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, 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. 

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