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A better way to find and canvas unregistered voters

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Route planning, Targeting and Geotargeting / By Deepak Puri

Find potentially unregistered voters – faster, easier and with less money using better technology and new data sources. Registering every eligible voter is critical with the voter suppression underway. “There are approximately 51 million eligible Americans are still not registered to vote. This represents almost one in four eligible persons, disproportionately low-income voters, people of color, and …

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Private prisons, corporations exploit prison labor and donate to politicians who support their scheme

American prison labor camps

Leave a Comment / Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

The $80 billion prison industry enriches the powerful while exploiting and disenfranchising the poor. Prisons can force inmates to work for little or no wage per the 13th Amendment. Once you’ve been convicted of a crime, you are in essence a slave of the state. Private prisons, corporations profiting from cheap prison labor and some politicians benefit at …

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COVID-19 and delta variant spreads as Republicans dispute science and block safety measures

Blood on their hands

Leave a Comment / Disinformation, Mapping and Story Mapping / By Deepak Puri

COVID is an equal opportunity killer. It doesn’t care who you voted for, or even if you voted at all. Death isn’t a political issue. Should elected officials make health policy decisions based on politics even if it kills the people who elected them? Should Florida Governor DeSantis raise money by mocking health. experts and …

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Use external data sources to find unregistered voters

How the Florida Key Dems located eight thousand unregistered voters

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping, Targeting and Geotargeting, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

“Seek and ye shall find” – Mathew 7:7 Philip Dodderidge is the Vice-Chair Florida Keys Democrats and searching for unregistered voters in the Florida Keys. He found 8,468 residents not in the Voter File in a project that took three days and cost $200. This is how he did it. It’s good to have the …

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Fight rural hospital closures with Medicaid expansion

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

Republican led states reject Federal healthcare funding. Rural hospitals are closed denying poor, rural and communities or color the medical care they so desperately need. Where are hospitals being closed? Who suffers the most? What’s behind the politics of denying healthcare? What can you do to demand affordable healthcare? Rural healthcare slashed 181 rural hospitals …

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OxyContin blood money bought political influence and bent rules

OxyContin: Follow the blood money

Leave a Comment / Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Power mapping / By Deepak Puri

“Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, under scrutiny for role in opioid crisis, are big political spenders. As the opioid crisis continues to ravage the country killing more than 130 people per day in the U.S., the makers of the addictive opioid OxyContin face tightening legal challenges. The company, Purdue Pharma, has been run by …

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Capitol insurrection rioters top FBI's Most Wanted List

Capitol insurrectionists top FBI’s Most Wanted List, while Republicans deny it happened

Leave a Comment / Cartoons, Mapping and Story Mapping, Misinformation / By Deepak Puri

As rioters from the Capitol Insurrection top the FBI’s most wanted list, Republican’s deny that the attack even took place. “On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the U.S. Capitol, was stormed during a riot and violent attack against the U.S. Congress. A mob of Trump supporters attempted to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election by disrupting the joint session of Congress assembled to count …

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How billionaires get richer by strangling democracy

How billionaires strangle democracy to get richer

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

There is something very wrong when billionaires do not pay taxes, deny their workers a living wage and use political donations to prevent people from voting. This relationship map shows how corporate donations are funneled to Republicans who cut unemployment insurance, block a living wage and push for voter suppression. The map can be freely …

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Use maps to engage, inform and mobilize supporters.

Maps are an activist’s best friend

Leave a Comment / Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Technology, Software, and Apps, Uncategorized / By Deepak Puri

Maps help activists and campaigns engage, inform and mobilize supporters. New apps make it easy. Maps are easy to understand and navigate. They’re intuitive and wonderful at storytelling. Free new apps make them a potent weapon for activists, organizers and campaigns. Why are maps especially useful for activists? People are naturally interested in how an …

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Republican Governors slash unemployment benefits for 4 million Americans to sabotage the American Rescue Plan

Republicans slash unemployment benefits. Where will the suffering be worst?

Leave a Comment / Cartoons, Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Uncategorized / By Deepak Puri

Republican cruelty to the poor to please their corporate donors has no limits. Republican Governors play politics and slash unemployment benefits to sabotage the recovery brought about President Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act – even if it devastates the lives of 4 million workers. “Federal unemployment programs that added extra weekly money and extended benefits …

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