Fourteen Days
Fourteen days to Election Day. FOURTEEN DAYS. We get it. Our anxiety is through the roof too. But 14 days means there is no more time for agonizing over polls and pundits. We are now officially in Get Out The Vote season. GOTV means we need to find every last vote, talk to every last voter, make sure every single person we contact has a plan to vote!
Read moreNINETEEN DAYS
We need to make every one of them count! Postcard and letter writing is wrapping up, time to look for what else we can do! This weekend is the warmup to GOTV, and then starting 10/26 it’s all GOTV all the time. Our Events section has something for everyone ready to DO SOMETHING. We know that’s all of you, we’ve done so much together already! Buses to PA? We have those! Note, they fill up fast, so sign up right away! Phone banks! Texting! Poll worker training! And canvassing, lots and lots of canvassing. Grab a friend and go knock some doors!
We asked our friend Laura for some inspiration to get us going:
Read morePostcard Party this Wednesday, October 16th!
Postcard Party this Wednesday, October 16th from 7:30-9:30 pm!
We have 1000 postcards to send to women in CD 7! Come hang out with some of your favorite NJ 11th for Change folks and help get them in the mail!
Will there be snacks? Of course! Dance breaks? Very likely! We are obsessed with the DNC 50 state Roll Call at the moment.
Read moreElectober. Knocktober. Voteober. It's Election Month!
Electober. Knocktober. Voteober. Whatever you call it, October is Election Month and we are celebrating!
We celebrated by writing postcards for Sue Altman in CD-7! Join us for our next postcard party on Wednesday, Oct. 16. Or sign up for your own pack here if you want to host your own party and we’ll make it happen! Donate to help us cover the cost of stamps here!
Planning your canvassing and phone banking week? LOTS to choose from in the EVENTS section at the end of the newsletter! As your Do Something! concierges, may we recommend the Sunday, Oct. 13th CD 7 canvass in Somerville, the Sunday, Oct. 13th CD 11 canvass in Montclair, and the NJ Young Dems South Asian Caucus phone bank on Wednesday, Oct 16? No PA buses this weekend, but they are back next week!
Read moreOctober is Election Month
It’s October! You know what that means? Post-season Baseball? Pumpkin Spice Lattes? Leaf peeping? Halloween? We love a good PSL, but around here, October is Election Month! Election *day*? So last decade. We can start voting NOW. Vote by Mail ballots are out! Over here at the Election Therapist household, we celebrated the start of October is Election Month by watching the Mets win and then filling out our ballots and walking over to our neighborhood ballot box! It was a day filled with joy!
Forty Days
It’s fall, we can feel the energy shift! All gas no brakes from here on out.
Anytime someone tells us they have read something upsetting on Twitter or Facebook, or seen something worrying on cable news, we repeat Leah Greenberg’s mantra, and go sign up for another canvassing or phone banking shift!
Read moreAction and Joy!
Our social media timelines brought us a lot of joy this week. They were filled with photos and stories of NJ 11th for Change folks out doing what we do best – connecting with voters. People were out writing postcards and letters, doing phone banks, and canvassing! SO MUCH CANVASSING. We love to see it! We asked a few of you to share your experiences and we know you will find them as hopeful and inspiring as we do. Read on, and then click the links in the Events section to join us and #dosomething!
We are launching our first ever KIDS CANVASS this Sunday in Bloomfield from 12pm- 3pm. Bring your future voters to knock some doors for Harris, Kim, Sherrill, and our local candidates! Will there be stickers? And face paint? And a poster making station? Will this be the cutest and most fun canvass ever? Yes, yes, yes and definitely yes!
https://www.mobilize.us/njvictory2024/event/695645/
Did you know New Jersey’s Vote By Mail ballots will be hitting mailboxes starting this Monday? The election starts NOW! Let’s get to work (and have some fun doing it!)
Read moreNewsletter 9/5 - Do Something Time
Still feeling that August summer JOY, but now? It’s September! Time to DO SOMETHING. A lot of somethings! Our events calendar is jam packed this week with opportunities to canvass, phone bank, text bank, and write letters. And more to come, watch this space!
Read moreFreedom, patriotism and JOY
It’s been quite the week! We hope you have been able to watch some of the Harris/Walz rallies this week. The energy is off the charts. We love that the message is all about freedom, compassion, and JOY.
Election Therapy
Mara Novak here. I’ve been part of the NJ 11th for Change leadership team since 2019, and have been Co-Executive Director since 2020. Thrilled to say that Judy Kelly has returned as Co-executive Director for this election cycle!
Normally the voice of this newsletter is in the collective we, because our work is all about THE POWER OF US. But I want to use this space just once for a personal story. (Read to the end because we are diving right back into what WE can do this next hundred days. Spoiler alert, you are going to need new sneakers. Perhaps a nice purple pair of Chucks?)
Event This Thursday! Learn About Same-Day Voter Registration
THIS THURSDAY EVENING!
PLEASE JOIN US!
Learn how to protect democracy and voter access in New Jersey!
REGISTER HERE: https://www.mobilize.us/njlcv/event/548337/?utm_source=NJ11FC
There are two kinds of states: those that do their best to support their citizens’ right to vote … and those that do their worst to suppress that right.
RIGHT?
And New Jersey. Ah, New Jersey. We’re one of the states that supports the right of citizens to vote, right?
RIGHT?
Not always.
Not right now.
Right now, NJ is wrestling with the idea of same-day voter registration: allowing citizens who want to vote, and who are legally entitled to vote, to register on Election Day at their polling place. Legislation that proposes this access-positive policy — A1966/S247 — has been stalled in Trenton for over a year.