Yesterday was my first time out on the streets during the intense saturation efforts. I was part of the el train team where the IT clown skit was done and then out at the Arts After Dark Halloween Parade in Chicago .

One thing that kept hitting me was the importance of this type of outreach. I recall an email from RF nationally talking about how a Democratic party organizer who just volunteered with RF stressed the importance of human contact. This is so true.

Passing out palm cards on the trains, the platforms. and to people watching the parade I was struck by those people (a small but very important section compared to all the people I approached) who shouted out, “YES!” when they got the palm card. It was like finally someone has a plan to stop this nightmare.

All these people took stacks of palmcards, said they would spread the word and promote it on social media. This included two suburban women who remembered the women’s march, some white twenty somethings, foreign tourists, and others. Our team as a whole got out stacks to a really diverse mix of people including lots of youth.

I had been starting to think that mass fliering was kind of an outmoded form of spreading this but this experience, including running into a few people who had gotten materials earlier in the day from others and people as we were leaving downtown telling us they already had the flier, drove home to me the importance of this saturation effort.

While we probably can’t go with this intensity everyday I do feel strongly that we should continue with this form as an important part of our building for #Nov4ItBegins. Should we set a goal like 50,000 palm cards?

People need to see this repeatedly in different kinds of ways—posters, social media, freeway banners, emails, phone calls and lots and lots of palm cards/fliers which enable them to be part of this right on the spot.