Indivisibles,

G'mar Chatima Tova all! I wrote this on the plane back from the Indivisible statewide Texas summit yesterday. I couldn’t resist sharing my top-level read out: we’re going to win Texas.

The Indivisible movement in Texas has never been stronger. Indivisibles are building their first statewide structure to connect and collaborate across more than 60 Indivisible groups spread from El Paso to Austin to Fort Worth to Houston. At the summit, I met group leaders who are organizing against education cuts and weekly school closures (Bandera); against AI data centers (Lockhart); against Flock cameras (Dallas); against detention camps (El Paso); and against the roving ICE goon squads that have arrested more than 100,000 Texans since last year (everywhere). 

Let’s give that last number some context. Trump’s secret police have arrested more people in Texas than in any other state, about double the next highest, Florida, where at least one Republican in a "safe" seat is frantically trying to distance herself from Trump’s immigration policy. 

Yesterday, ICE shot yet another DoorDash driver, Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a few miles from the Indivisible summit in Austin. Within minutes, Indivisible Austin sprang into action with a rapid response protest “against violence and for our neighbors.”

I see stubborn persistence behind the wave building in Texas. Yes, for James Talarico. But it’s also for the former Indivisible leader Jon Rosenthal, running against the deeply repugnant Bo French. And for Gina Hinojosa running against Greg Abbott. And for a slew of downballot races throughout the state, like the winnable GOP gerrymandered districts where Katy Padilla Stout (TX-23) and Johnny Garcia (TX-35) are running.

This wave is the product of Texas organizers who refused to give up. Eight years ago, as Indivisible was building towards its first big blue wave, I went down to Wimberley, Texas to knock doors for Beto O’Rourke with Erin Zwiener, an early Indivisible leader near my hometown. Carrying her newborn (she’d recently gone into labor at a family separation protest), she told me she was fed up with her Republican state rep and was running to replace him. I loved her campaign slogan: “Y’all means all.” Beto, heartbreakingly, lost. But Erin flipped her district blue, and then won reelection again and again and again. Last year she was part of the Texas Democrats crew that fled the state to raise the alarm about Trump’s gerrymandering madness. This year she was campaigning at events for Talarico not far from where we knocked doors eight years ago. 

Y’all means all, y’all.

In solidarity,
Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible

Your weekly to-dos

1. Yesterday, ICE shot and injured Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old DoorDash driver from Venezuela. Wilber is the third DoorDash driver known to have been shot by ICE, but the company has remained silent -- and complicit. Delete your DoorDash app and account until they take decisive action to protect their drivers from ICE. Instead of speaking out against the Trump regime’s deportation and death machine that has brutalized their workers, DoorDash is lobbying for the regime’s legislative priorities -- including a bill that would weaken DC home rule. If you’re in Texas, we encourage you to get synced up with Indivisibles and others in Austin demanding justice for Wilber and for their community. If you’re not, make sure to amplify their call for accountability, and call out DoorDash by deleting your account and app until the company speaks out against ICE’s brutality and violence.
2. Find or host a No Kings event near you on October 17 and join millions in standing up against Trump’s threats to sabotage our elections. We need organized people power to win and protect the midterms. This No Kings Day, we’ll kick off the voting season with our communities and continue to build a nationwide movement ready to activate at the first inkling of election sabotage by the Trump regime. If you’ve already signed up for an event near you, take a moment to ask three friends to join you.
3. Want to get more involved this No Kings Day, but on the fence about hosting an event? Catch up with last week’s intro and strategy call for creative ideas and everything you need to make hosting accessible. For an even deeper dive, check out the host toolkit. Then, once you’re ready, create your event!
4. Join our monthly Fight Back With Friends! virtual training tomorrow, Tuesday, September 22 to explore how you can leverage the power of your personal relationships to activate your friends, family, and neighbors to get out the vote (6:30pm ET/3:30pm PT). For our calls to action in both September and October, we’ll learn how to engage our friends in a strategic conversation about voting, encourage them to bring their own circles to the polls, and prepare our communities to help protect the vote after November 3, no matter the results.
5. TONIGHT, Monday, September 21, make calls to Iowans to get out the vote for Josh Turek (IA-Sen), Christina Bohannan (IA-01), Lindsay James (IA-02), and Sarah Trone Garriott (IA-03) (6:30pm ET/5:30pm CT/3:30pm PT). Iowa’s current congressional delegation are all Republicans who have bent the knee to Trump while forgoing their constituents’ needs. We have a chance to flip one Senate seat and three House seats in Iowa this November, but we can’t do it without a wave of grassroots support. Paid for by Indivisible Action. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee.

P.S. With 43 days to go until Election Day, we’re kicking our midterms campaign into high gear. Over the next six weeks, we’re training thousands of phone bank volunteers and putting our revolutionary canvassing tool in the hands of Indivisibles in all 40 target states and districts across the US. None of this would be possible without grassroots support, so if you can, please chip in to help us get out the vote, defend the results, and hold this corrupt regime accountable with a brand new Democratic Congress.

SAVE THE DATE: Hands Off Our Vote Livestream on October 4

We’re excited to share that on Sunday, October 4, Indivisible is partnering with We Stand United to host a nationally livestreamed event -- Hands Off Our Vote! -- with Mark Ruffalo and other special guests to mobilize people to join the fight to protect this year's elections.

Stay tuned for the livestream link and many more details to come in next week’s newsletter!

Good News for a Change

Last Tuesday, the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, the spineless crypto “regulation” bill that would only further enable Trump’s crypto corruption and bribery schemes.

Trump profited $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025 alone. On top of his felonious crypto ties, the industry itself is pouring tens of millions of dollars into the midterms to attempt to elect crypto-friendly candidates they can count on to push legislation that would weaken oversight and leave consumers vulnerable.

After the House voted in support of the CLARITY Act last year, crypto special interests tried to buy their way to a legislative win in the Senate. Advocates across the US -- including thousands of Indivisibles -- toxified the bill so much that a vote was delayed month after month after month.

The crypto industry wanted the CLARITY Act to pass quietly with broad bipartisan backing. Thanks to formidable organizing and people power, you made that impossible -- and rebuked the Trump regime and the corporate actors lining his family’s pockets in the process.

Last week’s vote is a huge win, but there’s a good chance crypto-backed politicians will try to pass this once more in the lame duck period, so we’ve got to be ready to continue the fight.

 Upcoming events + Election shifts

These nationwide events, calls, training sessions, and electoral volunteer opportunities are coming up soon. For even more Indivisible happenings, check our national calendar and get in touch with Indivisible groups near you!