Chop Wood, Carry AZ 6/29 🏜

Hi, Team Arizona!

First, I wanted to reach out and send you all a virtual hug. What a horrid, brutal week or two (or fifty) it’s been. It’s easy to feel despair, rage, and even utter hopelessness.

As Mariame Kaba says, though, “Hope is a discipline.”

It is, in other words, an action.

To that end, let’s DO something hopeful, whether we feel hopeful or not. Because that, in my experience, is how we both feel better AND make change.

I am running not one but two Arizona phonebanks now every week—one on Thursdays and one on Saturdays. I could really use more dialers.

The Thursday phonebank focusses on calling folks who we think will support Mark Kelly (and Democrats up and down the ballot) but don’t always turn out to vote in midterm elections, and the Saturday phonebank is for my Sister District adopted AZ State Senate candidate Mitzi Epstein. In both cases I’ll be doing the training, and in both cases I would love to see you.

I know no one wants to call strangers. But no one wants to live under a Christofascist government either. That’s what we’re up against. Voter outreach is our only hope of stemming the tide.

So please. Come.

The Thursday phonebank is from 3-5 PM PDT every week. You can sign up here.

The Saturday phonebank is from 10-12 PM PDT every week. Sign up here.

Thanks! One more thing—can you find someone else who is equally furious and sickened by what’s happening and see if you can recruit them to team Arizona? There are nine other states they can choose from, too, if AZ isn’t their style. But if we’re going to win this nasty, drawn-out, existential fight…we’re going to need a bigger army.

More soon.

Jess