Hey Folks,

Over the past week I’ve had two big takes: The clouds are darkening, and
the opposition is assembling.

Trump’s first 90 days have been both chaotic and predictable. Shortly
after Trump’s election, [ [link removed] ]we predicted he would overreach by steamrolling
through Project 2025. We warned that our only effective strategy to halt
the slide into authoritarianism depends on unified opposition. We
recommended people organize that opposition on the ground. Since then
we’ve seen a wave of methodical grassroots organizing that has produced
the fastest growth in new locally led Indivisible groups since we started
Indivisible more than 8 years ago.

But [ [link removed] ]that opposition movement in Congress was flat-footed, in the words
of one US Representative. In response to this “[ [link removed] ]roll over and play dead”
strategy, Trump did not moderate or slow down. He empowered his top donor,
Elon Musk, to ransack the federal government. Together they dismantled
agencies and defunded programs for special needs students, cancer
researchers, and disaster preparedness. They have menaced the press, the
business community, the law firms, the universities, the courts, America’s
closest international partners, and the American public itself. 

When the bullies found lax opposition, they escalated their bullying.

We are building a unified opposition. In the days after the inauguration
this year, Representatives like Maxwell Frost, Jamie Raskin, and Jasmine
Crockett joined us at a boisterous rally outside the DOGE-ransacked US
Treasury building. Frost asked the crowd, “[ [link removed] ]Are we the minority or are
we the opposition?” Chris Murphy has consistently been on the front lines
using every bullhorn he can find to shout “THIS IS AN EMERGENCY.” Cory
Booker gave the longest speech in history of the US Senate to bring
attention to the crisis. AOC and Bernie have drawn enormous crowds for
their anti-Oligarchy tour in red and blue states.

Days ago, Sen. Chris Van Hollen flew to El Salvador to meet with a
Maryland father of three who Trump had disappeared to a torture prison.
Van Hollen lambasted California Governor Gavin Newsom for calling the
camps a distraction, “[ [link removed] ]anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution
and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead.” When House
Republicans tried to prevent House Dems from making similar trips, the
[ [link removed] ]Dems told them to shove it. 

In a moment like this, leaders of institutions, leaders of communities,
and leaders in elective office are all looking around to see which way the
people are going. Faced with a set of ridiculous demands from Trump,
[ [link removed] ]Harvard University boldly, clearly, and defiantly said NO. We have
heard from credible sources who were organizing at Harvard, that their
oppositional stance was directly influenced by the massive, peaceful,
April 5 Hands Off! protests around the world. We have heard from our
friends on Capitol Hill that the rolling waves of mass protest and town
halls and empty chair town halls are injecting some courage into the halls
of Congress. Organized people power is turning the tide -- it’s not
happening all at once, or as fast as we might like, but it’s happening.

Regardless of what they throw at us -- we will organize. We desperately
need this unified opposition to take shape, because the clouds continue to
darken. In response to Harvard’s defiance, Trump escalated his bullying
-- [ [link removed] ]threatening to take away the university’s tax status. Inside DC and
across the country, rumors are swirling that Trump could be coming after
political opponents in nonprofits in the coming days. The rumored
[ [link removed] ]executive orders may target climate groups on Earth Day (tomorrow), or
[ [link removed] ]perhaps more broadly seeking to neutralize any nonprofits that could
be seen as a threat.

At Indivisible, we are tracking this closely and will be responding
quickly when and if these escalations against civil society materialize.
But regardless of what comes, I want to be clear: Indivisible will not
back down from peacefully and aggressively organizing the opposition to
these power-hungry, money-grubbing authoritarians. If something big goes
down in the coming days -- we will be communicating over email, text, and
on BlueSky: Find [ [link removed] ]me, [ [link removed] ]Leah, and [ [link removed] ]Indivisible there. And come
hell or high water you can find me and Leah on a weekly live [ [link removed] ]Whats The
Plan discussion at 3pm ET on Thursdays. 

Courage is contagious. Read on to Indivisible’s weekly action items to
help spread it around.

-- Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible

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Your weekly to-dos

 1. [ [link removed] ]Sign up for a “Stop the Cuts” April Recess event to show Congress
we won’t pay the price for billionaires’ tax breaks. Members of
Congress are home for April recess right now -- just as Republicans
are crafting a wildly unpopular bill that guts Medicaid and SNAP to
fund tax cuts for billionaires. We’re mobilizing thousands of people,
at hundreds of local events, to ensure every congressional Republican
feels the heat and every Democrat knows their constituents want them
to fight to protect our social safety net. 
 2. [ [link removed] ]If you have a Republican representative, call them to tell them
you’re outraged by Trump’s Medicaid-slashing reconciliation tax scam.
Whether or not you can join an April recess event (see above), make
sure your GOP representative hears where you stand. As Members of
Congress prepare to return to DC, we want their phones ringing off the
hook with a loud, clear message that the reconciliation plan is
politically toxic. [ [link removed] ]You can also [ [link removed] ]click here to call your
Republican senator(s).
 3. [ [link removed] ]Join a demonstration on May Day (May 1) to keep sounding the alarm
about Trump’s attacks on working people and democracy. Historically,
May Day celebrates the progress of working people and honors those who
fought for it, but as the MAGA movement rolls back workers’ rights and
strips America down for profit, we’re joining a vast coalition of orgs
to turn May 1 into a nationwide day of mobilization. No event near
you? Y[ [link removed] ]ou can register one here. 
 4. [ [link removed] ]Send an email to your Members of Congress demanding they do
everything in their power to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home. With
President Trump defying the Supreme Court to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia
(along with hundreds of others) imprisoned in El Salvador, we find
ourselves in a moral and constitutional crisis. Calls and emails to
Congress aren’t sufficient to end these crises, but they are necessary
to ensure our elected officials understand the public won’t move on
until Abrego Garcia is home and the disappearances end. 
 5. [ [link removed] ]Hear the latest on April recess, reconciliation, and more --
direct from Indivisible’s co-founders -- this Thursday at 3pm ET /
12pm PT. Every Thursday, 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 share the
latest from our Congressional recess events and other ways to fight
Trump’s reconciliation plans.

P.S. Indivisibles are fighting on so many fronts -- stopping the SAVE Act,
fighting GOP reconciliation plans, protesting attacks on democracy, and
pushing Dems to meet the urgency of the moment. That requires a great
team, top-notch tools, and huge investments in local organizing. [ [link removed] ]If
you can, please pitch in to sustain our massive (and still growing)
movement and help Indivisibles keep fighting everywhere we’re needed.

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The May Day National Day of Action is Coming

If there’s something approaching a single through-line of Trump’s chaotic
first 100 days, it’s this: Working people are getting fleeced while
billionaires grow their wealth and power. 

The guy elected on promises to cut costs has pursued an economic agenda
that’ll cause prices to skyrocket; he’s allowed his top donor to lay off
tens of thousands of civil servants; he’s shuttered the agencies meant to
protect consumers; he’s attacked unions and public education; he’s
undermined Social Security; and he’s trying to slash Medicaid to fund tax
cuts for the ultra rich. 

This is a moment for working people to remind ourselves -- and the
billionaires controlling our government -- of our power. 

[ [link removed] ]On May 1, the labor movement, immigrants rights groups, and a large
coalition of organizations (including Indivisible and our Hands Off!
partners) are leading a nationwide May Day mobilization to demand leaders
put our families over their fortunes. 

The administration wants us to be divided -- it’s why, as they use one
hand to pick our pockets, they use the other to point the blame at
immigrants, Diversity Equity and Inclusion programs, or our trans
siblings.

This May Day, let’s come together in solidarity and show that we, the
people, are indivisible. [ [link removed] ]Find an event near you or [ [link removed] ]register to
host one. (Note: In some areas, hosts have decided to hold their events on
May 3, so double check the date when registering). 

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The Latest on the Trump Tax Scam
(aka GOP reconciliation bill) 

Republicans are using a [ [link removed] ]procedure known as reconciliation to try to
gut popular programs like Medicaid and make billionaires even richer.
Our plan to stop them hinges on making reconciliation a long, chaotic,
and confounding process, but we don’t want to confuse you, too!

In the coming months, we’ll help demystify reconciliation with short
weekly summaries of what the GOP is doing and saying -- and how we’re
responding to stop them.

This week, most congressional actions are on hold while members return to
their districts for recess, but Republicans are still negotiating
reconciliation plans from afar. As Trump, Musk, and GOP hard-liners push
for the biggest cuts imaginable, a dozen vulnerable Republicans -- enough
to sink the bill in the House -- wrote [ [link removed] ]a letter pushing back on plans
to decimate Medicaid.

That’s good news, but we certainly can’t celebrate yet. The letter’s
demands are pointedly vague and could simply be a face-saving ploy,
destined to crumble after Trump fires off some mean tweets. But this
letter does highlight the cracks in the Republican caucus -- and we’ll
work to turn those cracks into impassable chasms.

That’s why we need to turn the heat up on Republicans now: [ [link removed] ]Sign up for
a “Stop the Cuts” event this week. [ [link removed] ]Call your Republican
representative. [ [link removed] ]Email them, too.

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New blue state toolkit: Urge your state Attorney General to act against ICE
abductions

Over the last two months, ICE has ramped up detentions of international
students, visa holders, and green card residents -- not because they’ve
committed any crimes, but because of their First Amendment-protected
speech. People like Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, Badar Khan Suri, and
Mohsen Mahdawi were taken from their homes, schools, and campuses for
expressing support for Palestinian rights. Some were disappeared for over
24 hours. Some had their visas revoked on the spot. 

This is an attack on dissent. Period.

[ [link removed] ]We’ve put together a new toolkit to help you take action where it
counts: by pressuring Democratic state attorneys general (AGs) to
intervene. These AGs have the power to push back on ICE, investigate
federal overreach, file legal challenges, and defend those being targeted.

The toolkit includes:

* A breakdown of what’s happening and why it’s not normal
* Specific actions attorneys general can take now
* Call and email scripts you can personalize
* A list of states where AGs need to hear from us most

If you’re in a state with a Democratic attorney general, you have an
important role to play in protecting the right to dissent. [ [link removed] ]Get the
toolkit >>

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IndivisiWIN of the week

[34]Activists bundled up in hats and gloves protesting with signs reading
hands off our social security, restore our constitution, and one with a
photo of Elon Musk reading I am stealing from you.

Members of [ [link removed] ]Indivisible Mid Maine turned out twice in one week to
demand their representatives (in both parties) fight hard against Trump’s
plans to gut Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, and more.

On Monday, they hand-delivered a letter asking Maine’s [ [link removed] ]concerned, but
often complicit, Senator Susan Collins to oppose her party’s cuts to
lifesaving services. On Thursday, they braved frigid temperatures to show
Democratic Rep. Jared Golden that his constituents demand a full-throated
fight against the MAGA agenda, earning [ [link removed] ]coverage in the local
newspaper.

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