Our House Independent Caucus

Our Strategies

1. Crowd-Sourcing Information: We each find pieces of information and place it here for others so they don't have to spend the time researching.  Others can then find more pieces and build off the existing details.  

   1. We start with understanding who we are as a nation, state and district and precinct by finding Census, Voter Registration, Election Results and Voter turnout.  Develop a data set with volunteer "owners" that own 1 or 2 pieces of the data.

   2. Now that we know who we are and have a structure our districts and precincts to exist, we can start to connect people with their elected representatives, ballots and their polling places.

   3. Some volunteers will focus on the Legislative record to identify bills and their outcomes and work with the district page volunteers to record votes.  One or two people should group together to follow a single bill. We can't track everything but if there are volunteers following legislation, this is place they can share their research and thoughts.

   4. Some Volunteers will focus previous legislation from previous Congress' that both became law and those that did or didn't pass the house.  We need to be able to identify good legislation that never became law and identify bad laws and get them repealed or amended.

2. Seed>Feed>Seed Grassroots Campaign:  We are following in the footsteps of the modern Occupy Movement as well as other current grassroots campaigns such as Represent.Us, Wolf-Pac and MoveToAmend.org

   1. This Caucus is intended to be a garden for democracy where volunteers plant the seeds of their ideas, comments and opinions.

   2. Ideas can be "over-seeded" with multiple versions, options or alternatives as others are inspired to throw their seeds into the soil.

   3. Once the idea germinates (another volunteer likes the idea) in the caucus where it can begin to take root.

   4. The more support it gets, the bigger, stronger and more vital it becomes.

   5. Soon new ideas will "go to seed" and volunteers will take clippings and transplant so that your idea can grow in other districts and precincts.

3. Together Forward Support Coalition:  Unite a coalition of volunteer professionals to support independent grassroots campaigns that can maintain free of the influence of money in politics and focused on serving the needs of the district they are elected to represent.

   1. Webmasters and web support:  You can be virtually anywhere, you can help candidates improve their website experience and better connect with their constituents.

   2. Graphic arts and Designs:  You can help create mass designs that are created so that an address label can be attached for custom candidate or event details.  Create custom flyers or images for candidates or local caucus team.

   3. Small Printing & Pick-up/Drop-Off:  Volunteers can print their own small quantities or design their own flyers.  Volunteers can print extra materials for other campaign volunteers to ensure every voter can be reached.  Volunteers can choose to be a pick/drop location for other members to get additional campaign materials without waiting for shipping. 

   4. Large Custom Printing: Small businesses, caucus fundraisers and direct ship purchases of bulk order/discounted Yard Signs, T-Shirts, Hats, Pens, Buttons and other products.

   5. Amateur Audio/Visual Services: Photo & Video of events as well as videos to endorse and help promote candidates and our caucus.

   6. Professional Audio/Visual Services:  Video Production and Photography to help educate and inform voters.