Happy New Year, everyone.

We began with Naomi reviewing websites we rely on. There is a new permanent page with links (it will grow) which you can access from the menu at the top of this page. They are also mentioned below.

Aaron Frank’s Focus for Democracy has an event Sunday, February 25. Register here. We’ll get this up on our new calendar, also permanently linked above. He is currently touting Working America and Accelerate Change.

For a regular dose of optimism, Hopium Chronicles.

Sister District for downballot races.

Vote Forward for addresses to send letters; Postcards to Voters if you prefer those.

Bill gave us a summary of his work for Rudy Salas (that’s CA-22), with the reassuring news that he is a stronger candidate this time. Dan and Karen have also been canvassing in the Central Valley. There was some spirited discussion on whether Josh Harder needs our support. Cook rates his seat in CA-09 as “Likely Democratic”. My feeling is that the Salas race (rated Tossup) is more critical.

We continued with a discussion of the general issue of getting Democrats to turn out. Randy Starn (long time no see!) gave a phrase I had never heard before to describe voters who say they won’t vote for Biden over Gaza (used to be student loans): aggressive apathy. We need at least some of those voters to come to their senses by November. Sally brought up Relational Organizing in this sense. Link. Trainings are Mondays at 5:30.

Future meetings will be the fourth Sunday of every month. Socializing and morale maintenance. Be active in between. Here’s Chop Wood Carry Water, from Jess Craven, with a daily suggestion of what to do and a weekly summary of what went right for us and bad for MAGA.