Join the Movement

Blue Beginning is a group of Chicagoans who came together to Do Something after the election of Donald Trump in 2016. We are members of Indivisible Chicago and together with thousands of other grassroots groups we form a massive national movement for democracy, equity, and racial justice. In the 2018 midterm elections, we helped to flip two Illinois congressional districts from Republican to Democratic control, chiefly by training and organizing volunteers to canvass for Sean Casten (6th district) and Lauren Underwood (14th). In the 2020 general election we pursued a three-state strategy, expanding to Wisconsin and Michigan to rebuild the Democratic "blue wall" of the midwest. Pivoting quickly from canvassing to phone banking after the arrival of Covid 19, we helped to retake both Wisconsin and Michigan, then contributed to the all-important Democratic victories in the Georgia Senate runoffs. Our aim is to help people get active through training, information exchange, and mutual support. We're based at the Hideout Inn in Chicago and communicate by email, Web, and Facebook. Please join us!