Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
It is tempting to focus exclusively on the battleground states deemed relevant leading up to the 2024 presidential election — but winning the White House, while necessary, simply isn’t enough. We have to also win school boards, city councils, state legislatures, and all other types of local seats. Join us to learn more about reverse coattails and how this strategy can save democracy.
Caprice Edmond, Pinellas County School Board Member
Senator Megan Hunt - Nebraska Legislature
Amanda Gonzalez, Clerk and Recorder, Jefferson County Colorado
Luisa Santos, Board Member, Miami-Dade School Board
Shu-Yen Wei- Western Regional Director- Run for Something
Statehouse Futures (www.statehousefutures.org) is an annual gathering that features panels on transformative policies your fellow leaders plan to push next year and workshops on approaches to help you raise up big ideas in your state — from maximizing voter participation to tackling monopoly power, protecting reproductive rights to promoting non-carceral first responders, creating green buildings to building social housing, running for office to protecting direct democracy and more. The event is co-hosted by the Democracy Policy Network, the Run for Something Action Fund, and the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center.
It is tempting to focus exclusively on the battleground states deemed relevant leading up to the 2024 presidential election — but winning the White House, while necessary, simply isn’t enough. We have to also win school boards, city councils, state legislatures, and all other types of local seats. Join us to learn more about reverse coattails and how this strategy can save democracy.
Caprice Edmond, Pinellas County School Board Member
Senator Megan Hunt - Nebraska Legislature
Amanda Gonzalez, Clerk and Recorder, Jefferson County Colorado
Luisa Santos, Board Member, Miami-Dade School Board
Shu-Yen Wei- Western Regional Director- Run for Something
Statehouse Futures (www.statehousefutures.org) is an annual gathering that features panels on transformative policies your fellow leaders plan to push next year and workshops on approaches to help you raise up big ideas in your state — from maximizing voter participation to tackling monopoly power, protecting reproductive rights to promoting non-carceral first responders, creating green buildings to building social housing, running for office to protecting direct democracy and more. The event is co-hosted by the Democracy Policy Network, the Run for Something Action Fund, and the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center.
