Building Power Together
The November 8th election is just around the corner and if you haven’t voted yet, now’s a great time to do so! Here is your RAD 2022 Vermont Voting Guide, with the list of 58 candidates up and down the ballot who RAD’s members and leaders voted to endorse this election cycle.
We are excited to introduce our newest wave of 2022 Vermont endorsed candidates up and down the ballot!
We are fired up by the results of New Hampshire’s September 13th Primary! Of RAD’s endorsed candidates with contested primary races, 15 won and will be on our ballots in November.
Between Vermont’s primaries, hosting community forums, and deepening our issue organizing and leadership development, summer has flown by!
Between finalizing RAD’s New Hampshire candidate endorsements, hitting the doors to talk to our neighbors, and deepening our issue organizing and leadership development, summer has flown by!
We are so excited that RAD members have voted to endorse a slate of 57 candidates for the 2022 New Hampshire elections!
We are exhilarated that 48 of 55 RAD-endorsed candidates won their races in Vermont’s 2022 Primary Day elections! Vermont’s multiracial working class turned out to the polls, and it shows.
Add your voice to show solidarity with the demands of Keene’s unhoused community, and support the call for Mayor Hansel and Keene’s City Council to fully listen and respond!
Meet RAD’s full slate of endorsed candidates for the historic 2022 election season!
With Juneteenth this past weekend and Pride activities all month, we’ve been busy – and there’s more coming, as we turn out in solidarity, celebrate movement wins that have gotten us this far, and keep agitating for a just, liberatory future.
Rights & Democracy is pleased to announce their full list of regular endorsements for the 2022 elections of 31 candidates, including statewide endorsements of Peter Welch for US Senate, Becca Balint for US Congress, David Zuckerman for Lieutenant Governor, and Rory Thibault for Attorney General.
Like so many, we are reeling from the news of the past two weeks. As a community, RAD is comprised of many people who are all too familiar with the pain and terror of gun violence and racism in our country.
Like so many, we are reeling from the news of the past two weeks. As a community, RAD is comprised of many people who are all too familiar with the pain and terror of gun violence and racism in our country.
Can you believe that the legislative year is over? What a year it has been! We thank you for your testimonies, for the numerous opinion letters written to local newspapers, and for signing up to support and oppose so many priority bills. That is true people power!
We’ve got exciting news: our sister organization Rights & Democracy Institute (RDI) has opened applications for the 2022 Catalyst Leadership program!
As the weather and our work are heating up, we are growing our skills and preparing to move forward together with strength. ☀️
This week alone, 14 Senate bills and 34 House bills were negotiated in Committees of Conference. If these committees do not reach an agreement before next Thursday’s session, then the bills will die.
We have some incredible news: early this morning, HB103, establishing a dental benefit under NH Medicaid, passed the Committee of Conference!
This 2022 election season, we are fired up! The end of the Vermont legislative session re-grounded us in the importance of continuing to build movement power
The five courageous activists – including RAD staff and leaders – who were arrested at the New Hampshire State House in summer 2021 protesting Governor Sununu’s deeply harmful budget, spoke truth to power as they entered their pleas in court on May 13th.
This morning, the Vermont House failed to override Governor Scott’s recent veto of Burlington’s proposed Just Cause Eviction charter change by just one vote. We at Rights & Democracy are deeply disappointed by and angry about this loss for tenants, especially low-income and BIPOC residents who are most impacted by housing injustice, during a time in which secure housing is in short supply and rents are spiking.
A bill that would have enabled the distribution of $100 million in federal funds to increase the availability of affordable housing in New Hampshire recently stalled in the House. Rights & Democracy’s Housing for All Committee responds to the impact this will have in our ongoing fight to ensure all Granite State residents have safe and secure housing:
Spring at Rights & Democracy has been off to a moving start. In our calls, conversations, and meetings across the state, there is a palpable sense of energy and renewal.
Spring at Rights & Democracy has been off to a moving start. In our calls, conversations, and meetings across the state, there is a palpable sense of energy and renewal.