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Juliet Eastland

Juliet Eastland

Why States Matter: Virginia v. Environment
Ah, summer! 2023: the season of Barbie, farm-stand tomatoes, supermoons, and the Apocalypse. Raging ...
September 11, 2023
Added to From the Field
Bela Tringali

Bela Tringali

Empowering Grassroots Change: 2023 State Bridges Impact Stories
In 2023, the State Bridges Program supported 8 grassroots organizations who are building sustained p...
August 22, 2023
Added to From the Field, Thought Leadership
Gaby Goldstein

Gaby Goldstein

Jillian Evans

Jillian Evans

Insurrectionist Accountability: Texting Voters about Candidate Participation in the January 6 Insurrection
This study tested the effect of receiving a text message about their local state house or senate can...
August 8, 2023
Added to Research and Experiments
Gaby Goldstein

Gaby Goldstein

Jillian Evans

Jillian Evans

How Much Handwriting Matters? Measuring Downstream Effects of Postcards to Voters
This investigation measured the downstream (general election) effects of sending completely handwrit...
Added to Research and Experiments
Gaby Goldstein

Gaby Goldstein

Jillian Evans

Jillian Evans

Values-Matched Messaging Replication: Holding Anti-Abortion Legislators to Account
Abstract: This study tested the effect on turnout of receiving a handwritten postcard highlighting t...
July 19, 2023
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Juliet Eastland

Juliet Eastland

Why States Matter (More Than Ever): SCOTUS Saves Us, Sort Of
Phew! A close call, but our tottering democracy lives to see another day: last week, in Moore v. Har...
July 10, 2023
Added to Policy and Issues
Sister District

Sister District

Announcing our 2023 Wave 2 Candidates
We are thrilled to introduce our second wave of candidates for 2023! Our next six candidates of 2023...
July 5, 2023
Added to Candidates and Races
Juliet Eastland

Juliet Eastland

Why States Matter: “Alas, Poor ERIC!” Red StatesTrash Voter Records
Imagine you’re a state election official. An ethical election official, of course: someone who m...
June 12, 2023
Added to Thought Leadership
Sister District

Sister District

Announcing our 2023 Wave 1 Candidates
We are thrilled to introduce our first wave of candidates for 2023 — all running in Virginia!  Ou...
April 18, 2023
Added to Candidates and Races
Gaby Goldstein

Gaby Goldstein

Mallory Roman

Mallory Roman

Rings of Three, Leave it Be: Testing the Three Rings Approach to Phonebanking
This study tested the trade-offs between contact rate and the number of conversations with two metho...
February 28, 2023
Added to Research and Experiments
Gaby Goldstein

Gaby Goldstein

Mallory Roman

Mallory Roman

New voters of color: Do welcome messages emphasizing voter identity increase turnout?
This study tested the efficacy of handwritten postcards that welcomed newly registered 18- and 19-ye...
December 20, 2022
Added to Research and Experiments
Gaby Goldstein

Gaby Goldstein

Mallory Roman

Mallory Roman

Postcards to voters: How much handwriting matters?
This investigation measured the efficacy of completely handwritten and partially handwritten pro-cho...
December 15, 2022
Added to Research and Experiments
Gaby Goldstein

Gaby Goldstein

2022 Post-Election Analysis: Political Landscape & Larger Trends
This year’s midterms were historic - especially at the state legislative level. The question on ma...
November 15, 2022
Added to Candidates and Races, Thought Leadership
Gaby Goldstein

Gaby Goldstein

2022 Immediate Sister District Post-Election Results
Democrats did something extremely special in state legislatures across the country: they largely hel...
November 9, 2022
Added to Candidates and Races, From the Field, Thought Leadership
Gaby Goldstein

Gaby Goldstein

Mallory Roman

Mallory Roman

Partisan control over time: Antecedents to flipping state legislatures
This analysis was a correlational study using archival data that sought to determine if the state-wi...
November 8, 2022
Added to From the Field

Why do state legislatures matter for enacting progressive change nationwide? What issues matter to Sister District candidates? Can Democratic majorities end gerrymandering, defend voting rights, protect reproductive rights, enact climate action? Does volunteering to phonebank, canvass, or write postcards to voters make a difference?

These are important questions and we’re here to shed some light on these pressing issues, as well as keep you up to date on upcoming elections and important developments. Our talented team includes lawyers, academics, advocates, community leaders, and many others who contribute their skills and brainpower to building Democratic representation in state legislatures. We discuss these important issues, interview our candidates, talk about current events, and share our research findings. 

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Research and Experiments

Our very own Dr. Mallory Roman and Co-Founder/Attorney Gaby Goldstein break down the Sister District Action Network’s research concerning civic engagement, voter messaging, and much more. Dr. Mallory Roman earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Duke University. Gaby Goldstein studied at the Boston University School of Law and earned her Ph.D. in Health Policy at the Univ. of California, Berkeley.

Political Strategy

Where data and research meet with passion and experience. Building progressive power in state legislatures can be done and we’ll show you how! Jump in to learn more about how we organize and mobilize voters nationwide for the 2022 midterms, even in traditionally “red states”  like Texas and Georgia.

Thought Leadership

Hear from our lead Strategists, Attorneys, Researchers, Organizers, and Communications experts. What are they seeing? What do they want people to know about state elections and building progressive power?

Candidates and Races

Candidates and campaign field managers discuss pressing issues, policy matters, and also gain insight into the real person running for public office, not just the politician.

Policy and Issues

Reproductive Rights? Voting Rights? Supreme Court rulings? Policy seems to be changing daily! What does it mean and what can you do? Here we discuss developing policy matters and why what happens in one state matters in another.

From the field

Hear firsthand accounts from organizers, candidates, volunteers, and political strategists working with the public and on the political front lines. Why do they do this work, what do they love about it, and what advice do they have?