We encourage you to review the Resources below, where you will find a wide range of tools to help you advocate effectively including a media kit; a guide to writing letters to the editor; contact info for national, state, and local elected officials; recommendations on valuable books, publications, and videos; and guides to talking about climate change, and talking about issues on Thanksgiving Day.
- How to Use the Retake Website: A tour of the wide array of resources available on the site, how to find them and how to use them.
- A Personal Activist Tool Kit. A range of options for your personal activism, for how to engage others and strategies for involvement in a wide range of actions and organizations.
- Media Kit & Guide to Writing Letters to the Editor. This page includes only a brief explanation of Media Kit contents and links to all of the items below.
- Tithe Today. Links to non-profits doing the hard work and how to donate. Make a habit of contributing every month or so.
- Reliable Reading Materials
- Video Inventory
- U.S., State & Local Elected Officials Contact Info.
- New Mexico State Senate Map of District Boundaries
- New Mexico State House Map of District Boundaries
- Roundhouse Advocacy Strategy 2021. A description of how we advocate at the Roundhouse and how you can plug in.
- Criteria for Prioritizing Bills. Do you wonder how we identify the legislation we support?
- Roundhouse Abbreviation Definitions. There are so many acronyms. Here is a guide to making it easy.
- Rethinking Thanksgiving. Especially for those outside of NM, Thanksgiving is just about turkey, football and family. It is also a teaching opportunity. Here’s how.
- How to Talk About Climate Change Effectively with Different Kinds of People. Many links here with guidance for doing this well.
- How to Talk with Conservatives About Climate Change. We all know them, here is how to reach them on this issue.
- Boycotting for a Better World. Link to an online guide and a book that can guide you through using consumer boycotts to raise your voice.
- Research ToolKit. A guide for how to support Retake research efforts, something that can be done from anywhere.
- Activist House Party Guide. There is no better way to get a group of friends together with food, wine and conversation. This guide makes it easy.
- Swing Left: A Guide to National Advocacy. This site is a tremendous resource for people living outside swing states or districts. You can plug in a zip code and find races nearby that are swing races. Maybe you moved to NM from one of those districts and so know people there who could be activated.