National purpose with local action
Next meeting: October 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM (📣 with Reena Szczepanski!)
Christ Lutheran Church
1701 Arroyo Chamiso Road, Santa Fe
Protests, Rallies, and Events
Showing up with the Body Politic
Donations Needed 💵
Can you donate $20 to Indivisible Santa Fe to support democracy?
We are quickly burning through our small reserves of cash in the lead-up to No Kings Vote Early on October 17. Printing, postcards, signs, billboards, and buttons add up as we plan events all month long to get people to the polls. And there is so much we just can’t afford, like billboards and print ads.
Please chip in whatever you can afford to help us spread the message and create a wave of early voters to take back Congress and bring accountability to the White House. Thank you for your generosity and support!
Join the No Kings: Early Voting Project 🌊🗳️
Our Early Voting project includes ways for everyone to get involved! This is a great opportunity to help restore our democracy.
- Join a Vote Early Button Brigade to hand out "I voted ALREADY..." buttons. Sign up here.
- Participate in a Banner Drop. See Banner Drop 🇺🇸 below for more info.
- Participate in a Vote To Restore sign waving. See Vote to Restore Sign Waving 🪧 below.
- Vote early yourself on October 6 and then wear your "I Voted ALREADY..." button proudly around town all month.
- Write a Letter to the Editor and post on social media about the importance of voting early! Share our post on the subject or write your own!
- Join the Honk and Wave/Pop-Up Rally at the Roundhouse on Oct 17, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM.
- Join the Democratic Party of Santa Fe County to do phone banking or canvassing.
Sign up here and select your favorite way to help:
City Council Vote on Immigrant Protections
The Santa Fe City Council will hold its next regular meeting on September 30. The council is expected to vote on a proposed bill that would prohibit using city property for civil immigration enforcement activities, and that would require employers to inform their employees of immigration enforcement and I-9 audits.
Please attend if you can, and bring signs supporting the bill! The meeting starts at 5:00 PM, but discussion of the bill may not start until 6:30 PM.
Radio Interview - Thursday 📡
Tune into the Richard Eeds Show on Thursday, October 1, at 2:00 PM at KTRC 1260 / 103.7 on the radio (or via live-stream) to hear ISF Steering Committee members Ellen H and Will S discuss plans for the No Kings Vote Early campaign.
Then, next week on October 8: same station, same time, Richard interviews our own Paul D and Gary K for their take on the midterms and how to take back our democracy.
Speaker Series Returns 🗣️
The next installments of the ISF Speaker Series are coming up!
Four proposed amendments to the NM State Constitution are on the ballot in this election. Reena Szczepanski, the New Mexico House Majority Floor Leader, will join ISF's meeting on October 5 to discuss two of the proposed amendments:
- #2, removing the requirement that school elections be separate from partisan elections
- #4, allowing state legislators to be paid a salary limited to the median household income for New Mexico
She will also talk about anticipated key legislative priorities for the 2027 session.
Guest post
Next up, on October 12, will be the Democratic nominee for New Mexico Lt. Governor, Stephanie Garcia Richard.
Guest post
More Postcards ✍️
Thanks to all who helped last weekend, writing postcards to get out the vote for Gabe Vasquez! The race for NM Congressional District 2 is a statistical dead heat, so this targeted effort really matters.
If you missed out, don't worry: more postcard parties are coming!
👉 The next event will be October 4, 1:00-3:00 PM. Ellen H will host, and there will be snacks and beverages! Please sign up on Mobilize. You can also contact Georgia S or Tina K directly for location information.
The organizers have ordered 1200 cards, including some for candidate Sarah Boses who is running for House District 50. Any donations of postcard stamps or money for stamps would be greatly appreciated!
👉 In addition, Steph B is asking ISF members to come early to upcoming ISF meetings. Arrive at 6:30 PM, and help write as many get-out-the-vote postcards as you can!
Drinking Liberally 🍷
Drinking Liberally returns to Boxcar SF, 133 W. Water Street, October 6, 5:00-7:00 PM.
Roadless Rule Comment Period 🌲
The public comment period on the proposed rescission of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule ends on October 6. If you haven't already done so, please submit a comment!
☎️ Please also call your members of Congress and let them know you oppose rescinding the Roadless Rule!
Project Jupiter Comment Period 🏭☁☁
The New Mexico Supreme Court recently allowed the permitting process for Project Jupiter to go forward. Public comments on the project's Air Quality Permit application are open again, until October 23 at 11:59 PM Mountain Time. Please submit your comment.
Banner Drops 🇺🇸
Many Vote Early and Vote Now banner drops - as well as banner brigade events - are scheduled between now and the midterms.
September 20 banner drop – courtesy of Dave V
It takes 8 people to perform a banner drop. You can help! Please sign up on Mobilize.
I see only a few events! 🤔 Not to worry! A single Mobilize entry can include multiple dates and times. Click the entry's "See details & more times →" button for complete information.
Vote to Restore Sign Waving 🪧
Many Vote to Restore sign waving events are also scheduled before the midterm elections. These are twelve signs that communicate a powerful message about how important our vote is.
With so many signs, lots of volunteers are needed. Please sign up on Mobilize.
Regular protests & events
- Speakers' Corner - October 3, 10:00-11:00 AM, on the sidewalk in front of Nuckolls Brewing Company, in the Railyard. Look for people wearing ISF shirts who look like they have something to say. Join us to exercise your First Amendment rights!
The Vote to Restore sign team will be there too – come with a speech about what you think we should vote to restore!
Guest post
Donovan Kolbly
Guest post
In the News
What folks are saying, of interest around here and elsewhere
Rep. Leger Fernández Proposes Data Center Standards 🏭
Teresa Leger Fernández has joined the calls for a pause on data centers in New Mexico, and she has released her own proposed standards for data center development projects. Those standards have a lot in common with Deb Haaland's accountability plan.
Conversations with NM Governor Candidates 🤝
Last week the Santa Fe New Mexican podcast Conversations Different held live discussions with Democratic and Republican candidates for New Mexico governor. Videos of the sessions are now available on the Conversations Different YouTube channel.
Stay in touch with us
Check out our resources page with lots of links to useful information, constantly being updated as we find new web resources to help fight for democracy and the rule of law.
You can help our effort to expand our digital presence, including social media on Bluesky, Facebook, and Instagram by following us and liking and re-posting our messages, or sharing our website with people who might be interested – they, too, can sign up and get this newsletter! 🎉 Help us get the word out!
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Indivisible National
Coming off the high of the statewide Indivisible summit in Austin last weekend, I wrote in this newsletter that we were going to win Texas. This weekend I’m writing on the plane ride back from the statewide summit in Detroit. Here’s my takeaway: we’re going to win Michigan.
Because Indivisibles in Michigan aren’t playing around. (Unless they’re playing around with each other -- it’s a fun group).
Statewide coordination with nationwide impact. Statewide Indivisible Michigan, or SWIM as it is delightfully called, coordinates 114 local Michigan Indivisible groups. Its leadership team is made up of representatives from locals across the state, and they launch statewide campaigns, share best practices, solve technical challenges, and team up on rapid response.
- It was SWIM that led the primary endorsement to get the state behind Abdul El-Sayed and made his underdog win possible.
- It was SWIM that helped heal the rift after the primary -- cheerleading with Mallory McMorrow and Haley Stevens for a unified ticket.
- And it is SWIM that is helping produce the biggest early vote turnout in history through No Kings on October 17.
Everybody at the summit was fired up about their candidates -- El-Sayed, Donavan McKinney, Will Lawrence, and others -- but the enthusiasm goes way beyond them. Nearly 2,000 Michigan Indivisibles have trained up for the state’s Election Defense Corps. Everybody wants to talk about the growing fights against data centers, detention centers, Flock cameras, and ICE. The wave building in Michigan -- as in Texas -- is bigger than any candidate. It's a rejection of this regime and the status quo elites who prop it up.
We’re building towards a crescendo on October 17. That’s going to manifest in a big way for No Kings next month. There are already No Kings rallies, voter contact kickoffs, visibility brigades, costume parties, and creative GOTV events on the map all over the state for October 17. From Ironwood at the far western tip of the Upper Peninsula, where groups are teaming up with Wisconsinites across the border, to some of the reddest counties in Michigan. They're getting creative -- Donuts for Democracy at the Gladwin Courthouse, an all-day drive-through in Rose Township so rural voters can make a voting plan without leaving the car -- and they're getting competitive: Benzie County was second in the state in primary participation and is gunning for first.
The joy, power, and mass engagement of millions we've come to associate with No Kings is coming together again on October 17, this time with a central goal: stopping election sabotage through mass early vote and election defense. They're doing it in Michigan. We need you to do it wherever you live.
I’m going to make a hard ask here. If you are reading this and are not yet part of a No Kings rally, GOTV action, community party, or other event yet, take this as your sign. Pull together your Indivisible group, 50501 group, another organizing hub, or just a few friends and register your No Kings event this week. Boosting turnout is how we beat sabotage. But after we win, we need to be able to credibly say this was the No Kings election, with a No Kings mandate for accountability and reform. That takes everyone pitching in. So don't doomscroll this week and don't sign some meaningless online petition -- take a step toward building the grassroots force we need to both win and make meaning of the win. Wherever you live, this is important.
As the kids say, this is what democracy looks like.
In solidarity,
Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible
Your weekly to-dos
- Host a No Kings event or find one near you on October 17 to create a national day of pushback against the Trump regime’s election subversion. Early voting is one of the most powerful tools we have to protect the election and block voter suppression. Together, we can encourage our neighbors to get to the ballot box early and prepare our communities to respond to election interference. This No Kings Day, we need millions of people in the streets putting the regime on notice: the people will not accept election sabotage.
- Demand DoorDash break their silence on ICE violence and speak out for the release of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, a DoorDash driver who was shot by ICE and remains in a detention center with the bullet still in his back. DoorDash isn’t shy about throwing around its lobbying power to get what it wants. But it has remained shamefully silent about ICE violence against its drivers -- even as one of those drivers, Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, sits in ICE detention with a bullet in his back, desperately in need of medical treatment. Use our toolkit to call on DoorDash to defend its drivers and urgently speak out for Wilber’s release.
- This Thursday, October 1, join the No Kings coalition for a nationwide Election Protection 201 training to level up your election defense skills (8pm ET/5pm PT). In this session, we’ll focus on the role of sustained mobilization and rapid response work in our movement. No prior attendance is required to participate, but if you want to brush up on the coalition’s Election Protection 101 call, you can watch it here.
- SUNDAY, October 4 at 7pm ET/4pm PT: Join the Hands Off Our Vote livestreamed event featuring Mark Ruffalo, Robert De Niro, and Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin! Speakers will discuss the steps each of us can take to defend our democracy, protect the vote, and defend the midterms from Trump’s sabotage and interference. The regime intends to make our elections as chaotic and confusing as possible, but together, we can stay prepared and ready to respond to anything they throw our way.
- TODAY, Monday, September 28: Make calls to voters in Maine in support of Troy Jackson (ME-Sen) and Matt Dunlap (ME-02) before early voting begins next week (5:30pm ET/2:30pm PT). After five terms in the Senate, we have a real chance to unseat Susan Collins, who has repeatedly betrayed her constituents with votes to demolish healthcare and confirm anti-abortion federal judges. Jackson is up in the polls and Dunlap is in his strongest position yet to defeat Paul LePage, but we need people power to get them both across the finish line. Paid for by Indivisible Action. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee.
- Feeling inspired to talk with voters this election season, but never joined a phone bank before? Learn from the Indivisible team at our next Phone Bank Training this Saturday, October 3 to learn the ropes (3pm ET/12pm PT). Indivisible staff will demonstrate how to navigate the Scale to Win system and autodialer to call voters for future phone banks. We’ll also cover what it looks like to make a call and how to use your script to respond to voters’ questions. No prior experience necessary for this training-only space! Paid for by Indivisible Action. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee.
P.S. It’s up to all of us to make the next 36 days count. This week alone, Indivisible is organizing national phone banks for candidates in Maine and New York, partnering with Fated States to call voters in Ohio about Sherrod Brown, and running a virtual training to ensure new phone bank volunteers are prepared to get out the vote. (And that’s just the tip of the iceberg -- we’re also working with Indivisibles on the ground to knock doors in support of 40 candidates across the US.) These GOTV efforts are crucial, and they can only happen with your support. If you’re able, chip in today to help fund our work to win the House and Senate and help us reach our biggest monthly fundraising goal of the year before September ends.
Good News for a Change
Last Tuesday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the largest labor settlement in the city’s history -- and the largest-ever food delivery worker settlement in the whole country.
After shortchanging hundreds of thousands of workers for years and violating NYC’s Minimum Pay Rate law, DoorDash is settling with the city for $131.5 million, over $115 million of which will go straight to workers. This is a win for corporate accountability and workers’ rights. It’s also a win for immigrant communities, who make up much of the food delivery work force -- but there’s more to be done to ensure that DoorDash is standing up for immigrant delivery drivers.
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!
Indivisibles On the GroundSpotlight of the Week: VirginiaAcross the Commonwealth, Indivisibles in Virginia are taking action to support immigrant communities and hold Trump accountable for his detention and deportation machine. Indivisible NOVA West, RVA Indivisible, and Indivisible Central Virginia, all part of the Virginia Indivisible Statewide Network, are leveraging their organizing power to mobilize in two important ways:
We need all kinds of organizing and advocacy to fight ICE. Whether you take to the streets or meticulously record and review ICE data, every action is important. Want to get involved in your own community? Find a local Indivisible group here. |
Follow Indivisible National on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads to keep up on the latest information, and text “INDIVISIBLE” to 59798 to opt-in to their text messaging program, where they send rapid response actions a few times a month.
