Write to voters
Write in person with other volunteers
We encourage you to come in and write letters at our HQ; see our hours and location here. Drop in any time we’re open! Our volunteers can supply you with postcards, addresses, and scripts/instructions. You will supply your own postcard stamps. You can also pick up supplies to write postcard or letters at home.
All postcarding campaigns will end by October 29, so get your cards now, and please check those mailing deadlines!
To pick up supplies in the Santa Clara County area:
- Pick up supplies at our HQ; see our hours and location here. We provide all supplies except stamps. We have people available to help you with postcard supplies and instructions every day from noon-4pm, as well as Wednesdays from 5-7pm.
- Fill out this form for instructions on picking up letter writing supplies from super-organizer Mariya in Mountain View.
If you’re out of area or have your own supplies:
These organizations can get you addresses and scripts for various postcard and letter writing campaigns:
- Activate America writes on different issues to help elect Democrats
- Reclaim Our Vote offers nonpartisan GOTV postcarding to voters of color, particularly in swing states
- Postcards 4 VA is writing for Virginia state legislative elections
- Field Team 6 has addresses, scripts and code label templates to register new likely Democrats in key states
Sign up to stay in the know!
As a DVC subscriber, you’ll receive emails with postcard and letter writing opportunities so you’ll always know when you have a chance to make a difference. To subscribe:
- Go to our volunteer form here
- Fill in your email, name, phone, and zip code
- Click Sign Up
We’ll keep you informed about campaigns you can write for and how to get started.
Thank you to our postcard suppliers
The DVC would like to thank Armen Varteressian, who printed and donated many tens of thousands of postcards this year, and has provided us with postcards for years. His contribution to our democracy is incredible.
We also want to thank Joan Escover of JP Graphics for her very generous donations of postcards this year; Mariya Genzel who manages her own writing operation and provides overflow postcards for us; and Geri Weitzman for designing some of our terrific cards this year.
Why write to voters?
Writing letters and postcards provides a personal touch to voter outreach, and it’s a fun group activity. We worked on a four-pronged strategy to keep Congress Blue in 2022 by electing Democrats across the ballot:
- In 2022 we registered likely new Democratic voters (in partnership with Field Team 6) in flippable congressional districts in Arizona, California, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin. Voter registration campaigns target “the rising American electorate,” including underrepresented groups like Black communities in the Deep South and young voters.
- We protected vulnerable California, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania Democrats by informing voters of the legislative achievements of their representatives.
- We encouraged Democrats in swing states and districts to enroll in vote-by-mail, a proven method to increase voter turnout.
- We wrote letters (with Vote Forward) to increase voter participation of historically underrepresented communities.