FEATURED DC/MD/VA EVENTS & NATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES:

Now @ Home: Call MD Voters (NY has plenty of help) + FaceBank MD & NY Friends (click on Bookmark button to msg/txt fb friends-by-state) to Vote, Register OR Confirm they’re registered! Virtual Phone Banking requires computer to use LiveVox cell phone dialer or you can use HubDialer for land lines only. JOIN OUR DMV @ HOME TEAM ON FACEBOOK

4/7 DC Phone Bank (vol recruitment) @ Capitol Hill HQ-Union Station metro

4/7: “DC Berners” Phone Bank @ Libertine-Adams Morgan (facebook)

4/7: ObamaAlums&Friends PhoneBank @ MtP CommunityOffice-CoHi metro

4/7: Takoma-Silver Spring Organizing Mtg @ Takoma Park Community Ctr

4/9: Bernie Camp (training) @ MoCo HQ-Rockville metro (facebook)

4/9: Bernie Camp (training) @ College Park Campaign HQ

4/14 PG & People of Color/Faith 4 Bernie Fundraiser/Speakout @ Hyattsville

4/14: DC Phone Bank (vol recruitment) @ Capitol Hill HQ-Union Station

4/14–21: Early Voting (w/new voter&address registration) -NO INDYS! ->Vote4Bernie official fb event & grassroots fb event #1 & fb event #2

4/16: DC Phone Bank (vol recruitment) @ Capitol Hill HQ-Union Station

Find Events at DMV for Bernie fb group or berniesanders.com/events & Register to join the DMV for Bernie Volunteer Team!

(if you have questions about how to get involved feel free to email Jim at fwdprogressive@gmail.com and i will help you or forward you to right place)

STATUS UPDATE!

Bernie had a great Western week that included taking 73% of the pledged delegates in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii…as even though these contests represent only 4% of the delegates that will be awarded we cut our overall deficit by over 20%!

According to FiveThirtyEight.com, we must get 56% of the remaining pledged delegates to amass a majority from the voters and even though we’re expected to win most of the remaining states we must improve our margins ASAP.

We have met or exceeded the delegate projections in 12 of the last 20 contests but we still need to do just over 5% better than expected the rest of the way to make up for some bad losses in the southern states.

There is new hope as we have finally achieved about the 5%+ bounce we need into a virtual tie in the latest national poll.

We have given it our all but WE NEED TO GIVE 105% on the ground too!

As has been discussed in a recent Virginia After-Action Report written by volunteer organizers, in Maryland, DC and the remaining states we need YOU to help Bernie better EXPAND & PERSUADE the electorate through tactics like voter registration for young people and visibility efforts for African-Americans. And regardless, remember that every vote that Bernie gets grows our voice to push pressure on the Establishment and every volunteer that we recruit builds our Movement for 2016 and beyond.

We are making a difference because if it was time to “pivot” to the general election then why would our opponent need to resort to misleading claims that have been called out by Obama’s former Chief Adviser David Axelrod, Vox, New York Times, Washington Post and that socialist rag Forbes as i discuss in my new post “The Biggest Lie of 2016 is Hillary will continue the leadership of Barack Obama,”

In addition to this great Daily Kos post that explains why Bernie is more electable vs Trump, I also discuss in my own “Bernie is the only Yes We Can candidate” blog post about how Bernie’s effort to create another Hope & Change Movement via a “Political Revolution” is the more “practical” path for the party to win back the White House and Congress…now is the time to DOUBLE DOWN on it by adding few more organizing weapons from the Obama Playbook.

Here is my rough outline of the priorities nationwide, especially for us in the Northeast in the coming weeks, AND why they can change the game if we work TOGETHER…

TOP PRIORITIES!

#1 BUILD & ENGAGE OUR NETWORKS:

Remember that you have friends in possibly several of the remaining primary and caucus states that you should contact regarding Bernie and how to vote before their registration or voting deadlines (see below) do “Face-Banking” on social media as well.…just click on the Bookmark button and ignore that it mentions Events then message friends who like Bernie on Facebook or other platforms.

Official Web Site — Facebook — Twitter — YouTube

Apps:

Rally (campaign approved)-Movement (iOS only)-FieldTheBern canvass tool

National Grassroots Groups: Slack organizing teams — Facebook & Reddit

Local Groups: DMV for Bernie Sanders Facebook Group (for organizing only) NoVA FB Grp - NoVA FB Page -VA Reddit - DC FB Grp - DC FB Page - DC Reddit MD FB Grp -MD Page-MoCo FB Grp-Terps FB Grp — MD Reddit — MD website

Housing: BernieBNB

Watch: Democratic Debate Schedule & Videos

The “Together” video above is also great to share and so is this one for African-American voters:

#2 PRIORITY GET-OUT-THE-VOTE DOOR KNOCKING & CALLS @ HOME:

http://bernie.to/journey

-> In the final days and weeks leading up to Primary or Caucus Day, volunteers in surrounding states will go on a “Journey For Bernie” to knock on doors and talk to voters. Volunteers will travel by car, bus and train to Bernie field offices. Upon arrival, organizers will provide training and relevant materials to prepare you to knock on doors for Bernie.

www.berniesanders.com/phonebank

-> Making calls is super easy with the online auto-dialer where you just sit and wait a few seconds to be connected to a voter. Try for a goal of talking to 10 people and schedule a time when you can do 30 minutes or more between 10am-9pm local time. Don’t be discouraged by wrong numbers etc….finding Bernie voters takes patience!

4/6–9: WY

4/10–19: NY

4/20–26: MD, DE, PA, CT, RI

4/27–5/3: IN

5/4–10: WV

5/11–17: OR

5/18–6/7: CA, NJ, NM, ND, SD, MT

6/8–17: DC

Find & Create Volunteer Events : http://berniesanders.com/events (easier to sort than the Map version on the home page)

#3 PRIORITY VOTER REGISTRATION & EARLY VOTING DRIVES:

Voter Info: http://vote.berniesanders.com & www.voteforbernie.org

4/13 NJ: Affiliate as DEMOCRAT Deadline, current voters only (closed)

4/14–21 MD: Early Voting Days

4/18 KY: Register Online as DEMOCRAT Deadline, new voters only (closed)

4/19 WV: Register Online Deadline (semi-closed)

4/21 CT: Register Online as DEMOCRAT Deadline (closed)

4/25 CT: Affiliate Online as DEMOCRAT Deadline (closed)

4/26 OR: Register Online as DEMOCRAT Deadline (closed)

5/9 MT: Register Deadline (open)

5/10 NM: Register Online as DEMOCRAT Deadline (closed)

5/16 DC: Affiliate Online as DEMOCRAT Deadline, current voters only (closed)

5/17: NJ Register as DEMOCRAT Deadline, new voters only

5/23 DC: Register Online as DEMOCRAT Deadline, new voters only (closed)

5/23 CA: Register Online Deadline (semi-closed)

5/23 SD: Register Deadline (semi-closed)

6/7 ND: Same Day Registration (open)

Find & Create Volunteer Events : http://berniesanders.com/events (easier to sort than the Map version on the home page)

#4 REMIND EVERYONE THERE ARE 3 WAYS TO DEFY THE PROJECTIONS & WIN THIS:

1) Change The Polls -> We have vaulted to a virtual tie in some national polls so that’s a good sign but we need to make inroads in the African-American community especially. I know Bernie like his stump speech but it would be good to see a more customized message that discusses himself a little bit more and includes his civil rights background and tells specific stories that will resonate with voters. He also should explain to ALL Obama loyalists that despite his criticisms and her support from many folks in the Obama universe he is the true “Yes We Can” candidate of the people in 2016.

2) Change The Turnout -> We under-performed in the south and that could be partially due to the campaign seemingly conceding these states. We cannot give up any territory and must improve our ground game through scaling our efforts better to make more voter contacts that inspire people to vote for Bernie because of his message and because the race is not over and every delegate gives our coalition more power at the Democratic National Convention.

3) Change The Electorate -> We simply need more Bernie voters to be eligible to participate. Many of our young supporters are missing voter registration deadlines or have no idea when and where to vote early or on Primary Day.

Although the campaign needs to do their part in the media to better persuade a mass audience in a hurry much of this work can be done with a YUUUUGE VISIBILITY DRIVE TO EDUCATE VOTERS ON THE CANDIDATE & VOTING PROCESS that is about much more than waving signs on street corners by convincing folks we’re a big deal and then helping them register and vote early or at the polls.

The Obama campaign didn’t just knock on doors to talk to voters.. They went out in the community to the barber shops and hair salons in South Carolina and churches and neighborhood hot spots to build relationships besides a cold call or door knock during dinner…especially to meet those that cannot be reached on the phones and doors.

The bad news is in Virginia, where I recently helped organize over a dozen people to give out well over a thousand flyers on Primary Day Eve at our young people-packed metro stops, we threw together a VISIBILITY DRIVE at the last minute partially because the campaign wasn’t learning the lay of the land so the grassroots finally did it ourselves. And although you cannot collect data on these folks we know for a fact that we helped many people figure out how to vote.

The good news is we are now inspired to plan this in Maryland and many of the remaining states because there is still time. In DC, we already have been invited to the Capitol Hill campaign office for an organizing meeting as a staffer has finally been appointed to facilitate our growth so we know we can do better moving forward.

This is how grassroots campaigns succeed:

Respect. Empower. Include. Win.