Chapters interested in using the work of the Democratic Left as a hand-out at events or while tabling should check out the files below, which condenses recent DL articles about electoral politics into a printable format. The issue can easily be printed as an eight-page booklet on two eight-and-half by eleven pieces of paper.

To print the issue:

1. Open “elections_issue (booklet) 11.10.24-2 (PDF)”
2. If desired, edit the information in the box appearing on the bottom right of page eight (the first page in the file) to reflect information about your chapter. For instance, the text could read “Printed by Mid-Missouri DSA. Find us online at midmodsa.org or email [email protected]. Printed with donated labor.” If you have Adobe Reader, you can do this after downloading as well.
3. Download the pdf. 
4. Print the pdf on two horizontally oriented pages (landscape). Be sure to print double-sided with “short edge binding” or “flip on the short edge” selected. If your printer does not print double-sided. Print odd pages only, flip the pages and place the pages using the appropriate orientation so it prints on the opposite side. Print even pages. (This might require some experimentation to get the appropriate orientation, so just print one page at a time during test runs until you have a sense of the correct orientation for flipping pages.)
5. Fold the first printed page so that page one is on the outside facing up, page eight is on the outside facing down, and page two faces page seven inside the fold.
6. Fold the second printed page so that page four is on the outside facing up, page six is on the outside facing down, and page four faces page five inside the fold.
7. Insert the sheet folded in step five into the sheet folded in step four.
8. If you have a booklet stapler, open the booklet and connect the two sheets by placing a staple (or staples, evenly spaced) along the spine. Otherwise, no binding is necessary. If you do not bind the pages, thinner paper is preferable, but be sure the paper is still sturdy enough to run through an at-home printer (paper that is too thin can jam printers more easily).

If you end up distributing the issue, please let us know at [email protected]. We plan to continue publishing print issues on different thematic topics in the coming months.

See previews of the issue below. The first is a preview pdf of the booklet in order. You can download a digital version here. The second is a preview of the pdf arranged for printing.

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