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Postcards to Swing States still needs help to reach their goal. Please consider writing a few if you can! I'm almost to my goal of 800 to Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, & Wisconsin. (200 per state)
https://www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/
Delphinus
(12,159 posts)my postcards to start on yesterday!
Dulcinea
(7,603 posts)Thanks so much for helping out!
benfranklin1776
(6,599 posts)Its a great way to make a critical difference in motivating turnout. ✊🏼 I do as many as I can myself in my spare moments outside of work.
BadgerMom
(2,990 posts)ShazzieB
(18,925 posts)Thanks for posting this info. I've been looking for something useful to do.
NJCher
(38,228 posts)I hate making phone calls. I'd rather do this.
Dulcinea
(7,603 posts)It's less intrusive than phone calls or texts.
NJCher
(38,228 posts)Did you know that people will read something handwritten where some 4-color glossy piece gets thrown in the trash.
Even if its a magazine or newspaper ad and the designer adds a handwritten element, it increases readership by 35%.
I learned this when I was an ad manager for places like McDonalds, Chrysler, and General Mills.
I signed up for wherever its needed the most.
leftieNanner
(15,742 posts)I just signed up for Ohio.
Cathy Bayer
(4 posts)Hello,
I have been writing through an organization called Vote Forward and also Swing Left, we write to registered voters who are democratic leaning who don't always vote to encourage them to vote. For me it is very satisfying as I feel i am doing SOMETHING... I pay for stamps and envelopes and printer ink... it is better to me to do that then send money to some political campaign ... look into your hood and see what is available to you... I have written letters to reservations in Nevada, many swing states like the Carolinas, Nevada, etc... a local CA district that has a congress seat to swing, etc... it is very worthwhile and I am glad to have done it for some years now...
NJCher
(38,228 posts)Definitely going to check that out.
murielm99
(31,522 posts)Susan Calvin
(2,149 posts)Handwriting for any length of time makes me twitchy. Can you tell me anything about the length of the messages, or if they would mind if you ran the postcards through a printer for the messages and then hand sign and hand address them? I would have asked them, but I couldn't find any way on the website to just ask a question. Thanks.
Dulcinea
(7,603 posts)LNM
(1,130 posts)I much prefer this to phone calls.
HeartsCanHope
(755 posts)First time posting in this forum. Thanks to all of you sending postcards and any other voter activism you may do. My son and I are wanting to send postcards. He found this link https://www.mobilize.us/ptp/?tag_ids=173. Neither of us would find it easy to canvas, or talk on the phone, so he did some research and came up with this. After the events of the last few days, and the totally crap SCOTUS decisions, I have to do something or go out of my mind. I want to support my son's choice if I can. So, if this is the same group or you, Dulcinea, or someone else here knows about the Progressive Turnout Project, could you give me some input? It seems this group's target group is Dems that haven't been exercising the voting right on a consistent basis. And Dulcinea, thank you for the 800 goal you set! You rock!
Dulcinea
(7,603 posts)This is The Progressive Turnout Project's Postcards To Swing States. I've been postcarding with them since 2020.
Hope you can help! Welcome aboard!
HeartsCanHope
(755 posts)Have to do something! Trump must be stopped! Thanks again for your reply, Dulcinea. I appreciate your help!
Dulcinea
(7,603 posts)I spread the "postcarding gospel" every chance I get!