El Chisme

Urge the Democratic Party Leadership to ACT NOW

Dear Amigx,

If you are like us, you may be feeling pretty concerned and maybe you have even started to feel cynical about this election. We have every reason to be alarmed, especially with recent US Supreme Court decisions that have criminalized the unhoused and created near constitutional protections to a former president who supported an insurrection against our nation.

We hear it often, but this is no hyperbole — this is the most consequential election of our lives thus far!

There are those who will tell you to settle for the options they have presented for presidential candidates. We say IMAGINE COSAS CHINGONAS and give us better options. We have PODER in our VOICE to speak our truth.

Join Poder NC by sending a message to Democratic Party leaders ahead of their roll call on August 5th where they will vote for the Democratic Party’s official candidate for president. Read our statement about this matter and then click the ‘take action’ button. We urge the Democratic Party leaders, from state delegates to Executive Committee members, to choose a candidate that will fight for our democracy.

TAKE ACTION BY …

1. SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO THE DNC LEADERSHIP
2. READ OUR STATEMENT ABOUT THIS POLITICAL MOMENT
3. CHECK OUT OUR LATEST SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS & REPOST

We Are Never Too Late! We Have A Choice! And We Must Choose To Act Now ✊‼️

Con Mucho Amor,

Team PODER NC

Democratic Party Leadership Have an Opportunity to Change Course

Poder NC Action is an organization that believes in the transformative power of people coming together to improve our communities through our collective contributions. Our organizational mission is to increase electoral participation of Latinx folks by building community around shared values to make them feel seen, and to grow their sense of self-efficacy in order to disrupt historic and/or inherited mistrust of government.We call on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee and the nearly 3,900 pledged delegates to act in the best interest of those who will experience most drastically the consequences of this upcoming election － marginalized communities including: young voters, Black, brown, and LGBTQ+ people－by nominating a viable contender for the position of Democratic Nominee for President.

There is still time to give voters a real choice for President in the most consequential election of their lives. In order to maintain the voter turnout of 2020 and even increase it, we need the Executive Committee of the DNC to put the well-being of our entire nation ahead of any one individual.Our communities are courageous. ¡Somos luchadores! We have no choice but to have spines of steel in order to survive day by day in a nation not built for us. We demand the same courage from people who have significant power and who are leading the Democratic Party.

This current moment should force all of us to imagine cosas chingonas. What type of country do we want to live in? What do we want to leave for future generations? When united, our communities have a powerful voice in determining the future of this country and democracy. Black and brown people are tired of being used by political parties that continuously coerce our votes, but then ignore our cries, demands, and dreams. The marginalized communities of this nation are people of the global majority and we are seeing many examples–from Palestine solidarity encampments on U.S. college campuses, to demonstrations by working-class people from Mexico and France–of our communities tirelessly organizing to give their nations a chance to course-correct from the false choices presented to voters.

We recognize that what we are asking for is not easy. If the Executive Committee and Party Delegates of the DNC won’t stand up to their own leader in the best interest of our nation’s Democracy, the Party demonstrates that it doesn’t have the appetite nor stamina to fight the fascists who are moving swiftly on fulfilling their agenda which is eroding our Democracy in real time.

If the Democratic Party leadership squanders this crisitunity – both, a crisis and an opportunity – to give us a fighting chance in the voting booth this November by nominating a better fighter, we will have surely lost the battle for the soul of this nation.

THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW!