Indivisibles,

Normally we wouldn't email you twice in one day but we just heard some
very important intel on the For the People Act, and with the Senate headed
for recess literally any day, it couldn’t wait.

This afternoon, our policy team (that’s me and my colleagues) heard from
multiple sources that Delaware's two senators, Tom Carper and Chris Coons,
are both holding out on eliminating or even reforming the filibuster,
effectively stalling passage of the For the People Act (S. 1). We’ve known
for a while that they were both reluctant to upset the status quo even for
important legislation -- they’ve been telling Indivisible groups so for a
while -- but this is the clearest confirmation we’ve heard that they’re
willing to put arcane Senate rules over the legislation the American
people elected Democrats to pass. 

Having them standing in the way also provides cover for Sens. Manchin (WV)
and Sinema (AZ), who can now pretend they aren’t the ones blocking
progress. If you’re not part of the solution, Senators, you’re part of the
problem. 

Depending on where you live, here’s what we need you to do:

 1. If you live in Delaware, call Senators Coons and Carper at
1-877-684-7760 and tell them you’ve heard information that they’re
wavering and it's time to pick a side: Democracy or the filibuster.
Remind them you're paying attention. (If you want, [ [link removed] ]fill out your
information here and we’ll call you with a script and patch you
through to their office directly.)

 2. If you live in West Virginia or Arizona, call Senator Manchin or
Sinema and tell them you insist they stop defending the Jim Crow
Filibuster and pass S. 1. Don’t let them off the hook with a
wishy-washy answer. Click [ [link removed] ]here to call Manchin or [ [link removed] ]here to call
Sinema.

 3. If you have any other Democratic senator, [ [link removed] ]click here to call them
and ask them to turn up the heat on Coons, Carper, Manchin and Sinema.
Tell them you’re proud to have heard they’re taking a stand against
the filibuster and for our democracy, and ask them to pressure their
colleagues to do the same.

 4. If you have a Republican senator or no senator (hi, my D.C. neighbors)
the honest truth is you probably don’t have a call to make that will
make a huge difference right now. Call your friends with Democratic
senators, or [ [link removed] ]click here to make a donation to support Indivisible
and help us fund the call tools, our pressure campaigns and more. With
this new intel, we’re planning a big advertising campaign for next
week and you can help make it happen. 

The For the People Act is incredibly popular, and passing it is crucial to
ensuring we have a democracy that works for everyone. These are common
sense measures -- things like getting dark money out of elections and
preventing politicians from getting to choose their own voters (i.e.
gerrymandering.) Sens. Coons, Carper, Manchin and Sinema are handing Mitch
McConnell, whose party lost, control over the future of American
democracy. It’s unacceptable. 

Thanks for helping out,
Meagan Hatcher-Mays

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