Only 65 days til voting. Needless to say it is really important to keep climate deniers out of the Congress. Please double down on writing or calling voters!
Tonight the grid is stressed so 350 Humboldt won’t be meeting live on zoom but will turn on our flashlights and write in the dark. If you are part of Ohm Connect you get paid for that. And on an emergency like today, if you save 90% over your usual electricity use between 6 and 8 you will get a $20 bonus of ice cream. So if you aren’t a member, sign up. If you are try for your bin of ice cream.
PETITION
SIERRA CLUB
It’s finally here! On July 27th, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) released its draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the costly and environmentally destructive Delta tunnel project. The draft EIR examines the environmental impacts associated with the construction and operation of the Delta tunnel. DWR will be accepting public comments on its draft EIR until October 27.
WRITE LETTERS TO VOTERS
350 Humboldt has a group of devoted letter and postcard writers. Join us for tips and conversation while you write. 7 pm every Sunday evening on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86943045708?pwd=clVqWVJZNEFQSVl0QWd6VCtOZGtWZz09
BUT NOT TONIGHT BECAUSE OF OHM HOUR.
Postcards for Climate
You helped us write postcards in 2021, so we wanted you to be the first to hear that Postcards for Climate is back!
Sign up now to write postcards to make sure people who care about climate vote in the Tuesday November 8th elections. Choose from state and local races where progress on climate is possible, but only if climate voters show up!
We’ll send you free postcards, voter lists, and instructions with the message to write—you’ll be responsible for the postcard stamps. You’ll have until mid- to late October to finish the cards.
Postcards for Swing States
Please sign up now to help us rally Democrats to vote in 41 competitive House races from California to Maine this November! You can help hold the Democratic House majority by writing postcards to voters.
You’ll need to provide your own postcards and stamps for this program. We recommend progressivepostcards, an online store that sells postcards with several of our designs for less than most sellers. After you sign up, we’ll email you a list of voters and instructions, which will include an October mailing date and three message options.
350 Bay Area Action (new voter program)
You are needed in our launch of post-primary phone calling and postcardingas we build voter strength for the midterm elections this November.
ACTIVATE AMERICA
There are large numbers of pro-choice Democrats in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and California who often skip midterm elections. We believe the right message on this issue can help motivate these voters. We have worked with Planned Parenthood and other experts to develop these scripts, so you can be assured that you are sending a tested message that will resonate with these voters.
This postcard program focuses on the fact that Senate candidates John Fetterman (D-PA) and Cheri Beasley (D-NC), as well as our CA House candidates, will vote to protect reproductive rights, while Republicans are pushing a nationwide abortion ban.
We’re also sending pro-choice postcards in five House districts in California, with more coming soon.
Want to join us? Sign up through the Mobilize link HERE.
POSTCARDS FOR SWING STATES
| Sign up to write postcards!
You can order postcards now! We’ll mail you free postcards—you provide the stamps and mail the postcards in October on the instructed date. We have four message options to choose from when you sign up. |
| Write postcards |
| Over 10,000 first-time volunteers are already helping us write over seven million postcards to voters across the key states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Volunteers have ordered over four million postcards in just the first 35 days! |
| Buy postcard stamps before the price goes up!
The price of Postcard Stamps goes up from $0.40 to $0.44 on July 10. Postcard stamps hold their value forever, so stock up now before the price goes up! You can buy them at USPS.com or at your local post office. |
| Buy stamps |
Vote Forward
In case you missed the news last week, Vote Forward volunteers like you have “adopted” more than 1 million voters who will receive ‘please vote’ letters ahead of the midterms this fall!
This is incredible progress, but in order to reach our 10 million letter goal, we need your help. Will you host a virtual or in-person Vote Forward letter writing party? Letter writing parties are an easy way to bring your friends and family together to build community and strengthen our democracy by writing a lot of letters encouraging more folks to participate in the electoral process.
Hosting a letter writing party is easy and fun, and we’ll provide you with everything you need to be a successful host! Check out this written guide with instructions on how to host, and then set up your event on Mobilize using this template to share with your network and collect RSVPs. You can also join our letter writing party host training on June 22 for more helpful tips on hosting events. If you have any questions, you can email [email protected] any time for personalized support from a member of our team.
HERE IN HUMBOLDT
Please join our letter-writing group Sunday evenings at 7pm. It is a time to write letters and postcards, chat, and get information about the latest letter writing campaigns.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86943045708?pwd=clVqWVJZNEFQSVl0QWd6VCtOZGtWZz09
Third Act – Bill McKibben’s new group is postcarding
Let’s join together as Third Act’s Democracy Force to write postcards and mobilize voters in Arizona and Pennsylvania to request their vote-by-mail ballot in time for Midterm Primary Elections. Learn more below about why postcards and mail voting are vital and effective at increasing turnout.
https://thirdact.org/third-act-postcards-to-voters/
Environmental Voter Project
Our next post carding campaign will be to Colorado voters ahead of their June 28th state primary!
We’ll be sending postcards to environmental voters who voted in the 2020 General Election, but are unlikely to vote in midterm elections based on their previous voting history. We expect to begin mailing out packages of postcards to signed-up volunteers beginning in late March, and the required “mail-to-voters” date for this round of postcards is on Monday, June 6th.
This sign up form is only for trained EVP postcarding volunteers. New postcarding volunteers should sign up for an orientation below.
If you have not already attended an EVP postcard training, please sign up for one of the 45 minute trainings below. We use very specific designs and messaging that are optimized to increase turnout, so we require all our postcarding volunteers to receive an EVP training before sending postcards.
POSTCARD WRITING TO VOTERS ORGANIZED BY HUMBOLDT ACTIVIST FREDERICA AALTO
Here is Frederica describes what they are doing:
I am administering a postcarding network in Humboldt County (presently over 300 writers) and we supply postcards and stamps to writers, which are available for cost at several convenient pickup locations. Have anyone interested in joining us contact me. We mostly postcard for ROV (Reclaim Our Vote), which is non-partisan, but have also postcarded for Activate America (which used to be called Flip the West), which is partisan.
She can be reached at: [email protected]