Write Postcards to Voters!

Together let's win elections! Postcards are an effective way to increase voter turnout and win in tight races.

Join Third Act to write postcards to help win key elections across the nation! We will write postcards to voters together to help safeguard our democracy, win elections, and build voter enthusiasm and turnout to elect progressives and climate champions.

Third Act has three primary partners for electoral and advocacy postcarding:

Progressive Turnout Project – Postcards to Swing States

Third Act is teaming up with Progressive Turnout Project to write Get Out the Vote postcards to key swing states and house races for the Nov. 3 midterm elections. Postcards to Swing States will mail you the postcards for free, along with voter lists and instructions with proven message options. These postcards are proven to boost Democratic turnout by up to 1.3%! Sign up here! 

Progressive Turnout Project is also running its news-boosting postcarding program to combat disinformation and highlight important news stories to voters in Texas and Alaska.

Email postcards@turnoutpac.org for questions or support.

NOTE: Progressive Turnout Project provides postcards, but not stamps. Third Act does not provide stamps, either.

Activate America

Activate America and Third Act have sent out hundreds of thousands of postcards since 2022. Activate America provides voter lists and messages to send to voters across the country. You can sign up to join Third Act and Activate America’s postcarding program here. Activate America will email you with the list of voter addresses and the postcard script you requested.

Email annamartin@activateamerica.vote for questions or support.

NOTE: Activate America does not provide postcards or stamps, but does offer several options for obtaining postcards. Third Act has a postcard that you can download, and does not provide stamps.

Environmental Voter Project

Environmental Voter Project focuses on identifying and mobilizing climate voters through research and targeting to ensure voters who care about our climate and environment are activated and voting.

Currently, the Environmental Voter Project postcard program is closed; check back in September for more information. 

See the resources at the bottom of the page for supplying your own postcards and postage and for hosting a postcard party, depending on which postcard partner you decided to work with.

Postcards and letters to voters are a proven tactic that helps achieve these outcomes! The well-regarded Analyst Institute, which is a clearinghouse for evidence on voter contact and engagement programs, notes that “Letters aim to break through the clutter of political mail, grabbing voters’ attention with a GOTV message.”

We are partnering with the above organizations because they work with local experts and national organizations to ensure our efforts are coordinated, our messages are evidence-based, and your time is used well by focusing on voters in places where elections will be close. 

Our partners update their list of key races regularly. Once on their sign-up pages, you can choose which states and districts you want to write to as well as dates to put your postcards in the mail.

Visit the resources linked below for information on buying the correct postage, printing out a Third Act postcard or making your own if you need them, and how to host a postcard party. You can also find out more excellent information about postcarding from this blog from Third Act Texas.

Share a Photo: Before you mail your postcards, take a photo of your postcards (cover up the voter name and address) and share on social media to inspire others to get involved. Don’t forget to tag @ThirdActOrg on X (Twitter), Facebook, and Instagram. Also drop us an email and let us know how many postcards you sent (on your own or with a postcard party), share your photo, name, and something about yourself, or how many postcards you wrote to takingaction@thirdact.org.

Please contact info@thirdact.org if you have questions about Third Act’s Safeguarding Our Democracy activities.