Indivisibles,

I don't write these emails often because I don't want to exhaust your good will, but I am positively excited to introduce you to the next U.S. Senator from Colorado: State Senator Julie Gonzales. Colorado Indivisible endorsed her, Indivisible national then endorsed her, and now I am personally donating and asking you to consider donating too. If you're feeling fired up after No Kings and looking for a quick action before May Day, I hope you’ll join me in throwing some support to Julie today. Every single dollar donated goes to her campaign because we know she needs the resources to win this!

If you want more of my thinking, read on!

Julie is a real fighter and organizer. Born on an Apache reservation, she's the millennial daughter of a rancher and a rodeo queen (you can’t make this up!). She left home, went to Yale, graduated, and then started organizing for housing and immigrant rights in Colorado. She then got herself elected to the state Senate and rose to become Chair of the Judiciary Committee. She’s smart, fierce, strategic, and bold as hell. 

When Trump argues that people born on reservations shouldn't be U.S. citizens, he's talking about people like Julie. Her life is a rebuke to everything Trump’s regime stands for. She is the exact kind human being we need in the U.S. Senate -- someone who can make people believe that politics is worth giving a damn about; someone who can help rehabilitate the Democratic Party brand; someone who can help lead us into the post-Trump era.

In short, Julie is the kind of Senate candidate who makes Stephen Miller piss his pants. She’s our kind of candidate.

Some highlights from her campaign: 

• She’s committed to an aggressive oversight agenda over Trump’s regime (have fun with that, Stephen!)
• She runs her campaign on grassroots donations, refusing AIPAC, Crypto, AI, and all corporate contributions.
• She supports booting Schumer from leadership to steer the party in a bolder direction.

Her opponent epitomizes status quo politics. If you live outside of Colorado, you may have never even heard of Julie’s opponent, and that’s a problem. John “Hick” Hickenlooper is the Schumer-supported, AIPAC-funded, crypto-loving member of the do-nothing caucus. If he defeats his millennial opponent Julie, he’ll turn 80 while in office. But his age isn’t the problem -- it’s what he does and how he does it.

Hick is not a John Fetterman -- he doesn’t make headlines by ostentatiously siding with Trump. You very well may have never seen him on TV disappointing you. Instead he just quietly declines to fight back and advocates for caution and tactical moderation behind the scenes with his fellow Democratic senators.

For the last 16 months, Hick has acted like this is just politics as usual -- he voted for 10 of Trump's nominees, just barely losing out to Fetterman for the dubious record of most pro-Trump nomination votes. He then voted for the industry-friendly crypto bill allowing Trump to take in billions in bribes. And he himself has taken in hundreds of thousands of dollars from AIPAC, the group giving massive sums to Republican election deniers and seeking to take down Democrats who criticize Netanyahu or Trump’s war with Iran.

Hick is beatable, but we have to rally around Julie to do it. Here's my favorite part: Hick was so worried about Julie embarrassing him at the Colorado caucuses that he dropped out of the caucus process entirely and paid to gather signatures to get his name on the ballot. So on March 28, Julie dominated the Colorado caucuses, and then she went to her local No Kings protest on the same day. Julie is one of us.

I only ask you to support candidates who I'm personally willing to support, so as I finished writing this email, I donated $200 to Julie. That won’t fully fund her campaign, but if everyone receiving this email donates what they can, Julie can spend the rest of her time campaigning instead of fundraising. I hope you’ll join me in helping her remake the Democratic Party into a fighting force that can stomp this regime electorally in the midterms. 

In solidarity, 

Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible

PS: If you want to catch more of Julie, she briefly joined us on What’s the Plan yesterday, which you find on the podcast here!