Indivisibles,

Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee has Trump and congressional Republicans shook. Democratic candidate and former Indivisible organizer Aftyn Behn may not have scored the upset victory we hoped for, but she massively overperformed. In a high turnout election, she secured 45% of the vote and turned this into a single-digit race in a district that went for Trump by 22 points just last year.  

That a Democrat produced a 13 point swing, despite the GOP spending millions to stop her, tells us this: No Republican seat is safe. In fact, 43 House Republicans represent districts that Trump won by less than 13 points. Democrats would only need to win three or four of those seats to take back the majority.

Americans are turning against Trump and the GOP everywhere you look. We saw it in Tennessee on Tuesday; we saw it in New York, Virginia, New Jersey, California, Mississippi, and Georgia last month. 

Elections with this kind of swing and turnout don’t just happen. Here’s why we’re winning -- and how we can pull off a blue tsunami next year: 

• The electorate is seriously pissed off at the party in power. As we’ve said all along: Americans don’t want a king. Fascism -- not widely popular! Trump is underwater on every single issue and voters, especially independents, are fed up with Republicans working around the clock to enrich billionaires while refusing to lift a finger to make life more affordable for the rest of us. 
• We’re getting great candidates. Republican toxicity is motivating voters, but people are turning out in historic numbers not just to vote against the GOP, but for candidates like Zohran Mamdani and Aftyn Behn -- candidates who are authentic, understand the needs of working people, and can be depended on to fight, not fold. 
• The grassroots are fired up. Great candidates inspire action. And what we’ve seen in every impossible win and near-win this year is dedicated volunteers putting in the work to elect candidates they believe in. Over a thousand of you volunteered to make calls and knock doors for Aftyn, and you contacted tens of thousands of voters. Swings like this don't happen without that kind of grassroots action and engagement.

With all that in mind, it’s time to gear up for 2026 and the midterm elections. We’re going to channel that same energy, that same strength, and all that momentum into, not just a blue wave, but a blue tsunami in November. Every last Republican Member of Congress who’s been cravenly enabling Trump’s autocratic, pro-billionaire agenda should start polishing up their resumes, right now. 

It all starts with electing real fighters in the primaries. The work of building a strong slate of progressive candidates to take back the House will depend on the same combination of excellent candidates and enthusiastic grassroots engagement, across the country, beginning early next year. 

Here’s what you can do right now:

1. Sign the primary pledge. This will be Indivisible’s biggest primary campaign yet -- as long as y’all show up with the same energy you did for Aftyn. Sign the pledge if you’re all-in to help elect the best candidates -- authentic leaders who will fight for working people and democracy. We’ll be in touch with volunteer opportunities and ways to plug into this work.
2. Can’t wait for 2026 to get started? Click here to help us build an opposition party that’ll resist fascism with the urgency the moment requires.  

The TN-07 election didn’t deliver the result we hoped for, but it did show us the future that’s possible. Indivisibles have the political power to make waves at the ballot box and fundamentally change the landscape of elections for years to come. Let’s harness it.

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team