350 Humboldt

Unfortunately Republicans continue to deny climate change and enjoy an unfair advantage in the Senate. But redistricting after the census is giving Democrats a more unbiased chance at the House than they have had for many years.  Democrats will probably gain 11 seats through redistricting. Check out this article and then sign up for postcarding or phoning. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-house-maps-republican-bias-will-plummet-in-2022-because-of-gerrymandering/

A.    Here are some petitions to sign and letters to write. It won’t take more than a few minutes and every action we take counts in the climate crisis. Below the petitions are opportunities to write postcards to voters in important elections.

Americans for Tax Fairness

America’s billionaires are now worth a collective $4.6 trillion — that’s one-third more wealth than the bottom half of American society. Because over the course of the last two years, as millions of Americans have suffered through a devastating pandemic, America’s 700 billionaires have seen their wealth grow by an astonishing 57%!

We must show Congress, no matter which plan moves forward, the American people are in full support of taxing billionaires to finally make them pay what they owe — just like everyone else.

Sign the petition demanding Congress pass a billionaires income tax to finally start taxing wealth like work!

350.org

Last month, twelve Senators and U.S. Representative Ro Khanna introduced a new bill to hold the oil and gas industry accountable for inflating energy prices. The Windfall Tax would provide real, monetary relief to working families in the form of a check sent to Americans who need help with high gas prices.

You and I already know that Big Oil is going to fight against this bill — so we need to come together as a movement to demand accountability. Can you write to Rep. Huffman and Sens. Feinstein and Padilla and urge them to co-sponsor the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax bill?

US PIRG

Less than 3% of polystyrene foam is ever recycled, most of it ending up in landfills or the natural environment.¹

Join us in calling on your governor to ban single-use foam products once and for all.

WRITE LETTERS TO VOTERS

There are some new postcard writing and letter writing opportunities. Check them out.

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/

Here is a new advance in targeting letters to where they make most difference. If you write to voters, please take a look.

The redistricting process has changed district lines across the country for this year’s midterm elections. As maps are finalized or congressional districts become more competitive, we’ll add letter writing campaigns to reach those voters–our first congressional district-level campaigns are already live!

If you’re unsure about which state or district to write letters to this year, you can use Swing Left’s new tool to help find your nearest competitive Swing District!

Check out the following email for more details, and head to swingleft.org/targets to get started.

— The Vote Forward Team

Postcards for swing states

We need your help to write 550,000 postcards to rally Democrats to vote in the Pennsylvania primary on May 17. Encouraging Democrats to make voting a habit now will ensure more of them will also vote in November.

Sign up now and we’ll mail you free postcards with the design below, along with instructions and voter lists. Volunteers need to provide the postcard stamps. You’ll pick from three messages that we’re testing as the first step of signing up. You’ll have until May 6 to finish writing the postcards.

ENVIRONMENTAL VOTER PROJECT

Our next postcarding campaign will be to Colorado voters ahead of their June 28^th 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 6^th.