Over the course of decades, conservatives learned to connect voters’ ambitions to the level of government that could make it so. Want to block sex education? Take over school boards. Oppose taxpayer dollars funding public transit? Win legislative offices. Strip workers’ rights? Elect union-busting governors in industrial states. Putting our money where our votes are means going beyond presidential and federal contests to also battle for state legislatures, secretaries of state, attorneys general, and governors. Key ammunition in the fight will be ensuring our armies of voters know the issues,
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