ACT NOW!
'I share the feeling so many I've spoken with have that it's not enough. It is not, but it is a beginning we can build on. No one knows what will happen in this suddenly destabilized country, but I do know we can choose to have a role in what happens, and it's possible we can determine what happens. "Don't ask what will happen. Be what happens"' Rebecca Solnit
Choose Democracy
What Can I Do?
Here are some starting points on how to orient and help fight the coup.
June 24, 2025 Updates
Elon's Crappy Birthday
Saturday, June 28, 9:00 AM
Tesla Store and Gallery
500 E St. Elmo Road
6/28 happens to be Elon Musk’s birthday! Naturally, we're protesting outside his store in South Austin in a critical moment for our democracy. Expect an opportunity to write a post card to Elon and a special custom piñata! Bring a friend or two or come solo!
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Elon and Tesla are both enablers of Trump's administration. Watch this speech by one of the organizers which explains the overall reasoning for the Tesla protests:
Petition the Commissioners Court
Travis County gave Tesla massive tax breaks. Now workers are dying, pollution is rising—and we’re still footing the bill. It’s time to hold Tesla accountable.
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Sign the petition now to tell the Commissioners Court: no more giveaways to law-breaking corporations.
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https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-subsidizing-teslas-bad-behavior
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Read: "Tesla’s Bad Behavior Shouldn’t Be Taxpayer-Funded"
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June 23, 2025 Updates
Rally for Housing Not Handcuffs
June 27th at 10:00AM
Republic Square Park
On June 27th, a year will have passed since the Supreme Court made it illegal to sleep outside. Since then, 250+ anti-homeless, anti-survival bills have been introduced across the Country. People who are unhoused face constant harassment and criminalization despite the lack of housing and care or real solutions to our housing crisis.
Now, Congress is negotiating a bill that would slash Medicaid, food stamps, and other essentials to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. If passed, millions of people across Texas will end up hungrier, homeless, and unwell. Our representatives are attacking the crucial safety nets our communities rely on -- tossing families to the street and doubling down on ticketing and arresting people too poor to afford a place to live.
Join people across the country to demand real solutions to end homelessness, stop deadly budget cuts, and reject unjust fines and arrests! We'll gather at Republic Square and then march to Senator Cornyn's office to protest the proposed cuts (about a five minute walk from the park).
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https://vocal-tx.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=303
Freedom Fest
JULY 5th
5PM
Texas Capitol
BYO drinks & snacks, camp chairs & picnic blankets.
Lineup:
Robert A. Kraft, Blues and Soul singer, Executive Director of the Bastrop Live Music Foundation
Tameca Jones, Soul and R&B singer
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Organizations that will be tabling:
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League of Women Voters Austin
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Resist Austin
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Freedom’s Shield
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Drag Against Ice
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This Fourth of July weekend, we’ll be at the TX State Capitol with songs of freedom and joy from some of Austin’s favorite musicians. The dream of American freedom belongs to all of us, and we will not stop until all of us are free.
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GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON
SAVE THE DATE
Thursday, July 17
6 – 9pm CDT
Time & Location May Change – Stay Tuned
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Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to confront the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on our civil and human rights.
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July 17 marks the anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’s passing. On that day, we take up his call to make Good Trouble—to defend democracy and continue the fight for justice.
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June 16, 2025 Updates
Fundraiser for SLC No Kings shooting victim
This is the fundraiser for the 39-year-old man who was accidentally killed at the No Kings protest in Salt Lake City. It's a horrible story. Guns suck. Share and give as you're able.
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-laura-vera-and-isaac-after-afas-passing
TELL THE SENATE:
Judges Must Be Allowed to Prevent our Rights From Being Trampled
Email your senators today to demand that they speak out loudly against ANY attempts to use reconciliation to weaken our courts. Whether it’s the No Contempt Clause or this new threat -- they must VOTE NO to handing Trump king-like powers!
More info and an email form here:
https://act.indivisible.org/sign/senator-no-contempt-clause/
PHONEBANK with Indivisible Guide
Wednesdays and Thursdays
10am – 11:30pm CST
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Call folks in target states to connect them with GOP senators and disrupt the Republican Tax Scam.
As the Senate rewrites the reconciliation bill, we’re making sure key senators hear from their angry constituents -- by calling folks to connect them directly to senators' offices! Phonebanks take place weekly, and anyone can join with just a phone and a computer
Help Fix our Broken Media
Join the Media and Democracy Project in their fight for a better-informed America. Be a media activist!
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Sign up for their Substack https://mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/
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Or attend their monthly meeting to find out how you can help!
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Join a growing community of pro-democracy, pro-media activists on Monday, July 21 at 6 pm CST for our Monthly Zoom MAD Monday Meeting where we will provide updates, suggest actions, and hear from you.
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Indivisible Austin Meeting
Monday, June 30
5:30 – 7:30pm CDT
Carver Branch, Austin Public Library
1161 Angelina St
Austin, TX 78702
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Because democracy won't defend itself!
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Come hang with your fellow Austinites, changemakers, and democracy-defenders in real life. This isn’t your average political meeting — we’re mixing action with energy, strategy with snacks, and real talk with real plans.
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June 3, 2025 Updates
Indivisible Rosedale HuddleBanner Drops Tuesday and Friday!​
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Banner drop volunteers meet from 8:00 to 9:30. Banner drops and sign waving takes place from 8:30 to 9:30.
Tuesday at the Far West bridge over Mopac.
https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/795137/
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Friday at the 12th Street Bridge over Interstate 35 https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/794638/
From Chop Wood, Carry Water:
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Rachel Cohen, the lawyer who left her law firm over its decision to comply with the Trump administration, has created a fantastic action to hold the law firms that are caving to Trump accountable.
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The idea is to send emails to organizations where these lawyers sit on the boards and ask them to remove those lawyers from their board. This creates specific individual consequences for the lawyers who decided to cave.
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She’s created a tool kit that allows you to send emails automatically, by clicking on a link—this will work for everyone EXCEPT for those with VPNs. If it doesn’t work for you she also provides all of the letters as separate docs so you can copy and paste them into an email or print them.
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(Here is a link to her TikTok about this action, although you’re not all on TikTok. It doesn’t seem to be on any other platforms.)
May 20, 2025 Updates
"Fight Back with Friends" Training
Tuesdays, 7-8pm CST
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Get new tools to help get your friends and family off the sidelines! We all know someone who wants to join our fight but isn’t sure where to start. Fight Back with Friends is a new program designed to break down that barrier. Our monthly call starting Tuesday, May 27, will give you everything you need to get started!
Stop Trump's Crypto Corruption
Call your senators -- Republicans AND Democrats -- to demand that they oppose a cryptocurrency bill enabling Trump’s corruption. Indivisibles recently helped derail a toothless bill that would’ve let Trump keep profiting from the presidency via his crypto investments. Now, that bill is on the move again, and we need to let our senators hear us so we can defeat it for good.
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https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-stop-trumps-crypto-corruption
May 3, 2025 Updates
Rise Up Book Club
Here's one for folks in Central/North Central Austin.
Each month, on the 3rd Saturday, they'll meet to discuss a book on the topic of democracy, justice, activism, or anything in between.The first meet up will be on June 21st and they'll be discussing The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee.
Join them at 9:30 AM to settle in and order drinks or food. At 10 AM, they’ll get started with the discussion.
RSVP for location.
From Chop Wood, Carry Water
Greyhound is making sure ICE knows that they will be denied access to their buses without a warrant. Let’s say thanks!
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You can also write them on social media—Facebook DMs are always a good way to get through.
April 23, 2025 Updates
From Chop Wood, Carry Water:​
Here's a way to help federal employees!
This is from the leadership of AFGE (the American Federation of Government Employees). Trump has been heavily targeting them, and they need our help right now.
"Our union is going through some tough challenges right now... The Trump Administration issued an executive order illegally eliminating dues deduction for our 330,000 members and putting our union’s existence under threat. We have launched a campaign to get our members to enroll into e-dues so they can remain members, and have successfully enrolled more than 100,000 people already. But we need help reaching the rest. Do you have a good group of phone bankers you can mobilize to help us? Our next phone bank session will be Thursday, April 24 at Noon ET / 9AM PT. You can register below. (They will also have a session Tuesday, April 29 at 5pm DC time, see below, too.) We will give an update on the campaign at the beginning of the call and then a training for new folks joining the effort. The phone banking will all be to existing AFGE members to get them to enroll in E-dues so they remain members. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide on recruiting good phone bankers for this effort."
Thursdays, starting April 24th: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/7JiQ40NsRIaNWtD7DNAS7Q#/registration
Tuesdays, starting April 29th: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/I0A8PuGFSNqsmZ_eylSdVQ#/registration
What’s the Plan? A Weekly Discussion with Indivisible’s Co-Founders
Thursdays
2 – 3pm (central)
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If you ever need a bit of motivation, this is a WEEKLY mobilization meeting with Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg of Indivisible Guide.
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https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/773746/
The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back.
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The antidote: Coming together in community to process what’s happening, to sift through what’s important and what’s just noise, and coalesce around strategies for fighting back.
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Join Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin each week, as we carve out an hour to discuss what’s happening and – more importantly – what’s the plan.
April 11, 2025 Updates
Tell Cornyn and Cruz You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks
Here's a handy online form from Indivisible for you to email Cornyn and Cruz your thoughts (plus their boilerplate) on the plan to ram through the Trump Tax Scam.
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https://act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutting-programs-to-fund-handouts-to-billionaires_senate
Oppose the SAVE Act
Call Your Senators
Hi, I'm a constituent calling from [zip]. My name is ______. I understand that the House just passed the SAVE Act. I am deeply opposed to this bill. It will disenfranchise tens of millions of American citizens with no access to a birth certificate or passport, and 69 million married women who took their husband’s last names. All to address a problem that doesn’t exist! I demand that the Senator vote no on this bill. Also please oppose H.R. 1526, the No Rogue Rulings Act, and any other attempt to rewrite the federal court system. These are terrifying attacks on our system of law. They cannot pass.
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Finally, please ask the Senator to demand the return of Kilmar Abrego. Thanks.
April 1, 2025 Updates
Protest Safety Information​
March 30, 2025 Updates
PLUG IN!
​We're working hard to keep up with the flood of available actions, but it can all be overwhelming. Here's six links you can use to focus your energy.
Joy As a Form of Activism
Always a good reminder including a nice list of 10 suggestions!
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"No one was ever helped because an activist denied themselves joy, or laughter, or fun. Lama Rod Owens teaches students that just because the lotus doesn’t bloom without the mud, we don’t need to be little piggies and roll around in it. Hardships exist, but if we are to deal with them, and see positivity bloom, we need to get out of the mud."
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https://activistcarecircle.substack.com/p/joy-as-a-form-of-activism
How We Fight Back
Sign up for the new FREE Substack launched by MoveOn, Indivisible, and Working Families Power! Each week they'll be giving practical advice on ways to fight back against Trump and Musk.
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These three groups are doing the organizational heavy lifting of the anti-MAGA movement. Let’s follow them! Oh, and please share this first post—it’s great!
March 22, 2025 Updates
Protests Mapped
Here's a resource for nationwide protest finding/tracking. Not just a good way to see what's going on here, but to see just how much is going on across the country. It's not comprehensive, but it's just getting started.
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https://thedemlabs.substack.com/p/protest-finder-mapping-the-growing
March 15, 2025 Updates
Where's Senator Cornyn?
Help us find him! Spread the word with these handy fliers. Call 512-387-2030 or email annie@rosedalehuddle.org to pick some up.
FOIA DOGE
An idea from Rep. Jamie Raskin:
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Fill out a FOIA request for DOGE so that you can see what data they have on you and whether it's correct or if they've used it for any nefarious purposes. He has info about how to do this with links on his website: https://jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy-act-requests/
“As Bill Widener said (and President Teddy Roosevelt repeated), "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." From Rob Brezny https://newsletter.freewillastrology.com/p/this-is-real
March 10, 2025 Updates
Calling All Scribes!
If you are interested in ...
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expressing your opinion about various topics;
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writing GOTV cards for specific candidates;
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congratulating someone on a job well done; or
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urging fellow registered voters to actually GO VOTE!
then you can make a difference by joining the Log Cabin Scribes.
The Log Cabin Scribes meet from 10:00 am to noon on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month to write postcards for a variety of causes. Email rosedalehuddle.org@gmail.com for more information about the meeting place.
Add Your Name: Free Mahmoud Khalil
Mahmoud was taken from his apartment and separated from his wife as part of a broader strategy of repression. The forceful separation of families is inhuman and cruel. These tactics have long been used against Black and Brown communities to control and silence resistance.
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Black Lives Matter condemns this blatant attack on free speech, student activism, and the right to protest. The government is trying to make an example out of Mahmoud to send a message: if you resist, if you organize, if you challenge state violence, they will come for you.
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Add your name to fight back now. We need to free Mahmoud Khalil, abolish ICE, and fight back against this administration.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/add-your-name-free-mahmoud-khalil/
March 4, 2025 Updates
Know Your Rights: Protesting in Texas
Legal and policy experts at the ACLU of Texas will explain how the First Amendment protects the right to protest, which state laws impact speech rights in public spaces, and what to do if approached by law enforcement. We’re offering a training the first Thursday of the month, sign up here.
Help Combat disinformation with the Indivisible Truth Brigade
With social media companies dispensing with fact-checking and some platform owners/acting US presidents intentionally amplifying disinformation, we all have to step up to identify and combat propaganda and divisive lies.​ Join us to take actions to defend truth online.
Postcards to Voters
Postcards to Voters are friendly, handwritten reminders from volunteers to targeted voters giving Democrats a winning edge in close, key races coast to coast.
March 2, 2025 Updates
​​Support Ukraine!
We are horrified and ashamed by the way President Zelenskyy was treated in the White House on Friday. If you feel the same way, here are some actions to take:
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1. Send money to the Ukranian government.
This fund, which was started in mid-2022, goes directly to them. If we all do this, we’ll send a non-trivial amount of money and make a big statement about what the American people think of the disgraceful behavior of our leaders.
2. Calls to Congress, part 2:
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Call your Senators and your Representative and ask whether they have made a public statement in support of President Zelenskyy and Ukraine. Either thank them for supporting Ukraine, or ask them how it advances American interests (as opposed to the business interests of Trump and Musk) to support Russian dictators rather than democratically elected presidents.
3. Send a letter of support for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian leaders and soldiers, and the resilient people of Ukraine
4. Rally at the Capitol with our neighbors
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Every Saturday at 11:00 am since Putin's Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. They welcome support from anyone who cares about democracy. Slava Ukraini! (Photo by Pierce Lind)
Postcard and Letter Writing to Voters with Swing Left
More information and signup here.
Rapid Response for Our Freedoms:
More information and signup here.
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Protest, Boycott, and General Strike
For our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy, every Friday, 1 PM EST, more information and signup here.​​
State Senator Sarah Eckhardt's Take Action Page​
With so much happening and there being so many great causes to fight for, it can be hard to know where to start.
The Take Action page is your one-stop-shop for getting involved with issues you care about. The page also features a calendar of upcoming Advocacy Days at the Capitol where you can show up, connect, and advocate for progress.​​​​​​​​