Postcards to Swing States: Write Postcards to House Districts!

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I recently signed up for the email list for Postcards to Swing States: A Progressive Turnout Project Initiative, and got an email from them just now: "We have resumed sign-ups for our postcard program to rally Democrats to vote in 56 competitive US House districts!"

Sign up below to write postcards to rally Democrats in competitive House districts to vote on Nov 5. We'll mail you free postcards, voter lists and instructions with three message options (expect to receive them within 2-4 weeks).

You'll provide the postcard stamps and mail the postcards on October 24.

Competitive House districts in Presidential and Senate battleground states are already covered by our statewide postcard program. Sign-ups for that program will resume no later than August 5.

It looks like the smallest number of postcards you can order is 200, so you may want to recruit some friends to help -- though even if it takes 4 weeks for you to get your postcards, that's still about 2 months to write them (you mail them soon before the election so they're fresh to encourage voting).

Their email notes:

Finally, please pick from one of the proven messages on the instructions that we send with your postcards. They will be far more effective at helping Kamala Harris and other Democrats than a message that mentions her or threats to democracy. For this program with cards that will arrive close to the election in November, we're following the most effective strategy to rally Democrats to vote. More than 15 years of research from leading progressive data-driven organizations proves that messages focused on voting are far more effective at increasing Democratic turnout than those that are partisan. See our research and more on this and other topics at our FAQ page or watch our webinar from June that explains our data-driven approach.

Thanks for all your activism!
— Postcards to Swing States Team

Progressive Turnout Project is the largest voter contact organization in the country. Our mission: Rally Democrats to vote. We design, test, and execute specialized voter turnout programs targeting inconsistent Democratic voters in the most competitive elections up and down the ballot.

Edit: I posted in a local Discord to see if other people wanted some of the postcards I'm ordering and someone said:

i would also like to do some postcards. also though someone i follow on mastodon shared a link to this postcard campaign with the note:

If you want to write postcards to voters but find the minimum of 200 to be undoable, you can request a smaller number! Just select 200 when you submit your order and then let them know the actual amount you want (in multiples of 25 such as 100) in the "drop us a note" field.

Edit2: And someone else said, "I think i was doing ~50 a week in 2020? It'd take somewhere between 30-60 mins. I did them on lunch breaks. If that's a useful metric."