Petaluma Postcard Pod

We are concerned citizens writing postcards to remind voters across the US to vote, particularly in critical elections for the Senate and the House. We write to elect legislators who support and protect democracy and democratic ideals, primarily Democrats, up and down the ballot. Join us in defending democracy.

Upcoming Events

oct

01

Aqus Cafe ~ 4:30pm – 5:30pm

189 H St, Petaluma, CA

oct

05

The Mail Depot ~ 10am – 11:30am

40 4th St, Petaluma, CA

oct

08

Aqus Cafe ~ 4:30pm – 5:30pm

189 H St, Petaluma, CA

oct

15

Aqus Cafe ~ 4:30pm – 5:30pm

189 H St, Petaluma, CA

oct

19

The Mail Depot ~ 10am – 11:30am

40 4th St, Petaluma, CA

oct

22

Aqus Cafe ~ 4:30pm – 5:30pm

189 H St, Petaluma, CA


In general, we meet every second and fourth Tuesdays of the month from 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. at Aqus Café in Petaluma to write postcards together. Packets are also available for pickup to write at home and mail by given deadlines. Currently, packets are $10, which includes stamps, cards and addresses. Bring your own pens, markers, and enthusiasm or eagerness to learn.

Through October, we will meet every week on Tuesdays 4:30 to ~ 5:30 p.m Oct 1, 8, 15, 22 at Aqus Cafe, 40 4th St, Petaluma, CA

Plus some Saturdays 10 a.m. to 11: 30 a.m. ~ Oct 5, 19 at Petaluma Mail Depot, 4th and C St, Petaluma, CA.

Why Write Postcards

  • Postcard writing campaigns are proven to sway close elections, especially in the swing states that are crucial to winning in November.
  • Gathering together to do this important political action work is a way to stay energized and positive, turn off the news and connect with like-minded community
  • We have written more than 15k postcards in 2024 alone, and we just getting started!
  • Supporting our local community hub, Aqus Cafe, which offers delicious food and drink.

Be Part Of The 2024 Blue Wave!

Ways To Take Action

Write Postcards In Person

Join the Petaluma Postcard Pod in person to write postcards to voters! See full calendar of events here.

Write Postcards At Home

Write postcards from home with groups like Postcards To Voters and Activate America. All you need is some postcards, stamps, pens and passion!

Get Involved With Local Groups

Join/ Volunteer for local political groups in Sonoma County to register voters, canvass, phone or text bank and write postcards.

Local SoCo Postcard Writing Groups

• Santa Rosa: The SoCo Postcard Action Network is guided by Molly Kurland; contact her at [email protected] to sign up for the newsletter for all the info. They meet in-person on Thursday mornings, 10 a.m to noon, at Cafe Frida, 300 A Street, Santa Rosa.

• Cotati/Rohnert Park  contact Laurie-Ann Babour, [email protected], who is making packets for postcard activists. She has an in-person postcard group on Thursday nights in Cotati.

• Sebastopol – West County folks can contact Denise Meier at [email protected] and she will let you know about getting packets from her.  She has campaigns from Reclaim Our Vote, FieldTeam6 and Activate America.

National Postcard Writing Orgs

Tony the Democrat (PostcardsToVoters.org) – the OG of  Postcards for Democracy. 

ActivateAmerica – postcarding campaigns  for California and New York, right now.

FieldTeam6 – Their goal is to register Democrats and they’ve been quite successful at it. They have postcarding campaigns to make it happen.

Postcards stamps  (now 53 cents each) are available at USPS offices and USPS.com.

Activist Groups Sonoma County

IndivisibleSoCo – Local active Indivisible group, with links to other postcarding groups and GOTV actions, as well as information about local and national campaigns.

Greater Bay Area Groups

Indivisible Marin

Indivisible East Bay

Indivisible San Francisco

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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!