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The Democratic Strategy Institute, a project of the National Democratic Training Committee, is dedicated to gathering, analyzing, and sharing the best practices, strategies, and cutting edge tactics in Democratic politics across the country.

Focused on long-term Democratic success, the DSI PAC seeks to share the best practices campaigns, staff, and local leaders need to win elections at every level through online resources, trainings, and more.

The Democratic Strategy Institute is funded by grassroots supporters across the country and is committed to providing its services free of charge to the Democratic community.

Hall of Shame

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Active-Duty Coppys Training for Civil War?

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The far-right paramilitary the Oath Keepers is home to active-duty law-enforcement officers who are training up other members to prepare for civil war, according to one of the group’s top figures. CBS News’ 60 Minutes profiled the the increasingly notorious militia on Sunday night, and one of its leaders from Arizona, Jim Arroyo, spoke openly about the close involvement of police officers. “Our guys are very experienced,” said Arroyo. “We have active-duty law enforcement in our organization that are helping to train us. We can blend in with our law enforcement and in fact, in a lot of cases, our training is much more advanced because of our military backgrounds.” Arroyo’s statement was backed up by Javed Ali, an ex-National Security Council senior director and FBI counterterrorism official, who said the Oath Keepers are a “unique and challenging” threat to the U.S. because a “large percentage have tactical training and operational experience in either the military or law enforcement. That at least gives them a capability that a lot of other people in this far-right space don’t have.” Dozens of members have been implicated in the storming of the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington. 1

Nelfer, Natasha

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She came under the scrutiny of church leadership last fall when Stephen Daley, stake president in Derby, Kan., sent her a letter expressing concern that her public views on the use of pornography, masturbation and same-sex marriage contradict church teaching. Referring to her beliefs about LGBTQ members, he asked in a Nov. 9, 2020 letter, “Do you consider the Church toxic and unsafe for its members?” 2

Magnus, Chris

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Police Chief of Tucson, Arizona, and now the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.

President Joe Biden is nominating Tucson, Ariz., Police Chief Chris Magnus, a gay man and an advocate for progressive policing policies, to be commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. Magnus would be the first out member of the LGBTQ+ community to lead CPB, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. He was one of six Homeland Security nominees Biden announced Monday. 3

Sinema’s True Colors are Emerging

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The story of Senator Kyrsten Sinema — a former Green Party–aligned activist who happily rejected a minimum wage hike recently and is now one the most right-wing Democrats in the Senate — is about how a desperate thirst for power can debase even the most idealistic progressive. 4

Nordean, Ethan (aka Rufio Panman )

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Insurgent

  • Nordean and Biggs Jailed

    A federal judge on Monday jailed two Proud Boys leaders pending trial in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, handing a victory to U.S. prosecutors in a closely watched conspiracy case accusing the pair of planning to disrupt Congress and leading as many as 60 others to impede police that day. U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly of Washington acknowledged that online organizers Ethan Nordean, 30, of Seattle and Joseph Randall Biggs, 37, of Ormond Beach, Fla., “lacked most of the usual markers of dangerousness” relied on by judges to detain other Jan. 6 defendants, saying that neither was armed, assaulted police or had a criminal record. 5

  • First Superseding Indictment
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    On January 6, 2021, within the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the defendants, ETHAN NORDEAN, JOSEPH BIGGS, ZACH REHL, and CHARLES DONOHOE did knowingly, and with intent to impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions, engage in disorderly and disruptive conduct in and within such proximity to, a restricted building and grounds, that is, any posted, cordoned-off, and otherwise restricted area within the United States Capitol and its grounds, where the Vice President and Vice President-Elect were temporarily visiting, when and so that such conduct did in fact impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions. (In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 17 52( a )(2))

First Superseding Indictment

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On January 6, 2021, within the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the defendants, ETHAN NORDEAN, JOSEPH BIGGS, ZACH REHL, and CHARLES DONOHOE did knowingly, and with intent to impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions, engage in disorderly and disruptive conduct in and within such proximity to, a restricted building and grounds, that is, any posted, cordoned-off, and otherwise restricted area within the United States Capitol and its grounds, where the Vice President and Vice President-Elect were temporarily visiting, when and so that such conduct did in fact impede and disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business and official functions. (In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 17 52( a )(2))