WISCONSIN — The general election campaign in Wisconsin to beat Donald Trump’s agenda kicked off a new phase today, with a coalition of labor unions, progressive organizations and state elected officials announcing the launch of Wisconsin Organizing Together. The organization will be heavily focused on digital organizing, work around the upcoming Supreme Court election and key school funding referenda on the April 7, 2020 ballot. 

The campaign is community-based and volunteer-driven, designed to get the Democratic infrastructure running earlier than ever before, and to energize the grassroots in battleground states prior to a nominee being chosen. The campaign is a federally-independent organizing effort to beat Donald Trump’s agenda, and will hire organizers and recruit volunteers across six battleground states — Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

To sign up to volunteer in Wisconsin, please go here.

See below for a list of Wisconsin Organizing Together’s coalition partners and state co-chairs:

Our honorary state co-chairs are:

  • State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski
  • State Senator LaTonya Johnson
  • Racine Mayor Cory Mason
  • Outagamie County Executive Thomas Nelson
  • State Senator Jeff Smith
  • State Senator Janet Bewley

Our first round of partners are:

  • AAPI Victory Fund
  • American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 32
  • American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
  • American Federation of Teachers Wisconsin (AFT)
  • Arena
  • Black Leaders Organizing Communities (BLOC)
  • Citizen Action of Wisconsin
  • Color of Change PAC
  • Common Defense
  • For Our Future and For Our Future Action Fund
  • Indivisible
  • Latino Victory Fund
  • Leaders Igniting Transformation (LIT)
  • LGBTQ Victory Fund
  • NAACP
  • National Education Association (NEA)
  • People for the American Way (PFAW)
  • Planned Parenthood Votes
  • Rural Organizing.org
  • Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
  • Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Wisconsin State Council
  • Supermajority PAC
  • United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
  • UltraViolet
  • VoteVets
  • Wisconsin Education Association Council
  • Wisconsin Progress
Wisconsin Organizing Together’s senior staff includes Tanya Bjork, a veteran of the last three presidential campaigns in Wisconsin; Peter Drummond, former Central Region Director of the National AFL-CIO; Analiese Eicher, former Executive Director of One Wisconsin Now and current Dane County Board Chair; Collin Steele, former Field Manager for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC); and Nick Truog, who previously worked for Congresswoman Gwen Moore.
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