Indivisibles,

It's back-to-school time again, and you know what that means:

🎒 ✏️📚 Stocking up on school supplies

📸 Social media timelines full of adorable first-day photos

🤬 And…MAGA groups gearing up for a new year of harassing school boards,
imposing book bans, and shaping curriculums to reflect their narrow
political and religious ideologies. 

Sadly, over the last few years the far-right has turned public schools
into a primary battleground in their culture war. 

Astroturf groups like Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education
have been pushing for book bans, whitewashed history lessons, and policies
that make schools outright hostile environments for LGBTQ+ students and
teachers.   

Thanks to millions of dollars in dark money funding, these groups have
rapidly spread across the country -- and in many places, their hateful
agenda is already being enforced. Maybe you’re seeing it in your state or
even your school district. While they’ve had a head start, we’re not
powerless in this fight.  

With millions of students returning to school this month and school board
races happening this fall, we’ve launched Our States, Our Fates -- a new
campaign to resist the MAGA assault on public education and defend the
freedom to learn. Through this new program, we’re building a network of
Indivisible groups -- including teachers, librarians, parents, and
guardians -- to strategize together, share resources and learnings, and
support each other in the fight to defend our schools and libraries. 

Indivisible groups are showing up to school board meetings to prevent book
bans. They’re organizing to expose right-wing astroturf groups and defeat
MAGA candidates running on anti-education platforms. And with too many
state and local elections going uncontested, some Indivisibles are even
throwing their hats into the ring to defend public education. 

We have the people power on our side, but we can’t win this fight without
investing in the grassroots organizers who are at the heart of this work.
[ [link removed] ]We know this is an expensive time of year for many families, but if you
can afford to do so, please consider adding one more item to your
back-to-school list: Chip in to support Indivisible groups fighting to
stop book bans and defend the freedom to learn.

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Indivisibles, like most people in this country, want to feel confident
that when they send their kids to school, they will learn the true,
complete history of this country, they will have access to books that
speak to them and their experiences, and most of all they will feel safe
and accepted in the classroom. 

It’s disheartening that this is something we have to fight for rather than
a given. But we also know that the MAGA agenda is unpopular and if we show
up and rally to defend our schools and libraries, we will win this fight. 

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team

P.S. -- If you’re seeing similar crises in your own community and are
looking for ways to take action, [ [link removed] ]click here to check out the toolkit
we provided to groups, and feel free to reach out to
[ mailto:[email protected] ][email protected] to learn more about getting involved
in the Our States, Our Fates program. 



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