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.
Vote Forward Virginia letter campaigns
Postcards for VA, Feggans is in the first row, House of Delegates
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:
Write postcards with Postcards4VA.com
Send letters with Votefwd.org (they have tons of addresses)
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…
We began with an excellent bottle of champagne. As part of our ongoing membership drive, I pledge that all further Trump indictments will also have champagne. If he goes to prison, that day I will splurge for caviar to go with it.
Our fundraising for Michael Feggans of Virginia is only about 60% complete. For this campaign, because we have allied with Sister District, the donation page is ActBlue under their auspices. And to raise a little extra cash…
The auction is back!
and you may look at and bid on twenty lots of campaign memorabilia at this link, which you should share with all your friends. Once again, that link is https://www.32auctions.com/elm2023 .
Sample items —
Other items: Bruce and I gave reports on Zoom meetings about 2022 campaigns. One was California Donor Table, the other Aaron Frank and Focus for Democracy. CDT had to admit that California underperformed in 2022, and announced the seven districts (no surprises) that they are targeting for 2024. We heard from a number of field organizers. Everyone knows we do better if we engage voters ahead of time. The most interesting point from Focus for Democracy is the large number of net Democratic votes that Working America (a project of the AFL-CIO) obtained in every swing state except Arizona. Frank is very interested in maximizing donor bang for buck, spoke well of them.
Bruce is working on getting us a guest speaker. Details to follow.
CDT has another Zoom session this Wednesday, noon. (One source says 1:00 pm, but the previous meeting was at noon.) Register here.
Bruce and I went to some Zooms this week on how we did and how we are doing.
Indivisible Elmwood 