Philly Neighborhood Networks has a plan to increase voter engagement to get our progressive endorsed candidates elected in Nov 2019 and will also put us in a good position to win in the crucial national 2020 Election. It will include us reaching out to voters, finding out what’s important to them and engaging them in the...
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The 2019 primary election demonstrated the growing power of the Party’s progressive wing as Philly Neighborhood Networks-endorsed candidates retained two At-Large Council seats and put up strong challenges in other Council and City Commissioner races while, at the same time, wresting three Common Pleas judgeships from Party control. Note that there were 28 candidates for...
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Well, isn’t winning nice! Philly Neighborhood Networks endorsed candidates Chris Rabb, Art Haywood, Joe Hohenstein, Malcolm Kenyatta and Liz Fiedler, all won their races for PA legislative seats yesterday and that is truly sweet. We are one step closer to a more progressive state legislature. In addition, and in the long run equally significant, almost...
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The big “off-year” primary is right in front of us, this Tuesday, with the polls open from 7 AM to 8 PM. Neighborhood Networks has endorsed a fabulous group of progressive candidates for Lt. Governor and for state legislative seats across the City. Many of them are being fought tooth and nail by the Democratic...
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Two-thousand eighteen has barely begun, and Republicans are already finding it difficult to keep a New Years resolution that they had made in the previous legislative session. House Bill 153, introduced by Representative Jerry Knowles (R, Berks, Carbon, and Schuylkill counties), with co-sponsorship from the Republican leadership, passed both the House and Senate in the...
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In the November General Election, progressives won a major victory for criminal law reform and judicial justice. Receiving 75% of the votes for district attorney, Larry Krasner earned a convincing victory and a clear mandate for criminal law reform. And 5 of the 8 Democratic candidates we supported and worked for also won their seats...
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THE TIME TO REMAKE THE PHILLY DEMOCRATIC PARTY INTO AN ENGINE OF PROGRESSIVE CHANGE IS NOW EACH OF US CAN PLAY A PART The Philadelphia Democratic Party is ineffective for so many reasons. Let us begin to count the ways: because it does not stand for anything, much less a progressive platform; because it endorses...
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It’s just over a month until the 2017 election. The vast majority of Philadelphians will not vote in it. And that’s a big problem for all of us for at least three reasons. The first is the damage it can do to Larry Krasner and everything he stands for. Yes, Larry Krasner will (almost definitely)...
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Just six months after the devastating loss to Trump, Philly has roared back and sent a message that will be rocking all the way to Washington. We’re not sitting back and letting the Republican Party rob us of everything that got started in this town 220 years ago. And more than that, we’re going to...
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