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We read the latest CT Dems email, and were struck by their organization, coordination and persuasive messaging abilities.
Honestly, we're a little bit envious of the way CT Dems of all stripes are able to unify in their shared hatred of "billionaire nazi oligarchs" even if they have personal differences or disagree on other issues.
You never see the CT Dems denouncing progressive activist organizations as "extremists" -- not even if they coordinated terror attacks at Tesla dealerships across the country!
In fact, it's quite the opposite.
The CT Dems just put out a full guide on activism for 2025 to help any and all democrats "get involved in ways that make sense for you." The way the guide is positioned, it makes it feel like every democrat in the state is working together on a unified mission to fight the Trump Administration.
"But no matter which group or organization you work with, no matter which forum or format you use to speak your mind, you will be helping push back against the egregious assault on our state, our nation, and our values," the guide said.
Can you imagine if the CT GOP felt the same way about all Republican organizations in Connecticut, even the MAGA ones that have been denigrated as "right wing extremists" by other Republicans?
But alas, we digress.
To the best of our knowledge, nothing like this guide exists for Republicans in Connecticut, though it should.
The CT Dems guide starts off with ideas on how democrats can work within the party itself, like how to join a caucus or attend a local Democrat Town Committee meeting, making it really simple for people to get involved.
Links to contact information for Connecticut's federal and statewide elected officials, all democrats, are included, along with a suggested app for generating scripts to make calling those officials easier.
The CT Dems encourage people to join a long list of activist groups including seven different chapters of the group Indivisible—which Elon Musk says has funded the Tesla Takedown protests—and a bunch of local activist groups like Bridgeport Generation Now and the ReSisters, another Indivisible-like group with a busy protest schedule.
They push democrats to help issue-based organizations, like ones that support illegal immigration (e.g., Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services "IRIS" , CT Institute for Refugees & Immigrants "CIRI"), ones that promote abortion and the chemical and surgical mutilation of children (e.g., Reproductive Equity Now, Planned Parenthood) and national organizations with a Connecticut presence (e.g., League of Women Voters, Human Rights Campaign).
The CT Dems even highlight resources from eight different organizations to help people learn how to run for office, in addition to offering trainings from the National Democrat Training Committee and the CT Dems themselves.
It's really easy to become a democrat activist and receive the full support of the democrat party machine.
The same cannot be said on the Republican side of the equation.
Most of the more conservative groups operate like islands unto themselves, with very little connection to the CT GOP or with each other for that matter. Some of these groups have no idea that the other groups even exist. So an email like the one the CT Dems just sent, laying out the entire activist network, would be shocking to see from the CT GOP -- really helpful, mind you -- but shocking since the CT GOP seems generally uninterested in organizing the ground game like this.
It's unclear whether there has ever been an effort to bring the disparate groups together in a room with representatives from the CT GOP and all of the RTCs to even start a discussion on coordinating in places where it makes sense.
Maybe that's because RINOs and "old guard" Republicans have blocked and/or are still blocking MAGA Republicans from joining local RTCs, and having meaningful input into local party decision-making and candidate selection.
Maybe it's because the sides have a fundamental disagreement on principles, and while the majority of the party nationally has embraced the MAGA agenda, the RINOs and "old guard" are stuck in their thinking that only "dem-lite" wins in Connecticut.
Maybe it's because the swamp doesn't want to relinquish control of the purse strings and lose out on all that Citizen's Election Program cash that ends up getting doled out to their preferred consultants, vendors and campaign staffers.
One thing we know for sure is that, unlike the CT Dems, the CT GOP is not organized for success—and it's obviously hard to win when a bunch of willing players are sidelined or straight up blocked from joining the team at a time when Republicanism, and MAGA Republicanism in particular, is more popular than ever.
The lack of organization and coordination in the CT GOP should not deter the grassroots community, but instead inspire the community to work together, operating outside the dysfunction of the party to effect change.
Just look at all of those Patriots who assembled for Trump Force 47 to help win states like Pennsylvania in 2024 -- they didn't coordinate or work with local RTCs -- they organized outside of the PA GOP and were instrumental to Trump's win in the state.
We can and should do the same thing in Connecticut.
