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Featured Report

2020 Front Porch Focus Group Report

We spoke with voters in five of the battleground states - Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - to report how 1,200 persuadable and Democratic base voters in battleground states view the 2020 election.

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It's Not Just the Vibes - How the Economic Recovery Is And Is Not Translating to Working-Class Voters

02/07/2024

As always when trying to understand presidential politics, the headlines written in DC and New York will ultimately be less impactful than the perspective of working-class voters in swing states. It’s the vibes of these voters that will decide the election.

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Message from the Field: Evidence on How to Overcome Racism and Sexism Through Organizing + Briefing

11/17/2023

Through a set of 83 randomized control trials measuring our vote gain efforts for dozens of candidates, Working America documented the magnitude of the disparate impacts of paid political advertisements between these BIPOC and female candidates and their white male counterparts.

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Working America in the NYT: Black Mississippians Explain Voting Doesn't Solve Their Problems

10/25/2023

Working in collaboration with the National NAACP, Working America organizers talked to working-class Black voters from neighborhoods with lower voter turnout rates.

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Message from the Field: Happy Birthday Working America

10/10/2023

Twenty years ago today, Working America organizers knocked our first door and held our first face-to-face conversations in Cleveland, Ohio.  

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Message from the Field: We Added 407,014 Voters for Democrats in 2023. How Many Can We Add in 2024?

08/12/2023

We Added 407,014 Voters for Democrats in 2023. How Many Can We Add in 2024? Analysis of our 2022 voter contact program is providing some critical lessons that will ensure Working America can have a meaningful impact in 2024, thanks to your support. 

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Message from the Field: Learning from Wisconsin

04/04/2023

How we complemented a progressive community strategy by communicating to voters motivated principally by economic messages, while building learning vital to 2024.

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Message From The Field: Welcome to 2023!

01/07/2023

Welcome to 2023. It is already an interesting year. We have been finishing up our analysis of the 2022 elections, and are using those lessons to shape how we build for this year and beyond.

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Message From The Field - Ohio 2022

11/07/2022

Few states hold the place in our hearts that Ohio does. The state, home to what many folks think is one of the most unexpected toss-up Senate races in the country, is where Working America got its start and built many of the organizing and analytics tools that shape our work today.

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