Blue Wave Blogs

• 

  Postcards Make Getting Out The Vote Easier {Guest Post}

  by Sani Field April 8, 2023

  I live in a Continuing Care Residential Community (CCRC) in the Northeast. I was and am very active and informed on political happenings at the L...

  • local elections
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers

  • Read more
• 

  When Women Vote...They Also Write Postcards {Guest Post}

  by Sani Field April 8, 2023

    In 2020, as the pandemic started shutting the world down, I joined the Rez Writers postcard group, an assortment of women with varying background...

  • civil rights
  • democracy reform
  • elections
  • local elections
  • pande
  • pandemic
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers
  • voting rights
  • women's rights

  • Read more
• 

  The Future Depends On Progressive Change {Guest Post}

  by Sani Field March 25, 2023

  How did I find Blue Wave? Maybe through DailyKos? Vote Forward? Or NARAL or NOW? I am not sure - but I certainly am grateful to have connected and...

  • civil rights
  • elections
  • local elections
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • voting rights
  • women's rights

  • Read more
• 

  WRITIOUS ACTION: Why We Love Postcard Writing Groups

  by Lisa Gillespie February 8, 2023

    Friends, we’re in the pause before the storm: 2023 is the year of shoring up our outreach infrastructure. We’re often asked: Besides writing post...

  • blue wave process
  • official
  • path to postcarding
  • volunteers

  • Read more
• 

  Fighting For Future Generations {Guest Post}

  by Sani Field September 28, 2022

  One morning in early April 2018, I tossed aside the morning paper and gazed across the breakfast table at my 12-year-old granddaughter. A haunting...

  • civil rights
  • democracy reform
  • elections
  • local elections
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers
  • voting rights

  • Read more
• 

  What Can One Person Do? A Lot! {Guest Post}

  by Sani Field September 12, 2022

  Hubby and I joke that when we moved to “red” Colorado 26 years ago from “Joisey,” we were the reason the state turned blue. Now, having moved t...

  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers

  • Read more
• 

  Interview with Mitch Stahl: Activism For All

  by Lisa Gillespie July 14, 2022

    An Interview with Mitch Stahl: long-time activist, Blue Wave Postcard writer, and group organizer. Mitch’s group are residents of the Frasier Me...

  • abortion
  • Black Lives Matter
  • civil rights
  • climate crisis
  • democracy reform
  • economy
  • elections
  • For The People Act
  • fundraising
  • gun safety legislation
  • local elections
  • pandemic
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers
  • voting rights
  • women's rights

  • Read more
• 

  Inspiring Women Podcast with Laurie A.S. McGraw

  by Chiu-Ki Chan May 17, 2022

  We were so thrilled to be featured on the Inspiring Women podcast with Laurie A. S. McGraw. The following is borrowed from Laurie, in a recent so...

  • climate crisis
  • democracy reform
  • elections
  • local elections
  • path to postcarding
  • volunteers
  • voting rights

  • Read more
• 

  Moving Upstream {Guest Post}

  by Sani Field April 5, 2022

  I remember so distinctly a conversation I had in one of my moms’ groups the third week of November in 2016, just after 45 was elected. We were all...

  • Black Lives Matter
  • civil rights
  • elections
  • local elections
  • pandemic
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers
  • voting rights

  • Read more
• 

  My Path to Postcarding: The Tuck Frump Group {Guest Post}

  by Sani Field March 4, 2022

  It was the summer of 2020, and my husband and I had two young kids and were (still are!) in the midst of a global pandemic as well as a shift in o...

  • Black Lives Matter
  • civil rights
  • climate crisis
  • democracy reform
  • elections
  • pandemic
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers

  • Read more
• 

  2021 Q3 Retrospective

  by Ning Mosberger-Tang September 9, 2021

    I'm SO proud of our core Blue Wave team and volunteers. It took us only ten days to complete our most recent Vote No on the California Re...

  • blue wave process
  • climate crisis
  • democracy reform
  • HR1/S1
  • pandemic
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers
  • voting rights

  • Read more
• 

  Saturday Postcard Parties - Connecting While Quarantined

  by Faith Gowan September 2, 2021

  I first met Ning at an in-person Saturday afternoon postcard party in 2019. A small group of people would get together in Boulder to write postcar...

  • democracy reform
  • HR1/S1
  • pandemic
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers

  • Read more

Interested in contributing to our blog? Find out more here.