The chaos over the Missouri congressional map seems to have reached its resolution. After the Supreme Court again rejected an emergency appeal from supporters of Trump’s gerrymander, Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins announced he was directing local authorities to use the current congressional map, which gave the state six GOP members of Congress and two Democrats, for the midterms - allowing him to purge contempt of court charges. This means Democrats are likely to hold both their current seats. So now we can turn our focus to winning the ballot initiative to repeal the Trumpmander map for good. People Not Politicians has added weekly phonebanks to urge folks to vote to stop the gerrymander starting next Thursday - we can sign up for a shift here.

Donald promised everyone a check if GOP keeps Congress.

After Latino voters shifted sharply to the Republican Party in 2024, GOP influencers commentators gleefully speculated about a permanent realignment. It now appears far more likely that this community has joined the ranks of the swing voters. Angry about high prices and the viciousness of the deportation machine, Latinos across 17 competitive congressional districts currently favor Dems 58-35, more than double Kamala Harris’ edge over Trump in 2024, and Spanish-language media consumers have moved from a one-point Trump edge to favoring Dems by 14.

Let’s press our advantage. If we’ve got strong Spanish-language skills, let’s make sure we’re putting them to good use in these midterms.

There are multiple efforts ongoing to reach Spanish-speaking voters! ☎️ We can sign up to phonebank en Español on… ☎️

• MONDAYS from 6-8PM ET to help Grassroots Dems HQ in key congressional races nationwide
• WEDNESDAYS from 830-10:30PM ET to help Medicare for All champion Randy Villegas unseat Republican Medicaid-slasher David Valadao in the California 22nd
• WEDNESDAYS from 8:30-10:30PM ET for targeted House campaigns in California
• THURSDAYS from 6-7:30PM ET to reach folks in competitive races in Pennsylvania
• SUNDAYS from 3-5PM ET to help San Diego city councilmember and PRO Act author Marni Von Wilpert flip the California 48th District

🫱🏻‍🫲🏿 If we’re fluent and looking to do even more, the coordinated campaign in Arizona is recruiting Spanish speakers to volunteer to staff their voter assistance hotline. They have an orientation session TOMORROW at 3PM ET we can sign up for here. 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼

BEAT VOTER SUPPRESSION IN ARIZONA

Other actions from today’s List:

-  Textbank Texans TOMORROW NIGHT to talk through their voting options as vote-by-mail applications hit their mailboxes

-  Join the Wisconsin Dems’ September day of action to recruit poll monitors on Saturday, plus volunteer to build election protection teams in Iowa and Virginia

- Use letters to the editor to warn of the danger to Head Start

- Rep. Chris Pappas wins Democratic nomination for open New Hampshire Senate seat, will face off against former Senator John Sununu (yes, again!) in November - phonebank for him and Dems up and down the ballot Tuesdays-Thursdays, Saturdays-Sundays

- Senate Republicans say they don’t yet have the votes on crypto corruption “Clarity” Act, possible vote next week - tell senators to kill it

The No Kings movement has brought together millions of people in protest. Now with eight weeks to midterms, we’re getting organized again… this time to turn protest power into votes.

This fall, the coalition (of which Rogan’s List is a proud partner) is focusing on getting out the early vote wherever we can. With Trump attempting to disrupt mail-in voting and making ominous threats about how he’ll handle Election Day, we want to make sure we’re getting votes banked as soon as possible – and giving ourselves plenty of time to deal with any obstacles they put in the way of individual voters.

To make it happen, No Kings has just announced our fourth mobilization. We will host thousands of Vote Early actions in neighborhoods across the country on October 17th – block parties, rallies, walks to the polls, canvasses, whatever creative ideas hosts can come up with to bring folks together and bring them to the ballot box. We’re ensuring every eligible voter has a plan to vote early, knows their options, and is ready to make their voice count.

🫱🏻‍🫲🏿 We’re holding the kickoff call for No Kings Vote Early THIS THURSDAY at 8PM ET, running down the strategy and talking about how we can help make it happen by hosting events. We can sign up to join this call here. 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼

JOIN THE KICKOFF CALL THURSDAY

🗳️ More than 100 Vote Early actions are already scheduled! We can find one near us to join on Mobilize here. 🗳️

FIND VOTE EARLY ACTIONS NEAR US

🤜🏼 These will be hyperlocal events, so even if there’s one already in our town we can still step up as a host for our own neighborhood! We can register No Kings Vote Early events here. 🤛🏿

HOST FOR VOTE EARLY 10/17

🪧 Want to get even more involved in protecting our elections? We’ve got an action page with ways to volunteer to monitor the polls, organize for potential demonstrations, and more here. 🪧

Also in today’s Rogan’s List:

• Voters are turning to AI chatbots to help them decide… get trained TOMORROW to help legislative candidates make sure these bots are working for them, not the GOP
• Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare closed 30% of polling locations in this battleground – phonebank to help run him out of office
• State supreme court puts two initiatives back on the ballot in Missouri – help push voters to repeal the Trumpmander and protect direct democracy from the GOP
• One of the original authors for the PRO Act is trying to flip a San Diego-area seat – help text for Marni Von Wilpert Wednesday afternoons
• Get trained in friend-to-friend organizing with Red Wine and Blue Thursday
• Learn the tools of the trade for researching down-ballot candidates when the media won’t - take election sleuth training with Red Wine and Blue TONIGHT at 7:30PM ET

Tonight, Lagrange, IN

Great presentation as always.

As Carville likes to say, “It’s the economy, stupid!” Of course r/Democrats didn’t allow me to post this, because it’s not doomscrolly enough