David Hogg ☮️

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

*This is just my opinion. I am not trying to change your mind or say you are wrong I just wanted to express the above. Open to different ideas. Maybe I’m wrong and I may change my mind in the future — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

11. Practicing the Dr. King’s principles of non violence would help us a lot IMO. — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

10. 1 If we want to claim to be champions of restorative justice we must practice it both off line and online. Instead of falling for the illusion that retributive justice, while it might feel good in the short term, will actually hurt the movement longterm. — PolitiTweet.org

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10. We need more people in the movement not less. People can mess up and often do. We have a responsibility to work with them to attempt to change their behavior and practice grace as much as we can. (There is a limit of course) But immediately turning on people only hurts us. — PolitiTweet.org

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9. People forget to have fun. You need to have fun doing this work and do things outside the movement that are completely unrelated. Do not let this work kill the stuff you love to do. — PolitiTweet.org

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8 Movement leaders turn on each other when things don’t happen as quick as you want. Here’s a hard truth. You can do everything right and still fail because things outside your control. What this requires is persistence not giving up so when the time is right, things will change. — PolitiTweet.org

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7.5 Leaders must realize the importance of the above and take care of themselves while working hard with boundaries too and know they have to lead by example. — PolitiTweet.org

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7.4 A movement is people, without people there is no movement. Therefore, if those people are not taking care of themselves they actually are hurting the movement because others have to pick up the slack. You must relax before you collapse. This is an ultra marathon not a sprint — PolitiTweet.org

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7.3 However we also have the mistake of thinking working yourself to death in the name of the movement is selfless when it’s actually the most selfish thing you can do. — PolitiTweet.org

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7.2 The people we are working against work incredibly hard and are militantly organized. We can’t afford to not also be. — PolitiTweet.org

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7.1 What I mean by this is that your team needs to have clear times when they know they are working for example 9-5 M-F but that they work their asses off in that time. After however they relax and take care of themselves. — PolitiTweet.org

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7. We think working hard and not burning out are mutually exclusive, they are not. The issue is setting boundaries. We need to work hard but have boundaries and not act like hard work and sacrifice are not unfortunately a part of all successful movements. — PolitiTweet.org

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6.1 These issues are preventable but we need to stop acting like organizers are born and not made. Experience can educate but it is extremely inefficient and detrimental not to avoid mistakes that don’t need to happen in the first place. — PolitiTweet.org

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6. The list of issues goes on but importantly Almost all of these things could be avoided or largely prevented if the left had a better education system for organizers instead of just failing over and over until you figure it out or worse, give up. — PolitiTweet.org

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5.3 This is when we get uncomfortable with professional accountability because people either take it personally or think it will be taken personally. When it’s not about you personally it’s about getting shit done to archive the mission. — PolitiTweet.org

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5.2 If you don’t measure what you are doing and if you are hitting your Key Performance indicators every week or month you’ll only hit your goal if it’s non specific or non existent. There is no improvement with no accountability. — PolitiTweet.org

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5.1 The reality is this- if you are trying to do something new and you don’t fail the first 3 times you probably aren’t trying hard enough or you’re failing and dont know it because you either intentionally or unintentially are not measuring things (you manage what you measure) — PolitiTweet.org

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5. We are too afraid to embrace the importance of failure because people are incentivize to spill everything into a win. — PolitiTweet.org

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4.4 6. Once you reach the deadline/end date for your project and assess if you reached your goal what went right and wrong and then what the next goal is. Maybe it’s trying again if you failed or if you succeed, how to run 2 people for office. Then repeat the process and scale. — PolitiTweet.org

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4.3 4. As you mess up or miss the goal for a month adjust and adjust again until you are on track to reach the goal for the month. As you do this write the lessons learned down so you don’t repeat them later when you scale. (This is basically failing with small stakes to learn) — PolitiTweet.org

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4.2: 1. Write out your clear end goal dream situation 2. Make it as small as possible to have a first step- get 1 person to run then with this clear goal. 3. Build a project plan, leadership structure, what your goals need to be every month to get goal and what is the timeline. — PolitiTweet.org

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4.1 An example of this: Say you want to have a young person run for every state house and senate seat in America. Instead of just going for it- start this way — PolitiTweet.org

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4.05 A Clear 1st small goal to beta test leadership structure, roles and project management, KPIs and achieving clear goal(s). — PolitiTweet.org

David Hogg ☮️ @davidhogg111

4. Individuals on the left, including myself fall for the trap of thinking big and getting overwhelmed (poor project management). Instead we need to think big and start small via: — PolitiTweet.org

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3.3 As a result of trying to make everyone happy we let the perfect be the enemy of the good and nothing ends up happening. 3.4 Younger people to no fault of their own often lack project management skills too which really hurts this (but could be fixed by training) — PolitiTweet.org

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3. We are uncomfortable with power. There are a number of reasons for this 3.1 We mistake professional accountability for a personal attack. 3.2 As a result of being uncomfortable with power we keep things horizontal to a fault. There is a reason ships don’t have 8 captains — PolitiTweet.org

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2.3 Far too often we donate or work to change things, based off where we don’t like who is in power and not where we can actually change who is in power. — PolitiTweet.org

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2.2 Instead of raising a ton of money against Greene just to have her win again, that money would be better spent on the work @staceyabrams has done to flip the state leg, or actually flippable congressional seats. While it might feel good to donate to her opponent it won’t help — PolitiTweet.org

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2.1 I am no fan of Marjory Taylor Greene of course- but while raising a ton of money for her opponents would be possible- it wouldn’t change anything because the district is so republican a ham sandwich with an R by its name could win. — PolitiTweet.org

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2 On the left we let emotion guide strategy. Before you misinterpret what I am saying, let me explain. Emotions are powerful and can help motivate us but they can misguide us. We should think strategically and then let our emotions motivate us Please see Example below — PolitiTweet.org