BIG EDIT: Calling your DNC offices is more effective than e-mailing, call if you can. There is already a phone directory posted for DNC state offices. Please look up your district office and elected representatives information and give them a call as well.

I e-mailed my representative and senator yesterday about the future of the party leadership and the party platform.

In my letter I specifically wrote about how the Democratic party needs to assume responsibility for their role in electing Donald Trump as Commander in Chief. And that the future of the party depends on evolving to the current political climate. I let them know that I wanted a progressive in power. I specifically said that I would never vote for another Democrat if someone like Tim Kaine or Donna Brazile were the chair in the future. I endorsed Warren, Sanders, and Gabbard. This was before Bernie endorsed Keith Ellison (who now has my full support).

My representative's office got back to me very quickly. The staffer that got in contact with me said he totally thinks I'm right but that e-mailing my reps would only do so much as they have limited influence. He said that if I really wanted my voice to be heard then I needed to go straight to the DNC at both the national and local levels. So that is what I did.

I contacted the DNC, then my state's democratic party, and then my county democratic party.

WE ALL NEED TO DO THIS!!

Please contact your party! Address your letter to the relevant chairperson and party (state, local)

BE CLEAR in your letter than you do not want Tim Kaine, Donna, or other legacy members to lead the party into the future. Tell them you want a progressive. Today Bernie endorsed Keith Ellison, you can and should name drop him.

Please do not be rude, your message will not be taken seriously if you are not cordial. Be polite, but firm.

So that we can get the ball rolling faster on this I have made a list of every state's Democratic party and hotlinked the e-mail directories/contact info for local chapters and their leadership.

Please find your local party and their chairperson and make it clear to them that you want change in party leadership. Other people that you might want to contact are Chuck Schumer (Chuck endorsed Keith today, feel free to let him know you support his decision), Nancy Pelosi, and probably Donna herself.

EDIT:/u/serious_sarcasm highlighted and hotlinked other organizations in the DNC bylaws that should be contacted.

I still recommend contacting your elected officials (rep,senator,governor,mayor), they need to feel the pressure from all sides!

Directories with personal/direct e-mails will be marked with an asterisk(*), if you are uncomfortable directly e-mailing then click the asterisk and it will take you to the general "contact us" form if available.

If you have information you feel should be added please let me know.

With that said, heres what you need:

National Democratic Party

Party Organization Social Media

States, Respective Chairperson: *-Generic Contact Form

Alabama, Nancy Worley

Alaska, Casey Steinau *

Arizona, Alexis Tameron *

Arkansas, Vincent Insalaco

California, John Burton (Click profiles for e-mail) *

Colorado, Rick Palacio (Click profiles for e-mail) *

Connecticut, Dominic Balleto, Jr. *

Delware, John Daniello (Phone Numbers) *-Generic email at bottom

Florida, Allison Tant (Twitter Links) / Counties / Caucuses/ Note: Allison Tant announced she will not seek re-election.

Georgia, DuBose Porter (Click profile for e-mail) *

Hawai'i, Tim Vandeveer

Idaho, Bert Marley

Illinois, Michael J. Madigan

Indiana, John Zody / County Directory

Iowa, Dr. Andy McGuire

Kansas, Lee Kinch / County Leader Directory

Kentucky, Sannie Overly

Louisiana, Karen Carter Peterson (Phone numbers) / Staff *

Maine, Phil Bartlett / Staff

Maryland, Bruce Poole (No leadership contacts, click staff profiles for their contact, generic "Contact us" at bottom of page)

Massachusetts, Gus Bickford

Michigan, Brandon Dillon (no leadership contact, staff email) *

Minnesota, Ken Martin

Mississippi, Bobby Moak (No leadership contact, staff) *

Missouri, Roy Temple (Social Media) *

Montana, Jim Elliott (Directory without contact info) *

Nebraska, Vincent Powers *

Nevada, Roberta Lange / County Directory (Phone number at bottom)

New Hampshire, Raymond Buckley *

New Jersey, John Currie / County Directory (on right side under Counties)

New Mexico, Debra Haaland *

New York, Byron Brown / County Directory

North Carolina, Patsy Keever (General contact at bottom of page)

North Dakota, Kylie Oversen (social media links in bio) *

Ohio, David Pepper / Chair Social Media / Caucuses

Oklahoma, Mark Hammons *

Oregon, Frank Dixon / Counties *

Pennsylvania, Marcel Groen (No leadership contact, staff) / Counties *

Rhode Island, Joseph McNamara / Caucuses

South Carolina, Jaime Harrison (General contact at bottom)

South Dakota, Ann Tornberg *

Tennessee, Mary Mancini / Counties

Texas, Gilberto Hinojosa / Counties *

Utah, Peter Corroon (general contact at bottom)

Vermont, Dottie Deans *

Virginia, Susan Swecker

Washington, Jaxon Ravens *

West Virginia, Belinda Biafore *

Wisconsin, Martha Laning (No leadership contact, staff) / Counties/ Caucuses *

Wyoming, Ana Cuprill (General contact at bottom)

Districts, Territories, and more:

Washington D.C, Anita Bonds (General contact form at bottom)

Puerto Rico, Roberto Prats

Guam, Joaquin P. Perez (Form at bottom)

American Samoa

Northern Mariana Islands, Daniel Q. Quitugua

US Virgin Islands / Facebook

Democrats Abroad, Katie Solon / Caucuses

Updated this format, Bernie would have won.

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Upcoming June Primaries for 2024: What You Need to Know

Hey everyone,

As we approach the summer, it's time to gear up for the upcoming primary elections in June 2024. Here's a quick rundown of what you need to know:

Key Dates and States

| Date | State | Office/Event |

|--------------|---------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

| June 2, 2024 | Puerto Rico | Territory-wide primary |

| June 4, 2024 | California | Anaheim City Council District 3 Recall Election |

| June 4, 2024 | California | Hartnell CCD Special Election |

| June 4, 2024 | California | Temecula Valley Unified School District Joseph Komrosky Recall Election |

| June 4, 2024 | Colorado | Cherokee Metropolitan District Recall Election |

| June 4, 2024 | District of Columbia | D.C. district-wide/presidential preference primary |

| June 4, 2024 | Iowa | Statewide primary |

| June 4, 2024 | Montana | Statewide/presidential preference primary |

| June 4, 2024 | New Jersey | Statewide/presidential preference primary |

| June 4, 2024 | New Mexico | Statewide/presidential preference primary |

| June 4, 2024 | South Carolina | Special general election for Mayor of Burnettown |

| June 4, 2024 | South Dakota | Statewide/presidential preference primary |

| June 8, 2024 | Guam | Democratic Party-administered presidential caucus |

| June 8, 2024 | South Dakota | Republican Party convention |

| June 11, 2024| Delaware | Delaware City special municipal election |

| June 11, 2024| Maine | Statewide primary |

| June 11, 2024| Nevada | Statewide primary |

| June 11, 2024| North Dakota | Statewide primary |

| June 11, 2024| North Dakota | General election for Bismarck |

| June 11, 2024| North Dakota | House of Representatives District 15 special primary |

| June 11, 2024| North Dakota | House of Representatives District 9 special primary |

| June 11, 2024| North Dakota | State Senate District 15 special primary |

| June 11, 2024| North Dakota | State Senate District 9 special primary |

| June 11, 2024| Ohio | Special general for U.S. House District 6 |

| June 11, 2024| South Carolina | Statewide primary |

| June 15, 2024| Indiana | Republican Party state convention |

| June 15, 2024| South Dakota | Democratic Party convention |

| June 15, 2024| Texas | Statewide general runoff |

| June 18, 2024| Alabama | Special primary election for House of Representatives District 52 |

| June 18, 2024| Florida | Orlando City Council Commissioner District 5 general runoff election |

| June 18, 2024| Georgia | Statewide primary runoff |

| June 18, 2024| Georgia | DeKalb County School District general runoff |

| June 18, 2024| Georgia | Fulton County Schools general runoff |

| June 18, 2024| Georgia | Henry County Schools general runoff |

| June 18, 2024| Georgia | Muscogee County School District general runoff |

| June 18, 2024| Georgia | Savannah-Chatham County Public School System general runoff |

| June 18, 2024| Oklahoma | Statewide primary |

| June 18, 2024| Oklahoma | State Senate District 46 special primary election |

| June 18, 2024| Oklahoma | State Senate District 48 special primary election |

| June 18, 2024| Oklahoma | Osage County Commission District 1 special primary |

| June 18, 2024| South Carolina | Special election in Great Falls for town council |

| June 18, 2024| Virginia | Statewide primary |

| June 25, 2024| Colorado | Statewide primary |

| June 25, 2024| Colorado | 4th Congressional District special general election |

| June 25, 2024| New York | Statewide primary |

| June 25, 2024| South Carolina | Statewide primary runoff |

| June 25, 2024| Utah | Statewide primary |

| June 29, 2024| South Dakota | Libertarian Party state convention |

Why These Primaries Matter

Primaries are crucial as they determine the candidates who will represent their respective parties in the general elections in November. This is your chance to have a say in who gets to run for office from your preferred party. High-profile races include:

• **Montana** and **South Carolina** U.S. Senate seats, which could impact the balance of power in the Senate.
• Key House races in states like **New Jersey** and **Virginia** that could determine control of the House of Representatives.

How to Participate

1. **Check Your Registration**: Make sure you're registered to vote. Deadlines vary by state, so check your state's specific requirements.
2. **Know Your Candidates**: Research the candidates running in your area. Local news outlets, candidate websites, and nonpartisan resources like Ballotpedia can be helpful.
3. **Vote**: Whether you're voting in person, by mail, or absentee, make sure you know the process and deadlines for your state.

Get Involved

• **Volunteer**: Campaigns are always looking for volunteers. It's a great way to get involved and support your preferred candidates.
• **Spread the Word**: Encourage friends and family to vote. Share information on social media to help others stay informed.

Remember, your vote is your voice. Let's make it heard this June!

Feel free to add any additional information or ask questions in the comments. Let's have a great discussion!

Happy voting!

Special election in NY today GOTV efforts https://elections.ny.gov

Polls open 6 AM - 9 PM

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Hello,

Here are the states with primaries in April:

Michigan - April 16th

Pensylvania - April 23rd

Puerto Rico - April 21st and April 28th

Presidential Primaries:

Connecticut - April 2nd

New York - April 2nd

Rhode Island - April 2nd

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Psychological and Cyberwarfare.

These are the two concepts that everyone needs to be continuously reminded of today.

As many of you may know, all Reddit subs have moderators. Our jobs are to investigate reports and take appropriate action. We love it when users report the trolls. Why? Because if you don’t report the trolls, the trolls win.

What is a troll? A troll is a bad actor, an account using deceptive tactics to achieve an agenda. Trolls do not have to be "Russian." Trolls can be American. Trolls can work for Corporate Democrats. Trolls can be White Nationalists. Trolls can work for any military industrial complex. Trolls can work for the GOP. Trolls can work for China. Trolls can physically be based anywhere and yet they are everywhere all at once, because this is the internet.

Trolls use psychological and cyberwarfare tactics that have been developed over decades, and those tactics were originally rooted in propaganda. (Read about these two men: Edward Bernays, the "pioneer of public relations," was the American nephew of Sigmund Freud; Joseph Goebbels was the head of the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Hitler).

Across the board, trolls are swamping progressive subs, this one included. If the sub is a pro-Bernie sub, expect to see trolling. This has always been an issue, but in the past week, troll activity has skyrocketed.

Here is a brief summary of the war we are currently in:

Trolls are a regular part of military-backed psychological and cyberwarfare today, in 2020.

In 2014, futurist Gerd Leonhard warned that “the new arms race is about data and artificial intelligence. Some people are saying that up to 50% of defense budgets in the near future will be about artificial intelligence and cloud computing, cloud security—digital warfare” (TEDx Talks, 2014, 00:11:44).

Well, Leonhard knew exactly what he was talking about. The Mueller Investigation proved that the Internet Research Agency, also known as the IRA, has been behind a massive global push to interfere in elections, particularly United States elections.

Here is a PBS summary of the Mueller Report in under 30 minutes. Please do your civic duty and watch this so that you understand what is happening online.

Online manipulation of what people see has been thoroughly proven to successfully manipulate not just emotional states, but psychological states and how people react. Emotional states are factually contagious.

Here is information about Facebook’s highly unethical emotional contagion study, which preceded the 2016 election interference. It was carried out by Facebook and researchers at Cornell University.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-about-facebooks-secret-mood-manipulation-experiment/373648/

PLEASE NOTE: Nothing has changed. The same tactics that were used in 2016 are being used now, plus newer methods. What happened in 2016 is still happening today, in 2020.

Here is a scholarly article discussing the effects of the condemned Facebook emotional contagion study.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1747016115579531

The emotional contagion study manipulated newsfeeds and what kinds of posts were delivered to different people. It proved that when people were subjected to sad or negative posts, they reacted by posting sadder news, or less news in general. Conversely, those who were on the receiving end of positive posts reacted by posting happier posts and more often.

The results of the emotional contagion study are pertinent to how trolls manipulate people across social media platforms.

Immediately after the Facebook emotional contagion study, the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal happened. Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm, was working with the Trump campaign by giving the campaign information about users’ preferences and contacts so that they could be targeted by trolling efforts to manipulate the election.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/23/17151916/facebook-cambridge-analytica-trump-diagram

After the 2016 election and widespread reports of propaganda, Facebook attempted to launch “Project P” for Propaganda and attempted to do a sweep that removed fake accounts. Most of those accounts were politically-motivated and based in foreign countries. HOWEVER, Facebook’s most senior Republican, Joel Kaplan, argued that removing all of the propaganda would “disproportionally affect conservatives.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/20/facebook-republican-shift/

Additionally, the Trump administration pressured Facebook over this matter and as a result, Facebook has not taken any appropriate initiative or action towards ensuring that fake news is removed from the platform. The end result has been more widespread “fake news,” actually fake news, ie., propaganda.

So let’s circle back to Reddit. Here are some of the kinds of trolling comments that you might see but not recognize as trolling.

Comments on posts that are aimed to rally people into action, that say demotivational things such as “I don’t know why we need to do that.” For instance, a recent post on the r/SandersForPresident sub was seeking delegates in Florida. A commenter posted (paraphrased), “I don’t know why we need to worry about finding delegates in Florida, we’re fine there.” This seems innocuous, but it was aimed to get people to move on without thinking twice about the plea for delegates. When looking up the user, it was clear that they were very anti-progressive, anti-Bernie, and had chosen to post a “demotivating” comment on an urgent post in the sub.

Another recent example of very subtle trolling was a commenter who said (paraphrased), “Honestly, who the f*ck wants to legalize marijuana?” under a Bernie Sanders post that mentioned that he wants to legalize it. When looking the user up, it was clear that they had called themselves “Auth Right” a mere 8 hours earlier on another sub. Again, this is the kind of seemingly innocuous comment that needs to be inspected and reported.

When these kinds of comments are left unreported, they psychologically affect people who use the platform. All too often, users who are unaware of the fact that they are speaking to bad-faith actors will respond to these comments, even with words such as “thank you for your honesty, but…”

Do NOT waste your time responding to these kinds of comments. This is war. You MUST dig deeper. The report button is your friend. The report button is your sword in battle.

Please, commit to your civic duty as a user of Reddit, and remember that we are actually in the middle of a cyberwar. If you see comments that are demotivational, please investigate the user and report to the moderators immediately if you see anything that looks fishy. This applies to all progressive subs, not just this one.

Thank You!  

P.S. Perhaps this needs to be said, this applies to all trolls, no matter what their nationality is, where they are, how they deal with themselves, or who they may be working for. A report does not lead to a ban. It leads to further investigation. Please use that report button.