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Join Brookline PAX for a weekly stand out in Coolidge Corner.
Protect and preserve Democracy. Join us to stand up and stand out for our founding document at this time when it is in mortal peril. Make your feelings known.
Bring yourself. Bring signs. Bring friends and family. All are welcome.
A Force Multiplier Fundraising Event
On Zoom
Meet State Party Chairs Anderson Clayton of North Carolina and Curtis Hertel of Michigan with Martha Laning, President of the State Party Advancement Network
Join Force Multiplier in launching a new fund to strengthen battleground state parties as part of our efforts to improve conditions to win the 2026 Midterms.
Funds raised through this event will help the NC Dems strengthen their voter protection and registration programs. They will help MI Dems hire organizers in Detroit, in rural areas and in Arab-American communities. Both states have critical House and Senate races in 2026. Strengthening the state parties will help us win them. All funds will go directly to the two state parties.
Join the Massachusetts Democratic Party as we make phone calls into both VA (for Abigail Spanberger) and NJ (for Mikie Sherrill), two key gubernatorial races.
Sunday, October 26 from 4:30 - 6:00 PM
Thursday, October 30 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 2 from 4:30 - 6:00 PM
As soon as you sign up you will get the Zoom link.
Stay up late to protect democracy!
Join the Massachusetts Democratic Party for a phone bank supporting California’s Proposition 50. We’ll be calling CA voters to talk about fair representation, redistricting reform, and the importance of protecting democracy at every level. No experience needed- training and scripts provided!
Sign up to call from your own home:
Stand Up and Show Up for the Constitution. Protect and preserve Democracy. Join us to stand up and stand out for our founding document at this time when it is in mortal peril. Make your feelings known. Bring yourself. Bring signs. Bring friends and family. All are welcome.
Join the Massachusetts Democratic Party as we make phone calls into both VA (for Abigail Spanberger) and NJ (for Mikie Sherrill), the only two gubernatorial races of 2025.
We will phone bank on Thursday at 6 PM and Sunday at 4:30 PM until November for both of these candidates.
Join from anywhere
Join the Massachusetts Democratic Party as we make phone calls into both VA (for Abigail Spanberger) and NJ (for Mikie Sherrill), two key gubernatorial races.
We will phone bank on Thursday at 6 PM and Sunday at 4:30 PM until November for both of these candidates.
As soon as you sign up you will get the Zoom link.
The Newton Democratic City Committee Annual Brunch
Cohosted by the Brookline Democratic Town Committee
Join us as a host or grab tickets below
This year’s brunch will be extra special as we gather to honor Senator Ed Markey and rally together to help get out the vote for him and all the Democrats on the ballot in 2025.
Sponsorship Levels: $100, $250, $500, or $1,000
Tickets: $25
How to Contribute:
Donate online via ActBlue or mail a check to NDCC:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/newton-brunch--2025-markey
Newton Democratic City Committee
PO BOX 264
Newton, MA 02460
Stand Up and Show Up for the Constitution. Protect and preserve Democracy. Join us to stand up and stand out for our founding document at this time when it is in mortal peril. Make your feelings known. Bring yourself. Bring signs. Bring friends and family. All are welcome.
Join the Massachusetts Democratic Party as we make phone calls into both VA (for Abigail Spanberger) and NJ (for Mikie Sherrill), the only two gubernatorial races of 2025.
We will phone bank on Thursday at 6 PM and Sunday at 4:30 PM until November for both of these candidates.
Join from anywhere
As soon as you sign up you will get the Zoom link.
Mondays, September 22-November, Ongoing strategizing meetings of working groups and Postcards for fall elections
Packets of 20 postcards and stamps are $12. We take cash, checks and Venmo but NOT credit cards.
Join your neighbors in weekly activism to push back against authoritarianism and restore democracy!
Did you watch the one million rising trainings, attend or host a community gathering? Our knowledge and numbers are growing. We will work together to identify pillars, tactics and begin to a discussion of a few to amplify as a community of activists.
Sign Up Here: One Million Rising: Strategizing Together
Join your neighbors in weekly activism to push back against authoritarianism and restore democracy!
Meetings are Mondays from 6:45pm–8:45pm United Parish Church, Brookline.
This fall the group will be writing post cards to voters who will determine the make up of the PA Supreme Court and who can retake the VA governor's mansion. These elections are critical in preserving our democracy for the ’26 midterm and ’28 general elections.
Sign up here:Postcards to PA and VA for fall elections
Join other members of the Activist Evenings community to march together in Boston's first Labor Day Parade.
Sign Up here: Labor Day Parade: Activist Evenings in the Morning
Join your neighbors in weekly activism to push back against authoritarianism and restore democracy!
Here’s what’s happening this week:
The next big march is almost here as we join unions and workers for a Labor Day march. We'll spend an evening making signs together. We'll have some supplies, you can bring them if you have them but mostly bring your ideas and energy!
Sign up Here: Make Posters for the Labor Day Parade
Join other new and experienced activists to discuss and plan next steps. Need help thinking through hosting a community gathering? Want some inspiration about how to lead a meeting? Do you have experiences you want to share with others to make moving this important initiative forward easier?As individuals, we each have personal connections with one or more of the institutions that comprise the pillars of support governments depend on: business, labor, faith, education, civil service and military/police. As a group, we can amplify ideas that might strengthen dissent and weaken accommodation.
We'll have tables and chairs, you bring the questions, ideas and energy!AND don't worry if it's blistering hot, we will be meeting in a cool, well lit room!
Let's get creative and effective together!
Co-sponsored with Activist Evenings
Come hear from our Brookline legislative delegation about what the state can do to protect democracy and vulnerable people in response to the Trump Administration’s actions!
Speak directly with state representatives and our state senator to share your perspective and help shape policies that impact our communitySenator Creem and Representatives Vitolo, Schwartz, Honan and McGregor will all be in attendance.
Join us to elect delegates to the Democratic State Convention. You must be a registered voter in Brookline in order to participate.
On Zoom
We encourage you to join your neighbors and volunteer for these activities below
Monday, April 7, ACLU on Trump 2.0, a lawless administration, the courts and your rights. Liv Santoro, deputy field director for ACLU MA, will speak about ACLU’s response to Trump 2.0. She will discuss ways that people can take action to support ACLU’s work.
Monday, April 14, Wake Up VA postcarding. VA will be electing a new Governor, legislature and Senate in 2025.
Postcards4VA in partnership with Rural Ground Game and the National Women's Political Caucus are sending out early postcards to women who lean Democrat or Republican and haven't voted in past elections. We say "lean" in Virginia because no one registers for a party in our state.
Our goal is to wake these women up with our postcards and get them to pay attention to what is happening around them.
Packets are not free. They will be available with and without postage at cost.
Brookline Dems is proud to be a supporter of Activist Evenings!
On Saturday, April 5th, a coalition of Massachusetts resistance groups is taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message: Hands off! Because we will always protect our neighbors, regardless of their race, gender, sexuality, origin, background, status, disability, religion or lack thereof. Massachusetts is ready to protect democracy—and we the people are ready to show up. We the People means EVERYBODY!
Cosponsors Include Indivisble MA Coalition, Swing Blue Alliance, 350 MASS, Sierra Club MA, JALSA Impact and dozens of other groups f rom across the state.
SCHEDULE:
11:00 am: Meet at Parkman Bandstand (Boston Common, Boylston Street Station)
11:15 am: Kickoff speaker
11:25 am: March to City Hall Plaza
12:30 pm: Speakers at City Hall Plaza
CURRENT SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
MC: Jean-Luc Pierite | President | North American Indian Center of Boston
Senator Ed Markey
Carol Rose | President | ACLU-MA
Chastity Bowick | Founder | Trans Resistance
Chrissy Lynch | President | Massachusetts AFL-CIO
Jaya Savita | Director | Asian Pacific Islander’s Civic Action Network
Jessica Tang | President | AFT-MA
Pennsylvania is a likely tipping point state!
The Scranton HQ is ready and waiting for us on November 1-3 (with the option to stick around through Election Day on November 5)
If you are able to come along, please register by filling out this brief form. Jesse Mermell will be doing her best to coordinate rides and places to stay for those who need them - there is a space to note your transportation and housing needs in the form. You will automatically receive hotel recommendations within walking distance of the HQ once your form is submitted.
The plan will be to all meet in Scranton the Friday evening of each weekend, and to head home on Sunday in the early afternoon. Of course, any window of time you can give is much appreciated, and I understand some folks may need to operate on different schedules - we'll work all of that out in the weeks ahead.
See the form for more details!
Thursdays | 6:00 - 8:00 PM On Zoom
Sign up: https://www.mobilize.us/warrenforsenate/event/682982/
Every Monday Night until Election Day!
Join your neighbors in postcard and letter-writing, with guidance on the most effective places to focus your efforts and the best messages to send.
Join your neighbors in postcard and letter-writing, with guidance on the most effective places to focus your efforts and the best messages to send.
Postcarding is starting to wind up, and the next big effort will be around phone banking. This is the essential way to reach voters in these last few days before the election. Even if you haven't ever done this before, this is the moment to do it.
This week’s focus is on Pennsylvania and the renewed swing state of GA.
Meet at United Parish 210 Harvard Street (near Coolidge Corner) Brookline.
Merrimack NH Canvass With Governor Maura Healey
Sunday 10 AM
4 Depot St #1 Merrimack, NH 03054
Londonderry NH Canvass With Governor Maura Healey
Sunday 12 PM
73 Hall Road, Londonderry, NH 03053
Every Weekend Canvassing
Nashua - https://www.mobilize.us/massdems/event/636785/
Portsmouth - https://www.mobilize.us/massdems/event/668125/
Manchester - https://www.mobilize.us/massdems/event/634549/
Keene - https://www.mobilize.us/massdems/event/656603/
Exeter - https://www.mobilize.us/massdems/event/627702/
Lewiston-Auburn, Maine - https://www.mobilize.us/massdems/event/698363/
Augusta, Maine - https://www.mobilize.us/massdems/event/698801/
Phone Banks
NH Phone Bank - https://www.mobilize.us/massdems/event/668159/
Phone Bank into Maine - https://events.democrats.org/event/412142/
Phone Bank into Nevada (every other Monday at 9 PM ET) - https://www.mobilize.us/massdems/event/661197/
Please let me know if you have any questions.
For more info, contact Alex Bausch bausch.alex@gmail.com
The Scranton HQ is ready and waiting for us on:
· October 4-6
· November 1-3 (with the option to stick around through Election Day on November 5)
If you are able to come along, please register by filling out this brief form. Jesse Mermell will be doing her best to coordinate rides and places to stay for those who need them - there is a space to note your transportation and housing needs in the form. You will automatically receive hotel recommendations within walking distance of the HQ once your form is submitted.
The plan will be to all meet in Scranton the Friday evening of each weekend, and to head home on Sunday in the early afternoon. Of course, any window of time you can give is much appreciated, and I understand some folks may need to operate on different schedules - we'll work all of that out in the weeks ahead.
A FORCE MULTIPLIER EVENT
Join Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and DSCC Chair Gary Peters on Zoom
Recent Democratic legislative successes depended solely on Vice President Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote thirty-three times. We need a more dependable Senate!
Chuck Schumer has a nearly 50-year DC career in both the House + Senate and is the current Majority Leader.
Gary Peters has been a Michigan Senator since 2015 + has chaired the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee since 2021.
Donations support the seven candidates on Force Multiplier’s 2024 Senate Slate:
Sens. Baldwin, Brown, Casey, Rosen and Tester; Reps. Slotkin and Gallego.
Every Monday Night in September!
Join your neighbors in postcard and letter-writing, with guidance on the most effective places to focus your efforts and the best messages to send.
This week’s focus is on Pennsylvania and the renewed swing state of GA.
Meet at United Parish 210 Harvard Street (near Coolidge Corner) Brookline.
Economic Justice is on the ballot in Massachusetts!
The One Fair Wage ballot amendment would do away with the subminimum wage for tipped workers. This would mean that service industry workers and employees in other industries that depend on tips receive a fair wage.
The One Fair Wage campaign will be kicking off voter contact efforts in support of the measure at 10am the next two Sundays (September 8th and 15th) from the field in front of Brookline High School. These will kick off a series of canvasses every Sunday at the same time.
One Fair Wage Canvass
Sundays, September 8th and 15th
10am at Brookline High School Fields
If you have any questions, reach out to Jewish Alliance for Law and Social action (JALSA) Organizing Director Bryan Scrafford at bryan@jalsa.org.
Maine
Maine Democratic Party Volunteer Interest Form!
NH Door Knocking
Shifts on Saturday at 10, 12, 2 + Sunday 12, 2
** Manchester: https://www.mobilize.us/massdems/event/634549
** Nashua: https://www.mobilize.us/massdems/event/636785
Keene: https://www.mobilize.us/2024nhvictory/event/641513
Portsmouth: https://www.mobilize.us/2024nhvictory/event/634885
Exeter: https://www.mobilize.us/massdems/event/627702 (Cambridge Area to Exeter)
Manchester and Nashua are the priority locations!
NH Phone Banking
Shifts on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday
https://www.mobilize.us/2024nhvictory/event/626796/
For more info, contact Alex Bausch bausch.alex@gmail.com
A Force Multiplier Fundraiser.
Blue surge voters are key to winning the Blue Wall + the Electoral College.
Join Leaders from America Votes and grassroots leaders from Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania to learn how they are mobilizing the infrequent surge voters we need to win in November.
This event benefits the Blue Surge Turnout Fund which supports 40 grassroots groups targeting 3.2 million surge voters in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania + other battleground states. For more information on the 40 groups click here.
The fund is a partnership with America Votes.
