Get Your Postcards ! Online, Pickup from Distribution Locations, or Print Your Own

Lots of Postcards

By Kathleen Land 

Online Orders

Online Orders will be processed through our partner organization at  SIGNS OF JUSTICE in Portland Oregon.   https://www.signsofjustice.com/pages/about-us.  The automatic "click-through" option is not quite ready yet. Various bundle sizes will be available and shipping cost are included in the pricing.  Support through chat or phone is available.   

Pickup and Distribution Locations

We are signing up distribution locations across the San Francisco Bay Area, Bookstores, Small Business, Doctor's Offices, Senior Citizen Centers, Community Organizations! In addition, we have cards available at neighborhood events and the Indivisible General Meetings. 

  • Noe Valley Books, 24th Street / Noe Street
  • Manny's Cafe 16th Stree / Valencia Street
  • Cafe La Boheme 24th Street / Mission Street
  • Bernie's Cafe - 24th Street / Noe Street 
  • Oakland and Northbay - please contact us

Additional locations in California are coming on-board.  Check with us! 

Print Your Own 

We will provide the art work to you if you want to organize your own printing operation.  For larger quantities this may be the most cost effective solution.  Please let us know.

Signs of Justice

Just do it! 

Postcards are a powerful way to engage everybody. You may not feel like marching and may not be able to.You can write postcards. You can organize postcard event and parties.  

Here is how it works with the Postcards

 One Postcard at a Time !

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We’re reaching out from Townsquare Democracy, a grassroots civic campaign that brings neighbors together to defend democracy and the rule of law — one postcard at a time.

Our Postcard Project celebrates the courage of judges and lawyers who uphold constitutional principles and human rights in difficult times — and gives them the support of their fellow citizens to keep going in spite of continued threats.
This campaign is organized across party lines — united in defending the Constitution and the rule of law.

At this moment, they are our shield of democracy.

The postcards are distributed through bookstores, cafés, small businesses, and theater venues that share our civic values. We’re now expanding distribution throughout the Bay Area and along the West Coast.


 

 

 

LAWYERS POSTCARD PNGHow It Works

We are developing an extended distribution plan for the entire West Coast and beyond.

For the San Francisco Bay Area, we’re arranging shipments free of charge where possible.
For other regions, shipping costs are estimated at 10–25¢ per card, depending on volume and location.

We support our local partners — like you — in hosting postcard displays, offering them for pickup, or organizing short community writing events.
We’re also planning public gatherings such as “Teach-Ins” or “Readings” with judges and legal professionals at participating locations where that’s appropriate.


Why This Matters

Thousands of postcards have already reached judges and lawyers in California — and the feedback has been deeply moving. Many have written back to say how much the encouragement means to them.

These simple gestures help build a culture of respect for judicial independence and civic courage.
By hosting postcards at your venue or promoting them through your local network, you can help extend this act of solidarity to more communities.


Next Steps

If you’d like to participate:

  1. Reply to this email or contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

  2. We’ll send details about postcard shipments, display materials, and suggested language for your community newsletter or social media.

  3. Together, we’ll coordinate your first packet of postcards and help set up your display.

Thank you for standing with us — and with the courageous judges and lawyers who uphold democracy every day.

Warm regards,
Your Townsquare Democracy Team 
Townsquare Democracy
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Writing Postcards to Judges - Is that Okay? Considerations and Reflections on how to Express Gratitude for Judges with Spine -

Gratitude for Judges with Spine - Consideration and Reflections 

Concern:  Is it appropriate to write thank you letters to judges who have opposed Trump executive orders that violate the constituion?

Reflection:  You can send a polite note of appreciation, but only after the litigation over that executive-order is completely finished (including appeals) and the letter must not contain anything that could be read as trying to influence future rulings. If the case is still active in any court, the safer, more ethical path is to thank the judge indirectly (e.g., a letter to the editor or a public statement of support) rather than a private note.

Concern: How do we address the threats of violence? You know about the Pizza deliveries to judges to remind them what happened 4 years ago to the son of another judge who was shot by a man under the disguiise of Pizza delivery.

Reflection:  Yes — since early 2025 a number of U.S. federal judges have begun reporting unsolicited pizza orders showing up at their homes. The deliveries are:

  • Placed in the judges' own names or, more chillingly, in the name "Daniel Anderl."
    Daniel was the 20-year-old son of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas; he was murdered in July 2020 when an anti-feminist lawyer posed as a FedEx driver and opened fire at the family's front door.
  • Timed to arrive within days of the judges issuing—or joining—rulings that block or slow Trump-related executive actions. Judges appointed by both parties have been hit.
  • Intended as intimidation rather than a prank. Judge Salas, who now speaks publicly about judicial security, told reporters the use of her son's name "sends a very clear, threatening message: we know where you live."
  • The 2020 attack on Judge Salas's family involved a FedEx-style uniform, not pizza, but the perpetrators of the 2025 deliveries appear to be deliberately blurring that detail—using pizza as a visual shorthand for "delivery disguise" and adding Daniel Anderl's name to connect the dots.

Concern:  What has been done about these threats ?

Reflection:    Scope and response

  • The U.S. Marshals Service and Federal Protective Service have logged hundreds of these "pizza doxxings" in at least seven states since February. Investigators are treating them as harassment and potential stalking.
  • Senate Judiciary Committee members have asked the Justice Department for a formal probe, noting that threats against federal judges have more than tripled since 2019.
  • Judges have been advised to decline all unexpected deliveries and to route door knocks through security cameras or court-assigned deputies.

Concern:  How can we as citizens express our empathy, our prayers, our solidarity to those judges. They and their families are threatened by trump followers

Reflection:  Below are some practical, ethics-safe ways ordinary citizens can show empathy and solidarity with judges who are being harassed for rulings that block unconstitutional executive orders—without putting the judges (or yourself) in an awkward legal or security position.

1. Go public – let the judiciary see broad community backing

How

Why it helps

Tips

Letters-to-the-editor & op-eds in local or national outlets

Judges (and their clerks) track the public conversation; they can read published praise without ethical worry because it is not a private communication.

Keep the tone civic: defend the rule of law, not a political "side."

Social-media posts using hashtags such as #StandWithJudges or #RespectTheRuleOfLaw

Public displays of support counter the optics of intimidation campaigns (e.g., pizza "doxxings").

Do not tag the judge directly; tag the court or bar associations instead.

Community vigils / courthouse rallies (peaceful, permitted)

Visible solidarity reassures judges and court staff that threats are not the only voices being heard.

Coordinate with court security in advance; avoid active-case days to prevent disruption.

2. Strengthen their security and privacy indirectly

How to do it - Action

 

Donate to the Daniel Anderl Judicial Protection Project or similar nonprofits that fund security retrofits and education for judges' families.

 

Ask your senators & representatives to fully fund the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security & Privacy Act implementation grants (DOJ requested $10 million for FY 2025, but Congress still has to appropriate it).

 

Support state "anti-doxxing" bills that mirror the Anderl Act and keep judges' home addresses off the internet.

 

3. Send institutional (not private) notes of appreciation — only after cases are over

JudiciSal ethics bar judges from receiving private messages about a "pending or impending" matter.
If all appeals are finished, you may:

  1. Address the letter to "The Honorable [Name], [Court]" (use the courthouse address, never a home address).
  2. Keep it short and strictly gratitude-focused (e.g., "Thank you for upholding constitutional limits; your service strengthens public trust").
  3. No commentary on future cases, partisan praise or criticism, or gifts of any kind.
    The clerk's office logs such mail; judges typically do see them eventually, and there's no ex-parte problem once litigation is closed.

4. Back the professional associations that back the judges

  • Federal Bar Association, American Constitution Society, Federal Judges Association—all issue statements, file amicus briefs, and lobby for security funding. Joining, donating or amplifying their statements turns individual sympathy into organized clout.

5. Model respectful discourse

Speak up when friends, colleagues or social-media contacts spread doxxing info or violent rhetoric against judges. A firm "That's not how democracy works—courts protect everyone's rights" changes social norms in your own circle.

A quick "What not to do"

Don't…

Because…

…send food, flowers, or "gifts."

They will be refused for security reasons.

…visit a judge's home to show support.

Unannounced contacts create the same safety concerns as the intimidation tactics.

…write while the case is still active.

Even praise can be an improper ex-parte communication.

Bottom line

Public, collective expressions of respect—plus concrete support for judicial-security legislation—carry far more weight (and zero ethical risk) than private notes during active cases. When the legal dust settles, a brief, gracious letter to the courthouse is perfectly welcome.

How do the Postcards help?

We need the institutions, especially the judiciary, to stand up as a critical defense of a democratic country and application of the rule of law. Unfortunately, for now the parliament has given up its role to counterbalance the whims of the executive and is tolerating the corruption and weaponization of all government activities.

We need the judiciary to stand up. Even if it will not stop the attempts to dictatorship by itself, it can delay the administration, bring cracks into the assaulting forces, and give the public (us) time to organize and shift the public discourse.

There are justices and lawyers standing up for democracy and the constitution. They are under increasing threats, politically, in their careers, and physically. These threats extend to their families. They are painted as "rogue", "overreaching", "fanatics" and made to feel isolated.

These brave professionals need to know that the public is behind them, that their service is critical and that we appreciate them.


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The idea of the supporting postcards was given to us by the Polish judges' and lawyers' organizations. Their postcard campaign brough the names and faces of brave judges and lawyers into the public eye.

We have selected five judges and six lawyers in our first release, most of them from California, many of them known to us.We will solicit feedback and adjust our message and delivery as appropriate.

We also will add cards as posters on why the rule of law is important for our everyday lives, labor, tenant landlord, food and construction safety, transportation, property etc

The postcards campaign also is a great way for a low-risk engagement, it can be done by people who are not ready or able to participate in rallies, AND it is completely non-confrontational. We are contacting bookstores and other businesses to have to postcards ready to be picked up by interested people.

We need people to help in the organization of this campaign. Please contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or the Townsquare Democracy at townsquaredemocracy.com