Tuesday, May 14 - Empowering the Youth Vote / Postcard Season!
Actions You Can Take
Action 1: Empowering the Youth Vote on Thursday, May 16 at 7 p.m. (virtual event)
Action 2: Write postcards for election season
Action 1: Empowering the Youth Vote Event Thursday’
Please join us for a discussion of getting out the youth vote! Victor Shi and Jill Wine Banks will tell us about empowering the youth vote. Victor is the recently appointed Youth Engagement Coordinator for the Biden Harris campaign. Jill is a Legal Analyst for MSNBC and a co-host of the SistersinLaw podcast, recently announced as a Webby Award Winner for Best Podcast News & Politics. Until his recent college graduation and new job, Victor and Jill co-hosted a podcast called iGen Politics.
This meeting will be Co-hosted by Indivisible Illinois, Indivisible Chicago Alliance, NWSOFA, Indivisible DuPage, Indivisible Naperville and the Democratic Party of Evanston.
Join the virtual event on Thursday, May 16 at 7 p.m.
Action 2: It’s Postcard Season!
Ready to write? In 2020, Indivisible Chicago activists wrote and sent more than 600,000 postcards to voters in swing states, part of a national effort that saw over 21 million handwritten postcards sent.
In 2024, the organization Postcards to Swing States has set a goal of sending 26 million postcards to voters in 11 states, including Indivisible Chicago’s target states, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Postcards to Swing States has done studies to prove that their program is very effective — adding up to 1.3% to Democratic turnout. Their program this year will add more than 130,000 votes, which is three times the amount President Biden won by in 2020.
Three ways to participate
Indivisible Chicago will again be hosting postcard writing parties this year. Postcards, messages to write and voter address lists will be provided. Postcard parties will be posted on Daily Actions and our Action Calendar. You can also update your preferences to be notified of postcard parties when they’re scheduled.
If you’d like to write postcards on your own or host your own gatherings, go to www.turnoutpac.org/postcards, click on “Sign up for postcards,” complete your order and you’ll be mailed your free postcards along with messages to write and voter lists. (Note: If you enter “Indivisible Chicago” to the optional question on the form, “Are you ordering for a grassroots group?”, we can also let you know when postcard parties are scheduled nearby. Postcards will be provided at the parties or you can bring the postcards you’ve ordered.)
Indivisible Evanston is also distributing postcards for the Postcards to Swing State Campaigns. There are two pickup locations in Evanston, one in Deerfield and one in Buffalo Grove. Sign up here.
Postcard writers are responsible for providing the postcard stamps (currently 53 cents), handwriting a short message and addressing the cards. The instructions include a specific mailing date in October, so you have until then to write the postcards.
Ready to do more? Check out our Action Calendar and update your preferences to let us know where you’re ready to work to win in November!
While some of these Daily Actions come from our own work as Indivisible Chicago Alliance, others are from our many partners working to advance the progressive agenda. We invite you to join us in supporting their work. Postings from partners do not imply Indivisible Chicago Alliance endorsement of specific policies and positions.