What are your pronouns? Your sex? Your race and sexual orientation? Are you physically or mentally disabled? The Philadelphia Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity wants to know these to “better serve the residents of Philadelphia.”
These “optional demographic questions” are attached to the form you must fill out if you want to take the city’s Civic Engagement Academy Learning Series class titled, “Leading a Community Meeting.” It promises to teach how to “host a successful meeting and manage conflict.” The bottom of the form indicates that it is “powered by NGP VAN.”
Get Out the Democrat Vote
NGP-VAN is “the leading technology provider to Democratic and progressive political campaigns and organizations, nonprofits, municipalities, and other groups,” according to its website. Philadelphia has been collecting invasively personal information about its citizens for years through NGP-VAN, an arrangement which Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow with The Heritage Foundation, previously told The Federalist raises “all kinds of potential legal issues.”
This same company is now instructing political foot soldiers which citizens to approach about voting, using its Democrat-only MiniVAN application.
MiniVAN is used across the country by Democrat door knockers. These volunteers download MiniVan to their phones and download a list of people to visit. MiniVAN creates a map of addresses and shows canvassers how many voters are in the home. The app has a script to read and, importantly, a place to upload notes that will be added to the Democrat knowledge base, such as whether the voter has
