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Josh's wife, Miriam Stone, a brand strategist, to reach out to developers and designers to help get the organization get off the ground. The group ended up finding marketing strategist
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initiatives as a group was to raise money for "competitive state-level districts". After the merger, Swing Left shifted focus on the
Virginia state elections, in which their team raised $ 863,000 for Democratic candidates. The merger with Flippable shifted Swing Left from their original goal of focusing on maintaining a Democrat majority in the House of Representatives to also maintaining Democrat majority in state legislatures.
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with the goal of raising $ 100,000 for each of its targeted swing districts. Swing Left has created sub-chapters, including 31st Street Swing Left, which focuses on the
Maryland, Virginia, and D.C area; 31st Street Swing Left focuses on funding campaigns of swing-candidates in their jurisdiction. In
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Swing Left was the idea of Ethan Todras-Whitehill, a long-time
Democrat who gained interest in starting the platform after being "flabbergasted and devastated" following the results of the 2016 United States presidential election. Todras-Whitehill urged his friends Josh Krafchin, a developer, and
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in 2018 by building a network of volunteers and donors in targeted swing districts across the U.S. Swing Left uses a margin of fifteen points to determine which seats are considered "swing seats", and then concentrates their efforts there. Swing Left cast a broader net in 2019, when they began
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200,000 volunteers wrote letters in 2020. Letters could be written over months and sent at a strategic moment called the Big Send. 17.6 million letters boosted targeted voters' turnout by 0.8 percentage points.
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majority in United States legislatures. The group was founded by Ethan Todras-Whitehill, Miriam Stone, Josh
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