June 11

In 2018, Reid approached Indivisible Chicago about doing GOTV postcards to Wisconsin and then Michigan. From that, Postcards to Swing States was born. We looked to do the postcards on a larger scale in 2020 with money that Reid raised. Then during COVID, the Progressive Turnout Project provided Indivisible Chicago with the funds to print and send millions of postcards for volunteers all over the country to write and mail to voters in 14 swing states. In Chicago we had a whole operation to get the postcards into volunteers hands in Chicago and into the mail – more about that later in the year. Now Postcards to Swing States operates independently of Indivisible Chicago, but we are holding postcard parties to engage volunteers and mobilize activists to be even more active in this election. Today I made it to one of our first postcard parties of the season at Gideon Wells just a block from home.