We hope you had a restful and rejuvenating Winter Break. As we step into 2025, we’re so grateful for this community—a space filled with care, resilience, and a shared commitment to building a better, kinder world.

As we look at the unfolding chaos of nominees for cabinet positions and prepare for what lies ahead, we find ourselves in a moment of pause—an uncertain yet critical space.

As we approach Thanksgiving, we want to take a moment to express how deeply grateful we are for this incredible community.

This has been a tough week, and many of us are moving through a range of emotions—grief, fear, anger, sadness, and more.

We're officially in the homestretch with a little over a week left before the November 5th election. But know this: our work doesn’t stop here. After Election Day, we’ll turn our focus to possible run-offs, special elections, and the many local races coming up in 2025, so we hope you’ll stick with us for the journey ahead.

It’s official—crunch time is here! We’ve got just over three weeks until November 5th, and now is the time to leave it all on the field. This is the moment where every postcard, phone call, text message, cured ballot, and door knock can make a difference in saving our democracy. This is where we need all hands on deck.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our 24-hour postcard marathon, "24 Hours in '24: Our Freedoms Are On The Ballot Postcard Around The Clock 3.0." Your energy and commitment made this event a huge success! We also want to thank our co-hosts The Downtown Nasty Women Social Group and Team Min, all the people who worked to put together the marathon event, our 32 co-hosts, and the inspiring guest speakers who kept us going, including Nancy Pelosi, Jaime Harrison, Heather Cox Richardson, Jamie Raskin, and Cory Booker.

As grassroots volunteers, we dedicate countless hours to the cause of saving democracy and electing Democrats at every level of government. Our efforts—whether through writing postcards, phone banking, text banking, canvassing, or donating—are driven by a deep commitment to our shared values and the belief that every action, no matter how small, contributes to a brighter future.

There is absolutely no place for political violence in a democracy. The strength of our democratic system depends on the peaceful exchange of ideas and the integrity of our electoral process.

Michael Kripchak ran in the special election this week for the open seat in Ohio's 6th Congressional District, a very rural district with a +29 Republican advantage going into the race. While Kripchak lost 54% to 45% and was outspent almost $700K to $25K, he achieved amazing results by cutting the lead to 9 points.

We have two requests for you for this week: 1. If you have not already read the transcript of Time Magazine's interview with Trump in which he lays out his terrifying plans for a second term, we urge you to read it.

For months, members of the Markers For Democracy community and our allies in the Comments section of Robert Hubbell’s Substack have been grumbling about the New York Times’ and other outlets’ problematic coverage of Biden, Trump, the threats to democracy, the alleged exhaustion of the grassroots and other issues.

Our postcards have made a significant impact! We're delighted to share our victories in Fayetteville and Baldwinsville, New York.