Native Organizing Fund

2023

What's next for the Northeast Arizona Native Democrats?

  • Continue registering voters and build voter outreach and education

  • Increase civic engagement on tribal lands and Indigenous political representation

  • Expand the Family Votes program

  • Inaugurate the Sunrise Precinct Program to ensure voters have correct personal identification for the polls

  • Help educate community members about Democratic issues that directly affect their communities

  • Protect voting rights

  • Encourage more tribal community members to run for office

  • Help 2023 County Democratic candidates be successful

What can you do to help?

Native Organizers hit the ground – Arizona is already a battleground state for the 2024 Presidency (Daily Kos 2.10.23)

Native Voters deliver big wins in Arizona midterm elections (Daily Kos 12.14.22)

We will continue building in 2023 for the 2024 Presidential elections

Arizona is a battleground state and organizing an effective campaign across a rural tribal area the size of Indiana is not easy. We center local organizing in tribal communities while making sure voters are not further disenfranchised by Republican efforts to diminish Native voting rights. Native votes can decide elections. The math was proven in 2020 and 2022. According to the Census 2020 our state’s American Indian population is 6.3 percent - and we know that is an undercount. Native voters are not going anywhere.

Thankfully, we have very talented Native organizers and volunteers, in place since 2020, who are incredibly dedicated to their communities on the Navajo, Hopi, White Mountain Apache, and San Carlos Apache Nations.

Program Summary

  • We are an independent grassroots campaign working in rural and tribal communities on Navajo, Hopi and the White Mountain and San Carlos Apache Tribal Nations.

  • The rural and Tribal Nations we engage are in Arizona’s Legislative District 6 and 7 and Congressional District 2.  Map reference.

  • Long term investment: build a bench of Native organizers, campaign leaders, and candidates. 

  • Fundraise to continue hiring Native organizers. Local organizers will register voters and engage residents in three counties with a concentration on White Mountain Apache, Hopi, San Carlos, and the Navajo Nation. There is a focused effort to target border towns, infrequent-, new-, and high-potential voters across Navajo, Apache, and Coconino County. 

  • Expand our Family Votes Program launched in February 2022 to organically grow Democratic Party presence with matriarchs in tribal communities to help protect voting rights. 

  • Fight voter suppression bills and educate communities in our region

    Program Areas

    • Hire and train Native field organizers to work in their communities

      • Issue and Democratic campaign advocacy

    • Community service and aid

    • General community education on redistricting and protecting voting rights

    • Advertising (Radio, print, mailers, literature, social media)

    • Assist, lead, coordinate on COVID-19 Relief Efforts (food, water and PPE distribution)

    • Digital and Social Media

    • Partnership Work

      • Five County Democrats, County Recorders, non-partisan groups, tribal leaders, community leaders.