Indivisibles,

Remember the night Trump’s first reconciliation bill failed and we saved the Affordable Care Act?

I do. It was July 28, 2017.

After months of nonstop calls, packed town halls, and rallies in blistering Arizona heat, every sign pointed to defeat. Republicans appeared to have the votes to kill Obamacare, and we had our “we lost” email written, proofed, and ready to send. But we should have known better.

Because in those months, weeks, and days leading up to that vote, Indivisibles never stopped fighting.

Activists like you showed up at Susan Collins’ Fourth of July parades with signs and bullhorns. You stood outside John McCain’s Phoenix office in 100-degree heat. You flooded the Senate with calls. And at 1:29am that July morning, McCain gave the most famous thumbs-down in Senate history -- joining Collins and Murkowski to kill Trumpcare for good.

That wasn’t luck. That was power -- your power. We fought until the gavel fell, and we changed the course of history.

So, why am I telling you this story?

Simple.

Moments ago, almost 8 years to the day after we killed Trumpcare, the Senate passed Trump’s Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching, big ugly bill. Republicans are celebrating, and we understand if you’re feeling angry and deflated. Lord knows, we’re angry.

But this fight isn’t over. Not by a long shot.

You’ve already moved the needle. You made Medicaid the defining issue of the debate. Senator Thom Tillis broke with Trump on national TV, called out the cruelty of this bill, and announced he wouldn’t seek re-election rather than betray his state’s Medicaid recipients. That didn’t happen in a vacuum -- it happened because North Carolinians showed up, called in, rallied at Hands Off events, and refused to let him look away.

The bill now heads back to the House, where Republicans can only afford to lose three votes. It barely squeaked by with a single-vote margin the first time, and it’s only gotten more divisive since:

The so-called deficit hawks are fuming about the $3 trillion this adds to the debt.

Vulnerable “moderates” understand that ripping health insurance away from 17 million people and kicking 11.8 million more off SNAP in order to shovel $4.5 trillion to the ultra-rich might not be a winning message back home.

Anyone who tells you this is a done deal doesn’t know what the hell they’re talking about.

Is it an uphill battle? Yes. But so was 2017.

So no matter where you live or who your Member of Congress is, here’s what you can do right now:

We already changed the trajectory of this fight in the Senate. We may have come up a vote short, but all the pressure we’ve built is now being felt by the House.

Will we win? I don’t know.

But this is what movements do. We rise when they expect us to fold. We organize through the setbacks. And we win the fights they say are impossible -- because we refuse to give up.

You ready?

Let’s finish what we started.

In solidarity,
Sarah Dohl
Co-founder, Chief Campaigns Officer, Indivisible

P.S. This isn’t a fundraising email -- calls and door knocks and district office visits matter more to us than dollars. But if you’ve got cash itching for a fight, we’ll put it to good use: turbo-charging expanded House phonebanks to patch folks through to their Members of Congress, fueling door-knocks in key House districts, and plastering billboards in key states and districts that scream, “You voted to rip away our healthcare.” If you want to chip in, click here (and thank you in advance).