Six more days. SIX MORE DAYS. Time to make your plans. Make your plan to vote if you haven’t yet! Are you a vote by mail voter? Find that VBM ballot and BRING IT TO A DROP BOX. Prefer to vote in person? Early voting continues through this Sunday, find a location here! And check on your friends, neighbors and family, make sure they have solid voting plans as well!

We are all Election Therapists now.

Twelve more days until Election Day. TWELVE FREAKING DAYS. Sorry for yelling, everyone we know is on edge. But also, we see so much positive news! For all the anxiety calls, texts, emails, or smoke signals, every call or group chat or random meetup with old college friends ends with “so I signed up to knock doors in PA,”  “so I sent 5000 texts,”  “so I did a phone bank and it was actually fun!” 

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! 

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:

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! 

Sign up here

Will there be snacks? Of course! Dance breaks? Very likely! We are obsessed with the DNC 50 state Roll Call at the moment.

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!

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! 

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! 

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!) 

First things first– GET ON THE BUS! We are joining our grassroots partners BlueWaveNJ to canvass in Pennsylvania this Sunday, Sept. 15th. Co-Executive Director Mara Novak is going, and she hopes to have lots of NJ 11th for Change friends along for the ride!

SIGN UP HERE

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!

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.