Indivisibles,

You know it. We know it. The filibuster has been weaponized by MAGA Republicans to become one of their strongest weapons in preventing Congress from passing meaningful legislation. It’s long time for the filibuster to go. But what is the smartest, cleanest path to preventing that obstructionism?

Join our own Ezra Levin in a conversation with Sen. Jeff Merkley about his book Filibustered! on Monday, February 26 at 7pm ET/4pm PT to find out.

**Bonus: The first 50 people to submit a question for the conversation will receive a free copy of Merkley’s book Filibustered!**

We have watched Senate Republicans use the filibuster as a conservative shield -- blocking any measure of popular progress from passing through Congress including:

• Senate Republicans used the filibuster to block Obama’s judicial nominees in a move that shaped the future of court appointments for all sitting presidents. 
• The For The People Act would have achieved comprehensive voting rights and election reform ensuring fair, equitable, and ethical elections across the country… if Republicans had not been able to use the filibuster to block the legislation.
• Though Democrats are poised and ready to codify reproductive freedoms into law, Senate Republicans are using the filibuster to block our bodily autonomy and impose draconian abortion bills on Americans at the state level.

Republicans don’t care about the will of the people. Republicans don’t care about enacting popular and widely impactful policy. They care about maintaining their death-grip on power for themselves and their wealthy donors. 

If we want to move forward, Democrats must reform the filibuster. But how?

Sen. Merkley has long been a champion of filibuster reform, charting a path forward even as it was a less popular position in the Democratic party. His book offers a path forward through looking at the past:

In a compelling and powerfully argued book, Senator Jeff Merkley and his longtime chief of staff tell the insiders’ story of how the Senate used to work and how the filibuster came to cripple the self-styled “World’s Greatest Deliberative Body” with paralyzing gridlock. And they make the surprising case that restoring a modified version of the old-style, talking filibuster may just be our democracy’s path back from the brink.

Join Ezra as he dives into the details of what the filibuster has cost us, where we stand now, and what a future unobstructed by the filibuster could be with Sen. Merkley next Monday, February 26 at 7pm ET/4pm PT.  

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team

P.S. Don’t forget to ask a question -- you might get a free book!