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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: March 13, 2020 Former U.S. Ambassador Rufus Gifford Joins For Our Future as 2020 Co-Chair  Washington, D.C. – For Our Future has tapped former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and Obama Campaign Finance Director Rufus Gifford to serve as its first national Co-Chair for the 2020 cycle. Gifford will help the organization expand […]

The New Yorker ran a deep dive profile on our core Wisconsin partner BLOC in “How Milwaukee Could Decide The Next President.” The feature highlights BLOC’s community organizing efforts, with For Our Future’s support, to help Milwaukee’s Black residents reclaim their political, social, and community power. “In 2018, BLOC knocked on just over a quarter […]

Joe Garofoli of The San Francisco Chronicle talked to CEO Justin Myers about the acquittal of President Trump in his impeachment trial and the impact on voters in the paper and for the “It’s All Political” podcast. When asked about the impact of impeachment, Myers explained: “Is it a top five issue? Not to the voters we […]

In its latest issue, Madison’s Isthmus editor Ruth Coniff opines about the factors at play in the contest to win the heavily-contested battleground state of Wisconsin this November. Coniff highlights the organizing For Our Future has invested in the badger state to advance progressive change.  In “Will it be a Democratic 2020? A ‘permanent progressive […]

On December 15, The Philadelphia Inquirer profiled For Our Future’s organizing efforts in Pennsylvania in “Democratic groups are going door-to-door while their 2020 candidates are distracted by the primary.”  Reporter Julia Terruso highlighted our operations and followed an organizer connecting with community members in South Philadelphia: “The group, which plans to spend $80 million across […]

POLITICO’s Alex Isenstadt and Maya King interviewed For Our Future CEO Justin Myers as they took a closer look at President Donald Trump’s heightened outreach to African Americans. They report while Trump is unlikely to receive substantial black support, Democrats worry his outreach could dissuade African Americans from turning out in force for the Democratic […]

Bloomberg’s Bill Allison highlighted For Our Future in a story about the super PACs that are competing with the Trump campaign in battleground states: “For Our Future, another super-PAC, and a related nonprofit are running year-round voter contact programs in seven swing states. The groups plan on spending $80 million to talk about Trump and other […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 6, 2019  For Our Future Virginia Is A Critical Part of Democratic Win RICHMOND, VIRGINIA–Progressives in Virginia are celebrating taking the majority in both legislatures of the General Assembly. For Our Future Virginia played a major role in this election cycle, making 227,154 attempts to knock voters doors across the Richmond […]

Bloomberg’s Francis Wilkinson featured our relational program to reach voters neighbor-to-neighbor in Wisconsin in a column that dove into the approaches Democratic groups are taking to win back the Badger state: “The idea is to leverage personal networks to break through the cacophony and cynicism of contemporary politics, build trust and attach free-range citizens to both […]

The Associated Press published an in-depth piece about the organizing efforts of progressives in Wisconsin, including For Our Future, to win in 2020 in “Block by block, parties build Obama-style Rust Belt networks.” AP discusses how “For Our Future is [using] ‘relational organizing,’ which relies on people identifying friends and others who may be persuaded […]