Saturday, February 12, was the State Convention of the Michigan Democratic Party, bringing together elected officials, progressive activists and online organizers from across the state and across the country to the Cobo Center in Detroit.

I was honored to be able to attend on behalf of Salsa and meet with some great organizers like Chris Palette, the Technology Administrator for the Michigan Democratic Party and Doug Pratt, the Communications Director of the Michigan Education Association. Events like these make me grateful for the degree to which, despite electoral setbacks in the midterm elections, progressives have kept up the hard fight for the Americans most desperate for change.

We're also proud that Michigan leads the way, empowering their county parties with the myMichiganDems program, making it possible for Democratic organizations of all sizes to organize online with the same world-class set of Salsa tools that are used by nonprofits, campaigns, and businesses around the globe.

See you next year, Michigan! Thanks for showing us that the "hottest fire makes the strongest steel."