LOVE AND A PLAN
Rapid response call today! Text Arcades! In-Person Training with Jason! Nerds needed!
Jessica Craven writes beautifully today in her Substack Chop Wood, Carry Water:
If you are hurting, feeling gut-punched, angry, in despair, or can’t stop crying—that does not make you broken. That makes you human, and whole, and healthy. This is an absolutely awful moment in history and what we’re witnessing—including the dishonest and cruel responses from many GOP lawmakers—is really hard to take. It’s horrific.
You’re not crazy. They are.
So give yourself space for self care. Take breaks. Embrace community like you never have before. Lean in to love, and shared meals, and long walks, and pet cuddles, and family, and friends, and art. Celebrate the fact that you can feel, and care, and mourn, and create. It’s what makes you one of the “good guys.” Really.
It is also what makes you a strong and capable fighter. Never forget it: love, art, and community are our superpowers. So by leaning into them we are not only helping to sustain ourselves during this brutal fight, but we’re super-charging our batteries with a power that the right can never, ever access, because it is based in something they have no ability to experience.
I love you. This is hard. Let’s keep going.
Amen. Thank you so much, Jess. Now for our actions:
The time is now for us to come together and do all we can to stop this criminal president, to stop the criminals in ICE, to stop the entire criminal MAGA regime. We do this with peaceful resistance. We do this with loving activism.
And yes, we do this by registering the new voters who will vote in new, strong Democratic leaders and save our democracy. No new leaders without new voters!
So here’s the plan:
GET LOUD - find and attend any peaceful protest near you, today, tonight, Saturday, or all of the above. No sign necessary – just get out there and show support. Also make the key calls suggested by Jess Craven in Chop Wood, Carry Water and amplify them on social media with PleaseGrowASpine.org.
TUNE IN - to the Indivisible’s Rapid Response call at 5p PT/8p ET tonight (Thursday 1/8) to make meaning of this moment and learn how to help - sign up HERE.
TAKE ACTION - sign up for a Field Team 6 event and register new Democrats in key battlegrounds – postcard, text, train to register voters in person at colleges, social storm, or donate to fuel all we do – including an upcoming text arcade on Tuesday, 1/20, where the incredible social media star Sylvia Salazar (tono.latino on social media) kicks us off! (details below)
With voter registration deadlines in early October, we have nine months to register millions of new voters who will win us the midterms, take back the House, and keep us on track to save this democracy. So in the words of Jess Craven: I love you. This is hard. Let’s keep going.
– Jason Berlin, Founder, Field Team 6
Here are a couple things (among the many, many options) to do coming up this next week and beyond:
#1 – Saturday, January 10 from 10a PT/ 1p ET. In person voter drive training with FT6 founder Jason Berlin! You’ll leave fired up, and knowing all you need to lead your own voter drive (and how you can get a voter drive kit for free)!
#1 – Tuesday, January 13 at 3p PT / 6p ET. Text Arcade NE-02 / PA-07 $25 bucks gets you 1400 texts to unregistered, likely Dems. Fast and fun! (btw, celeb guests for the following two weeks: Sylvia Salazar on Jan 20, Jess Craven on Feb 3 and Simon Rosenberg on Feb 10!)
Bonus Operation Re-call – need volunteers to call other volunteers & donors. Email dale@fieldteam6.org if interested.
Bonus podcast with Jason!
Bonus Nerds Needed: front end dev engineer volunteers, SEO experts, researchers, tech writers, and more needed now!
All good stuff!