The point of this community is to encourage and facilitate progressive and left candidates to run for all levels of government, wherever there are openings. Use this community to ask for advice, policy plank feedback, vent or share your own experience, and connect with open positions and organizations that align with our goals.
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Some suggestions:
- [Workshopping] for getting open-ended feedback on your platform, policy plank, campaign strategy, messaging etc.
- [Advice] for when you need more specific advice about a problem or situation. This is not an official source for legal advice, take any advice on legal matters with due regard.
- [Networking] for when you're interested in connecting with other people or organizations for campaign or political support.
- [Opening] for when you're looking for help identifying an upcoming election or promoting one.
Memes are allowed for the time being, but that could be subject to change
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RunForOffice @lemm.ee conditional_soup @lemm.ee Decolonization Platform
Hey, so, I'm interested in learning what a decolonization platform would look like in the US. Are there meaningful measures that have passed, and what were their outcomes? What are some of the more popular or more practical decolonization policies?
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RunForOffice @lemm.ee conditional_soup @lemm.ee Low Cost of Living platform
Hey everyone! I'm ruminating on running for my local state assembly seat or city council (leaning towards city council, I don't have any name recognition or political network to support an assembly seat run, so it'd be a hot mess probably). Around here, candidates typically run on pro-farm, pro-family, pro-cop, tough on crime platforms. I'm intending to run on a platform that focuses heavily on lowering the cost of living through policy choices. I think it can work specifically because this area is not very economically advantaged, and the cost of living has gone from bad to berserk in the last five years; meanwhile, there's really not that much crime here.
So, the platform goes like this:
- Ditch your car payment! I want to build world-class bicycle lanes and useful, predictable public transit that will help you travel in much greater comfort for a fraction of the cost of car ownership.
- We'll achieve this goal by establishing transit-oriented zoning along our arterial streets
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RunForOffice @lemm.ee conditional_soup @lemm.ee CA-27 in 2026
Esmeralda Soria (D, CA-27) has announced that she's planning to seek office in the California state Senate, leaving her assembly seat open. There's some interest from several mayors, but I'm not aware of any particularly strong left candidates seeking this office.
CA-27 includes Merced, Madera, Atwater, Los Banos, Dos Palos, Kerman, Mendota, and Coalinga.
Anybody from central California either interested in running for this seat or have a suggestion for someone we can promote for it?