jamie Raskin, who is the Organizing Chair for the DCCC

has kicked off this year's "Democracy Summer" campaign - https://dccc.org/democracysummer/

One of nieces was literally just selected last week to be a Fellow this summer in support of her Congress member Madeline Dean and this year's effort is to have young people work on behalf of members elected in over 50 Congressional swing districts.

About the Democracy Summer project

“Democracy Summer won't just change your life. It will change your country.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin

The Democracy Summer project seeks to bring about political change in America by training and deploying the next generation of Democratic organizers and leaders to win elections at every level. This one-of-a-kind Democratic Fellowship—founded by Congressman Jamie Raskin but now undertaken across the country—teaches high school and college students state-of-the-art tactics in voter registration and political organizing, the dynamic history of political and social change in our country, and essential lessons for political leadership.

Democracy Summer expanded nationally for the first time in 2021 in an historic partnership with the DCCC and campaigns of Democratic Members. Over 350 college and high school-aged students from 27 states participated as Fellows in our first nationwide virtual summer learning program and were trained simultaneously as organizers and volunteer activists in Democratic campaigns all over the country.

Now in 2022, we are poised for yet another massive expansion as we galvanize the next generation of true-blue Democrats in more than 50 campaigns of Democratic Members of Congress who have already signed up to participate in what many are calling the most important congressional election of our lifetime. The theme of Democracy Summer 2022’s curriculum is “Political Democracy and its Enemies.”

There will be readings and presentations about white supremacy and political democracy, the January 6 attacks, historic and contemporary struggles for voting rights, fascism and totalitarianism, and proposed changes to strengthen democratic processes in the future. Previous Democracy Summer guest speakers have included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Civil Rights leaders Bob Moses and Rev. William J. Barber II, Prof. Laurence Tribe, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and many more.

In addition to what was originally listed above, can you imagine now adding this latest thing from Alito and the all-but-certan overturning of Roe v Wade????? All I could think about when my sis told me that my niece was selected was like OMG of all times... when the country is in such political turmoil and probably at no other time in modern history where this effort was needed. It's overwhelming to all of us but imagine these young people? We knew times when we fought for rights, got many of them, and are now watching them being taken away where the youngest generations only knew the time of having these rights.

She and her friends who were part of a boomlet generation, were toddlers when Obama was first elected to office and cried real tears when Hillary Clinton lost (my niece was really upset because she was so excited being on the precipice of having the first woman President and that hope was dashed).

So there IS stuff going on "behind the scenes" in terms of grassroots organizing and training - and not just from 3rd parties but from THE party itself. It just doesn't "make the news".