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.
2020: Young Activist. Taken on Montrose between California and Kimball in Chicago. I am not sure if they came to this Albany Park protest or if they were just out and the protest went by -- but either way they joined in. I love the super hero t-shirt and cape, and power fist.2018: Chinga La Migra. Taken at Dearborn and Jackson in Chicago. There was a press conference today highlighting a lawsuit challenging the illegal activities of ICE on a day when the DOJ made it even more difficult to claim asylum and ICE continues racial profiling and splitting families. I didn’t have the right camera and couldn’t really get close enough -- but I did my best to get a photo of her that showed her determination.2016: Early morning beach walk. Taken at the beach on Lake Michigan near Pyramid Point in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Leelanau County, Michigan 2012: The front door when at home sick. Taken in my living room.