Indivisibles,

This week is going to be pretty major.

Firstly, tomorrow is Election Day! Indivisibles have been hard at work in a few key states for this off-year election, and are excited to push progressive candidates across the finish line (check out our Election Update section below for more!)

Our book also comes out tomorrow! We’re so excited and we just can’t hide it (seriously, we’re literally going on a seven-city book tour)! Ezra and Leah are traveling across the country talking about about how we build the power to drive through impeachment in 2019, retake power in 2020, and demand democracy in 2021. So grab our love letter to this movement – We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump – and look out for an event near you!

The House is on recess (now through Nov 11), and that means we need you to step up and plan an event at a district office or RSVP to a town hall right now. No member of Congress should be able to escape the drumbeat of impeachment from their constituents right now.

Super important caveat - the committees investigating Trump, including the House Intelligence Committee, will not be returning home for recess. This is great news! It means our pressure is creating a growing sense of urgency among House Democrats to hold this administration accountable for its crimes. This likely means that we can expect the start of public hearings very soon.

And now for the most important number of the week, your 5 weekly to-dos:

 Your 5 weekly to-dos 

1. Demand your member of Congress #impeachnow this recess. The House is on recess from now through Veterans Day (November 2 - November 11). At this stage in the impeachment fight, it’s important to show up to town halls, plan a district office visit, or get members on the record at public events (think: parades). For Democrats, show up to tell them that you’ve got their backs. For Republicans, ask them #OneSimpleQuestion: do you think it’s OK for a president to ask a foreign power to interfere in our elections? Get their responses on video. Find or register your event now and coalition partners will help you recruit.
2. Sign up to make some calls connecting voters to senators to demand a complete and fair impeachment trial. We've identified 13 senators who really need to hear from their constituents (folks who are vulnerable because they’re up for reelection next year and folks who are retiring and worrying a lot about their legacies). Now we're asking you to call voters in those states and ask them to turn up the pressure on their elected officials. It’s a simple four-part process:

• You call a progressive voter in a key state with one of these 13 Republicans. These folks are your friends—they attended the Women’s March and/or fight for progressive causes.
• You explain how they have power now. You’ll remind them why the continued fight for impeachment is so important—and why they have particular power in this moment.
• You ask them to use their power. Then, you’ll ask them to call their senator and make their voices heard on why we’re demanding courage in this moment.
• You push a button and connect them to their senator’s office. The call tool will allow you to automatically patch them through to the senator’s DC office.

 Other Hill Happenings 

The House is currently out on recess, which means it’s a great time for you to make your voice heard in your home district! Here’s all the information you need to tell your members of Congress what you expect of them when they return to Washington:

• Congress needs to vote to fund the government by November 21. The next deadline to avoid a government shutdown is November 21, and the pressure is turning up on Congress to act. The House and Senate will try to work to pass another short-term funding bill (known as a “continuing resolution,” or “CR”) that will last until December, January, or even later. We need to make sure Congress continues to hold strong against Trump's racist immigration agenda by working to Defund Hate — check out our resources here!
• The House will vote soon on its bill to bring down prescription drug prices. Lowering the cost of people’s medicine is rightly a top priority for Congress, and H.R. 3 -- which is the House’s bill for doing so -- needs to be as strong as possible to ensure it would improve people’s lives. Right now, it has some key gaps that would result in too many people spending too much for the drugs they need. Make sure to check out this document that includes a town hall question for any public events with your member, then call your member of Congress and tell them to improve H.R. 3, and use our leave-behind if you have a meeting with your member of Congress’s staff!

 Election Update 

Tomorrow is Election Day in states around the country! We know, we know — we’ve all got our eyes on the prize of 2020. But there are some crucial races happening in 2019 too:

• In Virginia, voters have the opportunity to flip both the Virginia House and Senate — potentially making the Commonwealth a Democratic trifecta ahead of 2020 redistricting.
  
  
• In Kentucky, we’ve got our eyes on the effort to get Andy Beshear elected and protect Medicaid expansion in the Commonwealth.
  
  
• And in Mississippi, Indivisibles have been knocking doors to turn out voters in key races up and down the ballot. 

If you live in a state with 2019 elections, don’t forget to vote tomorrow! Call 866-OUR-VOTE to verify your registration, check poll hours, confirm your polling site, or report any issues on election day.

 Find an IndivisiEvent near you 

 We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump 

Every week we’ve shared excerpts from the book with our movement -- and finally -- the time has come. The book comes out tomorrow! We ended last week’s preview talking about the sad state of our democracy -- about how it’s buckling and it’s rigged. 

Part 1: Democracy buckling. American democracy just wasn’t built for what we’re dealing with now—and it’s coming apart at the seams. The Founders didn’t foresee two political parties like we have now, and for most of our history we didn’t have them. Since the 1960s, the parties have grown ideologically distinct; they’ve polarized. That polarization, overlaid on top of our outdated democratic institutions, is a recipe for gridlock and dysfunction—and it’s only going to get worse. Our democracy is buckling.

Part 2: Democracy rigged. Our democracy isn’t just falling apart on its own; it’s being intentionally rigged. An unholy alliance between wealthy plutocrats, practitioners of white identity politics, and religious ideologues has produced a reactionary conservative party—and they’re systematically rigging the rules to keep themselves in power. They know that a truly representative democracy will reject their unpopular social and economic agenda. So they’re doing their best to prevent that from happening. Our democracy is being rigged.

If we’re ever going to fix the system and save our democracy, we need to understand how it came to be so broken and rigged in the first place. The following pages describe what we’re up against.

To Be Continued… when you buy the book! 

If you didn’t get the chance to order your book, you can still contribute to our goal of making the New York Times’s Best Seller List by ordering now! It’s critical to sell as many books as we can this week to make the list, and ultimately, to help us get the book in as many hands as possible.

Luckily, we’re still running our Indivisible Book Contest! Y’all can win an exclusive swag bag and a 30-minute conversation with Leah or Ezra -- all you have to do is order, take a photo of the receipt, and tag us on Twitter or Instagram with #IndivisiBookClub.

PS -- Click here to see the full rules of the contest. And don't forget to block out any personally identifiable information from the receipt!

 Support the Movement 

Our big strategy on impeachment boils down to this: we need to build an unprecedented amount of pressure on Congress, because we know it’s the only way to get them to do their jobs and hold Trump accountable for his crimes. 

That’s why we’ve got a multi-pronged strategy to build the grassroots power we need to get it done. A massive ad campaign, regularly updated guides and resources, on-the-ground organizing and nationwide rapid-response efforts, Impeachment Daily and all our news roundups -- we’re doing all this work and more to make sure our members of Congress take their jobs seriously and hold Trump accountable.

But building all those resources takes a ton of work from organizers, policy experts, and creative team members. We want our work to represent you, the people, which means we need our funding to come from the people too. Can you pitch in $10 to keep our impeachment strategy and all our work moving?

 IndivisiWin of the Week 

Indivisibles from across New York came together for Empire State Indivisible’s 2020 kick-off meeting! 2020 is going to be one of the most consequential elections in our lifetime and Indivisibles don’t plan on sitting on the sidelines for it!

This week is gonna be busy, Indivisibles. But in the best possible way. So find a town hall, get ready to set up your IndivisibleBookClub, and keep your eyes peeled for impeachment updates as House Democrats continue investigating Trump during this recess. 

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team