Southern Elections Fund

Southern Elections Fund The SEF will work in the South to empower leaders of color, support progressive issues, and ensure that enhanced electoral power brings progressive change.

In 1969, Julian Bond established the Southern Elections Fund to help elect local and state level candidates for office in the old Confederacy. In the early 1970’s, the SEF contributed campaign funds and technical advice to over 800 candidates, 70% of whom were elected to office as part of a grassroots process that changed the nature and color of Southern politics. In 2014, Bond and Benjamin Todd J

ealous have resurrected the Southern Elections Fund in order to combat voter suppression and accelerate the electoral impact of the South’s rapidly changing demographics. The modern-day Southern Elections Fund will work in the South to expand the electorate, develop new leaders of color, and ensure that enhanced electoral power brings progressive change.

06/04/2024

ELECTIONS ARE ABOUT MATH — While it is true that the biggest coalition in the country is an anti-Trump coalition. It is equally true that elections are not just about firing one guy, but about hiring the other.

Giving folks a reason to vote against someone will only ever get you 49% of the vote. Giving them someone or something to vote for is the difference between winning with 50%+1 versus losing with fortynine.

05/29/2024

Interesting how a man who has no say about how his wife flies a flag at their home can tell other women what to do with their bodies.

SETTLING INTO A GOOD BOOK — Before preparing for a much needed journey to commune four days with nature. Drawn a quote f...
03/31/2024

SETTLING INTO A GOOD BOOK — Before preparing for a much needed journey to commune four days with nature. Drawn a quote from Steve’s conversation with Black Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson who wrote the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. “

So the real question would be,” he said finally, “if people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness.”

Nothing like that Richmond coffee. Always good to be back home.
08/03/2023

Nothing like that Richmond coffee. Always good to be back home.

04/20/2021

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