Indivisibles,

Ever-skyrocketing rates of infection. Wisconsin voters in masks risking their lives to cast their ballots. Over 17 million people filing for unemployment. With all this in the news, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed.

So we want to be really clear about this one thing: Trump and the Republican Party caused this whole mess. And the only way to fix it is to vote them out.

This isn’t just us saying it: The Atlantic published an article about COVID-19 on April 4th headlined “This is Trump’s Fault.” VOX reported a few weeks ago that “Trump’s Covid-19 response has been a disaster years in the making.” The AP and many, many others have reported on how Trump disbanded the White House Global Pandemic Response team. Paul Krugman wrote a column that the Chicago Tribune headlined “Leading in confirmed cases, the US will be the world’s coronavirus epicenter within days — and it’s Trump’s fault.”

And that’s just Trump. Don’t forget that the Republican Party has spent the last decade trying over and over and over and over and over (and over) to dismantle our entire public health infrastructure, restrict voting rights, and otherwise appease their corporate overlords. Now, the holes they've punched in our health system and our democracy are all showing up at once, and it's people who are suffering as a result.

Don’t let anyone (especially Trump) tell you differently: while the Republicans may not be at fault for the virus emerging, they are absolutely at fault for our inability to effectively stop it.

The only solution, long term, is to vote them out of office. And while we can’t match their dark-money donors, we can outwork and out-strategize them -- with your help. Here’s what we need:

First: Click on this link to pledge to do everything you can to vote the Republicans out in November. That means phone banking, text banking, making sure your friends are registered to vote, and a lot more. We’ll send you an email as soon as you sign on with things you can do right now, while you’re social distancing, and be in touch more over the next few months.

Second: If you’re able, click here to donate $10 right now to support Indivisible Action. Your money will go towards funding all that work and defeating Republicans nationwide.

Third: Forward this email to 3 or 4 friends who aren’t yet involved and ask them to join you.

Trump is going to use his deny, deny, deny playbook, and to claim that he had the greatest response, the best response to this crisis (he’s already trying, in fact). We are the only ones who can stop the narrative and hold him accountable. We need you with us.

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team