Here are notes from our meeting. Share them with anyone who might have time on their hands and want to get involved.

First, as Emily explained, this group has lots of great activities curing ballots, researching voting, etc.      www.vopropros.com

This group uses Slack and has great trainers to get you on board with activities. Find the activities that interest you in the Monday email sent to everyone involved. Thanks Emily!

Second, here are two links for people who want to do text banking with Field Team 6. The first is to sign up for a training. Good news! They’ve added a training on Saturday, 10/19 at 11 am. The second link is their website. As Meredith, the trainer, told us Saturday: The sole mission is registering to vote. We don’t engage on issues, it’s about finding as many likely Dems as possible and getting them registered to vote. What this means in practical terms is that once you’re trained, your time commitment will be very low. And the training takes less than an hour. Thanks, Karen!

https://bit.ly/4dIXY03

https://www.fieldteam6.org

Note that with the end of the postcarding regimen, we are returning to a one-hour meeting.

On Beyond Postcards: We will be introduced to other modes of activity, including VoPro and texting. You can come in person or request a Zoom link.

Besides saving American democracy, our house is now air-conditioned.

This Sunday will be out last postcard session (3:00-5:00 our place). We will discuss what to during the remaining weeks. PLUS Cooks Report shifted Montana 1 House Race with the wonderful Monica Tranel we are supporting from Likely Republican to Lean Republican, a big shift in the correct direction. We’ll talk about final donations on Sunday as well. Bring your pens and let’s, in Michelle’s words, DO SOMETHING!

Karen Laws wrote an essay (titled Weather Won’t Stop Us) about canvassing in the Central Valley in the summer. It’s been published in Cajibi, and I am sure it will bring a smile to everyone who has gone door to door.

Tony the Democrat has at least four postcard campaigns going.

The usual chips and pretzels, or should I go to the Animal Shelter to get Fluffy and Fido for the grill?

Crazy week, wasn’t it?

I think we had a good week, but that’s debatable.

Groan.

Usual place: postcards, phones, texts, whatever we can find. Catch up on what other groups have been doing.

We appear to be a little ahead. Let’s help Kamala and Gus’s Dad finish the job.

we hope everyone reflects for a moment on all we have done. During our spring/summer meetings we brought joy into our politicking just as the Harris/Walz ticket is doing and while we were enjoying ourselves and feasting on champagne and brownies, we educated ourselves AND completed and mailed a staggering 1,300 postcards (!!!). We hope everyone enjoys watching the convention — we have postcards on our porch if anyone needs them and can always help with addresses. Let’s keep up the momentum!

Join us 3:00-5:00 pm for snacks, postcards, letter-writing if anyone wants, update on races and button making. We have 500 new buttons forms so can make lots of buttons! We can also talk about how to stay active until our next meeting. So much good news to celebrate.