Our Story

This effort began with one person sitting at Aqus café writing five postcards at a time to Get Out The Vote in Georgia for Jon Ossoff in 2017, small concrete actions that helped to ease some of the high anxiety of the spring of 2017. People stopped to asked what was going on and soon offered to join. Soon I was bringing extra postcards, stamps and pens. We took over a table at Aqus once a week and by early fall, The Petaluma Postcard Pod was formed, Jon Ossoff did not win that election in 2017 but we persevered, and in 2018, we were 100 writers strong and thousands of postcards were mailed from Petaluma to Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina and beyond.  We wrote for Jon Ossoff again in 2020 – and he won!  Now, in 2024, we are 350 writers strong and this fall, we are writing more than a thousand postcards at a meeting.

Our goal is to defeat the forces of fascism and deliberate chaos that undermine our democracy. We write because postcards work; we write because these concrete actions are an antidote to our anxiety , we write to elect legislators who represent our values of full representation, full access to health care, a woman’s right to determine her own health choices. We support candidates who vow tp lower the impact of gun violence on our children and our society, who support responsible management of  climate change, who believe in investing in America and its infrastructure. We are Joyful Warriors who gather and write together because it feels better to know we are not alone, to know that we can effect change. One postcard, like one snowflake, like one drop of water, might not seem like much. But rains can change the course of a river, snowflakes can become avalanches, 20,000 postcards in 2020 helped elect Jon Ossoff, Rev. Raphael Warnock, and eventually, President Joe Biden. Help us do it again in 2024 for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz!