How they won: Kansas organizers unpack their big win for abortion rights
by from US news | The Guardian on (#62E3S)
The strategies that worked in Kansas - countering misinformation, building a broad coalition - offers lessons for other ballot measures
In February, long before organizers in Kansas had made the hundreds of thousands of calls, knocked on the tens of thousands of doors; or did the thousands of media interviews needed to win a monumental race against an anti-abortion amendment, they started having parties.
Sometimes they were small parties: parties where tea and cookies were handed out, and people sat in living rooms getting to know one another. Other times, they sat around a dinner table, drinking wine with strangers.
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