Members Take Action

Next Steps Postcard Writing Effort

By Karyl Hendrick

Hi Club Members:

Ever get the feeling you’d love to do something significant to:

· Increase voter turnout or registration?

· Support candidates nominated during a primary?

· Oppose incumbents who need to go?

How about to support gun control actions, reproductive rights, or immigrant safety - to name a few?

Please come and join the Next Steps postcard writers on the 1st and 3rd Friday evenings throughout election year 2020. We try to alternate meetings in Fairfield and Vacaville.

We obtain addresses primarily from Flip the West, an organization dedicated to” flipping” incumbent Republican US Senators in several western states “upside down” and straight out of their comfy US Senate chairs! Flip the West pursues a campaign involving repeated contacts to voters, which has a proven record in improving turnout. Their campaign encourages Democrats and Independents to get registered and get out and vote for Dems running to fill those chairs and shift the US Senate majority.

Please contact Karyl Hendrick at karylhendrick@gmail.com, who can put you on the mailing list to assure you hear about our meetings. You can also contact her to ask questions! Details will follow closer to those dates – just in case changes in location are required.

Next Steps has written for Flip the West numerous times, starting mid-year 2019. We sent postcards to crucial registered Independent voters in Arizona and Colorado, focusing on the anti-choice position taken by Senator Martha McSally and, yes, Cory Gardner. We’ve sent the message about McSally and Gardner’s weak stance (or no stance) on gun control straight to some of those same voters, and others – giving them another good reason to show up at the polls in 2020 and vote them OUT.

Please join together with many NSDC members, and other volunteers, in having a direct impact on the critical issues that keep some of us awake at night.

Please reply soon, and plan to come out and join us for upcoming meetings. Time, address, and other details will be provided to those who reply!

Special Announcement from Sister District CA3/Indivisible Yolo County

Regarding Coronavirus Cancellations

Provided By Jim Hardwick

Hello, friends.

Yolo County released new guidelines regarding the Coronavirus this morning recommending that all non-essential large events be cancelled. You can read the full guidelines here.

With this in mind (and out of an abundance of caution), we are cancelling most events at the Volunteer Center for the near future, including phonebanks, postcard parties, and trainings. We do not take this decision lightly. We are of course disappointed, but want to prioritize the health of the community and help reduce the risk that our health care system will be overwhelmed at the peak of the spread of the virus.

We are working to develop remote training options for our events. If we get the go-ahead to reinstate small group activities like phonebanks and text training at the center, we will follow health guidelines to keep our volunteers as safe as possible.

We will continue to be open during drop-in hours for volunteers to both drop-off and pick up postcard packets for at-home activism. And we hope to soon offer you support in calling and texting voters from home.

We hope all of our friends and neighbors stay healthy.

Take care,

Sister District CA-3 & Indivisible Yolo Leadership Teams

Actions you can take to elect Democrats.

Both the Democratic party and grassroots organizations need volunteers to help them elect Democrats at the national, state, and local levels. We don’t need to change anyone’s opinion. We just have to get people to vote. Less than half of the adult population votes even in a presidential election. It is even worse in mid term elections. In every election there are more people who don’t vote than vote for either candidate.

Here are some opportunities to get more Democrats to vote.

Next Steps sponsors postcard writing parties in Solano County every month, one in Fairfield and one in Vacaville. Ask Karyl Hendrick to add you to the Next Steps mailing list so she can inform you when and where these postcard writing parties will be held.

Volunteer Center, 720 Olive Dr., #D, Davis.

Several grass roots organizations have gone together to create a volunteer center in Davis. Check out the Election 2020 Volunteer Center website and calendar to learn when the Volunteer Center is open and what events are scheduled there. https://sisterdistrictca3.wixsite.com/sdca3 or ask Kelly Wilkerson, sisterdistrictca3@gmail.com, to put you on the Sister District CA-3 mailing list to receive more information on the volunteer center, postcard writing parties in private homes, canvassing trips to Arizona, phone banking and text banking training, and voter registration training opportunities., or visit the Sister District CA-3 website. https://sisterdistrict.com/volunteer/ca-3

Volunteer Center Background

Officers of several grassroots organizations developed a proposed volunteer center budget in December. They ask for donations to fund this $9500 budget. Within a few weeks they had received nearly $25,000 in donations as well as donations of labor to clean and paint the facility. Furniture has been donated as well.

CALENDAR NOW ONLINE

Our calendar of events is now too big to add to our emails. Check it out on our new website. All events are cross-listed on our Facebook page.

California Democratic Party Events

https://www.mobilize.us/cadems/

http://www.cadem.org/take-action/2020-coordinated-campaign

https://www.cadem.org/take-action/get-involved/make-some-phone-calls

Click to see our latest activities and opportunities to get involved in the 2020 Election.

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