Indivisibles,

We’ve got some exciting news to share -- one of our favorite partners,
Town Hall Project, is becoming a part of Indivisible! Over the last four
years, we’ve partnered again and again to demystify Congress and empower
constituents and activists to hold their members of Congress accountable.
This relationship has been critical to our movement as Town Hall Project
reinforced Indivisibles in their toughest fights -- from saving the
Affordable Care Act to protecting Dreamers, to demanding an end to Trump’s
Muslim Ban and Family Separation Policy.   

Town Hall Project’s volunteer-powered research helped mobilize countless
Americans -- including Indivisibles like you -- to participate in more
than 25,000 town halls (virtual and in-person) and other events with
elected officials. Together, we believe that holding your members of
Congress accountable and pressuring them to listen to your needs is
critical to our democracy and achieving the policy goals we value most.
That’s why we’re joining forces and combining Town Hall Project’s
up-to-date information on elected official events with our effective
grassroots mobilizing that fought back against the Trump administration’s
worst policies. 

Together, we’re excited to prioritize democracy reform in the months ahead
while combining our two best features -- tracking members of Congress and
empowering grassroots activists. If you’d like to jump into this work now,
[ [link removed] ]check out the For the People Project, which is our one-stop-hub for all
of our democracy reform tools. Then, keep reading for a few stories about
Town Hall Project’s and Indivisible’s work and how we’re saving democracy
together in 2021.

Fighting Trumpcare

In February 2017, when members of Congress went home to their districts
for recess, Indivisibles and Americans all over the country showed up to
their local town halls to save the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In the
months that followed, in red and blue states alike, constituents showed up
at crowded town halls to say that they would be bankrupt or dead without
the ACA. They made national news at these meetings as they described how
they or their family members would suffer if their elected officials
supported the repeal of the ACA. 

Congressional Republicans began to look heartless as they were
face-to-face with cancer survivors, parents with disabled children, and
young people with pre-existing conditions. The coordination of Town Hall
Project and Indivisibles during these months changed the national
narrative by making the public aware of House Republicans’ efforts to cut
Medicaid and gut coverage for pre-existing conditions. For an entire year,
these town halls and grassroots mobilizations were critical to showing the
public that the ACA saved countless lives, and Trump’s cronies were
putting Americans at risk -- and in the end, the ACA was saved from the
GOP.

Protecting Dreamers

The fight to protect Dreamers is a story of building coalition power and
pressuring members of Congress -- whether they’re Democrats or Republicans
-- in the name of justice. When Trump ended Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) in 2017, he demonstrated the cruel xenophobia that was
sweeping the Republican party. The immigrant rights community led the
effort to fight back, and Indivisibles and other allies across the country
showed up to have their backs. 

With the help of Town Hall Project, Indivisibles applied consistent
pressure on their members of Congress at town halls and district offices,
demanding that Republicans pass a clean Dream Act and Democrats use their
political capital instead of telling Dreamers to wait. To this day, we
still don't have a permanent solution and path to citizenship for Dreamers
and undocumented immigrants in this country. But Indivisibles, alongside
activists all over the country, moved in solidarity with the immigrant
rights movement making immigration one of the top issues leading into the
2020 election and a major priority in the first 100 days of the Biden
administration.

Working together for a better democracy

Now that Trump is out of office, we’re working to fix the larger, systemic
problem that allowed Trumpism to fester -- our rigged democracy. This is
our chance to unrig the system that Republicans built to work against
people of color, workers, immigrants, low-income families, and more. We
know that Town Hall Project will play a critical role in that work by
helping Indivisibles pressure their elected officials. 

[ [link removed] ]We’ve got two years to prioritize structural democracy reform, and that
starts with passing the For the People Act, H.R. 1, making D.C. the 51st
state with H.R. 51, and eliminating the Senate filibuster. This is our
moment of Democratic opportunity -- and it all starts with creating a
strong foundation for a democracy that works for the people. We’re so
grateful to be in this fight with Town Hall Project, and with you -- and
we look forward to recreating our democracy together.

In solidarity, 
Indivisible Team

 

 

 

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