How Four Grassroots Groups are Building Power in Their Communities Aug 10 Written By Jaynie Parrish Missa Foy and Lorraine Coin with Northeast Arizona Native Democrats / Navajo County DemocratsArizonaNortheast Arizona Native Democrats’ Turnout Grant will support the Family Votes program — in particular, Matriarch Organizing, to recruit and train 100 Matriarchs from Navajo, Hopi, Apache, and surrounding Tribal Nations in voter outreach.Missa, on voter empowerment: “We knew in 2020 that the key to winning the elections in the state of Arizona were matriarchs on sovereign land. We really focus on having women help sign up their entire families to vote by mail. In one of the counties that we served we saw a 300 percent increase in mail-in ballots in the communities that we were calling in to. We let folks know that if the current situation they were in was unacceptable to them, their vote was their power to make changes.” Jaynie Parrish
How Four Grassroots Groups are Building Power in Their Communities Aug 10 Written By Jaynie Parrish Missa Foy and Lorraine Coin with Northeast Arizona Native Democrats / Navajo County DemocratsArizonaNortheast Arizona Native Democrats’ Turnout Grant will support the Family Votes program — in particular, Matriarch Organizing, to recruit and train 100 Matriarchs from Navajo, Hopi, Apache, and surrounding Tribal Nations in voter outreach.Missa, on voter empowerment: “We knew in 2020 that the key to winning the elections in the state of Arizona were matriarchs on sovereign land. We really focus on having women help sign up their entire families to vote by mail. In one of the counties that we served we saw a 300 percent increase in mail-in ballots in the communities that we were calling in to. We let folks know that if the current situation they were in was unacceptable to them, their vote was their power to make changes.” Jaynie Parrish
