Meet Our Candidates
How It Works
1. First, sign up. Then, we connect you with a team of volunteers who live near you, led by a group of volunteer District Captains.
2. We handpick a small number of strategic state legislative races—probably in a different state—and assign your team to 2-3 of those races.
3. You work with your local team to fundraise, phonebank, postcard, textbank and, if you can, travel to knock on doors and get out the vote.
What You'll Do
Sister District teams act as an expansion of campaign's field and fundraising programs. That means you'll be writing postcards to voters, canvassing, phonebanking, textbanking, and raising money on behalf of amazing Democratic candidates. But more importantly, we believe long-term activism isn't possible without building an activism community, full of real connections and real relationships. At Sister District, you'll be part of a creative, innovative, passionate community of fellow activists—and, just maybe, lifelong friends.
Flipping Virginia blue can be done. But it won’t be easy.
Washington Post Op-Ed by Gaby Goldstein. This year, Democrats are only two seats away from flipping the entire Virginia state legislature blue. But it won't be easy...
2019 Wave 1 Candidates are Here!
Today, we are thrilled to announce our first wave of 2019 endorsements. Supporting these 10 incredible candidates helps us achieve two of our strategic goals: flipping chambers blue, and making inroads into badly gerrymandered states.
To the Future in the Distance, Give Yourselves
We all know what the stakes are, and we should make sure we understand how we got to this point. But our focus must be on the future.
We focus on state legislatures because:
- States are critical to securing fairly drawn districts and fighting back against gerrymandering and voter suppression.
- States are incubators of strong progressive policies and leaders.
- State level campaigns are often small and under-nourished—our volunteers' dollars and hard work can have an outsized impact.
2018 Impact Report: the results are in!
Our 40,000+ volunteers at Sister District have been working hard over the last two years. Check out our 2018 Impact Report for details about our fundraising and field efforts, how our volunteer base has grown, and feedback from campaigns on our work.
Overall, our teams have raised over $1m and reached out to over 1 million voters!
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Going from Red to Blue
About Sister District
The Sister District Project works to turn states blue by winning state legislative elections. We are open to volunteers and candidates of all genders.
We have a strategic, targeted focus on critical down-ballot, state races that—if we win—will make it easier to win national elections. We support a portfolio of races, with the strategic goals of (1) flipping Republican-held state chambers (2) holding fragile Democratic majorities in state chambers, and (3) making blue inroads in badly gerrymandered states.