Indivisibles,

Tomorrow will mark one year since the Supreme Court issued the Dobbs
decision, the ruling that overturned Roe and began the biggest rollback of
fundamental rights in our lifetimes. 

And, in a twist of fate, tomorrow also marks 500 days out from Election
Day, 2024 -- a day that will determine whether we have the chance to
restore and expand those rights, or if MAGA Republicans will claw back
enough power to wipe out abortion access (and erode more of our freedoms)
nationwide. 

Those are the stakes, clear as can be. 

Indivisible is going to be fighting each and every one of the next 501
days to make sure voters understand that choice, get to the polls, and
elect a true Democratic trifecta next year that will eliminate the
filibuster and codify Roe. 

Winning next November is the only way we can restore abortion rights for
everyone in this country. So today, we’re asking you to begin a monthly
donation to sustain the grassroots organizing it’ll take to win. 

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Imagining a Republican Trifecta Post Roe 

We needn’t speculate about the dystopian nightmare that would be unleashed
by a Republican trifecta unconstrained by the protections of Roe. We can
simply look at what’s happened in the states where MAGA holds power now. 

In the year since the conservative majority gutted Roe, [ [link removed] ]abortion has
been banned in 14 states, several others have limited access, and millions
of people who can become pregnant have lost access to abortion care --
disproportionately people of color. 

Even where exceptions are in place for health, the threat of criminal
prosecution and jail time has intimidated doctors to the point that we’ve
seen numerous stories about women [ [link removed] ]being on the brink of death before
lifesaving treatment has been allowed, and even [ [link removed] ]hospitals shutting down
their labor and delivery units out of fear of liability. These are [ [link removed] ]far
from the only stories of physical and emotional torture arising from these
bans. 

And for MAGA Republicans, this isn’t the end of their monstrous agenda --
it’s just the start.

In Alabama, [ [link removed] ]legislation has been introduced to prosecute people who get
abortions with murder charges. Across the country, Republicans are pushing
bills to stop pregnant people from traveling to other states to access
abortion care. Even within Congress, [ [link removed] ]there’s been support for such
draconian interference with freedom to travel.

Republicans failed in their first attempt to pass a national abortion ban,
but that still remains the goal -- in January, [ [link removed] ]the Republican National
Committee passed a resolution urging GOP candidates to support the
‘strongest’ anti-abortion legislation possible. 

Donald Trump -- the twice-impeached, twice-indicted frontrunner for the
GOP nomination -- notably refuses to say if he’d sign a national abortion
ban, but brags about being directly responsible for killing Roe. And let’s
not forget that in 2016 he [ [link removed] ]endorsed punishment for people who get
abortions -- one of the most extreme pronouncements on the issue from any
national candidate. 

(Most) Republicans aren’t going to talk about it unless we make them

It’s notable that Trump refuses to state what is obvious: that he’d sign a
national abortion ban at the first moment he had the chance. Other GOP
contenders, many of whom see evangelical voters as their best shot to chip
away support from Trump, have been similarly evasive to the point of
absurdity ([ [link removed] ]watch Senator Tim Scott not answer the question here). 

The second-place candidate, Ron DeSantis, signed the most extreme abortion
ban in the nation. But he did so in the middle of the night, and won’t
talk about it on the trail. 

All of this points to the one silver lining of the past year -- support
for abortion is at an all time high, and [ [link removed] ]only 38% of Americans think
the Dobbs decision was a ‘good thing’ for the country. Any GOP candidate
in a competitive race is terrified. As they should be.

Where abortion is on the ballot, it galvanizes voters. Just look at the
turnout for the ballot measure in Kansas, or the [ [link removed] ]landslide victory for
Indivisible-backed state supreme court Justice Janet Protasiewicz in
Wisconsin. We’re likely to see a number of state ballot measures to
enshrine reproductive access next year (we’ll have more to say on that
soon). 

Our job, as candidates try to run the other way to avoid talking about
reproductive freedom, is to remind voters that abortion is also on the
ballot in every statehouse, judicial, district attorney, attorney general,
gubernatorial, House, and Senate election. And it’s most certainly on the
ballot in the 2024 presidential election. 

This is where our movement shines. Because Indivisible has a presence in
nearly every congressional district, because we’re continuously building
our power in the key 2024 battlegrounds, we can force GOP candidates to
answer for what their party has done to erode our rights and what their
reelection will mean for our bodily autonomy and personal freedoms. We can
get those answers into local press and ads. And if they refuse to answer
questions because they know their answer will be wildly unpopular -- hey,
we can get that into press and ads too. Want to learn how? [ [link removed] ]Check out
our birddogging guide here.

And more than that, we can reach voters directly through the millions of
phone calls, texts, and canvassing shifts we’re planning this election
cycle. The Dobbs decision overturning Roe unleashed a groundswell of
grassroots energy. We’re going to channel it toward holding Republicans
accountable and defeating them in 2024. 

We know what we have to do to rebuild our trifecta in 501 days and codify
Roe. But to do it, we need your help. The work that goes into crafting the
perfect message for a given district, each text/call/ad/postcard/door
knock that enables us to reach voters -- it all comes with a cost. 

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We’re living through the things they said would never happen

A lot of things that powerful and important people said would never happen
had to happen to get us to where we are today. 

As [ [link removed] ]Sarah emailed about last week, many of us were convinced Trump
couldn’t possibly win in 2016. The headlines at this point in 2015 were
declaring his campaign a stunt and [ [link removed] ]confidently predicting that “he has
virtually zero chance of winning the presidential nomination.” Indivisible
didn’t exist then, but many of us can admit to refreshing the polling
again and again to reassure ourselves we were right, when we probably
should have been picking up extra phonebanking shifts or knocking a few
more doors. 

Then Trump won, and got to work appointing MAGA judges. For each and every
Supreme Court nomination battle, Republicans told us to ignore everything
Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh had ever said about the abortion --
there’s no way they’d ever tear up 50 years of precedent and overturn
Roe. 

When we fought to the bitter end to block them, because it was obvious to
anyone paying attention they’d do away with the constitutional right to
abortion the first chance they got, [ [link removed] ]Senator Collins called our
concerns “over the top rhetoric and distortions.” [ [link removed] ]Senator Sasse called
it “hysteria.” 

Even now, as MAGA judges try to reach across state lines to ban abortion
drugs and we have an RNC resolution calling for abortion bans, it’s all
but inevitable that we’re going to begin to hear pundits downplay the
stakes and MAGA politicians gaslight the public about their intentions. 

Surely, Trump won’t win again, some insist. And friends, it’s pretty damn
tempting, even purely as a survival mechanism, to believe it. 

And if Trump wins and MAGA politicians control the House and Senate,
surely they won’t do something as politically toxic as actually banning
abortion nationwide, talking heads will say. It’s comforting to believe
that too. 

But at this point, we know better. A few thousand votes difference in a
few states and Trump -- whatever his legal situation -- can win. If
turnout drops in a few states with competitive races, they could retake
the Senate. 

We know what they, and the MAGA judges they appoint, will do not only to
abortion rights, but to access to contraception, LGBTQ+ rights, and a host
of other personal freedoms, too. 

As much as we need to remind ourselves that the above is absolutely
possible if we don’t fight like hell over the next year, let’s all
remember that another future is equally possible if we do. 

We absolutely can retake the House. [ [link removed] ]We have a plan to do it. We can
protect vulnerable Senate allies and elect a true Democratic majority by
replacing Sinema. [ [link removed] ]We have a plan to do that, too. And as we’ve done
before, we can beat Trump. If we do all that, we’ll have a trifecta that
can repeal the racist filibuster, codify Roe, and reform the judiciary so
that MAGA activists in robes can no longer threaten our most cherished
freedoms. 

That’s the focus of our work over the next 501 days. Simple -- but not
easy. It’s going to take all of us making calls, knocking doors, sending
texts, attending rallies, and yes, chipping in to fund the infrastructure
that’ll make it all possible. 

[ [link removed] ]If you’re ready to make an early investment in that work -- truly the
most important thing we can do in this moment to protect and restore
abortion rights nationwide -- please start a monthly donation today. Or
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