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Reflecting, Recharging, And Getting Ready for What’s Ahead
November 27, 2024
After months of tireless work to defend our democracy and our planet, we faced an outcome that underscored the steep challenges ahead. In the days that followed, we turned to one another—to grieve, to process, and to prepare ourselves. Through it all, we found a beacon in the enduring strength of this community. In an […]
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Voting Stories: Third Actors Head to the Polls!
November 5, 2024
“We have an apartment in México City where we go back in forth from Southern Cal. My husband just went back to US while I stayed in México, so he had to FedEx my ballot to me overnight – which is, in reality, 2 business days from CA to CDMX, not overnight. I received it […]
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Silver Wave Tour: Bill McKibben Writes About Knocking Doors to Get Out the Vote
November 2, 2024
Friends, here’s a report from the back half of the Silver Wave Tour. I hit Montana and Michigan in September, but this month was the most intense, with wonderful organizing from all the local working groups, not to mention the Third Act staff. (I’m adapting this from my newsletter) One of the blessings of growing […]
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Sign-up for Ballot Curing in Key States
October 31, 2024
What is Ballot Cure We’ve all been very focused on Get Out the Vote in 2024. We also want to protect these votes that we worked so hard to turn out. In 2024, 34 states and Washington, DC allow for small mistakes on ballots to be fixed – called “ballot curing” – so that these […]
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Third Act North Carolina endorses Climate Candidates
October 28, 2024
The following candidates responded to our queries and have been endorsed by the North Caroling Working Group. Wesley Harris- NC State Treasurer Allison Riggs- NC Supreme Court Pricey Harrison NC House District 61 Caleb Rudow US Congress District 11 The most helpful thing members can do at this point is to join the NCDP phonebanks for […]
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Two Weeks Until The Election: State of Play
October 24, 2024
There have arguably never before been this many close polling averages across this many different places and races in a federal election. It’s a situation that calls for nuance and discernment—both good-faith but anxious allies, and bad-faith misinformation peddlers, spread messages of panic and alarm. So hear us out: Anyone who indicates that MAGA extremists […]
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Third Act Maryland Endorses Angela Alsobrooks for U.S. Senate
October 24, 2024
Angela Alsobrooks is on the right side of every issue important to Maryland residents, and that’s why Third Act Maryland proudly endorses her for U.S. Senate. If you care about protecting the Chesapeake Bay and seriously addressing climate change, safeguarding reproductive rights, strengthening gun safety, standing up for workers, and protecting social security and medicare, […]
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SF Bay Area Third Act Endorses Rudy Salas, District 22, for US Congress
October 18, 2024
“Born and raised in the Central Valley, Salas is a lifelong Valley resident, who worked his way from laboring in the fields with his father to graduating from UCLA and becoming the first Latino Bakersfield City Councilmember in its 112 year history. In his five terms in the California State Assembly, Rudy Salas stood by […]
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SF Bay Area Third Act Endorses Jessica Morse, CA District 3, for Congress
October 18, 2024
“A fifth-generation Northern Californian, Jessica’s ancestors crossed the Sierra on covered wagons and settled in the Sierra foothills. Today, Jessica and her family remain stewards of these lands, giving her a unique understanding in her job helping protect Californians from wildfire. Taking on Wildfires In 2019 Jessica was appointed Deputy Secretary for Forest and Wildland Resilience […]
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SF Bay Area Third Act Endorses Prop 4: Funding to Safeguard Our Future
October 18, 2024
Dear Third Actor: By now, most of us have received our ballot in the mail. As always, the ballots are long and full of decisions to be made. To make the task a little easier, this message, developed by the statewide Third Act CA Legislative Task Force, provides a link to more information about specific […]
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New York Endorsements
October 17, 2024
The fossil fuel industry and its financiers are filling the campaign coffers of extremist Republicans in an orchestrated effort to take control of the White House and Congress and undermine the transition to renewable energy. We must all come together to repel this dual existential treat to the planet and our democracy! Congressional Democrats had […]
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Three Weeks Until the Election: State of Play
October 17, 2024
Most of you may also already be aware of the uncanny, precedent-breaking closeness of polls and other signs of election momentum, across every scale of the Federal government – House, Senate and the Presidency. In a world where everything looks like a toss-up, some prominent analysts have all but thrown up their hands, acknowledging that […]
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Election Protection: Understanding the Presidential Vote Certification Process
October 16, 2024
Understanding vote counting As explained by The Brennan Center, “the results that you see on election night coverage are not final and official results. They are instead a combination of unofficial results reported by election officials and news organization projections.” Counting votes actually involves a series of steps, including multiple checkpoints and safeguards, to ensure […]
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Silver Wave Tour, Oct 19–26
October 15, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (GA, PA, AZ, NV) Beginning October 19, older Americans will rally for “Get Out the Vote” events and door-to-door canvassing across Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada. This is part of the Silver Wave Tour: Elders Rising for Climate and Democracy, organized by Third Act, a movement with nearly 100,000 supporters nationwide, co-founded […]
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Letters to the Editor
October 7, 2024
Phone banking not your thing? Too timid to knock on doors? Sitting at an event table for hours not your idea of fun? How about writing an old-fashioned letter? You know, the kind that’s begins “Dear Sir or Madam” and ends “Respectfully?” Third Act Colorado encourages you to write letters to the editor – on […]
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Substack: “The Democrats’ Secret Weapon: Grassroots Volunteers,” Robert B Hubbell
September 24, 2024
There are many stories worth discussing on Thursday evening as I write this newsletter. Many have a negative spin, so I will instead begin by sharing my experience at two grassroots events over the last 48 hours. I do so because I believe that they reflect what is really happening on the ground in the effort to […]
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250,000 Postcards Sent! See How Our Working Groups Are Showing Up For Democracy
September 22, 2024
We’ve seen firsthand the incredible power of grassroots activism, and postcarding has emerged as one of the most impactful tools in our toolkit. Across the country, our working groups are harnessing the energy and enthusiasm of our volunteers to mobilize voters, protect our democracy, and raise awareness around critical issues like climate justice. Whether […]
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Elect Your Choices Now
September 5, 2024
“Older voters are second only to the youngest cohort in their share of “climate voters,” in part because we’ve lived long enough to know how drastically the climate has changed. Eighty-six percent of older Americans think abortion should be legal at least under certain circumstances—in part because we’re old enough to remember coathangers. As for democracy—well, January 6 may have […]
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The Human Heart Is the First Home of Democracy: Why I Stand With Kamala Harris
September 5, 2024
It’s going to take stamina to get what we need to do, done. I love Third Act. It’s a revolution in gray. You’ve heard the wisdom. It’s humbling, it’s heartening, it’s inspiring, and it feels right to be in conversation to organize and support Kamala Harris. I come to you from Castle Valley, […]
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Montco canvassing
August 30, 2024
By Susan Wiley Dear Friends, I spent a Saturday knocking on doors in East Norriton for the Montgomery County Democrats. The experience wasn’t at all what I expected! To my surprise, folks were there from pretty much all over the Eastern Seaboard: Connecticut, DC, Vermont, Massachusetts. These folks drove in for the weekend, or the […]
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Fall Election Writing Guide for Keyboard Warriors
August 23, 2024
This article is aimed at engaging low-propensity and swing voters in fall elections by highlighting the critical connection between climate change, democracy, and the choices we face. It provides guidance for Third Act elders on how to use their voices in letters, opinion pieces, and social media to emphasize what’s at stake. The goal is […]
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