A Plea for Progressive Letters to the Editor
Time to step up and help others resist the Fascist takeover
Dear Reader of My Posts,
Last night, I attended a session from my local Democratic club about creating and sending Letters to the Editor to newspapers around the country, small and large, to humanely entice people in red and blue districts into thinking along reasonable progressive lines these days.
We need to remind citizens in the country that our values are their values. We are all now in the same boat and we need to row together to find safe harbor from the newly erratic, self-serving government that has betrayed decent, rational, neighborly values that we all should share.
While I have sent letters about such ideals to papers over the years, it is now time, as it ever was, to ask the readers to whom I post on Substack, Blue Sky, and Facebook to join us in these efforts. Please consider creating a letter to your local editor. If you would like to send beyond your area, check your local library for access to newspaper addresses and rules.
Make it about this long* generally and focus on one topic at a time. Do not decry nor scold as you might do with a safely blue audience.
Remind readers that voting for reason trumps Trump.
Thank you,
Bill Trzeciak
*Check your newspaper for their limit and do not go over it. My local newspaper has a 200 word limit. But others may allow more or less. Sometimes a publication may offer a column length opportunity for personal opinion essays.
Do not be sarcastic, nor bitter in tone, but humor, rather than negative satire (which we often like on our in-group progressive posts,) is welcome, especially if it has a point the non-political reader can comprehend and act upon.
In this new effort I will start writing to newspapers where I have spent time in my life (there are about twenty of them) with an opening about my relation to that area and then my topic and a close.
The program of letter writing is intended to help show support and engage progressive thinkers surrounded by non-critical thinkers who either vote for the cult or not vote at all. There needs to be a Democratic takeover of Congress in both houses in 2026 so that Trump (if still there) can be impeached and voted out by the Senate, then Vance shortly after. It would be great for the health of the country if this could happen even before 2028.
I know everyone who reads my posts is not a writer, but if you would like me to help you build a letter on a particular topic of progressive thought in this now fascist nation, I can send ideas to you so that you can submit your letter to a local paper.** (Comment here on Substack, I have your email address if you have subscribed through Substack.)
Newspaper editors say they love receiving well-written letters as that is a feature that continues to boost circulation.
This new movement of action is something I can do besides my novels, plays, and other writing to make me feel I am fighting for American values because I can’t physically attend any demonstrations anymore.
We must keep doing what we can to retrieve sanity and safety in this nation which is founded on equality of law and free expression.
Please add your voice to express your freedom and help others find their way out of the desolation of the Project 2025 big ugly bill and more inhumane actions to come.
**(If you read my novels, this would be a step in joining the Librarian Legion of Altrurian kindness and justice. Still working on what that might be. Third volume, Farlop Finds New Altruria, starting on Tuesday, August 5.)