Hey Indivisibles,

I’ve got really good news: this is my last email of the year. Sure, it’s also the last day of the year, but hear me out anyway. There’s a final fundraising ask at the bottom, but more than that, I just wanted to reflect on everything we Indivisibles have accomplished in 2019, and what 2020 will have in store.

This year has been A LOT. Here’s 2019 in a few illustrative bullets:

• January: Indivisible starts the year on offense, with the (then) single largest national day of action in our history to support the pro-democracy For the People Act (HR 1).
• March: Mueller report completed, and Indivisible starts ramping up pressure on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings.
• April: Launch of the Indivisible Pledge, committing Indivisible groups and presidential candidates to rally around the primary winner. Almost all candidates sign.
• May: #StopTheBans nationwide protests in opposition to anti-abortion laws across the country.
• July: Lights for Liberty national day of action, with hundreds of vigils across the country protesting Trump’s concentration camps.
• August: First ever national convening of Indivisible group leaders from across the country. This leads directly into Indivisible’s largest week of action in coordination with the Defund Hate Campaign to cut funding for Trump’s deportation machine. Also, Indivisible holds nationwide “Impeachment August” congressional recess events pressing Congress to move forward with impeachment.
• September: Speaker Pelosi announces the start of official impeachment proceedings.
• November: We Are Indivisible is published! Book tour all across the country. All proceeds go to the Save Democracy Fund (and still do). Also in November, Indivisible orchestrates live interviews of five presidential candidates, and we release Indivisible’s first ever presidential primary scorecard.
• December: The day before Trump is impeached, more than 600 local “Impeachment Eve” events spread across every single state in the country. Then, Trump is impeached!

What’s coming in 2020. We know where we want to be in one year. We’ll be headed into 2021 with a Democratic trifecta in the House, Senate, and presidency -- and momentum to make a big democracy reform the first legislation of the new Congress. That’s the plan.

So how do we do it? We don’t do it by waiting for the wave to come -- we do it by spending the next 11 months building that wave. We can’t wait for the primary to be over to start preparing to win the general. This means:

• We give Indivisible groups the Voter File for canvassing, phonebanking, and textbanking.
• We put additional organizing and communications resources in action on the ground in electoral college and Senate swing states.
• We leverage the power of the movement to reach out to more than 10 million voters to get them out to vote.

Don’t overthink this. It’s easy to get lost in the 7-dimensional chess of political campaigns -- the polling, messaging, and punditry. But none of this is rocket science. The most important truth couldn’t be simpler: there are more of us than there are of them. We outnumber them. And for the time being, we still live in a democracy. That means if we get our people out to vote, we win. If we get our people out, Trump is a disgraced one-term president. If we get our people out, the next Congress will be a Democratic Congress. If we get our people out, we save American democracy.

We got our people out in 2018 to build the largest mid-term margins in the history of the Republic. We need to build the largest presidential margins in history next year. So that’s what Indivisible is going to do.

And yes, this takes some money to do. See, I told you at the top that I was going to ask you for money, didn’t I? Well, see if this a convincing pitch.

We’re an organizing operation -- we pay for state lead organizers, data and political tool mavens, and digital experts to help us empower and mobilize the Indivisible movement. We have folks whose job it is to wake up in swing states every morning thinking “How am I going to strengthen the Indivisible groups in this state today? What do I need to do to get more of our people out in November?” We want more of those people spread around the country in key states.

Our goal is to raise $230,000 by midnight tonight. Why that amount? Well, Indivisible doesn’t build any sort of long-term reserves. The way we figure out if we expand our campaign work is simple: if we have six months of operating expenditure, we can expand. If we don’t have it, we don’t expand. So if we raise $230,000 by midnight, that’ll give us what we need to get a running start next year.

So if you believe in Indivisible’s organizing model and want to see us ramp it up, throw a few bucks our way here in the next few hours.

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Together we’ve accomplished so much in the last three years. Defeating the attack on the Affordable Care Act. Building a previously-unimaginable blue wave to retake the House. Driving to the impeachment of a criminal President of the United States.

I think this movement’s got another historic win in its future -- I think we’re going to save our democracy, and I think we’re going to do it together. I think that’s what comes next.

In solidarity,
Ezra Levin
Co-founder and Co-Executive Director