Big week ahead!
Event calendar and heads up about the town hall!
Hi everyone!
It’s been a long day and busy week so just some action items and heads up about upcoming events.
Our next meeting will be on 3/23 - remember, start time will be 3:30 due to my precinct meeting right before it - subsequent meetings will go back to 3 PM. FLIP NC will be coming - I am SO excited about this one! I got to hear some about their data a few weeks ago and you won’t want to miss it. Bring a lawn chair if you want -lots of folks did this today and it worked out well. If you want to stay after for some social time and good food, feel free! You can sign up on Mobilize here for all future events:
New guest for April 6th - Rep. Marcia Morey from Durham (and perhaps another legislator or two) will come talk with us about Legislature 101 and answer questions. She also just started the NC Progressive Caucus - so really excited to have her!
ACTIONS
(This is by no means a complete list, especially tonight- check out Durham Dems Action newsletter, Chop Wood, Carry Water NC, Democracy Out Loud and Engaged Durhamites for Democracy for more).
Call your senators - there’s lots to call about! Stop federal funding cuts, gutting of Department of Education, cuts to Medicaid and Social Security, and more. Check out the 5calls app for scripts.
Text NC to 644-33 to be connected with an NC Sherriff’s Association executive committee member and ask them to oppose the Permitless Cary bill HB5/SB50. The vote is tomorrow!! NCGA schedules always on our Linktree.
Donate: Susan Crawford for WI Supreme Court. Her opponent said that women were too emotional and is backed by Musk. Need we say more? You can donate on Oath Vote here. They won’t sell your information and put you on lists. Highly recommend. You can learn more about this upcoming April 1st election and how to take action here.
Phone bank for the Crawford race - VIRTUAL: Sign up here (tons of dates!).
Donate & have fun! Sign up for our NCAA Bracket Tournament!! If you don’t want to do the Bracket Tournament and just want to donate, you can do so here. BRACKETS DUE THURSDAY AT NOON. Our goal is to raise at least $3000 for Carolina Abortion Fund. Sign up for the women’s tournament bracket here, and the men’s bracket here. We are asking for a minimum $5 donation to participate, and more if you can. Please share!
EVENTS:
Friday, March 21st
9:45 AM - VIRTUAL. Pack the gallery (virtual) for Allison Riggs at the NC Court of Appeals. Rep Morey will be speaking ahead of the event. Super important to tune in and support Justice Riggs if you can. Sign up here.
11 AM - IN PERSON: Senator Tillis will be having a fundraiser at the Carolina Country Club at 12. From the event: “It would be lovely if people greeted the Senator with friendly signs like “Stop Elon’s Coup” “Do your job” “Save Social Security” “Save Medicaid” etc.” Register here
4 - 6 PM: Tesla Protest at Glenwood Avenue (Sign up here).
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM. IN PERSON. We are hosting an Empty Chair Town Hall for Tillis - we know he won’t show. The event is nearly at capacity - there is room for about 300 inside the room (please bring lawn chairs if you can - limited seating) and overflow outside - there will be speakers broadcasting to outside part. We are starting promptly at 6:30. There is parking but there are lots of folks coming so please carpool if you can. The event will be live-streamed (fingers crossed!!!) - find it on our new YouTube channel (subscribe and get the livestream here). We are grateful to Raleigh Brewing for donating their space to us. It’s going to be a great event - don’t miss it! Sign up and more info here.
March 22-23 - Precinct Meetings (times and Zoom/in person vary). Find your precinct here at NC Dems and then if you’re in Durham sign up for info here. You will need to sign up for the specific time for your precinct.
Two GREAT events at the same time on Thursday, March 27th. If only we could be in two places at once. You’ll have to pick!
Wednesday, March 26th, 6-8 PM - VIRTUAL. C2C/Neighbors on Call - plan and next steps. “Join us on Zoom March 26th to learn more about the actions you can take to elect Democrats at the state level to protect us from the horrors at the national level. Hear from Senator Lisa Grafstein about channeling your Trump angst and turning it into strategic, effective action. And learn more about C2C + NoC: what we do, where we work, and how to get started canvassing and phone banking with us.” Register here.
Thursday, March 27th from 6-8 PM- IN PERSON - Panel with Justice Riggs, Justice Earls, and Dr. Sam Wang at the Chapel Hill Varsity Theater. Sponsored by the NC Fair Maps Alliance. Sign up here.
Thursday, March 27th from 6:30-8:30 PM - IN PERSON. Reps Julie Von Hafen and Lisa Grafstein are doing a Town Hall at the Apex Town Hall on NC’s state and federal budget woes.
April 5th 11:30-1 - IN PERSON. Hands Off rally - all over the country. If you’re interested in going to DC, feel free to use the Signal chat or the comments/ Substack chat to carpool. If you’re staying local, we’re collaborating with several groups including 50501NC, NC Poor People’s Campaign, Black & Brown Coalition of NC, and several local Indivisible groups. Sign up here.
HOUSEKEEPING:
We don’t have an email list - this is it! If you want to join the group, just subscribe to the Substack and you can fill out this form here. You can come to meetings (some meetings, all meetings) or just read along and do the action items and learn.
You can find us on Bluesky, Threads, TikTok and Instagram, where we have an active social media presence. Links to that and a whole lot more on our Linktree, found here: Linktr.ee/Durhamgotv.
Check out prior posts for recommendations on our favorite news sources, tips on calling your representatives, link to a Signal channel for carpools, and more!
Feel free to post events or discuss things in the chat and comments.
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Anna
The Tillis fundraising event lists a number of local business owners that are supporting this. Might be a good idea for other boycott events….
Fred Anderson cars, Angus Barn and others.
On the subject of battling disinformation and misinformation, have y’all checked out the Card Campaign?
https://cc4democracy.com/
They produce wonderful fact filled cards on various topics (the latest one is on social security). They come in various formats that you can print out and distribute.
We are in a situation where our social media posts are being monitored by this regime. Analog methods like postcards, posters and old school zines are a great way round this! (Search Substack for zine makers, there are some wonderful examples)