Finally, a witches' survey! For real this time

But first, we have some work to do

As I mentioned in my last poll, I find email surveys very hard to want to pull together because I have a fear of ‘metrics.’ But then I received a fun sort of chaos potpourri survey from Ann Friedman and said “That’s the kind of survey I want to answer and read the answers to!”

I always feel like I should do more chat threads with readers but something about the Substack format doesn’t entice me because it requires so much logging in. You know how you get to a stage of parenthood and you have to log into Scholastic/the sports portal/the grade portal/Venmo/the calendar/LifeTouch all the time and you want to log out of life? So this may be a fun way to have a cross-reader chat.

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But first, some quick (democracy-saving?) business.

I have not been motivated to do much for politicians lately. But I got an email from O.G. witch Melissa Walker at the States Project. “Can I convince you to jump in for VA this year?” We had a call where I asked her what her spiel was for progressive people who are burned out and freaked out. She said our job is Virginia. “The outcome is incredibly important.”

The Virginia state election is the first referendum on Trump 2.0. (Don’t want to keep reading? TL;DR give here.)

Currently, Democrats hold 1 seat majority in the Virginia state house, which they are trying to maintain but ideally deepen, and the office of governor is also up for election.

In case you’re unfamiliar with States Project, this grass roots, strategic states-level fundraising makes a big difference by focusing on achievable state-level wins. In fact, the reason why the Virginia House has that one seat majority is because of work like this that resulted in a victory by 975 votes.

Losing the majority and the governorship will indicate that Donald Trump is invulnerable. Hanging on is better than nothing but it will leave the Virginia Democrats paralyzed.

But a decisive win, with the governorship and extra seats flipped, means not only better policy for Virginia residents, it turns the narrative tide that has been such an incredible bummer.

What if there was good news for once and we were part of it?

I’m raising money through October 28. Are you in? The great news is that I already emailed everyone who has ever chipped into the circle and that got us over 70% of the way to a $10K goal. I know together we can close that gap.

If you already have donated to this campaign, I hope you are glowing from the good spells. You are an angel for reading this twice.

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End credits

First, BIG congrats to witch Christina Kinon, named to the prestigious Black List Writers Lab. The Deadline announcement mentions her work CHICKS which we have been proud mention in the classifieds ads. It was fun to see that series go from my inbox to a major press release.

Anyway, thanks for reading Evil Witches, a newsletter for people who happen to be mothers. Here’s what the newsletter is all about if you’re new here. The archives live here. A few things we’ve talked about in the past that cover a range of interests include:

• A daily timeline of parenthood favorability

• Spiteful gifts for kids whose parents you want to troll.

• Why some witches love their bearded dragons.

• How to help a friend in a marriage crisis, maybe.

• What slightly older children think about younger children getting smart phones.

• Wisdom from moms who have had kids over a span of time

And if that convinces you to become a paid subscriber who gets access to additional content, preferred placement in the classifieds like Christina, and more, the survey is below!

By the way if you are not a paid subscriber yet but did donate any amount to the Evil Witches Giving Circle, forward your States Project donation receipt to ew.clairezulkey@gmail.com and I’ll comp you a year of of the newsletter!