When we fight, we win.

Welcome to the
Westside Democratic Headquarters (WDHQ)!

Our Mission:

Restoring and expanding our rights, freedom, and opportunities

Electing Kamala Harris & Tim Walz
+ Democrats in CA & nationwide

Bringing the Westside together to pass progressive policies (including CA ballot measures, lest we forget) & defeat Project 2025

Who We Are

The Westside Dem HQ is a consortium of Democratic clubs and advocacy orgs pooling resources to run Get Out the Vote (GOTV) operations

ON AUGUST 22, 2024 WE SOFT-OPENED, WITH GRAND OPEN SEPTEMBER 1
A HUGE ELECTION HQ & POLITICAL MERCH STORE IN SANTA MONICA
ON THE 3rd STREET PROMENADE


*** 1241 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica ***
between Wilshire & Arizona, across from Sephora

HOURS:
Monday – Thursday: Noon – 8 PM
Friday: Noon – 6 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 10 AM – 6 PM

Open later for special event nights • may expand closer to Election Day

to give energized volunteers a fantastic, fun, professional-level GOTV infrastructure and space to meet up!

** CLICK HERE FOR OUR VOLUNTEER INFO — NOW WITH DETAILED SCHEDULE — & SIGNUP PAGE **

Upcoming WDHQ Special Events

THIS WEEK:



Friday, 10/18, 7 – 10 PM — CLICK HERE for tix to the Laugh Till You’re Blue Comedy Night fundraiser  
🤣
With David Rosenberg • Andy Woodhull • Murray Valeriano • Felicia Michaels • Lachlan Patterson • Cathy Ladman



Saturday, 10/19, 7 – 9 PM — Dancing for Democracy 💃🕺
Drop-in group dance lessons at the HQ from local instructors at the Arthur Murray Dance Studio of Santa Monica! We’ll have multiple 25-minute sessions throughout the night, so come anytime between 7 and 9 and bring your dancing shoes 🩰

Friday, 10/18 – Sunday, 10/20 — Arizona Pride Mobilization 🌈

WDHQ HOURS & SCHEDULE



Previous events FYI — see what we’ve been up to!

BUS TRIPS


SATIRICAL MUSIC & COMEDY


& VERY SPECIAL ADDITION: 
None other than comedian PAULA POUNDSTONE appeared at Sunday’s national Women for Harris Action Brunch at the WDHQ to greet & thank volunteers! 





DOORKNOCKING: The #1 way to win elections


Come to the Westside Democratic HQ in Santa Monica and take the WDHQ bus — canvass with the Nevada Democratic Party to elect Jacky Rosen as Senator!


This is a weekend excursion, beginning early Saturday morning and returning to Santa Monica Sunday evening. Overnight accommodations provided


Please Join our *fun* bus trip to knock on doors, inform voters about Democratic candidates, and win their vote! 


Click here to register for canvassing Saturday, Oct. 19
Accommodations provided 🛌


Can’t join us? Sponsor a canvasser here

THIS WEEKEND!



Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff LOVE music & laughter — and who are we to disagree? So we’ve invited singer-songwriters Tracy Newman (as seen on TV) and Kevin Kelso (local fave) are coming to the WDHQ to sing their original — and funny — songs 


Aaand we’ll hear comedy writer David Misch give his popular presentation “Comedy vs. The Apocalypse”


💙 Good vibes guaranteed! Bring friends, and let’s enjoy music and humor for freedom and democracy 🎉


Come on down! RSVP HERE





Special event for women (and allies) to come together and enjoy coffee, tea, mimosas, fruit salad, and baked goodies — followed by phonebanking and postcarding — at the Women for Harris Brunch!


With an appearance by HQ supervolunteer Paula Poundstone? Who could ask for anything more…


They’re calling this the “47 to 47,000” brunch because if we get her elected, Harris will be the 47th President, and our brunch campaign has a goal of reaching 47,000 voters. Yes, we can!


RSVP HERE

Tuesday, 10/1, 5 – 9 PM — VP Debate Watch Party at the HQ! 📺

Hosted by CBS, moderated by Norah O’Donnell & Margaret Brennan, venue New York City

CLICK HERE OR ABOVE TO RSVP
for another fantastic WDHQ watch party with food, drink, three TVs, and new speaker system

Sat., 10/5, 1 – 4 PM Kids too young to vote? They can still contribute to the campaign by making Harris/Walz art this Saturday!

While your kid(s) are being supervised as they make posters, you can join them or (we hope) you can make some calls or postcards for Kamala & Tim & key races! All supplies provided. Free, but we’d love it if you could **RSVP HERE** 

He was the architect of Barack Obama’s 2008 epic grassroots organizing campaign, but his activism and organizing can be traced back to Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta’s campaign to unionize California farm workers in the late 1960s and 1970s, and even further back to the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.

Who is he? Marshall Ganz, of course! And he is coming to the Westside Dem HQ Sunday, 10/6 at 11:30 AM to talk about his new book, People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal.

RSVP HERE

First round was a huge hit so it’s back! Kamala Harris makes us want to sing 🎶, so we’re hosting a karaoke party at the Westside Democratic HQ on the evening of Friday, Sept. 27.  Professional MC and setup, 60,000+ songs to choose from 🎤

No RSVP needed for the Musicians for Kamala livestream — just come on down



Thanks to everyone who stopped by and survived Friday the 13th’s (not-so) spooky (but definitely funky) night of Karaoke for Kamala

And oops, we did it again Friday, September 27

Karaoke night

We’re grateful to the 200+ who joined the excitement as we watched the oh-so-satisfying Harris-Trump debate
with food & drink & good cheer

DEBATE-WATCH PARTIES! PRESIDENTIAL:
Tuesday, Sep. 10, 2024, 6 PM PDT, hosted by ABC, moderated by David Muir & Linsey Davis, venue Philadelphia

VICE PRESIDENTIAL:

Tuesday, Oct. 1, 6 PM PDT, hosted by CBS, time, moderated by Norah O’Donnell & Margaret Brennan, venue New York City

Thanks to all 350+ who RSVPed for or came to the WDHQ’s
20th Anniversary Celebration & Westside Democratic HQ Grand Opening

Sunday, September 1, 2024, noon – 2 PM

with “Auntie” MAXINE WATERS, Congresswoman CA-43
FIONA MA, CA State Treasurer
BETTY YEE, Vice Chair of the California Democratic Party (and former CA Controller)
MARK RAMOS, Chair of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party


… plus live music and other exciting guests!

Harris Walz

Eat, Drink and Watch the Speech

Thursday, August 22, 2024, 5 – 9 PM

Labor Awards 2024

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