You don’t need a podcast. You don’t need a YouTube channel. You don’t need, god forbid, Twitter.
All you need is a piece of chalk to make your voice heard during this pivotal election year.
Chalk the Vote is simple. Sign-up to get prompts from Chalk Riot, write your chalk messages on a sidewalk somewhere, share online and end Trump forever.
Chalk is cheap, accessible and fun for all ages. It’s a radically simple tool for activism that has been used for centuries.
I’ve seen the power of chalk in Washington, DC. Here’s some examples of what chalk can do.
Last summer, there were weeks of high-profile trials of January 6th insurrectionists, including members of the Proud Boys.
And throughout the trials, there was chalk commentary from local activists Biketifa and Anarchy Princess.
These messages irritated the chuds of Freedom Corner, a small group of January 6th supporters who came to the Court House to wave flags and try to appear to be menacing.
Blaming the chalk on antifa (or chalktifa, as online commenters called it), they’d demand that the police do something about these rogue chalk artists. Then they’d film the chalk “for evidence,” calling the scrawls, “Our daily humiliation.”
In DC, chalk art is protected speech.
Sometimes, they’d even try to wash the chalk away. But it would always reappear the next morning.
The chalk heard their complaints and responded with personalized insults for the chuds:
But what really upset them was the Satanism, the demonic spells apparently created by Biketifa and Anarchy Princess:
What does the curse say? “Never going to give you up, never going to let you down.” It was a Rickroll in Latin.
I liked photographing the chalk. Every day was something new. It was a dynamic, interactive, open-air art exhibit with a political edge.
One time, I ran into one of the Freedom Corner chuds. I tried to tell him: chalk can’t hurt you. It’s just chalk, man. But he didn’t listen to me.
#FreedomCorner alum Jericho Steve didn’t even realize he had been stream-sniped by @joeflood in front of the DC federal courthouse this afternoon until it was over.
Bravo, sir. 🤘 pic.twitter.com/Z4UBfTy2l1
— Baldy Banks (@BaldyBanks) September 1, 2023
And the chalk continues to this day! There was a special Pride Month message for Freedom Corner that got them big mad:
Anddddd shenanigans 🌈🏳️🌈#FreedomCorner @DamnationDriveN pic.twitter.com/7mUuLo64QV
— Anarchy princess (@SatireAP) June 1, 2024
Chalk is a cheap tool that anyone can use. And a powerful one that can upset and distract your enemies. With chalk, the whole world is your canvas.
Use your First Amendment rights and Chalk the Vote!
