We’d like to have one more meeting before closing up for this cycle (and before Naomi and I leave to work Virginia Beach for Feggans). It will be either the 22nd or 29th.

In preparation for the 2024 election push, California Indivisibles are proud to present an interactive live zoom meeting with Simon Rosenberg! This event should definitely be worth attending—Simon was the first national expert to refute the false “red wave” narrative during the 2022 midterms, and has recently begun publishing the “Hopium Chronicles” as an antidote to some of the dismal predictions in the media. Use the link below to sign up.

Date: Wednesday 10/24/23; Time: 05:30 PM Pacific Time

RSVP: https://bit.ly/SimonRosenbergCA

This meeting will be the first opportunity to hear from Simon on his early views on the 2024 elections here in California. The inspiring citizen blogger Robert Hubbell recently wrote, “The most consistent, reliable source for information about Democratic prospects at the state and national level is Simon Rosenberg.”

We have no arrangements for a phone bank. And it runs very close to Yom Kippur services. So, stay home and enjoy massive Democratic overperformance (about 6 points better than 2020/22) in last Tuesday’s special elections.

Sister District is running phone banks. Sign up here. Note they are all earlier in the day (check time zones), to not catch people too late on the East Coast.

Seems that the Virginia Democratic Party never thought to image-search the Internet for one of their candidates.

Va. Dem. House candidate performed sex online with husband for tips

Novel way to finance a campaign. Personally, I think her best chance would be saying she was proud of this and wondering how many MAGA men will vote for her out of fantasy, but instead she’s complaining the videos were taken from one freely-available porn site to another, which looks like a legal non-starter.

No link to the videos; this is a family Indivisible site.

Links we promised

Vote Forward Virginia letter campaigns

Postcards for VA, Feggans is in the first row, House of Delegates

Other highlights

Champagne. Surprising amount left over. I’ll have another bottle for the convictions.
Zoom with Nicole Zambrano of Sister District. Three critical races in Virginia, of which Feggans is one. She talked about the difficulty of being a first-time candidate in a new district.
Bruce gave a summary of CA Indivisible… welcome to make a post!
We had a new person. Welcome, Harry!

Regular time, regular place

REPORT FROM VIRGINIA

We’ll have a short ZOOM meeting with a staff member from Sister District to talk about the state of the election. Everyone realizes just how important the Virginia election is. We will also write some letters and review how we can support Michael Feggans. And we’ll drink CHAMPAGNE for the last set of you-know-what’s!

500 POSTCARDS DONE! I’m happy to report that we are checking through the last set of postcards and will be mailing them all on Monday (if you still have some, please drop them by this weekend.)

$3,500 RAISED! We met our goal and finished the auction at the same time. I have been in touch with Sister District about the auction and an anonymous donor interested in political swag bought the whole set for $1,000 bringing our housecleaning to an end and freeing us from having to worry about how to spread the word about the auction.

I am having another meeting with Sister District tomorrow to go over future plans which I will report on at the next meeting.

NEXT MEETING: Since next weekend is Labor Day, we will meet on Sunday Sept 10th, usual time and place.

MEANWHILE all hands on deck:

Michael Feggans phonebank

Write postcards with Postcards4VA.com

Send letters with Votefwd.org (they have tons of addresses)

We are still collecting vital funds in our link

In 2022, the hate group Moms for Liberty endorsed 275 winning school board candidates nationwide – and they’re just getting started.Funded by millions of dollars in right-wing dark money, Moms for Liberty is targeting thousands of school board seats. Right-wing hate groups are already banning books, terrorizing LGBTQ+ students, and censoring history classes.

A small progressive group fighting back in California seems worth supporting; it’s called The Six Pac (for its focus in 2022 on six potentially winnable races in the state). It’s at https://www.thesixpac.com/

Nationally, Indivisible is kicking off a campaign to counter Moms For Liberty and other reactionary groups who have been targeting school board races. It’s called Our States, Our Fates and will formally launch with a zoom presentation July 20 at 5 pm PST. The session will “talk about how we can not only be effective as individual groups in school boards, but how we can fight back against reactionary and harmful policies at the school board level.” A sign-up link is here.

Phone banking and postcarding for Virginia begins. Sister District is planning to organize something in the East Bay for mid-July. In the meantime… you can join these.

• Sister District Yolo Phonebank for Michael Feggans 
  • Every Monday, 2pm-4pm PT
• Sister District Sacramento Phonebank for Michael Feggans
  • Wednesdays, 2:30pm-5pm PT
  • Saturdays, 10am-12pm PT
• Sister District Greater Chicago Phonebank for Michael Feggans
  • Wednesdays, 3pm-5pm PT 
• Sister District National Phonebank for Michael Feggans 
  • Thursdays, 1pm-3pm PT

We are also asking for 500 Feggans addresses for postcards. We’ll let you know when they become available.

Vote Forward is doing letters to Ohio against the August referendum-to-stop-referenda. The purpose is to prevent passage of a referendum in favor of abortion rights.

Our auction is up. Tell your friends. Our direct Sister District link for Feggans donations is here.

The world shows no sign of slowing down…