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
Many events and items below are not Huddle events. The Huddle is proud to help amplify opportunities like these as an effort we believe in and to show support for the community. We contribute when we can, but we want to be transparent. We are not organizers or financial representatives . For questions regarding fundraising or event details, please reach out directly to the organizers.
Choose Democracy
What Can I Do?
Here are some starting points on how to orient and help fight the coup.
Forward ATX
March 1, 2025 Updates
Know Your Rights Training for Food/Beverage Industry
Tuesday, March 3rd from 10AM-12PM
L’Oca d’Oro (1900 Simond Ave STE 100)
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As a business owner in the service industry, protecting your workplace and supporting your team are critical, especially in today’s climate. Join Good Work Austin and the Austin Sanctuary Network (ASN) for an essential workshop tailored to help business owners navigate their rights and responsibilities in the face of workplace visits or raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
NO KINGS AUSTIN is LIVE!
Saturday, March 28
1 – 4pm CDT
900 W Riverside Dr
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Event details pending. All registrants will be updated via email.
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We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.
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On March 28th, rise up, take to the streets, and say it loud: no thrones, no crowns, no kings. We’re not watching history happen—we’re making it. Join us.
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International Women's Day at TX Capitol
From Women's March:
Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 12:00 PM CDT
Texas Capitol
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Join Austin Students for a Democratic Society, and coalition partners, in rallying for International Women's Day!
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https://action.womensmarch.com/events/austin-international-women-s-day-protest
Community Song Circle for International Women's Day
Sunday, March 8, 2026 5 - 6:30 pm
Texas Capitol Rotunda
Migration With Dignity Prayer Vigil & Food Drive
Wednesday, March 11th at 6:30 PM
301 E. 8th St., Austin, TX 78701
Join in at St. David's Episcopal Church for a monthly vigil dedicated to the 500 children currently detained in Texas. Free parking at the church.
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Join with local faith communities for an interfaith prayer vigil and food drive for refugees, asylum seekers, and other immigrants at St. David's Episcopal Church.
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Second Wednesdays through May 2026
5:30 p.m. Community Dinner
6:30 p.m. Prayer Vigil
Feb. 11, 2026
March 11, 2026
April 8, 2026
May 13, 2026
To help with food insecurity caused by the immigration crisis, please bring non-perishable food items for the food drive.
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https://stdave.org/community-engagement/spring-2026-migration-with-dignity-vigils/
February 19, 2025 Updates
Rapid Response Hotline-Share widely
Austin Rapid Response Hotline: 512-686-6243
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ICE has been highly active across Austin and surrounding communities this past week, with detentions reported throughout the area.
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If you see ICE activity, call the hotline immediately.
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Right now, the most important thing you can do is help get this number into as many hands as possible:
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Share the hotline number (512-686-6243) with your neighbors, coworkers, and local businesses.
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If your neighborhood rapid response group is distributing whistle kits or doing canvassing, be sure to include the hotline number.
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Post the number on your social media (Instagram stories, group chats, neighborhood pages). Tag and message local accounts and ask them to reshare.
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Print and post flyers in community spaces — laundromats, tiendas, churches, restaurants.
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Save 512-686-6243 in your phone right now — and encourage others to do the same.
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The hotline keeps our community safer, but only if people know about it. Please help us spread the word today.
Mark your calendars for MAY 1ST
May 1st (May Day) is being planned with coalition partners to be a coordinated "stress test" for a General Strike.
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Way more info to come soon, but mark your calendars now.
Volunteer with Hands Off for No Kings 3
MARCH 28TH will be here soon!
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Plug into the organization or one of their events! They need folks for all parts of the cause. Calling all leaders, media artists, videographers, techies. Sign up here:
Calls to Action
The Contrarian is doing new versions of this Calls to Action page periodically--filled with LOTS of great ideas to #DoSomething. Check it out!
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A great link to share with friends trying to figure out where to start!
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/contrarian-calls-to-action-c98
February 14, 2025 Updates
Raising funds for Pastor Ayodele Olufemi Oladejo in ICE Detention
Texas State Employees Union member Olufemi Oladejo has been held in ICE detention since November 2025.
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Before being detained, he worked as a Direct Support Professional at the Denton State Supported Living Center, where he cared for some of the most vulnerable Texans.
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Please donate what you can and share his GoFundMe to help bring him home. Visit GoFund.me/bond.week.warm
Calls to Action
The Contrarian is doing new versions of this Calls to Action page periodically--filled with LOTS of great ideas to #DoSomething. Check it out!
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A great link to share with friends trying to figure out where to start!
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/contrarian-calls-to-action-00a
February 5, 2025 Updates
From Indivisible National
The House passed a package of six funding bills, ending the partial government shutdown and temporarily funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through February 13.
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This vote buys time to negotiate a DHS funding bill that protects communities from two DHS agencies that have been terrorizing and brutalizing our communities: ICE and Border Patrol.
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It’s critical we use that time to put pressure on every Member of Congress -- especially Democrats -- to insist on real guardrails that put an end to ICE and CBP’s lawless thuggery and get them out of our cities. We can’t settle for insufficient reforms like body cams -- we’ve all seen that Trump’s goons are perfectly happy to gas, tackle, and kill innocent people on film.
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Whether or not you’ve already called or emailed: We need EVERYONE to be loud over the next nine days and make capitulation politically impossible.
https://indivisible.org/actions/ice-out-senate/
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And EMAIL: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out-for-good/
NO THRONES, NO CROWNS, NO KINGS
March 28
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In 2025, millions of Americans came together in nonviolent protest to oppose the growing authoritarian actions of the Trump administration and affirm that this nation belongs to its people, not to kings. Since then, people have continued to rise up nonviolently against the Trump administration’s ongoing brutality and abuses of power, including the latest escalation in Minnesota. The No Kings Coalition is activating an immediate and ongoing nationwide digital organizing effort leading up to our next mass mobilization on March 28, including a flagship event in the Twin Cities.
As soon as we have information on the Austin event, we will post it.
January 20, 2025 Updates
Sign up to be a poll worker
When voters have questions or hit obstacles, you become their lifeline!
If you love helping people in real time, enjoy a dash of adrenaline, and have persistence and heart, this might be for you. Helping one voter at a time protect their right to vote really matters. There are trainings and even a small stipend.
Learn more here on how to Become an Election Worker
https://votetravis.gov/current-election-information/become-an-election-worker/
Indivisible Austin Whine and Wine
Last Friday of every month
6 – 7pm CST
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Join us for a relaxed and welcoming Whine & Wine Zoom gathering. A space to connect, unwind, and speak honestly about what’s happening in our lives and our communities. We’ll sip our favorite beverages, share some laughs, and hold space for real conversation, collective venting, and mutual support.
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This is a casual, judgment-free circle to process the moment, build solidarity, and remind one another that we’re not alone in this work. Bring a glass of wine (or any drink you love), your stories, your concerns, and your sense of humor. Whether you’re here to whine, to wine, or to find renewed strength together, you belong here.
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From Jess Craven Chop Wood, Carry Water:
Since there’s still been no action on arresting Jonathan Ross let’s call the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office at 612-348-5550.
Tell them you want Mary Moriarty to issue an arrest warrant for Jonathan Ross. Tell them that if she won’t use the authority she has, she should resign and let someone else do the job.
If you get voicemail, leave a message. If the line is busy, call back.
If you can’t get through by phone, email citizeninfo@hennepin.us
Or write to 300 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis, MN 55487.
Find Moriarty on social media at @MaryMoriarty or the official office account @HennepinAtty.
The office is also on Facebook at Hennepin County Attorney's Office and Instagram at @HennepinAttorney.
One prosecution won’t fix everything. But it plants a flag. It proves there’s still a rule of law. Not just a ruler.
Amazon owns Ring Doorbell
Ring Doorbell has a contract with local law enforcement and ICE to utilize your Ring Cameras on your property to assist in kidnapping your neighbors!
Remove your Ring devices if willing and able!
Help us by sharing everywhere. Feel free to screenshot and post to your own socials as well. Help us get this out to protect our neighbors!
January 15, 2025 Updates
From Hands Off Central TX:
ICE OUT OF ATX - Petition to Demand APD stop collaborating with ICE & DHS --to sign and share
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https://www.change.org/p/ice-out-of-atx-demand-apd-stop-collaborating-with-ice-dhs
Contrarian Calls to Action
Here's a pretty good Calls to Action list from The Contrarian--pick what works for you
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/contrarian-calls-to-action
January 10, 2025 Updates
HILTON HOTELS ACTION ITEM
From Chop Wood, Carry Water/Jess Craven:​
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You’ve likely heard that a Hilton franchise in Lakeview, Minnesota told ICE yesterday they would no longer let them stay on their property.
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The backlash from the right wing was so intense they now appear to have apologized and restored the reservations.
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This is a bummer, but worse is that Hilton corporate not only didn’t stand with them, but came out with a statement saying this franchise’s actions were “not reflective of Hilton values.” They seem to have also threatened to remove them from the Hilton network.
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Hilton’s values, in other words, are to allow kidnappers and lawless thugs to stay at their chains so they can get a comfortable rest while destroying lives.
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So let’s write Hilton corporate once again and tell them that their position is shameful. I, for one, also told them I’d be boycotting them going forward.
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Law professor Anne Mitchell, Esq. posted her excellent letter on Threads.
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The email address she used is is hilton.comments@hilton.com but when I messaged Hilton customer service the email address they told me to use is Hiltonhonors@hilton.com. Since the first email address is posted on their Facebook page.
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I’m assuming either is fine but again, the rep I spoke to suggested using the one in bold.
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If you’re a Hilton Honors member it’s likely better to go through their webform so they know you’re a customer.
Upcoming musical activism opportunity
Swerve Left Hoot Nights
2nd Wednesdays
Jan 14, Feb 11, Mar 11, Apr 8, May 13
Sahara Lounge
$5 door
January 7, 2025 Updates
US Citizen Disappeared by ICE
URGENT: Call/email the San Antonio ICE field office (210-564-3300) (Sanantonio.outreach@ice.dhs.gov) to demand the whereabouts of five-year-old US citizen Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos. After an arrest Monday morning, Génesis and her mother were transferred to ICE by APD and have not been heard of since. She does not appear in multiple databases, including ICE, ORR, CPS, or any of the Central Texas immigration detention facilities. The family is urging Génesis be found so they can begin custody arrangements in order for Génesis to be with her family while her mother is detained.
This is a blatant violation of Génesis' constitutional rights. Please call and share with your networks!
Birdhouse Books Collection Box
Birdhouse Books has a mutual aid collection box in the store now. Monarch Collective Mutual Aid will pick up every week or two. Needs are listed on the front and include lots of things including beans, canned fruit, rice, TP, diapers & pull-ups, spices, and more.
Bring what ya got and we will keep taking whatever you can bring. Don't worry if your donation is bigger than this box, we have space.
November 13, 2025 Updates
University of Texas: Reject the federal government’s “Compact”
None of the other universities targeted by the Trump regime have signed on to the federal government’s so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”, a dangerous attempt to place universities under direct political control.
Longhorns for Liberty created a petition that they will be delivering before the Board of Regents meeting November 19-20. If you are a UT alum, please sign and share with other UT Alums.
Petition and more information:
Indivisible chapters supporting the Central Texas Food Bank
Local Indivisible chapters are coming together this holiday season to support the Central Texas Food Bank. Your contribution here helps ensure that families facing hunger have what they need, and that no one in our community is left behind. With the loss of funding for SNAP and many other important programs, these efforts are more important than ever.
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And it doesn't stop here. We're encouraging our members, family, and friends to also give the gift of time and volunteer to help ensure these resources reach those who need it most.
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CALL TO ACTION
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Governor Abbott signed a bill requiring local law enforcement to help ICE. But we have more bad and less bad options.
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Call and Email Travis County Sheriff Hernandez and ask her to adopt the Warrant Option Under 287(g). Section 287(g) of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act requires local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE! The warrant option is essentially the least of the 3 evils!
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Office Number: 512-854-9788
Email: sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov
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Main Talking Points:
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Enhance Public Safety: Focus on serious criminals
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Due Process Protection: Ensures individuals are only apprehended based on legal grounds
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Builds Community Trust: Shows a commitment to fair policing
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Resource Allocation: Allows law enforcement to dedicate resources to serious offenders
Sample Email:
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Sheriff Hernandez,
I am writing to formally request that you choose to participate in the 287(g) program by utilizing the warrant option. This approach aligns with best practices for immigration enforcement while maintaining community trust and safety. Thank you for your consideration.
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Extra Credit: Contact your Travis County Commissioner and demand that they pass a resolution in support of the Warrant option. Find your Commissioner HERE.
“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
Ongoing
IceOUT Campaign National Organizing Call
Thursday, Jan 22, 2026 11:00 AM (weekly)
Every week, the ResistTrump Campaign (www.resisttrump.us) will convene organizers and aspiring organizers on this national call to plan actions, share resources, and strengthen the movement to drive ICE out of our cities.
On this call, you’ll be able to connect with others who are:
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Leading or joining local ICE protest campaigns
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Learning effective, nonviolent tactics for resisting ICE facilities and operations
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Building solidarity with immigrant communities
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Coordinating creative actions that highlight ICE as a pillar of the Trump regime
This is your place to learn, collaborate, and take bold, lawful action. Together, we can resist ICE and weaken the authoritarian system it supports.
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/g9l003kGTCuE55EbKMvW7w#/registration
Austin League of Women Voters Event Calendar
Want to help turn out the vote but not sure where to start? This is it. Join LWV Austin for postcard writing sessions where you help remind fellow Austinites to vote in the primary. We provide the postcards, pens, addresses, and postage. You bring a little time and a lot of impact. Check the LWV Austin calendar for upcoming dates and drop in when it works for you.
https://lwvaustin.org/content.aspx?page_id=4001&club_id=334869#gsc.tab=0
Mussa Traore Needs Your Help
A hardworking Austin community member was detained by ICE during a routine check-in despite following every rule for more than 2 years.
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TAKE ACTION: No ALPRs in Austin—Not Now, Not Ever!
Sign the petition to tell Mayor Watson, City Manager T.C. Broadnax, and your council member you do not want any automated license plate readers contract, no matter the company that provides the service or the guardrails put in place.
Slow down ICE with Signs of Solidarity
Masked ICE agents are raiding businesses and workplaces in broad daylight, rounding up our neighbors and purposefully cultivating an atmosphere of chaos and fear. We need business leaders to stand their ground and show immigrant communities we stand with them.
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Our Signs of Solidarity program is how you can help make that happen! We’re asking Indivisibles to visit local businesses, speak to small business owners or store managers, and distribute signs that do two things:
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Clearly mark "Staff Only" areas to create safe zones where ICE can’t legally operate without a signed judicial warrant
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Unequivocally show they stand WITH immigrant workers and clientele and AGAINST Trump’s secret police tactics
Once you’ve signed on below, we’ll give you everything you need to succeed, like guidelines for speaking to businesses, tools to track progress/success, and the signs you’ll help businesses post.
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https://act.indivisible.org/signup/signs-solidarity-canvassing/
Tell Congress: No Troops on Our Streets
From ACLU:
The Trump administration reportedly plans to deploy 2,000 National Guard troops to ICE detention centers nationwide. They have already started using military bases for detaining immigrants.
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The National Guard should focus on assisting with true emergencies, like natural disaster responses, not carrying out Trump's anti-immigrant policies.
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Make no mistake: This move is dangerous for troops and civilians alike – and takes the National Guard away from necessary jobs in their communities.
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Tell Congress: Stop the administration from using military troops and bases for immigration arrests and detention. Stop the misuse of the military.
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https://action.aclu.org/send-message/tell-congress-no-troops-our-streets
Mandate that ICE agents show their face and identification!
From MoveOn:
Join the over 60,000 people who have signed the petition to demand Congress pass the VISIBLE Act and hold ICE accountable.
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Support Senator Warren’s Paramount Investigation
The Trump administration just approved Paramount’s $8 billion merger with Skydance. This looks like bribery and corruption.
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Show you support Elizabeth’s call for an independent investigation into the Skydance and Paramount merger, and transparency for why Stephen Colbert’s show was canceled.
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One Million Rising
Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism​
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This is the next stage of the Indivisible movement: Indivisible activists moving their friends, family, and acquaintances from doomscrolling to active resistance. It is vital to our ability to slow down, stop, and ultimately defeat Trump’s authoritarian takeover.
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Whether you’re an experienced group leader or joining one of our trainings for the first time, One Million Rising will bring you critical insights into how we move forward as a movement in the face of a Trump regime that does not care about rules, laws, or the courts.
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This past summer, we’re launched One Million Rising — a national effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design. This is how we build people power that can’t be ignored. You’re invited to join us — and lead.​
The first session gave an overview of the effort. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlemcZNRHVw
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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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/
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, August 18 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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"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
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/874938/
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.
Protest Safety Information​
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!
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.
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.
​​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)
