Democracy Spring
Democracy Spring " is a civil resistance movement organization committed to ending the corruption of big money in politics and protecting the right to vote for all people." According to their website, their strategy is "to help create the necessary conditions to elect a wave of progressive, pro-reform candidates into Congress and state legislatures across the country...[who will ultimately] enact our reform agenda."[1]
In July 2017, an email went out to followers that claimed that the "parent organization" of Democracy Spring 99Rise "is officially adopting Democracy Spring's name and principles, integrating fully into the new organization it originally launched."
The Grand Strategy
According to their website, Democracy Spring "organized the largest American civil disobedience action of the 21st century, with over 1,300 people arrested after sitting-in on the steps of the US Capitol." Their goal is to "take over the [Democrat] party."
From their website:
- "We are pursuing an ambitious and morally imperative strategy to build a mass movement of civil resistance that can push through fundamental reform to repair our corrupt political system. But with the devastating results of the 2016 election and an aggressively anti-democratic Republican Party now in control of the White House, Congress, and 2/3 of state legislatures, there is some serious groundwork to be done.
- "From now until the 2018 midterm elections, we will be focusing on defending American democracy from Trump and the GOP's blatant attacks, while at the same time, forcing the Democratic Party to break with Big Money and represent everyday people. We will build a 50-state nonviolent army of volunteer leaders across the country to drive these two strategic components, using public protest, civil disobedience, local trainings, local organizing, and creative nonviolent actions.
- "The goal of this first phase of the strategy is to help create the necessary conditions to elect a wave of progressive, pro-reform candidates into Congress and state legislatures across the country. Once we've transformed the political landscape—either after 2018 or 2020—we will mobilize our grassroots movement in a massive and sustained national civil resistance campaign, aimed at forcing Congress and the President to enact our reform agenda."