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.
RALLY THIS SUNDAY -- Roe's 50th Anniversary, or Roe's Memorial?
RALLY INFORMATION BELOW!
This Sunday marks a bittersweet anniversary: fifty years since the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision.
THEN.
NOW.
As unfathomable as it is that we have fewer rights today than we did fifty years ago, we are just as strong, just as motivated, and just as determined as our pro-choice predecessors were in 1973!
PLEASE DONATE! Our Amazing Volunteers Need Your Support!
Click here to make a one-time donation or here to make a recurring monthly contribution!
Hello, Allies and Supporters!!
A 17-point margin of victory? We mean... who does that??
Read more
Look What **You** Did! ELECTION SUMMARY
Get the NJ 11th for Change newsletter sent straight to your inbox every week!
Subscribe here: www.nj11thforchange.org/join
The prognosticators and the post-election pundits sure are keeping busy with this one! Two weeks past Election Day, and we know — thank goodness! — that the much-feared nationwide Red Wave was more like the sloshings of a half-empty pitcher of spiked Kool-Aid.
New Jersey’s own elections were finally certified last Friday. But nationwide, many other Midterm 2022 questions remain unanswered. We still don’t know what margins we’ll be working with in the House of Representatives (four races are still pending), and there’s a major run-off election to be had in the Senate. (C’mon, Georgia! Next election, get it right the first time!)
The Walker/Warnock run-off in Georgia will be anything but a coin-toss (Walker’s favorite method of making big life decisions).
And the biggest unknown of all:
Baseball, Buffy & Busting Our Butts in the FINAL DAYS Before the Election!
Get the NJ 11th for Change newsletter sent straight to your inbox every week!
Subscribe here: www.nj11thforchange.org/join
How Many Days Until
Election Day (Nov 8):
4 DAYS
THIS SATURDAY & SUNDAY!
RALLY / CANVASS LAUNCHES
WITH MIKIE, CORY & PHIL!
Our country is on the brink.
You know it, we know it, THEY know it … everyone knows it.
The election on Tuesday determines who holds power in Congress for the next two years, which — given the way the Far Right plays things – could mean the White House too, and the Supreme Court, and the states.
And it could mean forever.
So when our favorite candidates urge us to
what they really mean is
We’ve got four days left, and we can’t afford to lose a single winnable seat.
Here at NJ 11th for Change, we know that everyone is worn to the bone from worry, from the feelings of futility, from the constant (and intentional!) barrage of right-wing horrors:
- Armed vigilantes staking out ballot drop boxes.
- A 10-year-old incest victim denied an abortion.
- A hammer attack on an 82-year-old man.
- A violent insurrection at the Capitol.
- The N-word all over Twitter.
- Book banning in schools.
It’s enough to make anyone feel exhausted and overloaded …
OH NO! Republicans on the Rise in CD11!
Get the NJ 11th for Change newsletter sent straight to your inbox every week!
Subscribe here: www.nj11thforchange.org/join
How Many Days Until Early
In-Person Voting Begins
(Oct 29–Nov 6):
1 DAY
How Many Days Until
Election Day (Nov 8):
11 DAYS
THIS SATURDAY!
BLOOMFIELD CANVASS
with MIKIE & A MYSTERY GUEST!
(Clues and answer in the "Events & Volunteer Opportunities" section below! Can you guess before the big reveal?)
So, here you are, thinking, “Oh, that Mikie. She’s so relatable, she’s so smart, she’s pretty darn crackerjack. She’s got this all wrapped up, really. I can sit back and watch the rest of Netflix this week, read my Heather Cox Richardson and watch my Rachel Maddow, shake my head and call it a day. Mikie’s a shoo-in.”
And then you watch the League of Women Voters debate from Tuesday night, and you realize exactly what’s at stake, and how much we stand to lose, and how many angry under-the-radar MAGA voters there are — in our electoral districts, in the fancier town next door, in our very own neighborhoods — who are incredibly motivated to get out there and vote … against Mikie.
A recording of the entire debate can be viewed here.
Now, we won’t say it wasn’t fun to go to a real live Congressional debate. Those of us who signed up for tickets before they ran out were excited and enthused and ready for a feel-good evening!
But that LWV debate was a real eye-opener. There were a LOT of people in the audience cheering on DeGroot — and DeGroot’s mouthpiece, a faux-candidate faux-Libertarian MAGA police captain named Joe Biasco — as they took turns taking potshots at Mikie.
These people jeered noisily at Mikie’s reference to January 6 as an insurrection, and they cheered Biasco on with post-debate back-slaps after his culture-war closing remarks, packed with bigotry, and wrapping up like this:
“Together we will mark this November: It’s the beginning of the end, for this woke mob, Antifa, the Bidens, and the globalists. We are the silent majority, but we will not go silently into the night — and we will take our country back.”