District of the Year 2023 & 2024

Thank you, volunteers!

Even though Election 2024 ended on the wrong note nationwide, Franconia Dems have much to be proud of, so Franconia Dems were happy to celebrate the many volunteers from every aspect of the campaign who gathered on November 7. 

This election season our field team knocked more doors than most any team in the Commonwealth, including more than 3,000 in the last four days alone. In addition to dozens of Franconia Dems members and friends who canvassed every weekend, Franconia’s organizer Joel DeSante assembled a phenomenal group of fellows (Joel’s Fellows = Jellows, at left) who worked together joyfully and tirelessly throughout the last few months of the campaign.

Franconia Dems were champs at phonebanking, too! And we wrote and delivered more than 2,500 postcards to swing states, to districts with tough Virginia races, and within Franconia District. Our Precinct Ops team once again staffed every polling station with 100 percent coverage, including poll observers inside the polling places. And we staffed every hour of every day of early voting. When the polling center at the Franconia Governmental Center was backlogged, we worked with FCDC and the Electoral Board to streamline the process and improve access. We led Spanish-speaking outreach, and Franconia leaders engaged with numerous Harris-Walz affinity groups at the national level. We supported Eugene Vindman’s successful campaign in VA-7 and helped out in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

So it’s no wonder that we brought Harris & Walz + Kaine, Connolly & Beyer to victory in Franconia. We distributed hundreds of recognition buttons to volunteers at our Appreciation Gathering and to thousands of canvassers and voters throughout the election season.

We know there is much to do as we prepare for the 2025 gubernatorial campaign and assess the results of the 2024 elections. But today, we take a moment to breathe so we can find strength to move forward together. In the very near term, stay tuned: As U.S. Representative-Elect Suhas Subramanyam vacates his state Senate seat, our team will support the Democratic campaign critical to retaining the majority in the Virginia General Assembly.

Looking ahead …

Franconia will resume Chair Chat Orientations starting Tuesday, November 18, & 1st Thursday Monthly Meetings on December 5.  We have important discussions and speakers planned.  Please invite your Democratic friends and neighbors in Franconia to join us.