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After four years of political organizing, beginning with Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, Ezra Andres-Tysch, 23, knew that this year’s presidential election required all hands on deck.

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After four years of political organizing, beginning with Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, Ezra Andres-Tysch, 23, knew that this year’s presidential election required all hands on deck.

Andres-Tysch, who works as a digital organizer for the Texas Democratic party, was brainstorming ideas about how to maximize voter outreach when he was struck by an unlikely source of inspiration: his own Jewish grandmother. Noting that his grandmother’s “hard work this campaign was 100% what sparked the idea,” Andres-Tysch launched a series of phone-banking events that deploy Jewish grandmas to make calls on behalf of the Democratic party. The initiative is called — wait for it — Bubbies for Biden. Ruth Andres — known to Andres-Tysch as Gram — is a 91-year-old from Dallas who has been politically active...

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