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Looking for something to fill your time while you can't go anywhere? Something besides refreshing news websites and panicking about Coronavirus? Something that could actually make a long-term difference? I don't know about you, but finding something that can actually make a difference is kinda important for my mental health right now.
May I recommend Postcards to Voters! It's a progressive organization that has people mail out friendly, hand-written postcards to Democratic voters in places where tight and/or important races are happening to encourage them to vote and remind them when the election is. (Which is especially important when you have special races that aren't happening on a main election day.) You can buy blank postcards or make them yourself out of cardstock. You can do just a few at a time.
You go to their website, sign up, make a "test postcard" and send them a picture so they can know you're following the rules, and then once you're approved you can use Abby the Address Bot via text, Facebook, or Twitter to request addresses for any campaigns they've got going. They'll send you what to put on the postcard (you have some flexibility, but there's some stuff that HAS to go on it) and however many addresses you request.
You write the postcard, address it, stamp it, and drop it in the mail.
In the last week, I've written postcards for a Judge in Wisconsin and reminding people how easy it is to get vote-by-mail set up in Miami-Dade County.
Anybody else have ideas of productive things to do?
May I recommend Postcards to Voters! It's a progressive organization that has people mail out friendly, hand-written postcards to Democratic voters in places where tight and/or important races are happening to encourage them to vote and remind them when the election is. (Which is especially important when you have special races that aren't happening on a main election day.) You can buy blank postcards or make them yourself out of cardstock. You can do just a few at a time.
You go to their website, sign up, make a "test postcard" and send them a picture so they can know you're following the rules, and then once you're approved you can use Abby the Address Bot via text, Facebook, or Twitter to request addresses for any campaigns they've got going. They'll send you what to put on the postcard (you have some flexibility, but there's some stuff that HAS to go on it) and however many addresses you request.
You write the postcard, address it, stamp it, and drop it in the mail.
In the last week, I've written postcards for a Judge in Wisconsin and reminding people how easy it is to get vote-by-mail set up in Miami-Dade County.
Anybody else have ideas of productive things to do?
