Run for Something: A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself Audiobook (Free)

The must-have guide for young progressives seeking to run for local office, complete with contributions from elected officials and political operatives.

You’ve been depressed since the night of November 8, 2016. You wore black to work another morning. You berated yourself for your complacency through the Obama years. You ranted on Twitter. You deleted Twitter. You sent emails to your friends stating, “How can we obtain more included?” You paid attention to Pod Save America. You knit­ted a pussyhat. You about Run for Something: A Real-Talk Guideline to Fixing the machine Yourself showed up to the Females’s March on Washington. You protested Donald Trump’s professional orders. You called your congressman. You known as other people’s congressmen. You set up regular donations to Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. You reactivated Twitter (begrudgingly).

Here’s everything you do next: Run for something.

To be particular: Work for local office and become the change you intend to find in the world. Just forget about Con­gress. Overlook the Senate. Concentrate on the offices that obtain the real sh*t completed: condition legislatures, town councils, school boards, and mayors.

It doesn’t matter if you’re not a white guy over sixty with an Ivy Little league law level. (Actually, it’s better if you’re not!)

It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand the first thing about operating for office, or never actually imagined you’ll. That’s what this publication is for.

Amanda Litman, experienced in hard-fought state and nationwide election campaigns, is here now to give you guid­ance as well as knowledge and insight from elected officials and politics operatives she interviewed for this book.

There are half of a million elected officials in the United States. Why can’t you be one of these?