This week, Ezra highlights the explosive growth of our movement and some
much-needed reasons for optimism! Then, our to-dos feature ways to expose the
Epstein cover-up and lead your community in strategic non-cooperation.
Hey folks,
Let me try something a bit different this week. I try to avoid just giving
you feel-good content for the sake of it. With that said, I want to quote
something Leah said a while back: Something ugly is happening around this
country right now, but something beautiful is happening too.
I want to tell you about the beautiful thing.
The pro-democracy movement is growing at an historic pace. Since the
election, the number of new local Indivisible groups has more than
doubled. New groups are being founded every single day. We’re now working
with around 2,500 active local Indivisible groups, spread across every
state and almost every congressional district (all but AL-6, FL-12, TX-20,
TX-34, TX-5; [ [link removed] ]register your group here)!
The number of Indivisible members on our national email list has more than
quadrupled during the same period. And engagement -- people actually doing
stuff virtually and in the real world -- across just about every metric is
through the roof.
What we’re seeing nationally lines up with what Leah and I are hearing
from local Indivisible groups themselves. Over the weekend, we each joined
local leaders for statewide Indivisible convenings -- Leah in Maryland and
me in Hawaii.
I’m not going to lie: the Hawaii convening was awesome, and I was given
more leis than I could count by group leaders around the state! But don’t
sleep on Baltimore -- Leah came out beaming with reports of the energy,
organizing, and strategic seriousness of the groups on the ground in
Maryland.
Across the country, we’re hearing Indivisible groups wrestle with the same
things:
1. How can we push our state leaders to go on offense against this
overreaching administration?
2. How can we replace some of our “roll over and play dead” elected
Democrats with real fighters?
3. How do we absorb and effectively put to work all these new people
flooding into our meetings?
The PoliSci experts and historians of authoritarianism advise us that the
only real solution to the ugliness of authoritarian overreach is
broad-based, ideologically diverse, geographically dispersed, organized
peaceful protest.
Well, we’ve organized two of the largest protests in American history in
the last three months with Hands Off and No Kings Day. And there’s much
more to come. At a time we see ugliness just about everywhere we turn --
Paramount capitulating; Columbia caving; congressional Republicans
cowering; Trump being Trump -- this continuous expansion of organized
people power is a beautiful thing.
I don’t spend a ton of time in these newsletters focused on that
reassuring aspect of our reality because at Indivisible we believe hope is
best delivered through steely-eyed analysis of what’s wrong and what we
can do to fix it.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t take a beat to share a laugh at a giant
billboard we put up outside the office of the pathetic, cowardly Speaker
of the House, or take some inspiration from our fellow organizers who are
building plans and developing the new leaders to turn the Democratic Party
into a fighting force for democracy.
[2]A billboard showing Mike Johnson, Donald Trump, and Jeffrey Epstein with the
text HEY MIKE: STOP HIDING. RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES
The billboard we just put up near Speaker Johnson's office in Louisiana
And I know we’re a practical bunch. So after we share that pick-me-up
news, most of us quickly get to: “OK, great, but what do we actually do
now?”
For that, I hope you’ll [ [link removed] ]sign up for round two of One Million Rising
training on strategic non-compliance this Wednesday, [ [link removed] ]join me and Leah
for our weekly “What’s the Plan?” call on Thursday, and read on for the
rest of this week’s to-dos.
In solidarity,
Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible
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Your weekly to-dos
1. [ [link removed] ]Sign up for the One Million Rising call this Wednesday, July 30, to
learn strategic non-cooperation strategies. It’s falling on us to lead
the fight against fascism and force vital institutions off the
sidelines. In this week’s call, you’ll be trained to lead active
non-cooperation in your community and pass those skills on to others.
2. [ [link removed] ]Call your GOP representative to demand the release of the Epstein
files. Most House members are home for August recess after Republicans
prematurely fled DC to avoid voting on the Epstein files. But we’re
keeping the pressure on and demanding a vote as soon as they return.
3. [ [link removed] ]Get your Member of Congress on the record about the Epstein Files
in person. With many lawmakers home for most of August, you might have
a chance to pressure them in person at a town hall, office visit, or
other public event. Use our toolkit for tips and top questions to ask.
4. [ [link removed] ]Use our new social tool, TRUTH & SHARE, to expand your reach and
win over new allies online. Progressives often find ourselves
messaging to people who already agree with us, but this moment
requires us to activate folks in the middle or who simply don’t follow
politics! TRUTH & SHARE features shareable links/messages specifically
designed to do just that.
5. [ [link removed] ]Join our “What’s the Plan?” call on Thursday to hear Leah and Ezra
answer your questions. Every Thursday at 3pm ET (12pm PT), our
co-founders jump online to break down the news of the week and answer
your questions directly! Be part of a free-flowing, interactive chat
about what’s next in our fight for democracy.
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Ezra talks Epstein files with Jen Psaki
The Epstein cover-up is one of the biggest breakthrough moments we’ve seen
so far in the second Trump Administration; even folks who don’t typically
pay attention to politics are following this story and are outraged by
Trump-world’s lies and corruption.
Ezra joined Jen Psaki to talk about what we’re doing to further expose the
Epstein cover-up and foster that breakthrough -- and how we’re welcoming
new people into our movement.
[ [link removed] ]Ezra Levin speaking on MSNBC's The Briefing with Jen Psaki
[ [link removed] ]Click to watch a clip from Ezra’s interview.
Indivisibles are running billboards, churning out digital content, talking
to anyone who’ll listen, and organizing on the ground to expose the
Epstein cover-up, hold Republicans in Congress accountable, and fight for
justice and transparency.
[ [link removed] ]If you’re able, please consider a donation to expand our ads and
outreach to spotlight Trump/GOP corruption, drive a wedge in the MAGA
movement, and hold Epstein’s accomplices -- however powerful they may be
-- to account.
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IndivisiWIN of the week
[ [link removed] ]Screenshot of a WUSF/NPR article about the Florida Immigrant Coalition's
protest and press conference, supported by South Florida Indivisible groups,
outside Alligator Alcatraz -- Click to read coverage
Dozens of South Florida Indivisibles joined the Florida Immigrant
Coalition to protest outside Alligator Alcatraz last Tuesday, demanding
health screenings and humane treatment of prisoners while calling
attention to the camp’s brutal conditions.
Protestors held a press conference to outline specific demands and called
for the camp to be immediately closed down until migrants’ safety,
dignity, and legal rights are protected. You can [ [link removed] ]read coverage from
WUSF/NPR here.
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