Indivisibles,

Wow! Since we sent this message on Thursday, more than 700 of you have
made donations to help us cover our unexpected expenses -- and we’ve
raised more than $17,000! Thank you, so much. We’re not exaggerating when
we say we literally could not do this work without you.

We’re so close to hitting our goal -- [ [link removed] ]can you chip in $10 right now to
get us all the way there and make sure we’re always ready for whatever
this administration throws at us?

This last week has shown us that breaking news can happen anytime, but
we’re continually inspired by how many Indivisibles drop everything and
answer the call (or the text 🙂) when that happens. Thank you for your
dedication and your action.

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team

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From: Indivisible Team
Date: Thu, Sep 26, 2019
Subject: HOW many texts?

Indivisibles,

What a week, right? After TWO YEARS of buildup, the dam finally broke on
impeachment. This is, of course, exciting news, but it’s also put us in a
bit of a bind that we’re hoping you can help with.

Here’s the deal: text messages are one of the most important tools in our
toolkit. They’re fast, and they reach Indivisibles wherever you are.
That’s why, on Tuesday, when we learned that House Democrats were meeting
about impeachment, we immediately sent out a text message with resources
to call members of Congress in support. It worked -- in just over 4 hours,
more than 12,000 of you called your representatives to demand impeachment,
and later that evening, Nancy Pelosi announced the House will move forward
with an official inquiry.

But... all the breaking news means we sent a lot more messages than usual:
this month, we’ve sent over one million texts, almost triple what we send
in a normal month. And that comes with a cost: we’re $22,000 past our
budget on texts.

When we sent the messages, we knew we were exceeding our budget and that
we’d have to pay more. It was too important to even consider not sending
those calls to action. But now, we need to figure out how to shift
resources to cover that budget, and we need to do it by the end of the
month to keep our budget balanced. Which is why we’re reaching out:

[ [link removed] ]Please, chip in as little or as much as you can to fund rapid response
like these text messages, and all of Indivisible Project’s crucial work.

If you’ve saved your information with ActBlue Express Lane, your donation
to Indivisible Project will go through immediately:

[ [link removed] ]Donate $10 right now >>

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[ [link removed] ]Donate $50 right now >>

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Tuesday’s text and your thousands of calls are the kind of rapid response
action that we need, especially under this administration where new
developments can come to light on a dime. But we can’t pull it off without
funding for communications tools. And what makes it possible to turn
around big, change-making actions like this on such short notice is having
the flexibility and agility to make it happen. Part of that means having a
budget that can support those actions -- if we’re constantly working to
make up a shortfall, we might not always have the capacity to drop
everything and go all out the way we did earlier this week.

This ask is particularly urgent right now because the end of the fiscal
quarter is in less than a week. We plan our budget in quarters, which
means that right now we don’t have much leeway to close the gap.

We’re not going to leave this fight. Our democracy, our national security,
and our election security are all at stake, and we know that the biggest
power we have is in thousands of people putting relentless pressure on our
representatives. But we know just as well that it isn’t going to be the
last fight we face, and we need to be ready to face them all when they
come up. [ [link removed] ]Please: pitch in $10 right now, before the end of the quarter,
to make sure Indivisible Project can respond whenever the news breaks.

A lot of things fell into place this week, and many of them were made
possible by the hard work of Indivisibles like you. Thank you for fueling
our movement.

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team

P.S. -- A question we get a lot when we send emails about text messages is
if we can just pay for an unlimited plan, the way many of us do for our
personal cell phones. We wish! To send the kinds of messages we do, we
need a different kind of system, which offers tools like “reply CALL to
connect your member of Congress,” and where we can carefully target
messages to the right people in the right congressional districts. And
those systems are priced very differently from individual cell phone
plans! [ [link removed] ]Please, if you can, click here and help us fund systems like
this and all of our work!

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