RESOURCES
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NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND INITIATIVES​​
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Emerge America: Build the Bench
Emerge America's Build the Bench program trains Democratic women to run for office and win at all levels.
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Media Matters for America - Take Action
Media Matters for America is a media watchdog group dedicated to exposing the damage done to our democracy by right wing outlets like InfoWars, Breitbart and Fox.
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MoveOn.org
MoveOn is the largest independent, progressive, digitally connected organizing group in the United States.
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Regulations.gov: Your Voice in Federal Decision-Making
Submit your comments and let your voice be heard as our federal government crafts regulations that affect Americans.
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Swing Left
Find your closest Swing District and join its team to learn about actionable opportunities to support Democrats in that district, no matter where you live.
​STATE AND LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS AND INITIATIVES
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Activate Virginia​
Activate Virginia supports Democratic candidates and fights campaign corruption.
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MORE TOOLS AND RESOURCES
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Virginia KOS - staying on top of Virginia politics.
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Demlist - DemList is a FREE national daily political column, calendar, and resource site for Democratic activists, leaders, party committees, supporters and allies.
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BOOK AND FILM RECOMMENDATIONS
We hope you enjoy the WCDC Book Club's archived list of recommended books and films. Although we retired the Selection of the Month feature in 2021, we believe you will find that these selections provide great insight into Democratic causes and the people who carry on the work of making this a better America for us all.
2020 Book Selections
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2020 December: A Promised Land by Barack Obama
2020 November: What Were We Thinking by Carlos Lozada
2020 October: Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum
2020 September: Hoax by Brian Stelter
2020 August: Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump
2020 July: The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
2020 June: The End of White Politics by Zerlina Maxwell
2020 May: Promises to Keep by Joe Biden
2020 April: A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump by David Plouffe
2020 March: Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
2020 February: A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig
2020 January: I Can't Breathe by Matt Taibbi
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2019 Book Selections
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2019 December: A Warning by Anonymous
2019 November: No selection
2018 October: The Immoral Majority by Ben Howe
2019 September: A Lot of People are Saying by Rosenblum & Muirhead
2019 August: American Carnage by Tim Alberta
2019 July: It's Time to Fight Dirty by David Faris
2019 June: Moneyland by Oliver Bullough
2019 May: The Apprentice by Greg Miller
2019 April: Moral Politics by George Lakoff
2019 March: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by Kurt Andersen
2019 February: The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
2019 January: Factfulness by Hans Rosling
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2018 Book Selections
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2018 Dec/Jan: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
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2018 Jan/Feb: Collusion by Luke Harding
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2018 Feb/Mar: Russian Roulette by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
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2018 Mar/Apr: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership by James Comey
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2018 Apr/May: The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies by Susan Jacoby
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2018 May/Jun: Facts and Fears: Hard Truths froma Life in Intelligence by James R. Clapper
2018 Jun/Jul: Democracy in Chains by Nancy McLean
2018 Jul/Aug: Drawdown edited by Paul Hawken
2018 Aug/Sep: Fear by Bob Woodward
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2018 Sep/Oct: Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
2018 Oct/Nov: Mr. Trump's Wild Ride by Major Garrett:
2017 Book Selections
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2017 January: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, by Jane Mayer
2017 February: Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, by Matt Taibbi
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2017 March: Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War, by Joe Bageant
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2017 April: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance
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2017 May: Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis, by Nicholas Eberstadt
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2017 June: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
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2017 July: This Fight is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class, by Elizabeth Warren
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2017 August: We Do Our Part: Toward a Fairer and More Equal America, by Charles Peters
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2017 September: Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
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2017 October: Giant of the Senate, by Al Franken
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2017 November: What Happened, by Hillary Rodham Clinton
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2017 December: Democracy in Chains: A Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, by Nancy MacLean
2020 Film Selections
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2019 December : What the Constitution Means to Me
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2019 November: Knock Down the House
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2019 October: Unfit
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2019 September: Boy's State
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2019 August: John Lewis: Good Trouble
2019 July: The Other Side
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2019 June: Becoming
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2019 May: Crip Camp
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2019 April: After Truth
2019 March: I Voted?
2019 February: Reversing Roe
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2019 January: Where's My Roy Cohn?
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2019 Film Selections
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2019 December : The Report
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2019 November: No selection
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2019 October: The Biggest Little Farm
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2019 September: American Factory
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2019 August: Dark Money
2019 July: The Devil We Know
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2019 June: Dirty Money
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2019 May: Our Planet
2019 April: Feminists
2019 March: Minding the Gap
2019 February: RBG
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2019 January: The Sentence
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2018 Film Selections
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2018 Dec/Jan : A Plastic Ocean
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2018 Jan/Feb: An Inconvenient Sequel
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2018 Feb/Mar: Dolores
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2018 Mar/Apr: Steel Town Down, by Vice
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2018 Apr/May: Beasts of No Nation
2018 May/Jun: Dream: An American Story
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2018 Jun/Jul: Dr. Feelgood
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2018 Jul/Aug: BlacKKKlansman
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2018 Aug/Sep: The Age of Consequences
2018 Sep/Oct: The Power of Nightmares
2018 Oct/Nov: The Staircase
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2017 Film Selections
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2017 Jan/Feb: The Boys of Baraka, by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
2017 Feb/Mar: The Brainwashing of my Dad, by Jen Senko
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2017 Mar/Apr: Sicko, by Michael Moore
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2017 Apr/May: Before the Flood, National Geographic
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2017 May/Jun: Get Me Roger Stone, by Dylan Bank, Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme
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2017 Jun/Jul: Born into Brothels, by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman
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2017 Jul/Aug - Encore: Born into Brothels, by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman
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2017 Aug/Sep: Citizen Koch, by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin
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2017 Sep/Oct: 13th, by Ava DuVernay
2017 Oct/Nov: Accidental Courtesy, by Laurie Harris and Roberto AlCantara
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2017 Nov/Dec: First Daughter and the Blacksnake by Keri Pickett