FOR HOLIDAYS, BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES, ANY OCCASION
GIVE OR ASK FOR THE GIFT OF DEMOCRACY
We all have too much stuff! Does Uncle Charles want another tie? Does Grandma need more jewelry?
Do you really want to go to the mall or shop on Amazon?
Give the gift of democracy!
And when someone asks you what you want, tell them “I want the gift of Democracy.” Make a donation in my name to… or ask for one of the books below.
Activate America is one of the country’s leading organizations mobilizing grassroots volunteers to turn out Democratic voters. In the 2022 election, they made nearly 10 million voter contacts at a cost of just 10 cents per contact.
By donating to Activate America, you’re investing in people-powered action to elect pro-choice pro-democracy Democrats to the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, and beyond. Your donation directly supports person-to-person voter connections.
Vote.org is a non-profit that shares Info on how to register and vote in all 50 states. Taylor Swift’s post about this organization encouraged more than 35,000 people to register on this site! Voter Registration needs early investment, and it is the best way to expand the electorate! Help the get the word out by donating here.
Blue Wave Postcard Movement, (all volunteer, non–profit) focuses on voter turnout by sending postcards via targeted lists. Wish you could write postcards but don’t have time? Donations support volunteers who need financial assistance to write more postcards. Donate Here
Working America An affiliate of the AFL-CIO, this organization makes sure the priorities of working people are heard in our state houses,the White House, local governments and Congress. Working America was formed to especially help working people who do not belong to a union!
In 2022, this group made nearly 10 million voter contacts at the cost of just 10 cents per contact. They work especially hard in “right to work” states. You can donate to their tax deductible education fund or their politcal activities fund. Read more here!
Swing Left mobilizes volunteers to help candidates at the state and Federal level. Donations are held for the winners of the primaries in 2024. It’s so important that candidates get campaign donations immediately after winning their primaries. Donate here
Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson. A professor of history at Boston College, her book explains what is going on, how we got here and what to do about it. Subscribe to her free daily emailed newsletter “Letters from an American” Watch her talk here. Subscribe to her YouTube channel here
Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual for Every American by David Pepper An outline of the far right’s playbook to attack democracy and ways Americans can (and must do) to fight back. Video book review here
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Harvard professors Steven Levistsky, Daniel Ziblatt. The authors lay out a coherent framework for understanding these volatile times. We are at a crossroads: we will become a multiracial democracy or cease to be a democracy at all. Link to their talk
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“Given the choice between saving America and planet Earth or saving the feelings of Republican voters, we are choosing to side with saving our country and our world.”