Democratic tech group aims to shake up Republican statehouses in 2024

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Source: NBC News

April 13, 2024, 9:00 AM EDT


Tech for Campaigns, a Democratic organization made up of tech industry workers seeking to influence state elections, is expanding its playing field to include six states where Republicans have commanding majorities in state legislatures.

Jessica Alter, the organization’s co-founder and chair, said in an interview that beginning this year, Tech for Campaigns would commit resources to state legislative candidates in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas, in addition to swing states such as Arizona and Michigan where the organization has previously focused. The move is part of a new, long-term strategy that the organization is calling “Next Ten”: targeting Republican-dominated state capitals where Democrats might have a chance to flip control of the state legislature in the next 10 years.

Tech for Campaigns consists of 17,000 tech workers who are clustered in coastal cities such as San Francisco and New York but who volunteer remotely to help Democrats in state legislative races. This year, they say they’re using artificial intelligence to help create ads and fundraising emails, allowing them to stretch resources further than before.

The organization is unabashedly pro-Democrat, having formed in 2017, a low point for the party, when progressive tech workers in Democratic states decided to think more strategically about helping down-ballot candidates across the country. Alter said the organization is filling a void where other Democratic organizations have failed to invest.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/democratic-tech-group-aims-shake-republican-statehouses-2024-rcna145905

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Clawing our states back with every tactic possible!

[NEOBuckeye]

1. Ohio please

For the love of donkeys, we need a lifeline here. This state is drowning in so much Republican corruption and utter bullshit. Help.

[Midnight Writer]

2. A modest investment of resources make a big difference in a local race.

Republicans know this. They have been sending their campaign consultants (and money) into rural areas to work on local elections, with great success.

[mopinko]

3. brilliant.

not only can they flip state houses, they will flip the u.s. house this way.
tsunamis happen when the wave hits the beach. we need to own the beach.

[ananda]

4. Just donated!

!!!

[KS Toronado]

5. I'd like to see more ads like the one Biden did this week

where he explained in order to make abortion legal again he needs a Democratic House & Senate. We can use
that frame of reference for all the issues we need to promote.

I'll need a Democratic House & Senate to lower more drug costs.

I'll need a Democratic House & Senate to lower health care costs

I'll need a Democratic House & Senate to lower taxes on the poor and middle class

I'll need a Democratic House & Senate to help kick Putin out of Ukraine

I'll need a Democratic House & Senate to make college affordable

I'll need a Democratic House & Senate to raise the minimum wage so people don't have to work 2/3 jobs.

We would be shocked how many Rs we kick out of congress, wouldn't it be nice to have a super majority in
both Houses?

[cstanleytech]

7. Probably won't work as well as "We need a Democratic House and Senate to bring back jobs to America."

After all there are a lot of voters who don't either understand or agree with some or most of that and the Republican policitans know that and have been using it against us for the past 50+ years.
A focus of bringing jobs "back" to the US for Americans though is simple and it would reach more people and it would also be much harder for the Republicans to counter.

[KS Toronado]

8. "We need a Democratic House and Senate to bring back forest rakers"

Probably wouldn't work either.

[cstanleytech]

6. Taking Texas would be a major blow to the Republicans morale.

[70sEraVet]

9. I'm glad this group is investing in these solidly red states.

One unfortunate effect of the Electoral College system (there are many problems) is that money for advertising in a Presidential campaign is never spent in these states. So there is no chance of piercing that Fox News bubble!