National purpose with local action
Next meeting: March 16, 2026 at 7:00pm
Christ Lutheran Church
1701 Arroyo Chamiso Road, Santa Fe
No Kings III 🚫👑 The rally on March 28 plans have been finalized 🥳 Rally at the Roundhouse, 11AM – Protest! March around the Roundhouse! Distribution of Whistle Kits!
Protests, Rallies, and Events
Showing up with the Body Politic
505omatic Action Pack
A Civil Rights teach-in on Thursday, and Yucca et.al. sponsoring a conversation on Blackstone's AI ambitions:
505OMATIC
📝 Mar 14: Postcards for Gabe
The data is clear: your postcards are moving the needle where it matters most. In 2022, outreach to low-propensity voters helped secure a razor-thin victory of just 1,346 votes. By 2024, that impact exploded—achieving a 55.7% turnout rate among Democrats who sat out previous cycles and winning over 46% of "persuadable" Independents. This direct engagement allowed Gabe Vasquez to outperform the national average and outpace the top of the ticket by 6%. However, while the urban centers held the line, the rural areas remain a challenge. We have the proof that personal outreach works; now we need the numbers to scale that success into every corner of the district.
Ready to turn the tide? In case you missed the Steph & Donovan Improv Show 😆 at the meeting, you can join our next postcard-writing party to help us reach the voters who will decide the next election—one handwritten note at a time. Join us at Vista Grande Public Library on Saturday March 14th from 10:30 to 12:30. Register here:
🏫 Mar 14: First Amendment Teach-In
Just after the postcard party, you can scoot down the street to where Heidi is hosting an informal teach-in for Santa Fe area activists at the Eldorado taproom 🍻. She will cover the basics of constitutional protections for political speech and assembly.
Mar 8 recap: ACB at the Lensic
Amy Coney Barrett spoke Sunday afternoon at the Lensic Theater. It was sponsored by St John's College and the Law School at UMN. 150 to 200 protesters were present to greet her audience. The ISF Marching Choir sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" onto the theater through a closed door on Burro Ally, reports are that the singing could be heard inside the theater. A boisterous crew from Dare To Snuggle made their presence known, shouting at the attendees. An American Flag was burned on the street. Signs of Fascism was also present showing a dignified front. The Choir and SOF made their way to the top of Sandoval Garage to join in song as the audience left the theater. The audience responded with peace signs, thumbs up and smiles.
Regular protests
Guest post
Donovan Kolbly
Donovan Kolbly
In the News
What folks are saying, of interest around here and elsewhere
War in Iran
As so often happens, HCR summarizes well:
It has become clear that Trump had no plan in Iran other than to strike it, knock out the leaders he didn’t like, and hope the Iranian people would rise up and put in place new leaders he could deal with. [...] [New leader] Mojtaba Khamenei is thought to be even more extreme a hardliner than his father.
-- Heather Cox Richardson, March 9 newsletter
Heather Cox Richardson
🎤 Indivisible Radio Santa Fe Podcast
If you hadn't heard, we have a podcast now. Gary and I interview people around Northern New Mexico who are having an impact in the fight against fascism. Episodes drop Monday at noon, weekly or bi-weekly. Check out the series here (there's a link on the website, too 🎤)
Monday's release was a discussion with Aurora Sandoval, a Junior at NMSA and Generation Next contributor at the Santa Fe New Mexican,
Aurora Sandoval Generation Next
Pitching No Kings
Speaking of podcasts, Daphne was on the Richard Eeds show talking about the upcoming No Kings III rally.
The Obelisk
Public commentary at the City Council produced a breakdown of several different options for the Obelisk, topped off with a dose of "can the City even do anything?" courtesy of the state's preservation board. Watch the video; the B-roll is 🤣 – really nice production from the folks at 505omatic.
505OMATIC
Epstein in our Backyard
The NM Department of Justice began a search of Zorro Ranch following reopening of the criminal investigation of Trump friend and associate, the late Jeffrey Epstein.
Clara Bates cbatessfnewmexican.com
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Indivisible National
I’ve got just three points to make about Trump’s war before we get to this week’s action items:
- 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. - 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. - 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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