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Our focus is on long term, sustainable and affordable solutions. An approach that is longer than an election cycle, and isn’t purely dependant on volunteers, can enable more qualified candidates to run for office and for more issue groups to bring about positive social change.
Democracy Labs is a project of the Tides Advocacy Fund.
GIFs are images that play automatically on a web page or in a tweet. GIFs outperform videos for engagement as more people
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Communicate better on ZOOM. Keep eye contact with an on-screen teleprompter. Avoid the distraction of looking away at your notes with with an on-screen teleprompter. Online viewers are easily distracted as you look away to refer to your notes. Deliver
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Fight negative media stereotypes Media stereotypes perpetuate racism. Let’s tackle diversity and representation one photo at a time. Images influence our perception of people and issues, which over time solidify into beliefs.
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The Greene Dossier Some people are especially “interesting.” Keep info on them handy with a dossier. Wakelet is a free app that makes it easy to create and share digital dossiers. DemLabs evaluated
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Memory loss, impeachment & hope. This week’s best political cartoons. Political cartoons explain things as they are – with humor. This week’s top ten cover impeachment, political excuse making, Q-Anon and Game
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Cause of death: Could not afford internet access. Lack of internet access can be fatal. That’s partially why people of color are twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than White Americans.
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Fighting disinformation? Eighteen free weapons for your arsenal. Fighting disinformation? Use all the tools in your arsenal. Here are eighteen of the best. Disinformation basics Disinformation attacks involve these tactics according to Harmony
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Who’s getting rich dividing Americans? “Give a capitalist enough rope and he’ll hang himself.” – Karl Marx Marx would smile if he could see how American billionaires make money inciting attacks against the
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Prepare activists to demand fair redistricting in virtual Town Halls Politicians shouldn’t be allowed to draw voting maps to stay in office. Let voters choose their politicians, not politicians choosing their voters.
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Riots. Pardons. Change. The week in political cartoons. This momentous week as captured in Political Cartoons. These ten cartoons best cover the siege of the Capitol and political aftermath. DeepakDemLabs Thin Blue Line
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NAACP Atlanta Gets-Out-The-Vote with relational organizing Increased Black voter turnout was key to Senator Warnock and Ossoff’s victories in Georgia. NAACP Atlanta worked with a broad coalition of partners to increase Black voter turnout.
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What gets read? What gets skipped? It all starts with the headline. How do you get your message read by more people across the political spectrum? How do you overcome their lack
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