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Sept 7 - 13, 2020
56 Days Until November 3, 2020

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KEY ACTIONS FOR THIS WEEK:
WISCONSIN:
ILLINOIS:
MICHIGAN:
PHONEBANKING:
TEXTBANKING:
PROTECT OUR ELECTIONS 2020: 
September Virtual Monthly Meeting
"GOT(Y)V: Turning Out Young Voters"
READ MORE ON OUR BLOG


PANELISTS: Making Our Voices Heard: Getting Out The (Youth) Vote
 Learn what we can do to activate our young relatives


Moderated by Paul Kendrick, Executive Director, Rust Belt Rising

Gretchen Coleman: Founder, Ballot Z Founder
Kemone Hendricks, Founder/CEO of Evanston Present and Future
Bobby Mannis, YVote and Co-Founder, MoVE
Victor Shi, IL Biden Delegate - DNC, Co-Host, Intergenerational Politics

Meeting Registration: Register for the meeting, with the link below. This link will not get you into the meeting, you must receive the confirmation email with the zoom link. 
Registration Link

Question Submission: You can submit a question ahead of time, and you will also be able to post questions in the chat box during the meeting. Given our time constraints, we will do our best to get to everyone's questions but may not be able to do so. Question Submission Link


READ MORE ON OUR BLOG
Sept 22 Monthly Meeting Registration
Question Submission: September 22 Meeting
Turning Wisconsin BLUE Depends on YOU!
WI Wednesdays Phone Banks: 6 - 8pm
NEW: Wisconsin Weekend Phone Banks - Saturdays 

⭐️ Our rockstar Calling Crew of 462 has made over 20,000 calls to WI since June 24 and we need your help to make more! Please see the block below with the image of our Calling Crew for a discussion of our calling strategy.

Individual WI Wednesday/Weekend Phone Bank sign ups: 
September 9, 6 - 8pm: Sign up | September 12, 10am -12pm: Sign up Saturday!
September 16, 6 - 8pm: Sign up | September: 23, 6 - 8pm: Sign up
September 26, 10am - 12pm: Sign up Saturday! | September 30, 6 - 8pm: Sign up


LINK TO ALL WI Wednesdays/Weekend Phone Banks: Sign up here
Want to flip Michigan? SIGN UP: tinyurl.com/call4blue

New to phone banking? Sign up for a phone bank training session

📞Calls can be made any day; morning, noon & night. Just attend one of our phone banks for orientation & then call at your convenience.

➡️ We make phone banking easy! Our phone banks begin with a Zoom call orientation and end with the opportunity to debrief. Along the way, our phone bank leaders are available to help you with any problems. After you sign up, we'll get back in touch with all the information you need to connect. We're with you every step of the way! Thanks for joining us in this fight to turn WI BLUE!
Questions? Email Kathleen Long
Sign Up for Wisconsin Wednesdays Weekly PHONE BANKS
New to Phone Banking? Need a Refresher? Sign up for 30 minute Phone Bank TRAINING

Join the WI Voter Registration Calling Crew

Help us flip Michigan and Wisconsin blue! As part of the Indivisible Chicago Alliance, Indivisible Evanston is partnering with the organizations Rust Belt Rising and Register2Vote to to register more voters in Michigan and Wisconsin than the difference in the 2016 election in those two states. Considering that Trump won MI by 10,704 and WI by 22,278 votes, this project has the potential of having significant impact on the outcome in November.

The Wisconsin Voter Registration Program, an offshoot of Indivisible Evanston, has launched a massive voter registration effort to reach over 100,000 targeted unregistered voters by phone.  Based on past program experience, we expect to potentially register 30,000 “highly likely” Democrats.
 
After the targeted voters receive their registration packet in the mail, our volunteers will follow up with “chase calls” asking them to complete their registrations and send them in.
 

Want to join us? To participate, just sign up below and send an email to the project coordinator, Bob Best.
Sign up here to make WI Voter Registration Phone Calls
Support Rep. Lauren Underwood in IL-14
Phonebanks Every Thursday, 6-8pm
Weekend of Action, 9/12-9/13 


Vote-by-mail ballots will be mailed out in just over 2 weeks so it's all hands on deck! Thank you to all our volunteers who've helped us make over 5,000 calls so far to voters in IL-14!

MANY THANKS to everyone who joined us last Thursday (9/3)! Rep. Underwood came by and thanked us for our efforts and gave us her perspective on the state of the race, including a recap on the most recent debate with her GOP opponent. We had a great turnout: over 20 volunteers attended and everyone who signed up showed up!  

Join us and help Rep. Underwood become the first Democrat to win re-election in Il-14! Sign up to join our Thursday Indivisible Evanston-only virtual phonebank parties!

 
Phonebank Details:
  • Phonebanks are hosted by the campaign and last from 6-8pm
  • No need to stay the entire duration - join when you can and make your target of 50 dials!
  • First-time caller? Training provided by at 6pm for those who need it

Can't make Thursdays? Join Indivisible Chicago's Tuesday Underwood phonebanks OR make calls on your own. 

Other activities this week:

  • Weekend of Action, Sat, 9/12 - Sun, 9/13 - Two weeks out from VBM ballots being sent out in Illinois, continue to make calls to voters in the 14th District.
  • Check out  "Surge" on Showtime,  a documentary profiling first-time female candidates who ran for congress in 2018 - including Lauren Underwood! See the trailer for Surge here. 
Sign up for Underwood Phone Bank Parties on Thursdays 6 - 8pm
TEXTING TUESDAYS TEXTBANKS:
Every Tuesday Afternoon
September 15, 22 & 29 | 1:30-3:30 PM
TEXTING TRAINING:
Wednesday, September 9 | 2-3 PM

 
Join the Indivisible Chicago Alliance Texting Team! Texting is a great way to connect directly with voters in addition to making phone calls and writing postcards, especially in a pandemic when we can’t canvass. Our Texting Tuesdays textbanks are with the national IndivisiText program. At this time, these Tuesday textbanks are for are for our volunteers who have already completed training with us for TextOut and Slack. There is one final training this week that will qualify you to text with us going forward. Sign up ASAP for the last Indivisible Textbanking Training until further notice on September 9th from 2-3 PM.
 
COMING SOON: WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN TEXTBANKING
Register for Indivisible Texting Training 9/9 2-3 PM
Sign Up for Texting Tuesdays - Training Required

Postcards to Swing States Update

Indivisible Evanston has distributed over 150,000 postcards to MI and WI and is now distributing postcards to TX and SC!  Postcards to Swing states has also completed all orders for 15 million cards to 14 swing states. Now is the time to write your postcards! You can sign up for one of our weekly Monday night Zoom Postcards parties to get them done with other IE volunteers. Join us!

NOTE: Postcards are to be mailed on October 21, not before and not after.  If you want to return the completed and stamps cards to us for mailing in Wisconsin and Michigan, they must be returned to us no later than October 19.


We have packets of 100 cards and materials available for pick up seven days a week at three locations in Evanston (while supplies last). Sign up today to get cards before they are gone!

MORE INFORMATION AND SIGN UP HERE

Pick Up Texas of SC Postcard Packets
Register for a Monday Zoom Postcard Party Now
JOIN TEAM CASTEN FOR PHONE BANKING TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS!

We're calling folks to check in to see how they are doing, and if they will support Casten this November. We worked hard for these seats in 2018, and we'll need to work even harder to keep them for 2020!

Sign up here to make calls with Team Casten 
MORE INFORMATION ON OUR BLOG
Sign up for Casten Phone Banking & Training

 

In the coming weeks, and especially now that the fabulous DNC is now complete, we'll all be getting more involved with taking action with the Biden/Harris campaign. Keep checking this space for weekly ideas and information about how we can all do our part to help them win on November 3rd!
Take Action with the Biden/Harris Campaign

Register to Vote and Make Your Voting Plan
Important Dates Now Through Election Day

Registering to vote has never been easier or more convenient. We have created a resouce that you can access on our website blog with all the details about making sure you are registered and have a plan to vote. We have included deadlines for things like registration (in person and online), requesting and returning your mail in ballot, ballot drop boxes, dates for early voting, election day information and more.
 
IL Voter Registration and Voting Information
City of Evanston Election & Early Voting Info
Apply Now to Vote By Mail in Suburban Cook County
Drop Box Locations/Hours
This year, it's not enough to vote. In 2020, we all have to act. And we can still stay safe and take action from home.
 
In 2020, Indivisible Evanston is working hard to win back the White House, the Senate, Wisconsin and to keep our gains in the House and here in Illinois. 

Thank you for reading our weekly newsletters, following us on FB and visiting our website for a full list of our 2020 actions. 

We can do this if we all pitch in -- this is a team effort! 
Indivisible Evanston Events & Important Dates

Multiple Dates:
September
October
November
  • 2: Last Day of Early Voting
  • 3: Last Day Mail Ballots can be Postmarked & Drop Boxes available
  • 3: GENERAL ELECTION, Register to Vote available  🌊🌊🌊
  • 17: IE Monthly Meeting, 7-9 pm, Evanston Civic Center
  • Multiple Dates: see above
SEE LISTINGS ABOVE FOR MORE DETAILS & to sign up for specific events. 

🦠 RECOMMENDED CORONAVIRUS 🦠 
AND COVID-19 RESOURCES

CDC guidelines
City of Evanston Coronavirus Information 
IL Department of Public Health
Evanston area COVID-19 community support Facebook group

CDC Guidelines on Wearing Cloth Masks

For our most up to date news & daily actions, like our page on Facebook and check in often. Make sure to follow and retweet us on Twitter, follow us on Instagram, and add us to your email contacts!

Indivisible Evanston Mission Statement

The mission of Indivisible Evanston is to resist Donald Trump, his administration, and like-minded Members of Congress, and to remove them all from office on November 3, 2020, before they replace our democracy with an authoritarian plutocracy. We do not expect our members or allies to agree on all issues, but we invite those who agree that the Trump presidency is harming our country to work together to replace him and his GOP enablers. We seek to be as inclusive and diverse as possible, and we are committed to non-violence in all our actions.
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