Welcome to Organizer’s Corner — a (free) newsletter from your friends at Get Pod Local! Because we can help you stay inform — but then what?
Enter in your weekly Call To Actions (CTA!) from our Resident Precinct Chair, Joey Cade!
I don’t have a big message this week. I’m tired.
The constant barrage of news, chaos, outrage — it’s exhausting. It feels like there’s no space to process one thing before the next thing hits. And at some point, your brain just… stops.
So this weekend, I rested. A lot.
Honestly? I bed rotted. Aside from a family lunch, I stayed in, did jigsaw puzzles, read a mystery novel, watched period dramas and sci-fi, and generally let myself check out. I needed space from the real world. I dropped some balls I didn’t intend to drop — because I needed to.
If that’s where you are too — I get it.
You’re not failing.
You’re responding to something that is objectively overwhelming.
Rest is not quitting.
Rest is what makes it possible to keep coming back to the work of democracy.
For me this week, I know Tuesday’s FEDDs meeting will invigorate me, as will the organizing meetings on my calendar. Being in collaboration with people who care, who are showing up, who are doing the work — that will help me re-engage.
I hope you have something like that too.
A meeting.
A group.
A friend.
A small action that reconnects you.
It doesn’t have to be big.
Right now, it just has to be something. Anything to keep you tethered to the work of caring for the people and our shared community.
Because this work was never meant to be carried alone, and it was never meant to be nonstop at full intensity.
We step in. We step back. And then we step in again.
So if you’re in a step-back moment right now, that’s okay.
Just don’t disappear for good.
Come back when you’re ready.
If you have a little capacity this week, here are a few gentle ways to plug back in, in NTX:
Support at La Colectiva, who run a respite center that cares for families impacted by ICE
Show up to the FEDDs meeting this Tuesday — no pressure to do anything but be there
Text a friend to check in — connection is organizing
Read: So you went to a No Kings protest. Now what?
We don’t need to do everything.
We just need to stay connected enough to keep coming back.
Hugs and high fives,
Joey
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Organizer’s Corner is a Newsletter brought to you by our very own, Joey Cade. Lots of folks have ideas of what can help / what you should do — and while no one has all the answers, we (specifically Joey) do have some. Okay, a lot. Joey is not just a co-host of Get Pod Local …she’s also the Precinct Chair for Dallas’ Precinct 1052.
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