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Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), and his organization, Powered By People: I'm personally inviting you to join Beto and Powered by People volunteers next Tuesday, April 27, at a virtual phone bank to call voters in Webb County. I've joined Beto on...

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  • April 20, 2021

This is awesome: As Gov. Ron DeSantis sets his sights on a gubernatorial reelection bid in 2022, an attorney who’s been critical of the governor has launched a “Remove Ron” political committee to raise funds and unseat DeSantis. Daniel Uhlfelder, known as the ‘grim reaper’ lawyer because of his attempts...

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  • February 18, 2021

I’m reminded these days of the classic Monty Python “Election Night Special” sketch. In the sketch, three political parties — the Sensible Party, the Silly Party, and the Slightly Silly Party — vie (along with the independent “very silly” candidate) for various offices. There are a lot of great moments in...

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  • February 1, 2021

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) and his organization, Powered By People: Texas is at the center of the constitutional crisis that will play out in our nation’s capital today. The latest lurch towards authoritarianism — Donald Trump trying to shake down Georgia’s...

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  • January 6, 2021

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) & Jon Ossoff (D. GA) We’ve been looking over the results from our last survey and you’ve made your priorities loud and clear: we need to win the Georgia runoffs...

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  • December 21, 2020

Received this e-mail today from President-Elect Joe Biden in support of Jon Ossoff (D. GA) & Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns: Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) & Jon Ossoff (D. GA) Last month this grassroots team made history — not just by winning the presidency, but by flipping...

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  • December 10, 2020

Received this e-mail today from Democracy For America: Have you signed up to text Georgia voters yet? On Friday, at 6pm Eastern/3pm Pacific, we'll kick off our Georgia Text Out The Vote campaign. We have 33 days to reach 3 million voter contacts and we need all hands on deck...

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  • December 3, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) and his organization, Powered By People: We are almost there. Eight days left, including today. While Texas leads the country in number of votes cast and also leads in improvement over 2016 turnout, there are still millions...

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  • October 26, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: We know how important the presidential, senate, and congressional races are this year. In both cases, we’ve been talking about those elections for over a year. But we cannot forget how important local...

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  • October 26, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: In case you missed it, Powered by People volunteers did something incredible yesterday. After raising our original goal of making one million calls (twice!), our volunteers still went above and beyond and called...

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  • October 14, 2020

Apologies for missing this. Received this e-mail yesterday from the Wisconsin Democratic Party: Are you as fired up as we are after the VP debate? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris deserve to go to the White House this January – but it won’t happen if we don’t organize Wisconsin –...

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  • October 9, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) and his organization, Powered By People: I’m excited to invite you to one of the biggest voter turnout efforts ever. On October 12th, the last day before Early Voting begins in Texas, we will attempt to call...

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  • October 3, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) Powered By People: If you’ve signed up to a phone bank with us before, you know that we have a little secret surprise at the end of each shift. After Beto and our Powered by People volunteers...

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  • October 1, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: In a moment, I'm going to ask you to phone bank. Let me explain why it’s so important for us to do this work: In 2018, we watched as amazing Texas State House...

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  • September 25, 2020

Received this e-mail just now from the Wisconsin Democratic Party: With voters across Wisconsin receiving their mail-in ballots this week, it’s more urgent than ever to reach every last one of them to share positive messages about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Wisconsin elections are always close, and our state...

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  • September 24, 2020

Received this e-mail today from VoteVets: We’re teaming up with Nuestro PAC to run our latest ad in Florida featuring Iraq War Veteran and former GOP Hispanic Outreach Director Pablo Pantoja speaking out against Traitor Trump and his disregard for Puerto Rican lives following Hurricane Maria. It’s a Spanish-language ad...

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  • September 23, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX): We are about to enter the most critical stretch in the most important year of our lives. There are only 25 days until early voting begins in Texas and 46 days until Election Day. The most defining...

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  • September 18, 2020

Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America: It’s here. Voting has already started in 9 states. North Carolina and North Dakota have sent ballots to voters. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Minnesota, Wyoming, Virginia, Vermont, and South Dakota all start in-person early voting this weekend. In order to defeat Trump, flip the Senate and win critical local...

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  • September 18, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rouke (D. TX) and his organization, Powered By People: With Election Day just weeks away, our volunteers have been working harder than ever. And the work is paying off. Just last night, 480 volunteers made over 176,000 calls to register...

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  • September 17, 2020

Some very good news out of South Carolina today: x #SCsen: The @dscc just announced a “seven-figure” investment in South Carolina after @harrisonjaime (D) was tied with @LindseyGrahamSC (R) in a recent poll. Buy will support TV ads, polling, field org etc. Read more about how SC has become competitive...

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  • September 17, 2020

Received this e-mail from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), and his organization, Powered By People: Exciting news! We’re teaming up with more awesome Democratic Texas State House candidates who are ready to fight for ALL of us in Austin! Like Beto said, we have two important tasks...

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  • September 6, 2020

Received this e-mail today from VoteVets in support of Cal Cunningham’s (D. NC) U.S. Senate campaign: x YouTube Video Exciting news out of North Carolina today. We just announced a major ad buy featuring former U.S. Army Captain and Fayetteville, North Carolina resident Amy Rutkowske sharing an important reminder of...

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  • September 2, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former Presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), on behalf of his organization, Powered By People: We’re trying to do two big things that haven’t been done in a long time. 1. Win a Democratic majority in the Texas House (last time that happened was...

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  • September 1, 2020

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Ed Markey’s (D. MA) re-election campaign: This is the final weekend of the campaign, and we have one question: What are you personally going to do to help re-elect Ed Markey? We cannot sit this moment out. We need every single person who...

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  • August 28, 2020

From CNN: Senate Majority PAC, the top Democratic Super PAC involved in Senate races, will spend $7.2 million on ads in September aimed at defeating Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia, as his race against Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff has turned into one of the most competitive in the country....

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  • August 26, 2020

The suddenly very dreamy Miles Taylor — the former Trump DHS chief of staff who’s called his former boss, in a word, fuckingnuts — is back, and he’s bringing some of his friends with him. Taylor, who exhorted us all to vote for Joe Biden unless we want human decency itself to...

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  • August 25, 2020

Very glad to see this: x YouTube Video The debut ad, his first TV spot of his campaign, highlights his upbringing in a Savannah housing project and his journey to the pulpit of Atlanta’s famed Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. As the...

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  • August 20, 2020

Received this e-mail from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: In 2018, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) — along with Beto's Senate campaign, the El Paso Democratic Party, and End Citizens United — organized the first Border Bus Tour. The tour was a chartered bus...

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  • August 19, 2020

From The Houston Chronicle: For years, the same question has been asked: When will the new Texas emerge? The answer? Right now. Join @BlueTexasPAC as we work to secure Texas’ 38 Electoral College votes for Joe Biden, and turn Texas blue once and for all. pic.twitter.com/7uBLfrbKsV — BlueTexasPAC (@BlueTexasPAC) August...

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  • August 9, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: Recent polling shows that Texas is officially a “toss-up” state — meaning that the race for president is basically tied. This news is a great reminder that flipping Texas blue and stopping Trump...

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  • August 7, 2020

I’m loving this: x YouTube Video A super PAC created by former top aides to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign is set to air its first television ad, aiming to win over progressives who remain skeptical of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s center-left politics. The 30-second ad from...

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  • August 7, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: This election year is different. Our country is different. We’ve seen a wave of grassroots supporters from across the country coming together — online — to find community and do something good during these tough times. It has been incredible....

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  • August 7, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) and his organization, Powered by People: Last Monday, Governor Greg Abbott announced an extension on early voting in the state of Texas citing continued challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. The good news is that voters will now...

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  • August 2, 2020

Received this e-mail from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered by People: Today, we're excited to share one of our most expansive efforts yet. Powered by People is joining the Texas Democratic Party and the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats to reach out and contact every...

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  • July 28, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) and his organization, Powered by People: Texas is the biggest battleground state in the union. Let’s talk numbers: 9 — the number of seats we need to flip the State House 36 — the number of seats...

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  • July 26, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) group, Powered by People: Because of our volunteers, we've been able to make over a million calls to Texans in key districts in the past two months alone. And now that the runoff is over, we can...

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  • July 15, 2020

Received this e-mail today from Giffords PAC: This is the year we will elect a gun safety majority in the United States Senate. When elected, our majority will take historic action to make our country safer. So this summer, we're going on the road—virtually—to rally voters around background checks ahead...

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  • July 14, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), and his organization, Powered by People: At our virtual phone bank on Monday, volunteers made 316,000 phone calls to voters across Texas! Just look at this slice of our amazing team that Beto captured: But next, we...

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  • July 8, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) group, Powered By People: We just set a new record for the number of phone calls that Powered by People volunteers have made in a single night. Last week, we made 338,373 calls in a single night! It...

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  • July 2, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former Presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), and his organization, Powered by People: We’re about to launch phase two, and we need as many people as possible on board. Our ultimate mission is simple, but huge: turn out enough voters in Texas to win a...

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  • June 18, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: Join us for a special virtual Young Americans Town Hall with Vice President Joe Biden presented by League 46. Joe and Young Americans across the country will talk about the moment gripping our nation, the struggle for justice,...

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  • June 4, 2020

Received this e-mail from former Presidential candidate & Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: We’re making phenomenal progress. But to win a Democratic majority in the State House and stop Trump forever, we need to do a lot more. Last night alone, Powered by People volunteers made 192,038 calls to...

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  • May 27, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate & Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX): More than a million people have moved to Texas in the last three years, and I’m trying to get in touch with them. The good news about this group is that it’s comprised of folks who have...

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  • May 19, 2020

REceived this e-mail today from former Congressman & Presidential candidate, Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) and his group, Powered By People: The COVID-19 crisis reveals exactly why we need new leadership, which means we need to get to work immediately. Texas is one of worst states in the country in COVID-19 testing,...

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  • May 13, 2020

So in case you didn’t know: U.S. Sen. David Perdue’s financial portfolio saw heavy trading during the month of March, a period during which Congress passed three different spending bills to address the spread of COVID-19 and the markets took a turn for the worse. The report lists 112 transactions,...

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  • April 8, 2020

Received this e-mail from MJ Hegar’s (D. TX) U.S. Senate campaign: We need to make sure every Texas voter knows why MJ is the best candidate to beat Sen. Cornyn before the July 14 runoff! With in-person events suspended, online organizing is one of the most important tools in our...

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  • April 8, 2020

Receive this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA): I’m no longer running for president of the United States. But our grassroots movement was never just about winning one election. In your state and across the country, people have come together to fight side by side for big,...

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  • March 27, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign: This is our first of regular newsletters we will be sending around to Team Joe supporters from Vice President Biden. We hope you find this entertaining, informative, and a place to connect with the VP and our team....

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  • March 26, 2020

Most experts agree that widespread testing is the key to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic and flattening the curve. Without tests, people will be far more likely to forage on the commons and spread the coronavirus, causing the curve to go exponential. The U.S. has lagged far behind in testing, and...

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  • March 24, 2020

I just received this e-mail from Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign With only 1 day until Super Tuesday, we want you to know how we’re planning for the fight ahead. We’ll be counting votes in 14 states tomorrow. And when those ballots are counted, nearly 40 percent of delegates will be pledged....

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  • March 2, 2020