National purpose with local action
Next meeting: July 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Christ Lutheran Church
1701 Arroyo Chamiso Road, Santa Fe
As we celebrate 250 years of the nation, reflect on the fact that the founders who stuck their neck out to create this country pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to the cause. What is it worth to you? We don't know exactly what events and expenses are coming down the pipe this year, but the pace of insanity from the regime has not abated so we know it's going to be a lot. 💰 To get ahead of the budget crunch that Donovan anticipates 😬, ISF Leadership is making a special plea for financial contributions in this season of the nation's anniversary:
ISF Leadership
Protests, Rallies, and Events
Showing up with the Body Politic
Fundraiser Concert for Juniper Blessing
Tonight, June 30, from 6:30-10:00 PM, Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery is holding a fundraising concert for Juniper Blessing. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $10, or at the door for $15.
Consuelo's Place Community BBQ
Wednesday, July 1, 4:00-7:00 PM, Consuelo's Place will host a community BBQ at 1600 St. Michael's Drive, Building 7, to celebrate achieving 501(c)3 status. Guests can take a tour of the shelters and meet the staff and clients!
Opposing the Blackstone-PNM Merger
Thursday, July 2 at 10:00 AM at the Roundhouse, the Public Regulation Commission (PRC) will be voting on whether or not to adopt the Hearing Examiner’s recommendation to nullify the application for the Blackstone and PNM merger and to impose hefty fines.
About 20 people from Indivisible Albuquerque (IAbq) will be carpooling to Santa Fe for the hearing. They'll have a quick rally before heading into the hearing room to show opposition to the sale of a public utility to private equity giant, Blackstone.
IAbq invites anyone interested from Indivisible Santa Fe to attend and support their efforts!
Speakers' Corner 🇺🇸 July 4th Edition 🇺🇸
Speakers' Corner is making a special push for July 4th – come celebrate independence and free speech at the usual location (Railyard Park) and time (10-11AM). No appointment necessary!
Donovan Kolbly
Project Jupiter - Last Call for Comments ✍️
Three June newsletters have described the proposed Project Jupiter data center in Doña Ana County. To recap: a public comment period is under way for the project's air quality permit application. The proposed data centers will emit enormous amounts of CO2 as well as other pollutants.
If you've been wanting to comment on Project Jupiter's air quality permit application, now is the time! The comment period ends at 11:59 PM on July 6. You can submit your comment here.
Not sure what to write? Not to worry! David B has kindly provided a sample comment. 👉 Click here 👈 to view it. You can use it as-is or as a guide for composing your own comment.
Singing Songs of Freedom 🎵
The sing-along on July 18 now has a playlist, downloadable lyrics, and more. Check it out!
Guest post
Help Wanted ✋
ISF still needs a few (4-6) Safety Patrol volunteers to help with the Singing Songs of Freedom event above. If you can help, or if you have questions, please contact Ellen H.
Regular protests & events
- Banner Drop - Today, June 30, 4:00-5:00 PM, at Cuyamungue. RSVP to Linda F.
Guest post
Donovan Kolbly
Guest post
In the News
What folks are saying, of interest around here and elsewhere
People's Assembly 🏛️
By Melinda H
The term “People’s Assembly” has been used in many contexts throughout history, from ancient political institutions to modern grassroots movements.
In the 21st century, “People’s Assembly” has also been used for democratic organizing and activist coalitions. One recent example was the People’s Assembly Against Austerity (UK) – formed in 2013, it brought together trade unions, student movements, and civil society groups to oppose government austerity policies, advocate for higher taxes on the wealthy, and highlight the impacts of austerity on different segments of society.
Please read the following from The People's Liberation Group [edited for length - Mitch] and consider how we might participate in The People's Assembly.
Fascism is on the rise. Every day its entrenched positions take deeper root. The urgency for a united front with actionable solidarity accelerates each day. This will be a common front of labor organizations, community organizers, and electoral groups.
On the day of The People’s Assembly, we will spend some time together in the general assembly (the larger decision-making body), and other time in breakout groups. We ask organizations to field two delegates who can represent your areas of focus within the general assembly.
You should arrive prepared to learn from other groups and to give insight to others. You were invited because you have something worth teaching. If a common front is to emerge with tangible power, we believe it can best begin with exchanges of these kinds.
Indivisible Santa Fe is feeling the need to define priorities and to focus our capacity on the work we are committed to. Preparing to participate in the People's Assembly can help us do just that.
Please plan to attend the July 6 Indivisible Santa Fe weekly meeting. Bring your best, most creative selves and help us share, listen, and work together on this important project.
Update on WEconomic Boycott ✊
Last April, Peter D introduced a proposal for sustained economic actions targeting Trump-complicit public corporations – a WEconomic National Boycott (WEBO). Since then he has worked to develop the details of the proposal. The Interim Steering Committee recently endorsed the boycott and issued a letter encouraging Indivisible national to support it prior to the midterm elections.
Indivisible National What's the Plan Podcast
Here's the YouTube video of this week's What's the Plan with Leah and Ezrah.
🎤 Indivisible Santa Fe Radio
In the latest episode, Gary K and Donovan K speak with the Reverend Talitha Arnold, senior minister at the United Church of Santa Fe and a graduate of Yale Divinity School, about the threats that Christian Nationalism presents to our democratic freedoms and to the foundations of authentic Christianity.
From the Desk of Indivisible Santa Fe
This week: big ideas worth defending; celebrating the many ways of being human; and remembering what it means to be patriotic.
Gary Kowalski
Mitch Chapman
Debra Efroymson
Stay in touch with us
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Does solidarity politics have to be hard? Call me naive, but I have a super basic approach to electoral politics in a year where a deranged, sociopathic authoritarian is threatening to sabotage the midterms. My strategy goes like this:
- Support whoever you want in the Democratic primaries.
- Win or lose, unify behind whichever Dem wins the primary.
- Crush the fascist bastards in the general.
- Fight out your disagreements within the Party after the election.
This is so straightforward that we might assume it was common sense among professional political types. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.
Grassroots wins are sparking an establishment freakout. Following the historic anti-establishment primary wins in New York last week -- including both Indivisible-endorsed candidates, Brad Lander and Darializa Avila Chevalier -- the establishment wing of the party is having a public freakout. Rep. Tom Suozzi led a handful of other establishment Democrats to sign a pledge in response to the electoral upsets, spouting Republican talking points about some Democrats being “ashamed of America.”
The signers of the pledge aren’t committing to anything new -- it amounts to a commitment to keep on keepin' on. Every one of them still takes corporate PAC, AI, crypto, and/or AIPAC money. A pledge to "be proud of America" rings hollow when PACs linked to AIPAC dropped $1 million to buy your primary (Janelle Bynum), when you're one of the biggest recipients of crypto money (Don Davis), or when the biggest Artificial Intelligence PAC endorsed you (Josh Gottheimer). That's all technically legal, but it's the kind of purchased influence that drags down the party brand and makes it harder to win in November.
That’s why all Indivisible-endorsed candidates reject this money -- the point of challenging unpopular establishment politicians with grassroots candidates is to demonstrate to voters that the party is legitimately changing. Given the Democratic Party brand is so toxic, working to rehabilitate that brand is just smart politics.
James Carville and the bygone era of American politics. The Suozzi pledge isn’t a sideshow. Famed commentator James Carville called for a breakup of the Democratic Party -- a “schism” -- in response to last week’s primary upsets.
I have to admit, growing up as a southern, rural Democrat I started out as a big Carville fan. Watching the “Ragin’ Cajun” spew real talk about real politics in the 1992 “The War Room” documentary was some of my earliest political education.
Say what you want about Carville -- he has the gall to say out loud what most establishment Democratic politicos only say to each other and their donors in private. Last year, as Trump took office, installed Elon Musk to ransack the government, and steamrolled through Project 2025, Carville’s bold proposal for Democrats was to “roll over and play dead.” That was the unspoken establishment position at the time. And this is the kind of political consultant freaking out now about Democratic primary wins and calling for the Party to fracture.
Fight, then unite. I disagree with Tom Suozzi and the pledge signers -- and also I am not confused that come the general election, the choice is between a fascist party member and some flavor of Democrat. So I support Suozzi in the general because he won his primary, and I support Brad Lander and Darializa Avila Chevalier because they won theirs. That’s the Indivisible way. And that's the only credible strategy if you're serious about taking back Congress this year. Fight in the primary, fight after the general, but in the few months between: unify.
And if you want to be part of a strategic grassroots effort to defeat authoritarians, boy do we have some ideas this week!
In solidarity,
Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible
Your weekly to-dos
- Phonebank for Indivisible endorsed candidate Julie Gonzales (CO-Sen) TONIGHT, Monday, June 29 (7:30pm ET/5:30pm MT). We will be joined by Indivisible’s co-executive director Ezra Levin to help get Gonzales across the finish line before her primary tomorrow. Recent polling has her within striking distance of Sen. Hickenlooper, and each voter we reach will make a difference to ensure Coloradans are represented by a true progressive fighter in the US Senate. Paid for by Indivisible Action. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee.
- Join the Mass Call to gear up for the Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action next Tuesday, July 7 (8pm ET/5pm PT). The GTLO Weekend of Action on July 17-19 honors the legacy of civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis. On next Tuesday's Mass Call, we’ll discuss how you can organize or attend a local event in your community to continue the fight for civil rights and support one another in exercising our sacred freedom to vote.
- Sign up to join the Hands Off Our Vote Movement, our national program to ensure all eligible voters get to cast their ballot and that those ballots are counted. We know Trump and his sycophants will do everything they can to intimidate voters and sabotage the 2026 election results. We'll be ready to counter their dirty tricks and tactics with the support of Indivisibles all across the US. Read on for more about this campaign below.
- Register for our Immigrant Justice Summer Training Series, beginning next Thursday, July 9, to learn how to respond when ICE surges in your community. In our first training call, we will discuss a concrete three-step organizing blueprint: aligning with immigrant-led organizations in your community, making a plan for your role in ICE response, and growing your circle of neighbors who are ready to act.
P.S. We’ll be blunt: We’re $65,000 short of our June fundraising goal. It’s not an arbitrary goal, it’s what we need to sustain crucial projects at Indivisible, like our work to invest grassroots power in progressive fighters who are rejecting the status quo (and winning their primaries from New York to California) and our Battlegrounds program to protect crucial US Senate races from Trump’s election sabotage. We fell short of meeting our budget in May, so please chip in if you can to help us close our June gap and continue leading the fight against fascism in America.
Our plan to prepare for Trump’s election sabotage
Today, the Supreme Court issued a commonsense (but given this court, still surprising) ruling against the Republican scheme to block states from counting votes that arrive by mail after election day. The ruling is a relief -- but it’s not going to put an end to the Trump regime’s attacks on voting or efforts to sabotage the midterms. That’s going to be up to us.
From attempting to unilaterally overhaul election administration via executive order to saying Republicans should “nationalize” elections to ordering USPS to deliver mail ballots only to federally approved names, Trump has signaled nonstop that he intends to interfere with the midterms. That’s why Indivisible is getting into election protection formation. As we mentioned in the to-dos, we launched our new national program, Hands Off Our Vote, to empower all Indivisibles with the tools they need to stay informed and ready to respond to election sabotage. We won’t stop raising our voices until every vote is counted.
For more, download the latest What’s the Plan podcast, How to Get into Election Protection Formation. For this episode, Indivisible co-executive directors Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin are joined by Corey Dukes from Protect Democracy to discuss what we can do about election sabotage.
Then, sign up to join the Hands Off Our Vote campaign and help protect the vote this November!
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!
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