If you started out knocking on doors in Iowa and ended up helping people in your pajamas from the living room… 

If you put a Biden/Harris sign in your front yard even though you were afraid your neighbors would destroy it… 

If it hurt to vote for Biden because you were hoping to elect a more progressive candidate, but you voted in solidarity with the people who are most vulnerable under the Trump regime… 

If you got over your phone anxiety to call voters in a faraway land called Wisconsin…

If you learned to use Zoom, OpenVPB, or ThruTalk to phonebank…

If you volunteered to get out the vote even though our current system won’t even let you vote yourself…

If you started a Facebook community to empower people to organize within their communities, using their skills and their own platforms… 

If you moved to Wisconsin to help organize a ragtag band of volunteers (including a couple who was kind of fanatical about composting) and kept organizing even when the pandemic made everything so, so, so much harder…

If you trusted me to translate election information and help lead phonebanks in Spanish… 

If you dedicated your time to organizing Latinx voters (who are largely overlooked and increasingly targets of disinformation and suppression campaigns)…

 If you learned to say “register to vote,” “absentee ballot,” and “early voting” en español…

If you phoned a friend, texted an ex, or otherwise reached out to voters in swing states… 

If you shared your most personal stories to remind people about what was at stake in this election…

If you found the courage to talk politics with your co-workers, your grandma, or your aunt… 

If you spent your time talking to people who have every reason to distrust the electoral system and convinced them to vote and keep fighting for justice… 

If you called me, texted me, talked to me, listened to me, brought me Mexican candy, sent me care packages, and otherwise kept me going when I felt like I couldn’t…

If you volunteered to be a poll worker or an election observer (or supported other people so they could volunteer)…

If you led countless Zoom calls with confused volunteers and comforted us when we worried this election would be impossible to win… 

If you remembered all the times Trump called us animals, criminals, and rapists and refused to let him get away with it again…

If you voted and organized with hope even when it was hard to feel hopeful…

This message is for you. I love and admire you. I am infinitely grateful for your work. If I asked you to volunteer, I will almost certainly ask you to volunteer again to keep fighting for justice and human rights…

But today I feel more hopeful about those fights than I have in a long, long time. And it’s all thanks to you!

We won this election together.

We won this election together.