Democrats are voting for a national chair next month. Marc Elias of Democracy Docket is doing a DNC chair candidate series. Thanks to Dave Bradley for passing this on; we hope everyone gets a chance to watch. It is critical that Democrats get this right.

Wikler:

• strategy in every state
• year round organizing
• crisis is opportunity

Here is a brief excerpt from the interview.

Marc Elias asking Wikler what he would do as chair on voting rights and democracy:

Elias: “The RNC invested heavily in the 2024 election. Mike Whatley got the job over Ronna McDaniel in part because Donald Trump didn’t think McDaniels was doing enough to suppress the vote, what they call their election integrity program…”

Ben Wikler:  “We should be really clear eyed as you are.. that Republicans try to get power and then change the rules and rig the system to make sure that no one can ever win that power back. That is their playbook. They seize control… and then they try to rig everything to prevent the public’s voice from being heard. I think as Democrats we should view that as a core part of the fight… We’re trying to  fight back against Republicans who think that the public should have no voice in our democracy, that this should just be a handful of very powerful people on the far right who decide everything for everyone.”