The 2024 elections were not what we hoped for. One bright spot was the election of Ruben Gallego to the U. S. Senate in Arizona. We sent out 70,000 postcards for Gallego. The loss of Senator Bob Casey in Pennsylvania Read more
Well, the results in the Senate races in 2020 were not what we wanted. Covid presented difficulties for us: most of us could not gather together to write cards, as was our custom, and several Grandmothers had trouble getting their Read more
A warm and hearty welcome to those who have recently signed up. It goes without saying that we have our work cut out for us. We Grandmothers should be very proud of our recent work in support of Andy Beshear’s Read more
We are gratified by the numbers of you who have signed up in recent months. Galvanized by the dishonesty and discord in the White House since Donald Trump’s election, Grandmothers are determined to do all we can to help flip Read more
Early in March we invoked our particular perspective as Grandmothers. We are overwhelmed by the numbers of you who have signed up since the beginning of the year. You are clearly looking for action. We have two immediate suggestions: We Read more
Never have we had such enthusiastic and energetic members. In the course of the summer and fall, the Grandmothers network sent cards to over 177,000 voters in 5 states: Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Ohio. The cards urged Read more
Grandmothers called attention to Republican assaults on voting rights and on a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions by defunding Planned Parenthood. We then developed a card urging high school seniors and young adults to register to Read more
The Grandmothers’ focus was on the U. S. Senate and doing our bit to keep it in Democratic hands. While most of us were heavily engaged in races in our own states, those who could also sent cards to voters Read more
Cheers to all the Virginia Grandmothers, who worked incredibly hard during the fall to achieve the Democrats’ grand sweep of every statewide office. Let’s not forget how incredibly important these races were, particularly from our viewpoint as women. The Republican Read more