Over the past two weeks, liberal activists have quietly and widely circulated a long Google spreadsheet. It contains the exact time, date, and location of more than 100 events that members of Congress will host in their districts this month.
It’s titled Town Hall Project 2018, and it is a battle plan, borrowed from an old foe: the Tea Party.
In their efforts to pressure Republicans to save the Affordable Care Act, liberals are increasingly copying the tactics of the conservative activists who mobilized against the law in 2009. [...]
Protests over the past two weekends — the Women’s March first, followed by more spontaneous events at airports after Trump’s immigration order — have shown that hundreds of thousands of Trump opponents are interested in organizing.
And a few key, early victories, activists argue, can help keep those people turning out.
This includes the Trump administration sharply reversing course on a decision to pull down open enrollment ads for the Affordable Care Act after outcry from health advocates.
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