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.
FORWRD-TX
July 11, 2026 Updates
ACLU for Good Trouble Lives On Weekend: Know Your Voting Rights Training
Monday, July 13th at 7 PM CST
On Zoom- RSVP for the link!
You’ll learn how to exercise your right to vote and support community members in doing the same, including how to resist voter intimidation and get help at the polls if you need it. The link below takes you to sign up for ACLU’s training through No Kings, so they will know that we sent you.
Our right to vote starts with knowing how to protect it. During this training, we’ll share:
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How elections work
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How you can exercise and protect your voting rights
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Strategies to safely resist voter intimidation efforts
Immigrant Justice Summer Call #2: How to Connect with Immigrant Justice Orgs in Your Community
Thursday, July 23
7 – 8pm CST
This call trains you on community ecosystem mapping, a structured tool for identifying who is already organizing immigrant defense work in your community, what they are working on, and where the gaps are in your local organizing ecosystem.
On this one-hour national training call, you will:
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Learn why following the lead of impacted communities is the foundation of an effective response, and get an honest look at some of the challenges of strategic allyship.
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Get trained on community ecosystem mapping, including the specific questions to ask about the organizations, communication channels, and community champions already active in your community.
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Hear directly from local Indivisible group leaders about what ecosystem mapping unlocked for their ability to mount a safe, effective, nonviolent community response in alignment with the immigrant-led organizations in their community.
You'll leave with the knowledge and framework to develop a concrete picture of the organizing ecosystem in your own community. This is the second call in the five-part Immigrant Justice Summer training series, open to all Indivisible members.
ICE OUT NORTH LAMAR!
Wednesdays
8 – 9am CDT
SE corner of North Lamar Boulevard & West Rundberg Lane
Bring signs for street visibility!
July 8, 2026 Updates
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Community Vigil
Join us to honor Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s life and the countless immigrants whom ICE has impacted.
The community vigil will take place on Saturday, July 11, from 6-8 PM at the Wildflower Church, 1314 E Oltorf St, Austin, TX 78704.
All are welcome to bring flowers and candles as we honor the loss of life and grieve the separation of families.
Public transit and rideshare are encouraged. Limited parking is available at the church, and overflow parking may be available at Travis High School.
Public Safety Budget Talk Back: Power to the People's Priorities
Thursday, July 16
6:30 - 9
Lustre Pearl
94 Rainey St.
Join Avow Texas, Equity Action, Texas Civil Rights Project, No ALPRs, Hands Off Central Texas, Austin Justice Coalition, Grassroots Leadership, Ground Game, and others for our “Public Safety Budget Talk Back: Power to the People's Priorities.”
During the party, we’ll discuss the upcoming City of Austin Budget and how our city resources can best serve the people. We’ll envision our dream budget together and empower attendees to contact their city councilperson to advocate for community care, not cops.
Visit avowtexas.org/events to register to attend!
Light food will be provided! We’re excited to be in community with you.
FIRST VOTE! TRAINING
From League of Women Voters Austin Area
Saturday, July 25, 2026, 10:00 AM until 12:00 PM
ACC - Highland
Ready to help high school seniors to get ready to vote?
Each year, more than 15,000 people turn 18 in Travis County, and many of them will turn 18 during their senior year in high school. In 2024, we went to 24 schools in the month of September, sharing our presentation and registering voters. We will need a lot of trained volunteers to make it happen again in 2026, and for most, this will be their first year volunteering with the program.
Join this hands-on training to learn how you can help. This training is only available in person - participants will go through the activities and the materials used in our school visits.
https://lwvaustin.org/content.aspx?page_id=4091&club_id=334869&item_id=2987439
Demand Justice for Lorenzo Salgado
Tragically, on Tuesday morning, a hardworking Mexican man who had been living in the United States for more than 35 years was fatally shot by an ICE officer in Houston.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo worked from sunrise to sunset to send all three of his American citizen sons to college. He had been working toward securing legal status in the United States. His death comes after weeks of escalating ICE presence, arrests, aggression, and violence across the country and in Texas.
Stand with Lorenzo Salgado's family by demanding a full investigation and accountability. Please take a moment to sign the petition.
https://lulac.org/advocacy/alerts/ice-houston-shooting-july-investigation/
Help Protect Our Community
If you witness ICE activity, call Austin Rapid Response at 512-686-6243 or, if it is safe to do so, record the activity and send the footage to migrantmedia@proton.me.
If you choose to record, please keep these guidelines in mind:
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Stay at least 8 feet away from officers.
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Do not physically contact, block, or verbally harass officers.
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Disable biometric unlocking, such as Face ID or fingerprint access, and instead use a strong alphanumeric passcode.
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ICE officers cannot confiscate your phone or delete your footage without a warrant.
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If you are instructed to move back, comply while stating, "I am exercising my right to document," and continue recording from a safe distance.
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Focus your camera on agents, badges, vehicles, and any warrants.
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Avoid filming the person being detained whenever possible to protect their privacy and safety.
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If it is safe, in your video document the officers' uniforms, agency vests, badge numbers, vehicle makes and license plates, the location, time, date, duration of the incident, the number of agents present, whether weapons were drawn, whether paperwork or warrants were presented, and whether physical force was used.
What Do I Say County Script
(512) 854-9555
Hello, my name is [your name] and I’m a resident of Travis County from [neighborhood/area].
I’m calling as a constituent to leave a comment for Judge Brown urging you to set boundaries about ICE’s intrusion into Travis County government property. Please follow the lead of other courageous jurisdictions and tell ICE that property is owned and controlled by Travis County and cannot be used for civil immigration enforcement including as a:
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staging area
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processing location
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operations base
Failure to set these parameters is actively encouraging the escalating federal interference and state violence in our community.
What Do I Say City Script
(512) 978-2100
Hello, my name is [your name] and I’m a resident of the City of Austin from [neighborhood/area].
I’m calling as a constituent to leave a comment for Mayor Watson urging you to set boundaries about ICE’s intrusion into City of Austin government property. Please follow the lead of other courageous jurisdictions and tell ICE that property is owned and controlled by the City of Austin and cannot be used for civil immigration enforcement including as a:
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staging area
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processing location
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operations base
Failure to set these parameters is actively encouraging the escalating federal interference and state violence in our community.
June 30, 2026 Updates
Hands Off Our Vote
Sign up to join the Hands Off Our Vote Movement, our national program to ensure all eligible voters get to cast their ballot and that those ballots are counted. We know Trump and his sycophants will do everything they can to intimidate voters and sabotage the 2026 election results. We'll be ready to counter their dirty tricks and tactics with the support of Indivisibles all across the US. Read on for more about this campaign below.
For more, download the latest What’s the Plan podcast, How to Get into Election Protection Formation. For this episode, Indivisible co-executive directors Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin are joined by Corey Dukes from Protect Democracy to discuss what we can do about election sabotage.
https://lemonadamedia.com/show/whats-the-plan-with-leah-greenberg-and-ezra-levin/
Then, sign up to join the Hands Off Our Vote campaign and help protect the vote this November!
ICE Collaboration in Travis County - Impending immigration policy changes
Saturday, July 11
2 – 4pm CDT
Wildflower UU Church
314 E Oltorf St
Join your community for an educational forum on ICE collaboration in Travis County and the growing role of local law enforcement in immigration enforcement. Together we’ll discuss 287(g), detention, deportation, and how upcoming policy changes impact our community.
Everyone welcome. Food, childcare, and interpretation provided.
June 27, 2026 Updates
Indivisible Austin Meeting
Monday, July 13
Carver Branch, Austin Public Library
1161 Angelina St
5:30 – 7:30pm
Mark Your Calendar: July & August Meetings
Cyber threats are evolving fast, and our personal data is increasingly being used in ways we don't see. Join us at our next in-person meeting on Monday, July 13 as guest speakers break down today's biggest cybersecurity risks and share practical steps you can take to better protect yourself online.
Can't make it in person? We'll be back in August with a virtual meeting
(sign up here: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisibleaustin/event/973902/ ).
And as always, our regular gatherings take place on the second Monday of each month, with time built in before and after to connect with fellow members and neighbors (except for August).
GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON!
“Teach! Reach! Preach!”
This is the plan:
Across America, let’s make good trouble.
We are facing the most brazen rollback of civil rights in generations – but the same spirit that fueled Selma, Montgomery, and the March on Washington lives on in our unified action.
In remembrance of Congressman John Lewis, communities across the country will join us for a weekend of non-partisan voter engagement, civic education, and faith-based organizing, under the banner of “Teach! Reach! Preach!”
Join us by attending or hosting an event in your community:
Teach: (Friday, July 17) — Teach-Ins · Non-Partisan Voter Education · Candlelight Vigils · Faith Services
Reach: (Saturday, July 18) — Civic Engagement Community Events · Non-Partisan Voter Registration · Votercades · Faith Services
Preach: (Sunday, July 19) — Faith Services · Non-partisan Civic Education
No ALPRs in Austin
ALPRs are nationally networked mass surveillance that is used by ICE in order to facilitate mass deportations. Despite attempts to create guardrails to prevent this, local governments have repeatedly, with and without their knowledge, given ICE access to this data. We have examples of this happening all over the country – San Francisco, CA, Auburn, IL, Richmond, VA, Cleveland, OH, and across the states of WA and IL.
Mass surveillance affect us all. ICE has used this data to follow and target citizens who have engaged in lawful ICE watch activity. And here in TX, any ALPR data will feed the state’s extreme deportation scheme, now that SB 4 (2023) is in effect.
We need our City to invest in programs that actually make our community safer, like social services and community violence intervention. Please call your City Council member today!
Mike Siegel in D7 is an outspoken critic of ALPRs but other council members have vacillated.
Find your Council Member and contact them Or Email all Council Members at one time
June 8, 2026 Updates
Remove Pulte Now
Trump just appointed his political attack dog, Bill Pulte, as acting Director of National Intelligence. Pulte has absolutely no experience in national intelligence, and was clearly offered the job based on his willingness to go after Trump's political adversaries.
Use Indivisible’s form to send a message to your Representative and Senators.
Tell your Members of Congress you expect them to use all their leverage — including blocking FISA reauthorization — to remove Pulte.
https://act.indivisible.org/sign/remove-trumps-dangerous-national-intelligence-director/
Donate to Indivisible Action
From Indivisible Guide:
Indivisible continues to be on the frontlines defending our communities and democracy. But, for the first time since the election, we missed our fundraising goal last month. We can absolutely weather a slow month -- we’re not about to start sending ‘the sky is falling’ emails -- but over time (and especially heading into midterms), we need to make up some lost ground. So please chip in, if you can, to fuel our fight to defeat authoritarianism in America.
Sign Up to Protect the 2026 Elections
Sign the pledge to protect the 2026 elections!
From a last-minute switch to precinct-based assigned polls in Dallas County to a sudden FBI raid of the Fulton County election office, it’s clear that the Trump administration and republican officials are gearing up for some serious shenanigans this election. Our democracy depends on every voter having an equal chance to cast a ballot and have their vote fairly counted. That’s why Indivisible is launching the Election Defense Corps.
The Election Defense Corps is a grassroots network of volunteers located in Alaska, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas dedicated to protecting the right to vote before, during, and after the 2026 election. When federal protections are removed, defending democracy becomes a community effort.
Sign the pledge today to commit to joining the Election Defense Corps. By signing up now, you’ll receive strategic updates via email and text, training opportunities, and critical calls to action during key election protection moments in your state.
May 14, 2026 Updates
Save SAFE Petition
From Hands Off Central TX:
Public safety is non-negotiable. We need to SAVE SAFE!
After 10 years of reliable, dignified services at Eloise House, Austinites will not know where to go to get help after the most traumatic experience of their lives.
The SAFE shelter is set to close in October unless they get full funding.
Sign the petition now!
Volunteers Needed for the Youth Refugee Summer Program
from Interfaith Action of Central Texas
June 22 - July 30
Mondays through Thursdays
10 am - 1 pm
Help make Austin a more welcoming place for all.
April 26, 2026 Updates
Emergency CTA: Justice for Daniel Ramirez, UT student
Call UT President Davis at 512-471-1232
Call UT Conduct Office at 512-471-5017
Rough Script:
"Hello, my name is _____. I am calling to demand that UT Austin reverse Daniel Ramirez's suspension. Parker, Maddie, Elijah, Javier, Spencer, and Áine should not be given deferred suspension. UT must drop all conduct charges against students. Protesting is not a crime, and students should be able to meet with UT administration. These attempts at silencing students speaking out against Trump's Compact and the elimination of departments is against their First Amendment rights to protest peacefully. These students are demanding the continuation of a quality education.” **
**Bonus points, if you are a UT alum and mention donations!
April 5, 2026 Updates
Contrarian Calls to Action
Anybody up for a general strike? And more!
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/anybody-up-for-a-general-strike
Street Medics Austin Leadership Wanted
We are opening up applications for both Leadership and our Board of Directors.
The application is linked here, but please email hello@streetmedicsaustin.org if you have any questions or concerns. If you are interested, we would love to see your application. Students and folks from marginalized identities are encouraged to apply.
We look forward to working with you! https://forms.gle/seSQ1borWBX2x3cA6
Austin Resistance Choir
Mondays, 7-8 pm
Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches
3220 Manor Rd.
No experience? No problem! Sheet reading not required.
Bring a gusto to squash fascism and sing with community!
April 1, 2026 Updates
What’s Next After No Kings 3?
On March 28, millions of us made it clear: we don't do kings in America. Our nonviolent movement is only growing. At our March 31 Mass Call, you'll hear from leaders and fellow local activists to celebrate this historic mobilization and dig into what comes next.
https://www.youtube.com/live/AYxmALtKkpY?si=dsuBFGnSJmqGIQei
De-ICE Citizens Bank
From Jess Craven 101/ Chop Wood, Carry Water
Citizens Bank is financing ICE detention companies
Citizens Bank talks a lot about valuing diversity and building strong communities. What they don’t talk about: they’re helping for-profit prison companies get the cash they need to lock more people away in ICE detention.
Even as the heartbreaking stories pour out of ICE detention centers, Citizens Bank keeps pouring money into them. And they’ve dodged accountability for their important role in supporting inhumane ICE detention. Until now!
Please go to De-ICE Citizens Banks’s website to learn how to put pressure on Citizens to stop aiding and abetting ICE.
February 19, 2026 Updates
Rapid Response Hotline-Share widely
Austin Rapid Response Hotline: 512-686-6243
ICE has been highly active across Austin and surrounding communities this past week, with detentions reported throughout the area.
If you see ICE activity, call the hotline immediately.
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.
The hotline keeps our community safer, but only if people know about it. Please help us spread the word today.
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!
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, 2026 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.
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.
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!
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, 2026 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.
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.
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.
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/
And EMAIL: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out-for-good/
January 20, 2026 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
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.
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.
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, 2026 Updates
From Hands Off Central TX:
ICE OUT OF ATX - Petition to Demand APD stop collaborating with ICE & DHS --to sign and share
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, 2026 Updates
HILTON HOTELS ACTION ITEM
From Chop Wood, Carry Water/Jess Craven:
You’ve likely heard that a Hilton franchise in Lakeview, Minnesota told ICE yesterday they would no longer let them stay on their property.
The backlash from the right wing was so intense they now appear to have apologized and restored the reservations.
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.
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.
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.
Law professor Anne Mitchell, Esq. posted her excellent letter on Threads.
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.
I’m assuming either is fine but again, the rep I spoke to suggested using the one in bold.
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, 2026 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.
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.
CALL TO ACTION
Governor Abbott signed a bill requiring local law enforcement to help ICE. But we have more bad and less bad options.
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!
Office Number: 512-854-9788
Email: sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The National Guard should focus on assisting with true emergencies, like natural disaster responses, not carrying out Trump's anti-immigrant policies.
Make no mistake: This move is dangerous for troops and civilians alike – and takes the National Guard away from necessary jobs in their communities.
Tell Congress: Stop the administration from using military troops and bases for immigration arrests and detention. Stop the misuse of the military.
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.
Support Senator Warren’s Paramount Investigation
The Trump administration just approved Paramount’s $8 billion merger with Skydance. This looks like bribery and corruption.
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.
One Million Rising
Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism
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.
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.
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.
Sign the petition now to tell the Commissioners Court: no more giveaways to law-breaking corporations.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-subsidizing-teslas-bad-behavior
Read: "Tesla’s Bad Behavior Shouldn’t Be Taxpayer-Funded"
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!
Sign up for their Substack https://mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/
Or attend their monthly meeting to find out how you can help!
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.
"Fight Back with Friends" Training
Tuesdays, 7-8pm CST
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.
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)
If you ever need a bit of motivation, this is a WEEKLY mobilization meeting with Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg of Indivisible Guide.
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.
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.
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!
"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."
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.
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:
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:
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
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)
