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Featured Candidate: Ann Johnson
Ann is a former chief human trafficking prosecutor, teacher and small business owner who works in our criminal justice system as an attorney for many who cannot afford a lawyer. Ann has a long history of standing up for the most vulnerable in our community. She has successfully taken on the system by reaching across the aisle and breaking down old barriers to create common sense solutions for victims of human trafficking. Read more in the exclusive interview!
Ann is running for Texas’ House District 134 because she knows we can do better. Ann plans to lead with an eye on the collective future, not her next election.
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Our 2020 Wave 2 Candidates are Here!
Meet our 11 newest candidates running in Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin, and Michigan.
How States are Combatting Police Brutality
While a complete overhaul of policing in the United States will take time, state and local governments across the country are already taking smaller steps to address the issue of police violence.
Our Commitment to Dismantling Structural Racism
Systems of oppression must be dismantled and rebuilt, and every single one of us has the moral obligation to participate in the process.
Our 2020 States
We’re going huge in the 10 states that matter most to end gerrymandering and put a Democrat in the White House. Each of these states fits one of our strategic buckets of blue flips, blue holds, and blue inroads. We have also weighted our strategy toward states with important U.S. Senate and congressional races, and states where it is crucial to win Electoral College votes.
We know our model works in state races—now we’re scaling it to defeat Trump, too. No matter who the nominee is, we will be supporting superstar state legislative candidates who will connect with voters on local issues, and drive turnout up and down the ballot.
Find Your Team
All across the country, we are hard at work!
Looking to connect directly with your local Sister District team? Find them in our teams directory. We’re growing new teams all the time, so check back often. Or, if you’re interested in starting one, please contact us! It’s not hard, and we’ll help you every step of the way. If you’re not sure, find out more about how our volunteers help get Democrats elected first.
Why Become a Donor
When you become a donor to the Sister District Project, you will be supporting our full-time, year-round work to:
1. Scale and strengthen our volunteer recruitment, training, and mobilization
2. Provide robust campaign services to our endorsed candidates and their staff
3. Spread the word about Sister District’s work via press and social media campaigns
4. Develop technology infrastructure to support and empower our volunteer teams
Individual contributions from people like you make up over 75% of our operating budget.
No amount of support is too small, and your help is crucial to allowing us to keep doing this critical work.
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. Learn more about how our volunteers help get Democrats elected.
Elizabeth Warren agrees! States legislatures are important 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.
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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.