Indivisibles,

I’ve got just three points to make about Trump’s war before we get to this week’s action items:

1. Trump’s war is already spiraling out of control. On the first day of the war, the US reportedly launched a double-tap attack on an Iranian elementary girls’ school. A "double-tap strike" is when we hit a target once, wait for survivors to gather, and then hit it again. I say “we” because my tax dollars and yours paid for the bombs that obliterated little girls in that school so horrifically that at least one parent reported they could only identify their 11-year-old daughter by her backpack.
   
   That was just the first day. Now we're carpet bombing Iran at a reported cost of about $1 billion per day. Strikes on Iranian oil infrastructure are creating unbearable conditions for civilians in Tehran. Iran is hitting back at targets across the Gulf and oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, effectively closing it to global shipping and causing what analysts are describing as the worst global energy crisis since the 1970s. The war has devolved into a regional conflict involving multiple countries, and both Hegseth and Trump are forecasting no foreseeable end. This is a morally bankrupt clusterfuck that we’re all paying for, and every day it gets worse.
   
   
2. There will be a real fight over war funding. Democrats in the minority could not steer Congress on their own, but they did largely unify in favor of the War Power Resolution last week to stop this war. There were notable exceptions: Fetterman (PA) in the Senate and Reps Golden (ME), Cuellar (TX), Landsman (OH), and Vargas (CA) in the House. Still, that’s an almost-unified party -- and we should celebrate those who voted right even if it didn’t pass. 
   
   But now the real fight comes -- because Trump wants billions more for his war, and he needs Democratic votes to get it. We don’t know when the vote will come, but it’s coming. While most Dems are openly opposed to giving this lawless regime more money to kill Iranians, some are being cagey, and House Minority Leader Jeffries is currently declining to organize House Democrats against war funding. We need Congressional Dems unified in their opposition, but to get that, we constituents have to make clear that a vote to fund this war isn’t just any vote -- it's a vote that will define their political careers for years to come.
   
   As you talk to your community and Members of Congress about this, take note: The best messaging research we have says that the most convincing way to frame this issue is in terms of the cost tradeoffs -- the money taken from things you care about to pay for this gruesome war. Trump is spending billions on a foreign war of choice and paying for it by jacking up healthcare, housing, grocery, and gas prices for you and your family. Every Democrat should be hammering this line home from now until the vote. 
   
   
3. Opposing funding is baseline. We need real accountability. A competent Congress would have asserted its constitutional power over war, passed the War Powers Resolution last week, and impeached, convicted, and removed Trump, Vance, Hegseth, and the rest of this regime. But we don’t have a competent Congress; we have a Republican Congress unwilling to do anything to stop this regime’s lawlessness, violence, chaos, and destruction.
   
   This is why we need Democrats committing to an aggressive accountability agenda. It’s good that Dems started rallying around impeachment of Noem last week, and it’s good that she became enough of a PR headache that Trump had to fire her. But impeachment and removal is not enough for her or any of these fascist goons. We need full accountability for Trump and his appointees, his donors, his business partners, and his secret police. Democrats should make it crystal clear: subpoenas are coming; investigations are coming; prosecutions are coming; and if you're convicted, harsh sentences and a dishonorable place in American history will be your reward for complicity and cowardice. It's up to us to make sure that happens.
   
   This is not just important for the rule of law in the future; it also sends a warning to potential collaborators and co-conspirators today. Not all of them will do the right thing courageously, but some will do the right thing fearfully. And in a functioning democracy, they should fear the rule of law.

We are a nation of laws, not of kings. And in just under three weeks, on March 28, we’ll make that clear with the largest protest in American history. But we can’t wait until then to organize against this war -- so please read on to this week’s actions!

In solidarity,
Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible

Your weekly to-dos

1. Tell your Members of Congress: End Trump’s illegal war with Iran. Trump’s war has already cost the lives of US servicemembers, at least 1,000 Iranian civilians, and others caught in the crossfire throughout the region. Democrats' efforts to end it with a War Powers Resolution failed last week, but the fight is far from over. The regime will soon ask for billions more of taxpayers' money to continue their bloodsoaked recklessness. Use the link above to email your Members of Congress, then call your senators and your representative and demand they refuse to fund Trump's war.
2. Join our ICE Off Campus mobilization call (Wednesday). Indivisible, Stand For Campus Freedom, and other partners will be discussing the threat ICE poses on college campuses, and how we can fight back. The call is geared toward people who are concerned but may not have a presence on campus right now -- alumni, students' loved ones, and anyone who understands the threat this poses, not just to higher education, but our First Amendment rights everywhere.
   
3. Find your closest No Kings protest. When our military is fighting a war Americans don't want and Congress didn't authorize, secret police are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, and the regime is working overtime to suppress the vote in the midterm elections, silence isn't an option. No Kings III has to be big, loud, and inescapable. Use our map to find and sign up for updates about your closest protest (and if you don't find an event within an hour of your home, consider hosting one!).
   

P.S. The next No Kings is less than three weeks away! And as we're dedicating enormous amounts of time and resources to organize what'll be our country's biggest single-day protest ever, we're also responding in real time to Trump's recklessness and cruelty. Plainly put, we need your help! Please pitch in, if you can, to help make No Kings the powerful, world-historic day of protest that this moment demands.

Getting ready for No Kings

March 28, the next No Kings Day, is just around the corner! Hosts have already registered more than 2,000 events (check here to find one in your area) and we want to make sure you're as prepared as you can be for what's going to be the largest single-day protest in US history.

Over the next two weeks, we'll be hosting the No Kings Kickoff (March 19) and a number of calls to discuss: organizing for March 28 and beyond; protest rights and safety practices (in both English and Spanish); and how to talk about No Kings so that folks outside of the movement will listen and engage.

You can find details on all the upcoming training calls here. (All of them are also conveniently listed in the On The Horizon section, below.).

IndivisiWIN of the week

At 5:30 pm every Friday, Resisters (Indivisible) Brooklyn gathers on a street corner. When the traffic light is green, they raise hand painted signs; when it changes, members pass between stopped cars to distribute pins and zines.

Dubbed "Freedom Fridays," the weekly event draws a dozen to 50 participants; some 2,000 cars and their drivers pass by. It is, as group leader Saul Austerlitz wrote in the Boston Globe last week, "the humble, week-in week-out analog to enormous rallies like No Kings."

"The work is exceptionally easy. We might stand next to a friend [and] catch up on each other’s weeks…. The work is exceptionally hard. In order to be present… we must insist -- in diametric opposition to everything American culture is intent on telling us -- that our voices can be heard."

Austerlitz likes to say that "courage begets courage." The group's consistency tells the community that Resisters Brooklyn are in it for the long haul; their joyful spirit reminds drivers that hope brings with it light; and in publishing an op-ed about their work, Austerlitz expanded the group's circle of impact exponentially. Such a ripple effect is how we bring more people in -- and bringing in more people is how we win.

Indivisible endorses Robert Peters for IL-02

Building a better Democratic Party begins with primaries, which is why Indivisible is in the midst of our largest primary program ever. Last Friday, we were proud to endorse Robert Peters in the Democratic primary for Illinois' second congressional district. Like the local Indivisible groups and supermajority of IL-02 Indivisible members who voted to endorse him, we know Robert is what our embattled democracy needs: a fighter, not a folder. 

A community organizer from Chicago's South Side, he's worked tirelessly to make working families' lives more affordable since becoming a State Senator in 2019. He was a leader in the fight to end cash bail in Illinois, has passed laws raising minimum wage and ending state sales tax on groceries, and has championed expanded access to healthcare. You can read his full bio (and see our ever-growing list of endorsed candidates) here.

Building a better Democratic Party starts with choosing the best primary candidates. In IL-02, that's Robert Peters.

If you’re ready to help build a party of fighters, join us at 5pm CT on March 11 or March 12 to phone bank in support of Robert Peters for IL-02!

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