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Hey Indivisibles,

I want to give you some straight talk about the Insurrection Act. In the
weekly What’s the Plan (WTP) calls on Thursdays, we always take a lot of
questions from movement on everything from strategy to tactics to policy
to organizing to messaging to how we manage to sleep with two kids under
five and creeping authoritarians around (the kids are a way bigger problem
for sleep). At last week’s WTP, several of the top-voted questions were
about Trump potentially invoking the Insurrection Act on or after April
20. Given widespread concern about the potential threat here, I wanted to
give you my read.

Indivisible’s Chief Campaign Officer [ [link removed] ]Sarah Dohl put together [ [link removed] ]a good
short explainer that I will flagrantly steal from here:

 1. What does it do? Invoking the Insurrection Act would allow Trump to
deploy the military (including federalized National Guard) anywhere in
the US. Trump may claim it’s to protect the border, but he could
deploy these forces anywhere.
 2. Why April 20? On his first day in office, Trump directed the
Department of Homeland Security to take 90 days to come up with a
recommendation on whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act to
solve the non-existent immigration crisis. 90 days after January 20 is
April 20. It could come earlier, or it could never come.
 3. How bad could it get? We don’t know! Maybe Trump doesn’t invoke it at
all -- he didn’t in his first term. Or maybe he does, and he further
militarizes the border. Or maybe he uses it to implement his promised
nationwide deportation force and crack down on peaceful protest. Last
week, his ICE Director described their vision of creating a
deportation system [ [link removed] ]“like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.”
Maybe that’s mere bluster, or maybe that’s the plan. Nobody knows --
which means we should neither freak out prematurely nor ignore the
warning signs.

So what do we do about it? The courts are unlikely to save us here -- the
Insurrection Act gives fairly wide authorities to the President and the
courts have historically been fairly deferential regarding those powers.
This is more of a political question than a legal question: Does Trump
look strong and decisive, and does his support grow by virtue of invoking
the Act? As he militarizes the border and beyond, do his approval numbers
increase? Does his coalition hold strong? Or is there widespread backlash,
defiance, opposition, and ridicule? In the latter case, Trump may call it
off and claim that was his plan all along.

Trump is a typical bully. He breaks norms and laws to see what he can get
away with. If the opposition is weak, he steamrolls forward. If the
opposition is strong, he slinks away and claims he was never interested in
doing what he'd committed to do anyway.

It’s up to us. I’m sorry. I wish there was some neat trick to fix this. I
wish there were some institution -- businesses, media, law firms,
universities, anything -- that would save us. I wish congressional
Republicans weren’t feckless cowards or collaborators or both. Hell, I
wish I could finally watch the White Lotus season finale instead of
reading up on the history of an obscure 1807 law. But here we all are.

As with so much in this era, it falls to the people to protect the
republic. Organized people -- like the [ [link removed] ]3 million people who showed up
in boisterous, defiant, peaceful protests in every single state and
multiple countries barely more than a week ago for Hands Off! That you’re
reading this email tells me you’re interested in being an active part of
this movement. That’s great news, because it’s going to take all of us. So
read on for this week’s action items, feel free to hit me up on
[ [link removed] ]Bluesky, and [ [link removed] ]please join for this week’s What’s the Plan call with
me and Leah. Just please no White Lotus spoilers -- someday I’ll get to
watching that.

-- Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible

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Your weekly to-dos

 1. [ [link removed] ]Organize in your community against Trump’s reconciliation plan that
fleeces working people to make billionaires even richer. Another
congressional recess has begun -- just as Republicans are crafting a
massively unpopular bill that guts Medicaid and SNAP to fund tax cuts
for billionaires. We’re hoping to see hundreds of events across the
country to put pressure on congressional Republicans. You can [ [link removed] ]use
our toolkit to plan an event or [ [link removed] ]check our map to see if there’s
something already planned near you.
 2. [ [link removed] ]Call your senators and urge them to vote against H.R. 22 -- the
MAGA bill that would disenfranchise tens of millions of voters. Last
week, House Republicans passed one of the most extreme voter
suppression bills we’ve seen, and we need to make sure it dies in the
Senate. We have a lot more to say on this heinous bill below, but if
you’re short on reading time, make sure you make this call and/or
[ [link removed] ]send an email.
 3. [ [link removed] ]Join the Hands Off! “What’s Next…” call this Wednesday, April 16,
at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. The historic nationwide protests we saw on April 5
weren’t just a one-off thing; they were the start of something even
bigger! This Wednesday, Hands Off! leaders will share plans for our
next steps -- including upcoming nationwide actions on May 1 -- to
continue demonstrating the scale of our movement.
 4. [ [link removed] ]Hear the latest on Trump’s reconciliation plan, our strategy to
fight it, and other events of the day from Indivisible’s co-founders
this Thursday, 3pm ET / 12pm PT. Every Thursday afternoon, we take a
step back to absorb the news, draw inspiration from the work
Indivisibles and our allies are doing, and talk about how we fight
back. This week, Leah and Ezra will break down what we know about
Trump’s billionaire-backed, Medicaid-slashing reconciliation plan,
with actionable steps to fight it during this April recess.

P.S. We’re turning the massive energy from Hands Off! protests towards one
of our biggest fights yet -- stopping the GOP reconciliation plan that
guts Medicaid, crushes SNAP, and shovels trillions of dollars to
billionaires. To win, Indivisibles need to be louder and more organized
than ever before, so [ [link removed] ]if you’re able, please consider donating to help
Indivisible win the reconciliation battle, stop the cuts, and hold
Republicans accountable.

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Update on the GOP's extreme voter suppression bill

On Thursday, the [ [link removed] ]House of Representatives passed H.R. 22 (you may know
it as the SAVE Act) with the help of four Democrats who we will be naming
and shaming: Ed Case (HI-01), Henry Cuellar (TX-28), Marie Gluesenkamp
Perez (WA-03), Jared Golden (ME-02).

If you are represented by one of those members, please give them a call
and express your outrage at their support for a bill that would
disenfranchise millions of Americans and effectively end online and
mail-in voting. Otherwise, we’ve got more pressing work to do to block
this bill.

Remember -- [ [link removed] ]we’ve said all along this was going to pass the House, but
could be stopped in the Senate. And that remains true. Republicans need 60
votes to overcome a filibuster, and that means they need seven Democrats
to join them. Our job is to make sure that doesn’t happen.

The Senate is on recess right now, which means no vote is imminent. It
also means we’ve got time to apply serious pressure on the Senate Dems who
may need it most. Everyone is welcome to call and email your senators in
opposition to this bill. But we need to drive the most calls to these*
senators:

AZ: Mark Kelly
GA: Rafael Warnock
NH: Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen
NV: Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen
MI: Gary Peters

If you have a senator on that list, please call them (during business
hours) and email them. And if you have friends in those states, urge them
to do the same!

[ [link removed] ]Here’s the link to our call tool.
[ [link removed] ]Here’s the link to our email tool.

*We’ve included senators on this list due to recent votes and/or because
they haven’t announced a position on this bill.

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IndivisiWIN of the week

[20]A clip from The Rachel Maddow Show on April 8, 2025 showing dozens of
Indivisibles in Allegheny County, PA waving pro- Social Security signs
along a busy roadside

“What surprised me is that after we saw MILLIONS of people turn out on
[April 5], it just kept going… People are still going.” --Rachel Maddow

Rachel Maddow highlighted the work of the Indivisible chapter [ [link removed] ]Partners
for Progress SWPA, who organized last Monday to defend Social Security!
Gathering near their local Social Security office outside Pittsburgh,
hundreds of Indivisibles showed up to rally against the Musk-Trump Coup
and show their support for Social Security workers and recipients.

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