Our Mission
After targeting county and state-wide races in 2019, winning 80% of our endorsed races and flipping 5 counties blue, now we're gunning to flip the PA House and Senate!
WHAT WE DO
American democracy today is faced with structural and ideological questions in dire need of answers. Structurally, economic and demographic trends hollow out rural communities, concentrate voters in suburbs and cities, and exacerbate tribalism. What’s red is getting redder, and what’s blue is getting bluer.
Voter concentration, partnered with partisan gerrymandering create a massive structural disadvantage for Democrats. When Democrats manage to overcome these structural disadvantages, Republicans change the rules by restricting access to the ballot box to further consolidate power. Voter suppression is a core Republican strategy, and as long as Republicans are in a position to restrict voting access, we can expect the will of the voters to continue to be ignored.
We see our path to a 2020 victory through the work we do in 2019 in preparing the infrastructure we’ll need for success, engaging the next generation of voters and leaders, and contributing to the political conversation that defines the Pennsylvania political atmosphere.
Meet The Founders
Patrick J Murphy
The Honorable Patrick J. Murphy is America's first Iraq War veteran elected to the U.S. Congress and later served as the 32nd Under Secretary of the Army until January 2017. Secretary Murphy is currently the Distinguished Chair of Innovation at the United States Military Academy at West Point, a Senior Fellow at the Association of the U.S. Army, a media executive, and the Executive Chairman of Work Merk, a professional education platform that bridges the gap between corporations and higher education.
Scott Wallace
Scott Wallace is Co-Chair of the Wallace Global Fund, a private charitable foundation founded by his grandfather, former US Vice President Henry A. Wallace. The foundation is dedicated to Henry A. Wallace’s progressive legacy of empowering what he called the “common man” against the moneyed elites in the struggle for control of government and the planet’s precious resources. An attorney since 1978, Scott specialized in criminal and constitutional law, and legislation and public policy. He was the 2018 Democratic nominee for Congress in Pennsylvania’s First District.
ADVISORY BOARD
Andrew Sommers - Board Chair
Cindy Bass
Philadelphia City Councilmember
Chris Carney
Former U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District
John Galloway
State Representative, PA-140
Howie Hayes
2020 Democratic Nominee for State Representative, PA-18
Marlene Katz
2020 Democratic Nominee for State Representative, PA-29
Patty Kim
State Representative, PA-103
Dan Kunze
ServiceNow, Army Business Mission Account Manager
Alexander Olson
Young Democrats of America, Mid-Atlantic Region Treasurer
Gwen Stoltz
Stephen Rudman
PA Young Democrats, Former President
Tom Taft
Builder
Tim Boyle
“Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”
