Sewing Circle: Voter Registration Letters, Talking About Trump, and Blankets
Summer is coming in on the wings of 34 guilty counts, and it feels almost as good as drinking lemonade in the June sunshine. Here’s a few ways to celebrate by pushing forward for a better tomorrow.
Write letters to prospective voters! Vote Forward is running multiple GOTV campaigns and they can all use your help:
Letters to prospective voters in Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania encouraging them to register to vote
Letters to Americans living abroad encouraging them to request absentee ballots
Letters to voters in swing states, stockpiling for “the Big Send” in October
There are just about 140 days to write letters and postcards before the election. A couple letters a day can really add up!
If you can’t do Vote Forward and you’re in the greater Boston area, I am working on stacks of GOTV postcards for Ohio thanks to Postcards to Swing States. Come by and pick up a bunch!
Read this communications guide on talking about the Trump guilty verdict - especially the Dos and Don’t's. Over and over, the focus is on the ordinary, everyday nature of the juries who are delivering indictments and verdicts. I don’t always have the emotional reserves to take on conversations about Trump, but it’s excellent to have a guide.
If you have a fabric-arts hobby like me, consider making a Welcome Blanket. I’m sending off two crocheted blankets in a couple of weeks (as soon as I find the right size box) and I know they’ll find good homes with people seeking refuge in the USA. Welcome Blanket is nationwide, but there’s a show planned for this fall at the Museum of Work and Culture in Woonsocket, RI.
Finally, keep up the pressure on our electeds! Call them - whether it’s about the Supreme Court’s need for accountability, or finding humane responses to Gaza, or forestalling future abuses of the Insurrection Act.
Here’s a few things to keep your hearts light:
Texas - TEXAS - is leading the way in new solar installations.
The US economy is up and carbon emissions are down - due largely to reduction in coal power plants.
The EPA is granting $900 million for electric school buses.
The rate of one of the deadliest heart attacks has halved in the USA.
A little plus a little makes a heap, whether it’s postcards, stitches, or progress. Take a few moments to add your little to the heap, and remember: You are Not Alone.