Welcome to Red Wine & Blue Ohio,
a community of women standing up to extremism in our local communities and across our state. Together, we’re showing that by building relationships and engaging our community, we win!
We’re using friend-to-friend organizing to make sure everyone in Ohio knows what’s at stake in 2025 (Hint: It’s a lot).
Our fight to protect reproductive freedom, public education, and voting rights isn’t over. Let’s stick together and make it count. Ready to take action? Let’s teach you how to rally your people!
WE HAD AN AMAZING IMPACT IN 2023! MORE OF THIS PLEASE.
What we’re doing is working! People believe information so much more when it comes from a friend or family member. That’s why friend-to-friend organizing is so effective.
2023 was a crucial year for reproductive freedom in Ohio. An independent analysis found that RWB’s relational organizing program increased voter turnout by 8.5% among members and a staggering 10.5% among people they know.* How did we do it? We hosted 968 events in Ohio. We trained over 1,100 volunteers to help collect signatures to get reproductive freedom on the ballot. We talked to everyone we know. And it worked!
We are active in our local communities, which means we are on the front lines of the fight to protect public education for all children. We promote common sense candidates for school board and fight extremists who are trying to take over our neighborhood schools. In the 2023 elections, we defeated 73% of extremist school board candidates in key school districts targeted by RWB.
At Red Wine & Blue we believe that there is a place for everyone here. That’s why we reach out to everyone we know who cares about our community. Our RWB members live in red, blue, and purple areas within their state. An independent analysis found that 26% of the people we talked to in 2023 were not likely to be targeted by traditional political or partisan campaigns.
*Data from an Independent Analysis conducted by TargetSmart
WHAT’S AT STAKE IN 2025
Our work is never done!
While we celebrate what we’ve accomplished, extremism is still a threat in our communities and nationwide. Here are some of the issues that we’re talking to our friends and family about this year as we organize to defeat extremism up and down the ballot.
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Meet Your State Team
From left to right: Jen Perez (Director), Laura Mullen (Deputy Director), Bridget Rueter (Regional Organizer), Robyn Forney (Regional Organizer), Dale Marie Pontz (Regional Organizer)