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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1300 on: November 11, 2020, 01:06:34 PM »
As people learn about Get Out the Vote letters, postcards and text campaigns, please share them here. I think Vote Forward is doing something, but lists aren't up yet.

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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1301 on: November 11, 2020, 01:09:42 PM »
I figured I'd share this because it would make this group happy: My 85 year old, conservative, Seventh Day Adventist grandmother voted in this election for the first time in her life because she could not live with herself if she hadn't and Trump got re-elected. My Mom helped get her registered and figure out how to fill in and mail her ballot so she could help vote him out of office

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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1302 on: November 11, 2020, 01:16:22 PM »
Some things anyone can do for the Georgia runoff races:

Andrew Yang

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« Reply #1303 on: November 11, 2020, 02:43:13 PM »
Thanks Bacci --fixed.

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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1304 on: November 12, 2020, 12:24:32 PM »
As people learn about Get Out the Vote letters, postcards and text campaigns, please share them here. I think Vote Forward is doing something, but lists aren't up yet.

My recommendations, speaking as a non-Georgian organizer with connections to a few different campaigns:

Phone banking, personal outreach, and donating funds are the highest priorities. Vote Forward will have addresses, but there is a TON of interest in Georgia right now. Texting and writing campaigns are flooded with volunteers. They are running out of addresses quickly, and texting is generally going to be restricted to volunteers who have already texted and don't need further training.

GA's 6th got completely overwhelmed during the Ossoff special election, and organizers are trying to avoid that. To best help, I would personally:

1) Sign up with campaign phone banks or other trusted groups. (We will be hosting Reclaim Our Vote phone banks, which are non-partisan and try to reach people who aren't targeted by most campaigns.)
2) Send money to the Ossoff and Warnock campaigns.
3) Send money to groups on the ground who have more community trust and can reach voters better than someone outside the state. Fair Fight, New Georgia Project, there are a lot of lists going around.
4) Reach out personally to everyone you know who lives in Georgia or might have friends or family in the state. The runoff election isn't well known, so even do this with people you assume will vote.
5) Post about this in multiple places, to alert weak ties. FB, insta, twitter, tiktok - if you like dogs, this video is for you: https://twitter.com/ReverendWarnock/status/1324321816102506497

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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1305 on: November 12, 2020, 02:51:53 PM »
3) Send money to groups on the ground who have more community trust and can reach voters better than someone outside the state. Fair Fight, New Georgia Project, there are a lot of lists going around.

Just donated to these!

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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1306 on: November 13, 2020, 08:19:45 AM »
Speaking of political resistance, what's up with so many people flying American flags at their house all of a sudden? 
Around election day my neighborhood started to fly flags all over - is this something that Trumpsters are doing? 

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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1307 on: November 13, 2020, 08:27:07 AM »
I don't know who needs to hear this but fun fact about Georgia: there's no residency requirement to register to vote there.

If you're living there by December 7 you can register and vote in the runoff w/ ID.

I read that moving there to vote with the intention of leaving quickly is a felony. On the off chance that anyone here is planning to this, please investigate before moving.

(article just mentions it in passing - illustrative, not definitive)
https://www.theroot.com/efforts-to-make-voting-harder-in-georgia-s-senate-runof-1845646734?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-11-12

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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1308 on: November 13, 2020, 08:39:11 AM »
Speaking of political resistance, what's up with so many people flying American flags at their house all of a sudden? 
Around election day my neighborhood started to fly flags all over - is this something that Trumpsters are doing?

My unscientific observation in the deep, deep red south is that flying an American flag outside your house seems to correlate very closely with being a trumper.  There are at least three houses in my neighborhood (including my parents' house) that have actual flagpoles.  One (thankfully, not my parents though it is across the street and I have to look at it every day) flies a trump flag just underneath the American flag.  I see it as an extension of the toxic patriotism that took root after 9/11.

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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1309 on: November 13, 2020, 08:43:48 AM »
Speaking of political resistance, what's up with so many people flying American flags at their house all of a sudden? 
Around election day my neighborhood started to fly flags all over - is this something that Trumpsters are doing?

My unscientific observation in the deep, deep red south is that flying an American flag outside your house seems to correlate very closely with being a trumper.  There are at least three houses in my neighborhood (including my parents' house) that have actual flagpoles.  One (thankfully, not my parents though it is across the street and I have to look at it every day) flies a trump flag just underneath the American flag.  I see it as an extension of the toxic patriotism that took root after 9/11.

I remember thinking it was a bad omen in the summer of 2016 when I saw that a house that I pass by on my way to work TOOK DOWN their American flag to replace it with a Trump flag. Very symbolic of what we saw these past 4 years.

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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1310 on: November 13, 2020, 10:00:19 AM »
We had an inexpensive house flag that was getting all tattered, so I took it down. I bought a good quality, made in USA flag with sewn stripes and embroidered stars, but didn't get up the energy to hang it until the week before the election. I put my Biden yard sign below it to make it clear where we stand.

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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1311 on: November 13, 2020, 10:27:02 AM »
Speaking of political resistance, what's up with so many people flying American flags at their house all of a sudden? 
Around election day my neighborhood started to fly flags all over - is this something that Trumpsters are doing?

Several Biden voters I know have put up flags since election day, in celebration of getting Trump out, and also in defiance of the cheap patriotism on the right that has "stolen" the flag to be come a symbol of their anti-American B.S.

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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1312 on: November 13, 2020, 10:50:21 AM »
I don't know who needs to hear this but fun fact about Georgia: there's no residency requirement to register to vote there.

If you're living there by December 7 you can register and vote in the runoff w/ ID.

I read that moving there to vote with the intention of leaving quickly is a felony. On the off chance that anyone here is planning to this, please investigate before moving.

(article just mentions it in passing - illustrative, not definitive)
https://www.theroot.com/efforts-to-make-voting-harder-in-georgia-s-senate-runof-1845646734?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-11-12

Yeah, even without that law in place I don't think it would be right to just move there, vote, and leave.  When I was pitching this to my wife, the idea was that we'd take our time exploring the region.   Probably put our current place up for rent for 6 months for some geographic arbitrage, and plop down some place with a reasonably favorable combination of nature and network speeds.

Unfortunately, we have some obligations that we couldn't figure out in the context of a cross-country move.  If we lived on the East Coast I think it would have happened.

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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1313 on: November 13, 2020, 06:37:39 PM »
I just sent another donation to Actblue.  :)


I'm happy to help, but is there somewhere we can see the current total donated to these?  I feel like I'm giving blindly, because I don't know how much they need nor how much they've received.

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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1314 on: November 18, 2020, 10:41:15 AM »
As people learn about Get Out the Vote letters, postcards and text campaigns, please share them here. I think Vote Forward is doing something, but lists aren't up yet.

Vote Forward is up now.
https://votefwd.org/posts/Georgia-Runoff-campaigns

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Re: Small Daily Acts of Political Resistance - VICTORY!
« Reply #1315 on: November 29, 2020, 07:43:40 PM »
Donated to both Senate runoff campaigns, and also to 314 Action (group focused on electing candidates likely to enable environmental legislation)