Minuteman Muster                    August 16, 2021 It's Heating Up It's August. It's been hot. And activists have been heating it up too--making phone calls, texting, and writing letters and postcards.  September is just around the corner. It will cool down, right? Not in the fight for democracy!! Activities are increasing as we speak, and there are many ways to get involved now and in the fall.   Join the Fight Against Voter Suppression Find For the People postcard events Find For the People phone banks Phone bank with Common Cause Indivisible Mass Coalition and Swing Blue Alliance would like to send a delegation to participate in the March on August 28. Please contact us if you would like to participate in the delegation. Find information on the DC rally HERE. Help us register and turn out Democratic voters in Pennsylvania, a key swing state. Get your postcard kits here! Or, donate to support our postcard program. Turn PA Blue volunteers have written over 1 million postcards to voters in the last 2 years.  Now, we’re working to win PA’s local elections in 2021 and register more Democrats to vote ahead of nationally-watched Senate and Presidential races. And, for the first time, bulk postcard packets are available for local committees and campaigns to use for your own voter outreach projects. Keep Virginia Democratic Help write 1.5 million letters to voters We’ve teamed up with Vote Forward to write 1.5 million letters to Virginia votersencouraging them to get out to vote this November. Right now, volunteers are writing and stockpiling letters to put in the mail on Saturday, September 18. Volunteers have already written nearly 480,000 letters--adopt 20 letters this week and help push us over 500,000! We're raising grassroots dollars for 10 House of Delegates races and Virginia's Democratic gubernatorial race. Polling shows these races are close, and if Trump-backed GOP candidates are able to win in Virginia this year, they'll use the same anti-science, anti-democracy, conspiracy-fueled playbook in 2022. We cannot let Republican candidates win this year. Here's how you can contribute: Donate directly to all 11 Democratic candidates with a single, quick donation to our Keep Virginia Blue Fund. Help write the 1.5 million letters to voters. Phone bank with Sister District MA-RI to support Virginia candidates. Tell YouTube to Permanently Ban Trump  Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube suspended Trump's accounts, removing his access to platforms for spreading lies and inciting violence-- and it worked! The amount of disinformation about the election decreased dramatically after Trump was banned. Twitter's ban is permanent. Now Facebook's Oversight Board has agreed that removing Trump from Facebook and Instagram was the right move. The only major platform left to permanently ban Trump is YouTube. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has said that Trump would be allowed to return to the video platform when "the risk of violence decreases." The problem is, every time Trump is given an audience, the risk of violence rises exponentially. Click here to send a message to YouTube: It's time to permanently ban Trump and his dangerous, hateful rhetoric. Want to be better with Twitter? Indivisible has a training session to help you make the most of Twitter. See the training video here.