Thank brave people for taking a stand
for democracy and against tyranny 

 

Every Wednesday for the past 5 years, I've led a free Zoom workshop called Get Up and Write

Starting in April 2025, I added a 3-minute segment at the end
We all write postcards to a brave person standing up for democracy

It's fun to imagine that person receiving cards from a bunch of appreciative strangers!

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What we are learning: 

It's easier and more fun to do this in community than alone

It's a great way to start the day

It's good to do as a regular, weekly practice

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Be part of it!​

Check this web page each week for the postcard recipient and send your own card to them

You can share the link and multiply the impact!

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This week's recipient (Oct 22, 2025):

Marc Elias
Elias Law Group
250 Massachusetts Ave NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20001

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“Dear Mr. Elias, 
Thank you & your firm for your fierce and relentless fight to uphold our system of elections. Thank you for your resolve and bravery in the fight against authoritarianism. May your courage be contagious.”

 

Elias’s firm fought and won almost every case that Trump and Republican allies brought against the 2020 election. He is now leading the legal fight against the Trump regime’s attacks on fair elections.
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​​Past recipients:

​Oct 15: Hon. Karin J. Immergut: Blocked sending National Guard troops to Oregon (later overturned)

Oct 8: Hon. Diane Schafer Goodstein: Blocked Trump regime’s attempt to access SC voter data. On Oct 5 her home burned. Political arson? Unknown. But the very fact of that possibility is horrifying.

Oct 1: Bishop Michael Pham of San Diego (standing up for people targeted by ICE; Watch video)
Sept 24: Hon. Sonia Sotomayor (for her powerful, eloquent dissents)
Sept 10: Hon. Sparkle L. Sooknanan (blocked the Trump regime from deporting Guatemalan minors)
Aug 20: Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier - refused to sign a “permission slip” to leave the state Capitol. 
Aug 13: Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson who left the state to protect democracy. Watch interview

Aug 6: Youman Wilder, baseball coach, defended his young players from ICE agents - Read more

July 23: Maurene Comey (prosecutor fired by Trump regime; warned colleagues not to succumb to fear).

July 16: Hon. Joseph N. Laplante (blocked Trump exec. order ending birthright citizenship - Read more)
July 9: Michael Osterholm (helped launch the Vaccine Integrity Project)

June 18: Ben Schrader (resigned rather than prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia on trumped-up charges)

June 4: Marc Van Der Hout, immigration rights attorney representing Mahmoud Khalil 

May 21: Jaime Cook, Principal, Sackets Harbor Central School. Read about her here.​​

May 14: Sen. Chris Van Hollen

May 7: Hon. Beryl A. Howell (U.S. District Court)

April 30: Hon. Loren L. AliKhan (U.S. District Court)

April 23: Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Delaware)
April 16: Alan Garber, President of Harvard University

April 9: Christopher Eisgruber, President of Princeton University

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Other stuff I'm up to

Charlie Varon's Comic Bonbons Live! (date of next pop up show in SF TBA)

​​​Get Up and Write (my free weekly Zoom workshop)

Charlie's Monday Salon (for writers and performers, in person in San Francisco)

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