2023 Membership Drive

UAPA began in 2004 and continues to help elect progressive candidates to all levels of government.  We do this by organizing educational programs, debate watch parties, our website and newsletter, as well as by notifying volunteers of opportunities to help campaigns, making contributions, and offering yard signs and bumper stickers that enable progressives to “take a stand”. 

All of this requires effort and money and the UAPA Executive Committee decided to request annual dues of $25, beginning in May 2016. Our membership drive linked to our efforts to provide Biden yard signs and other merchandise during the 2020 election was wildly successful garnering over 300 members and helping us to contribute dollars and signs to grow efforts to get progressives and Democrats get elected in Franklin County and around the state and country.

Our efforts to provide Biden yard signs and other merchandise during the 2020 election was wildly successful, garnering over 300 members and enabling us to contribute both dollars and signs to help progressives and Democrats get elected in Franklin County and around the state and country.

In 2022, we collaborated with a group in Athens to purchase and distribute signs promoting women's rights and handed out Democratic slate cards at the Early Vote Center. We also arranged opportunities for UA residents to write hundreds of postcards and letters in support of candidates and supported efforts of other groups such as The ReSisters of Central Ohio. We hosted a picnic where many candidates and current officholders spoke and we donated to campaigns.

For 2023, we hope to continue to support progressive candidates up and down the ballot and push back against the Statehouse's efforts to attack our voting and reproductive rights, to expand access to guns, guns, guns, no matter the consequences, to undercut public schools and teachers, and whatever other malign ideas they come up with. It's also not too early to prepare for the Presidential year of 2024.

We urge you to become involved!

Donate to us, or your preferred candidates (preferably both) early!

Be as active as you can!

Make sure everyone you know is registered and votes!

Plan to help get out the vote and vote yourself!

All who sign up can request a round UAPA bumper sticker. Your support will ensure that we can continue the important progressive work that we have been doing for the last 18 years. 

If you sent in dues in a previous year, thanks! We hope you will continue your support into the future.

Thank you for your support!  We are stronger together.

 If you would like to pay by check, use the attached form.

We are having a special campaign this year. Please contribute for the 2022 Campaign on this page or use the attached form.