DNC’s Local Listeners initiative will target one million ‘infrequent’ voters in battleground districts
Democrats are launching an aggressive campaign to win back voters they lost, not to Donald Trump, but to the proverbial “couch,” as they look to regain support ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
On Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) rolled out a new initiative called Local Listeners with the goal of targeting over one million “infrequent” voters in key battleground districts. Seeking to build on the party’s string of off-year election victories, which extended into 2026 with an upset in Texas last weekend, the DNC is betting that early, localized outreach will be crucial in winning back these voters’ trust – and their ballots – this time around.
“If we want to keep earning back the trust and support of voters, we have to listen to them,” DNC chair Ken Martin said in a statement, shared in advance with the Guardian. “This program modernizes the way we are talking to and hearing from the voters that we need to win elections now and for years to come. The Democratic Party is done with waiting until the last minute to engage voters – these conversations need to happen early and often.”
Two words:
President Clooney
Democrats will try anything but policy.
Guess the one benefit of living in a deep red Midwestern state is they’ll never try that crap here. Not gonna waste breath on people that value donations over human lives.
Being Mamdani without the policies isn’t being Mamdani. America’s appetite for Obama types is waning.
Yeah better to be Katie Wilson than Obama
Shut down ICE. You’ll be the party in power. Fix voting access, nationalize mail in voting resources (states run the elections)
Promote down ballot leftists
Repeal citizens united
They’ll never lose another national election
They aren’t looking for a list of things to DO.
They are just looking for the right lies to tell.
These feel like pipedreams when looking at the current DNC. Or maybe they’ll just talk about it then do bupkis when they’re in power like last time.
No mention of changing any of the policy stances, alliances with far right war criminals, and other substance based reasons for what they pretend to be laziness or apathy.
As usual, they’re taking the Aaron Sorkin approach to politics where it’s all about giving the right speeches and pretending to listen (while refusing to take action based on what they’re told) and what you actually DO is immaterial 🤦
Until they stop acting like the country (and by extension the world) is a ridiculously condescending work of fiction with themselves as the main characters (and thus the only ones that REALLY matter), they will keep losing out on critically needed votes and therefore be accomplices to the ravages of fascism their carelessness enables.
Then blame everyone under the sun except themselves for their failures.
It’s not like anyone told them supporting a genocide would be bad for voter turnout. How were they supposed to know? /s
Super easy, barely an inconvenience… do the opposite of everything happening in the current administration. Don’t court the middle/right. Publicly recognize the lack of accountability and publish plans to do so.
Courting the middle/right doesn’t mean diet-fascism or shitty, means-tested versions of policy people actually like. “Free healthcare” is more popular across all demographics than any compromised policy.
I hear you, I understand you, and I feel for you. Therefore, we’re gonna Pokémon GO to the polls.
VOTE MORHRRFUKER (punches u in the face)
Volunteers will undergo a seven-week training program on how to better engage these voters, including sessions on “active listening” and “having difficult conversations about politics”.
Seven weeks of paychecks for the consultants, but the party members they actually want to go out and do the real work of talking to people are just expected to volunteer. Sounds like the Democratic party I know and loathe.
It’s seem like an out there idea but have they try doing their job? Might help
First you need to explain to Chuck Schumer what his job actually is.
It isn’t getting aid for Israel?
He told us what his job is, it’s not us
Pfff, yea right. Until they go grass roots, this is all smoke and mirrors. The voters have gotten tired of it and want actual change (which is a big reason why we’re in this mess). Get rid of Schumer and the rest of the corpocrats, and look at what the people actually want. That’ll never happen.
Hmm. Opening new offices and hiring people seems more like a way to keep the cycle of donor money moving, rather than a strategy to win…absent any actual messaging or policy changes from Democratic leadership.
When I read the article I expected the regional initiatives to have some sort of mechanism to change messaging and policy. It doesn’t seem to me that “listening” is what’s needed…we know exactly what these potential voters want.
They are infrequent voters because they listened to what Democrats said then they watched what Democrats did. Democrats can’t be trusted.
“Corpodems launch aggressive campaign to get votes by doing literally anything other than what the people want” 🥱
