December 19, 2025
Fighting Data Centers? Working Families Party Wants You to Run for Office
MVP partner Working Families Party is recruiting candidates to run for office who are opposed to the growing presence of data centers.
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November 25, 2024
The Guardian: "Democrats’ much-touted ‘ground game’ was a disaster. Here’s how to fix it"
MVP was featured in an essay in The Guardian by organizer Astra Taylor, in which she argues that "voter outreach needs to be people- and place-centered... issue-focused and year-round, not scaled in eight weeks and gone overnight."
November 1, 2024
Grassroots Groups Know How to Win This Campaign—Do They Have What They Need to Pull It Off?
Days before the election, MVP and our local partners were featured prominently in The Nation. The subheadline says it all: "The Harris-Walz campaign needs every vote it can get. But the groups that do best at reaching every voter have, until recently, been underfunded this cycle, and need more support."
October 1, 2024
Democratic Groups to Harris: Funding Shortfall Could Lose the Election
Newsweek just covered the public plea put out by MVP and our partner Blue Tent to the Harris campaign and Democratic Super PACs, to address a critical fundraising shortfall in the local voter organizations whose field operations could make the difference between winning and losing this November.
August 23, 2024
MVP quoted in Hollywood Reporter: “Would a Taylor Swift Endorsement Actually Impact the Presidential Race?”
MVP was given the last word in The Hollywood Reporter's piece, "Would a Taylor Swift Endorsement Actually Impact the Presidential Race?" Our response in a nutshell: "A little Tay can go a long way, but local organizers are still the best voter mobilizers."
July 28, 2024
‘Gen Z feels the Kamalove’: Youth-led progressive groups hope Harris will energize young voters
MVP and several of our on-the-ground partner organizations were featured in this widely-shared Associated Press article, following the first week of VP Kamala Harris's candidacy for the Presidency.
May 30, 2024
‘A political earthquake’: Will Trump guilty verdicts make an impact in close California races?
SF Chronicle just quoted MVP in their piece on the political consequences of Trump's conviction. "Many left-leaning groups blasted out joyous emails and social media posts celebrating the verdict — and asking for donations. But Movement Voter PAC, which helps anti-Trump donors fund local organizers in battleground states, urged donors to keep focused on raising money and grassroots get-out-the-vote campaigning."
May 24, 2024
Here’s how blue state voters can help the Democrats’ swing-state efforts
In this Boston Globe piece on how blue-state Democrats can make the most impact on the 2024 elections, columnist Scot Lehigh makes the case for investing in local organizing through Movement Voter Project.
May 23, 2024
Funders Must Step Up to Engage Pro-Equality Voters This Year
MVP's 501(c)(3) sister entity, Movement Voter Fund, was featured in an op-ed in Inside Philanthropy co-authored by Arcus Foundation and Equality Federation. The op-ed discusses the urgent need for U.S. pro-democracy and equality movements to join forces in this pivotal election year.
May 14, 2024
The Courageous Giving Framework: A Philanthropic Strategy to Build a Just Democracy
In Nonprofit Quarterly, fundraising consultant Marsha Davis just shouted out Movement Voter Project as a top vehicle for funding grassroots voter engagement, as a key strategy for maintaining and building on the human and civil rights gains of the last 50 years.
February 21, 2024
Columnist Sara Weinberger: A movement that’s all local ground game
MVP supporter and op-ed columnist Sara Weinberger just published a glowing endorsement of MVP in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, the premier daily news source for the Massachusetts Pioneer Valley. In her op-ed, Weinberger makes a very compelling case for why, with so much at stake in the 2024 elections, "every donation [to MVP] is a lifeline for democracy."
January 31, 2024
Bat Signal 2: The Biggest Investment Ever
The well-respected donor publication Blue Tent just published a shortened version of MVP's most recent 2024 elections memo, 'Bat Signal 2: The Biggest Investment Ever'.
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