Amanda Carpenter
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 11 Aug
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We'll have the first or only Democrat to run in that race ever. five years, 10 years ever, who will, if not win, come within a point or two. And all of a sudden in the next cycle, that district is a competitive race. It is like the most basic building block of actually party building and of competing in these elections is to get a good candidate on the ballot. And it's not that hard.
That's like the thing with running for office. It is hard work. It takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of effort, but it's actually not that difficult in terms of like logistics and communication. That's what we're in for something easier to do is we help people figure all of that out once they've decided this is a step I want to take.
I think that's absolutely right. I mean, especially when we're talking about state, local or even congressional races, like you've got to run for the place you're in. We should generally be aligned on values like run for something has an endorsement process. We want to make sure we're all generally aligned on what we believe.
But there's a lot of different ways to actually put those values into practice, depending on the community and what they want and what the mechanics of the office are. And that I think when we people are talking like no litmus test, that's the flexibility we need to be at right now.
You know, we have folks who really cross the spectrum. Basically, everyone we work with aligns as a Democrat or would align as a Democrat. A lot of these races are technically nonpartisan, but we've got folks ranging from like the most, you know, DSA types, New York City Council candidates to like pretty conservative school board candidates in places like Alaska or Kansas or, you know, in Texas.
As long as they're all on the same page about what we're trying to accomplish, which is really like a pro-democracy, pro-education, pro-working families, you know, pro... climate change is real and we have a responsibility to do something about it type approach, we can get behind them.
So we're thinking about state house, state Senate, city council, which especially when we're talking about housing, which I think is going to be one of the biggest issues in the next couple of years, city council or municipal offices, county commissions, which often in plenty of places actually oversee elections. So if we're looking ahead to 2028,
Those are the kinds of pro-democracy positions we need. Library boards, hospital boards, mosquito abatement districts, coroners, about 1,300 counties elect coroners. There's about a half a million elected offices in the United States. Most of them are not Congress, and most of them are totally winnable if someone is willing to put in the work and knock doors.
And they're way more interesting, I think, and more fun than being a member of Congress.
Yeah, so runforsomething has a site, runforwhat.net, you can go to. You can look up at your exact address what offices are up for you in 2025 or 2026. Fun fact, since election day, nearly 25,000 people alone have done that, gone and looked up what offices they might want to run for and started thinking about running for office. Our total pipeline is only about 200,000 or a little less.
huge number in just the last couple months once you do that you'll start getting materials from our team about how to figure out which office is right for you and how to raise the money but if you're able to identify like the problem you care about solving if you're able to point to how the office you run for will give you power to solve it and then why voters should want you to win which is different than why you want to win you want to win because winning is great and losing sucks voters want you to win because you're going to do something for them everything else we can teach you
So in 2017, and then again in 2018, we had about 15,000 people each year sign up to run for office. We're about to exceed both those years total in just the first quarter of this year. Wow. It is record numbers. And we're seeing actually most of that come in since inauguration. And basically every time Doge...
starts firing people or shutting down federal government offices, you see like another conversation or the terminations, we see hundreds and hundreds more people come into us. At the last couple of weeks, we've been averaging between five and 600 people a day thinking about running for office.
Runforsomething.net. You can learn more about us. You can give us money. You can volunteer. You can sign up to run and get all the information.
You want to feel my big rage today. I think this was one of those things yesterday. If you want to run against a octogenarian or septogenarian Democratic elected official, especially in a primary, I think this will be a really good year to do it.
Thanks, Dan.
Hey, Tim. Happy Friday.
It is.
Fake it till you make it.
That's unexpected from you, Tim.
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