Indivisibles,

Last night, Kevin McCarthy announced that he struck a ‘deal’ with
President Biden to avert a default.

A deal? Hold up a minute. 

Kevin McCarthy and the MAGA faction that controls the House GOP held the
global economy hostage and were ready to plunge the US into a job-killing,
retirement plan-erasing, once-in-a-generation recession unless their
demands were met.

That’s not negotiating a deal. That’s extracting a ransom.

The ransom was not as large as some feared. Thanks to the hard work of
Indivisibles and so many others over the past few months, Social Security
and Medicare are untouched.  But we're still looking at a bill that cuts
everything from education to public health to housing assistance, weakens
the IRS’s ability to go after wealthy tax cheats, and creates new
requirements that’ll kick poor people off SNAP. And during an inflationary
period, these cuts will all be felt more deeply.

We find ourselves in this f’d-up situation for one reason: The GOP has a
slim majority, and every single Republican went along with the
hostage-taking scheme. 

Well, we’ve got a plan to end their majority. And we’re about to kick it
into high gear. 

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When we say every Republican in the House backed this scheme, we’re not
just talking about the Marjorie Taylor Greenes and Matt Gaetzes. The [ [link removed] ]18
Republicans serving in Biden-won districts were all accomplices. 

Each had an offramp. Any of them could have declared that it wasn’t in the
interest of their constituents to put the US on the brink of economic
catastrophe in order to extract some giveaways for the rich and cut
funding for the poor. If only five of them had done so, joining Dems in
backing a clean bill to lift the debt ceiling, all this brinksmanship
could have been avoided. 

But instead, they did what they’ve done since they got to Congress. They
sided with the most extreme members of their party instead of the voters
who put them in office. There’s a reason we call them the
Unrepresentatives.

While McCarthy continues to rely on these 18 members as he tries to get
this ransom passed in the House (no, it’s by no means guaranteed that he
has the votes), we’re going to be on the ground in their districts, making
sure their voters know they are hostage-takers who sold them out. 

What does that look like? Demonstrations. Billboards. Birddogging to get
the members on the record (and on video) defending their threats to tank
the global economy. Grants to our local groups in all 18 districts to
ensure that everywhere these members turn, there are activists calling
them out for their extortion.

We already have the [ [link removed] ]Unrepresentatives Campaign infrastructure in place
to get to work right away. We have the tools, the expertise, the savvy
groups ready to take this fight to the next level. Now we just need to get
them the resources to do it. 

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Want to do even more to expose these 18 members? Good. We’re going to be
holding textbanks where you can directly inform voters about what their
member has been doing in office – and how they can organize locally to
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This wasn’t the outcome we wanted. And while McCarthy’s weakness as
Speaker means it’s too soon to say for certain whether this is the end of
the default fight, one thing is absolutely clear: The Republican Party is
fully in the grips of extremists willing to burn our democracy and our
economy to the ground to get their way. 

Our only choice is to defeat them. 

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team

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