When will they ever learn? We autopsied the Democrats' 2016 losing campaign, and the party leadership doubled down on the same losing strategies in 2024, exacerbated by preventing an open primary process and hand-picking a candidate late in the game, as well as by relentless backing of a very unpopular war.

Can we make them begin to listen? Here are some ideas to try in this golden moment when energy and resources are not all going into an election:

• End the war on Gaza now: Tell the Senate to immediately vote and vote Yes on Senator Sanders' resolution to stop the weapons to Israel.
• Push sensible policies from the states. We just helped Missouri and Alaska win popular votes to raise their minimum wages. Find the areas your state lags behind in and press now for it, whether it's minimum wage, taxing the rich, death penalty, slavery, mass incarceration, or something else.
• Spread the word that supporting striking workers works! Boeing workers just won new benefits!
• Join in the efforts to Defuse Nuclear War!
• Help the new Teach-In Network grow!
• Send your newly (mostly re-) elected Congress Members the Foreign Policy Primer.
• Tell everyone to get their news from Progressive Hub to have a better understanding of what's coming.
• Seize this moment to begin your own strategic new campaign for policy change with our help!

RootsAction Campaign Coordinator David Swanson is accepting an award from a peace foundation in Norway called The Real Nobel Peace Prize, and the event will be livestreamed on November 10.

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