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Crack Graham in South Carolina

Take Action Against Sen. Lindsey Graham

In South Carolina, like so many other states where the Rightwing has run unopposed for decades, we see the concentrated effects of white supremacy, poverty, misogyny, and homophobia every day.

On Saturday, August 1, hundreds of thousands of South Carolinians lost their unemployment benefits. An estimated $120 million dollars will evaporate from the South Carolina economy each week. Since then, 53% of South Carolinians have been up for eviction from their homes with no aid during this global life threatening pandemic.

And yet, Senator Lindsey Graham said it would be “over his dead body“ would Congress reauthorize help for millions of people across the country and home in South Carolina. Email Senator Graham and let him know that our communities, our health and our economy depends on this relief!

Join us is taking action against Lindsey Graham from now until November and pledge to vote against Lindsey Graham!

With all of the uncertainty and misinformation surrounding the 2020 election, it’s important to start creating your plan to vote as early as possible. 

Voting absentee or planning to go to your polling place? Have you recently moved? Do you have all of the necessary documents? Are you away at college? These are some of the questions that are important to answer to create your voting plan for Election Day on November 3rd, 2020!

Create Your Voting Plan

At SONG Power, we believe that both the barriers to justice and the potential wins are greater in states in the Deep South like South Carolina.

That’s why we’re taking on Lindsey Graham, United States senator from South Carolina and poster boy of rightwing homophobes, union busters and rape apologists, who’s nevertheless held his seat for 17 years and counting. Since Trump’s election, Graham has doubled down on his ass-kissing and renewed his commitment to a regressive vision of South Carolina and the nation. The people of South Carolina know Graham is a grifter of the highest degree, a self-serving partisan whose commitment bends to meet his own career goals. He said it himself: in 2019 he told the New York Times his primary focus is “Relevance: If you don’t want to get re-elected, you’re in the wrong business.”

SONG previously invested more heavily in South Carolina but has not significantly invested in the state since 2016. By focusing on holding Graham accountable, SONG Power will energize our communities in SC and lay groundwork for reinvigorated local organizing in SC beyond 2020. Even if we lose, an investment of this scale in South Carolina Movement infrastructure will make an impact — identifying new leaders, forging new relationships and connections, developing more strategic organizing skills, and showing the rest of the country what’s possible with an investment here. We will run a statewide organizing strategy engaging a traditional field program, relational voting, narrative communications, culture work, and direct action to denounce and de-legitimate Lindsey Graham and all he stands for. Along with cracking Graham, we want to leave South Carolina much stronger for years to come — more grassroots leaders, fortified organizations, animated and engaged constituencies, and opportunities for broad-scale, transformative organizing.

This will not be an easy fight. The political pundits put the Graham seat as solidly safe Republican, mainly based on South Carolina’s Republican lean. But, in a December 2019 poll, Graham was only leading Harrison by 2 points. To win, SC political strategists say: “Harrison will not only have to turn out voters but also over-perform with white working-class voters, as Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, did.”

Join us to organize towards a South Carolina based on the principles of Beloved Community and to fight for and win communities where Black people, immigrants, workers, LGBTQ people, and women can live Free From Fear!

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SONG Power is the political and advocacy arm of Southerners on New Ground (SONG). We are organizing to shift power and build beloved community in the South.

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therealnews The Real News @therealnews ·
14 Jul

Poverty can be its own form of voter suppression. So these organizers, with the group @songpowerc4, are using mutual aid to help get out the vote: by @jaisalnoor w/ @soljourno https://therealnews.com/you-cant-think-about-voting-if-youre-thinking-about-feeding-your-kids

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songpowerc4 songpowerc4 @songpowerc4 ·
12 Oct 2021

We're hitting the streets again!

This fall we're Canvassing For Survival and Liberation – a 6 week base building program focused on canvassing across the region through 3 selected sites ran by paid Local Power teams!

Learn more + apply to be a site >>> http://songsouth.info/c4survival

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songpowerc4 songpowerc4 @songpowerc4 ·
7 Oct 2021

We're hitting the streets again!

This fall we're Canvassing For Survival and Liberation – a 6 week base building program focused on canvassing across the region through 3 selected sites ran by paid Local Power teams!

Learn more + apply to be a site >>> http://songsouth.info/c4survival

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songpowerc4 songpowerc4 @songpowerc4 ·
1 Jul 2021

Help us sharpen the tools in our toolbox for liberation by completing this survey that will allow us to push our demands further, drastically build our base & contend directly for power across the South

Survey >>> https://bit.ly/songsurveyesp

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ngpaction New Georgia Project Action Fund @ngpaction ·
25 May 2021

on holding law enforcement accountable, protecting the right to vote, fighting employment discrimination, and increasing equity to housing and education for marginalized communities.

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