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Your weekly Indivisible Newsletter Indivisibles,
The energy behind Kamala Harris’ candidacy continues: over 38,000 new voters registered in the 48 hours after the announcement of her candidacy, and that number jumped to over 100,000 within the week. And, in addition to the incredible fundraising moment Kamala has inspired, Democratic parties in battleground states are also seeing a surge in volunteer signups.
I don’t know if you’re as energized as we are, but we’re ready to win this thing! And we haven’t even gotten to her next big announcement yet.
In the next 24 hours, Kamala will be announcing her running mate.
Regardless of which of the finalists she chooses, we’re ecstatic to know that we will have a complete ticket we can rally behind. Each potential VP on her short list brings a wealth of experience and expertise and would help deliver the battleground votes Harris will need to pull this off.
In a race that just a month ago felt, to some, like a rehash of 2020, we are watching a new wave of Democratic leaders take center stage -- and the future looks bright.
Now is the time to keep capitalizing on this wave. Some of you have been with us since 2016, some of you just signed up last week, but all of us stand behind a commitment to making this world a little brighter. There are so many more people out there right now looking for a way to do the same. Let’s show them the Indivisible way.
With that, here are your weekly to-dos:
Your 5 weekly to-dos
- TOMORROW! Register for our national phonebank in support of George Whitesides for CA-27 Tuesday, August 6 at 6:30pm ET/3:30pm PT. Whitesides is running for one of the 18 most competitive House seats up this cycle against MAGA Republican Mike Garcia. It is not enough to elect Kamala Harris to the Oval Office. We need to deliver her a Democratic Congress who can make her agenda a reality. Help us call into CA-27 to turn this November into a blue wave.
- Register for Women Wednesdays for Harris weekly at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT through the election. Every Wednesday through Election Day, we will be partnering on a national call bringing together women from all across the country to build community, strategize, and share tools to drive a Harris victory in November. Each call will feature special guest speakers that you won’t want to miss (we’ve already seen P!nk and Megan Rapinoe). This week’s call will focus on initial steps to organize locally and table setting for your people. Future potential topics include how to take action immediately, navigating social media, relational organizing, and more.
- Check out our new Project 2025 resources. You asked for more specific resources on Project 2025, its impact, and how we need to talk about it to win in November, and we answered. Project 2025 is the most thorough blueprint we have ever seen from MAGA Republicans on how they plan to strip away our rights, protections, and freedoms if they achieve power. But as dangerous as their plan is for the American people, it is just as damaging to their electability. But only when people know about it. We have to make sure people understand just how extreme Project 2025 intends to be, and here’s your literature to do it.
Sign up to reach voters in key races with our new Majority Over MAGA: State to State resource. Neighbor2Neighbor (see below) may only be available in our target districts, but it’s going to take everyone coming together to drive wins in November. This State to State page will be our home for all of the other resources and strategies that will power us to a true Democratic trifecta that will codify reproductive freedoms and enact democracy reforms. Check this page to learn about phonebanks, textbanks, postcards, reimbursements, and more that will be the backbone of our 2024 election program.
Neighbor2Neighbor is open!!!! Check and see if it’s available in your area, and help get out the vote. We have opened our highly effective, community conversation program -- Neighbor2Neighbor. If you want to have the biggest impact on voter turnout, this is the most effective way we’ve found to mobilize community members (our numbers prove it). Check and see if Neighbor2Neighbor is available in your area and, if it is, sign up today.
P.S. We count on small-dollar donors to help fund this movement! If you're able, please pitch in today to support the grassroots organizing that powers our progressive wins.
Upcoming Phonebanks
Register for our national phonebank in support of Josh Riley for NY-19 on Wednesday, August 14 at 6pm ET/3pm PT. Josh Riley is running for one of the 18 most-competitive House districts in the country and looking to unseat MAGA Republican Marc Molinaro. If you don’t have experience with HubDialer, don’t worry, we’ll get you trained up and ready to go. If you’re a seasoned vet, we’ll get you on the phone ASAP. But first, we’ll let you hear from local group leaders in the district so you’ll be armed with the current state of play and hear some special remarks by Shaina Taub -- Recent Tony Award winner for Suffs.
Register for our national phonebank into Nevada for Kamala Harris on Friday, August 23 at 3pm ET/12pm PT. The Democratic National Convention ends on Thursday, August 22, and we’ll be capitalizing on the energy of seeing Kamala take the stage as the Democratic candidate for president as we make calls on Friday. We’ll be dialing into Nevada -- one of the top presidential battlegrounds where the election will be decided this year. Come help us make sure Nevadans are fired up and ready to catapult Kamala into the Oval Office.
Majority Over MAGA Book Talk with Ari Berman
Register for Co-Executive Director Ezra Levin’s conversation with Ari Berman -- author of Minority Rule -- on Wednesday, September 4 at 5pm ET/2pm PT.
The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority.
This crisis didn’t begin or end with Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history, reactionary white conservatives have strategically entrenched power in the face of a massive demographic and political shift. Ari Berman charts these efforts with sweeping historical research and incisive on-the-ground reporting, chronicling how a wide range of antidemocratic tactics interact with profound structural inequalities in institutions like the Electoral College, the Senate, and the Supreme Court to threaten the survival of representative government in America.
And, surprise, we are offering a free copy of Minority Rule to the first 250 people who register for the event.
Chilling and revelatory, Minority Rule exposes the long history of the conflict between white supremacy and multiracial democracy that has reached a fever pitch today -- while also telling the inspiring story of resistance to these regressive efforts. Sign up for the book conversation today!
Majority Over MAGA 30-Minute Clinics
From our inception, Indivisible has been powered by the people. We are a grassroots movement fueled by our membership to defeat the MAGA agenda and drive progressive change. The people come first.
So how do we make sure we’re setting ourselves up for success in creating a welcoming, safe, and collaborative atmosphere for new activists?
Join our 30-Minute Clinics to find out.
Our Majority Over MAGA 30-Minute Clinics will be a series of quick, practical sessions focused on building your people power this election cycle. We’ll focus on making your group a welcoming space for new members and building community through electoral work that can last past November. Each round offers an afternoon option and an evening option for maximum access. The sessions will not be recorded, so join in real time.
The first round was very informative last week, don’t miss out on rounds two and three.
Round 2: Welcoming and Onboarding New Members
Evening Session: Monday, August 12 at 8pm ET/5pm PT
Afternoon Session: Thursday, August 15 at 3pm ET/12pm PT
This session will focus on getting people to stick around once you’ve gotten them in the door.
Round 3: To Be Determined
Evening Session: Monday, August 26 at 7pm ET/4pm PT
Afternoon Session: Thursday, August 29 at 3pm ET/12pm PT
The topics for this last session are still being finalized. We want to make sure we’re being responsive to the needs of the groups and will set the topics closer to the event date. Check out our 1-pager for updates.
IndivisiWin of the Week
Indivisible East Bay got incredible coverage from CBS News on its All in for Harris press conference. Catch the whole clip here.
Demand Your Members of Congress Call For A Ceasefire
| **Content Warning: Talk about the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Jump to the line break if you need to avoid this topic.** |
Netanyahu’s military executed an air strike on a school on Sunday, killing 30 Palestinians and wounding dozens more.
According to The New York Times: This was the third attack on a school in four days.
While the Israeli military claims, once again, that the school was a command center for Hamas, the school had been used as a shelter for displaced Palestinians. And in the end, most of the victims were women and children.
As Netanyahu continues to prolong a conflict that everyone wants to end, it is innocent children who are suffering the most.
Meanwhile, it has been reported in Israeli media that Biden told Netanyahu to “stop bullshitting me” and make a ceasefire deal. Biden himself has expressed that he had a “very direct” meeting with Netanyahu as Netanyahu’s government and military continue to fan the flames of a larger regional conflict.
The framework for a ceasefire has existed for some time now. It’s past time that Netanyahu came to the table in an honest effort to get it done. It’s time for the hostages to come home. It’s time for peace.
We need to turn up the pressure on our elected officials to use every ounce of leverage to secure a ceasefire -- that means withholding offensive military assistance from Netanyahu until he comes to the table with a true goal of peace.
We have updated our contact resources to reflect the current situation. Now we need you to call and email your representatives, and push them to act. The US cannot sit idly by while schools are being bombed. It’s past time to stop this bloodshed.
Indivisible Civics' Powering Progress Education Series
Join us for Apathy To Action -- Protecting our Democracy: De-escalation & Bystander Intervention Tactics this Wednesday August 7 at 7pm ET/4pm PT.
What do you do when conversations begin to turn adversarial or downright scary? Learn the tactics you can use to prevent escalation in the first place and the best ways to intervene when it occurs. We’re excited to be able to provide you this training from Right to Be (formerly known as Hollaback), so that you can continue doing the work of having persuasive conversations with the knowledge to keep yourself, and your fellow activists, safe.
This is the first installment of a new, four-part educational series we will be rolling out soon. Check this call series guide to keep up to date on the future sessions, but don’t worry, we’ll make sure to send you reminders as each one is scheduled. We can’t wait for you to learn more about bystander intervention and de-escalation, they are invaluable tools not just in your organizing work, but for life in general.
Follow us on Facebook, Mastodon, Threads, and Instagram to keep up on the latest information, and text “INDIVISIBLE” to 59798 to opt-in to our text messaging program, where we send rapid response actions a few times a month.
In solidarity,
Indivisible Team 
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