National purpose with local action
Next meeting: June 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Christ Lutheran Church
1701 Arroyo Chamiso Road, Santa Fe
š³ļøāš PRIDE Santa Fe 2026 š³ļøāš is this Saturday, June 27! It's projected to be the biggest PRIDE ever in Santa Fe!
The parade starts at 10:00 AM, and it will include ISF's Kazoo Marching Choir, Lawn Chair Brigade, and Signs of Strength. If you're marching with one of these groups, please meet in the PERA parking lot east of the Roundhouse by 9:30 AM. (But feel free to show up as early as 8:00 AM!)
ISF will also have a table on the plaza, staffed from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM.
Please join us!
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Showing up with the Body Politic
Regular protests & events
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Donovan Kolbly
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In the News
What folks are saying, of interest around here and elsewhere
Sen. Heinrich's Duty to Constituents
The following letter was published June 16 as a My View in the Santa Fe New Mexican. We, the Steering Committee, would like to add the yes vote on Markwayne Mullins (the other Democrat vote was John Fetterman) as another betrayal of Senator Heinrichās duty to his constituents. ISF has been trying to reach out to Senator Heinrichās Santa Fe office to personally hand deliver this letter.
Jane Steinberg and Leslie Lakind
Dear Senator Heinrich,
We are writing to you today on behalf of Indivisible Santa Fe. As a grassroots organization committed to defending an inclusive democracy and progressive values that benefit all Americans, we keep in regular contact with our elected officials to track their actions. We are reaching out to express our deep collective concern regarding your recent votes to confirm several of President Trump's cabinet nominees.
While we appreciate that you stood against unqualified and controversial figures like Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., your decision to vote in favor of confirming Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Interior, Chris Wright as Secretary of Energy, Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, Doug Collins as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and Brooke Rollins as Agriculture Secretary is deeply troubling to our members.
These confirmations are already having a demonstrable, negative impact on our state. Most notably, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has issued a secretarial order that intentionally bypasses critical environmental safeguards to fast-track oil and gas production. Because of this directive, the Bureau of Land Management is rescinding environmental impact statements regarding oil and gas leasing on 3.5 million acres of federal land across several states, including New Mexico. By sidestepping this essential, comprehensive process, the administration is ignoring severe potential impacts on New Mexico's public health, fragile ecosystems, and irreplaceable cultural resources.
Furthermore, our members and your constituents are publicly questioning your choice to confirm Chris Wright as Secretary of Energy, openly wondering why you would support a nominee leading an agency whose policies can so drastically reshape our state.
Your support for Marco Rubio as Secretary of State also raises alarms in light of the administration's border and trade policies. Mexico is New Mexico's largest trade partner, bringing in more than $2.5 billion in goods annually to support our state's oil, gas, and agricultural sectors. Bipartisan leaders in our state have already had to urge Secretary Rubio to ensure that the administration's aggressive new efforts to combat cartels do not hurt the American economy or disrupt the legal cross-border commerce that our border communities rely on.
Senator Heinrich, we respectfully plead with you to explain how confirming these specific individuals to the President's cabinet serves the best interests of New Mexico. How does putting our environment, cultural resources, and cross-border trade at risk help our state? We need leaders who will fight to protect our lands and our economic livelihoods, and we ask that you provide your rationale for why you believe supporting these nominees was beneficial for New Mexicans.
Sincerely,
The Steering Committee, Indivisible Santa Fe
Free and Fair Elections 2026 š³ļø
From ISF's good friend Dimid Hayes: The Rural Indivisible New Mexico network has launched a new initiative ahead of the fall elections: Free and Fair Elections 2026.
We have two primary goals:
- Between now and November, we aim to educate and motivate our members ā and the general public ā about the various threats to free and fair elections.
- We are reaching out to grassroots groups across the state to begin organizing for either a celebration or a demonstration on November 4th, the day after the elections. This event would occur simultaneously at federal buildings in Las Cruces, Albuquerque and Santa fe, allowing most folks from across the state to attend an event near them.
In addition we are reaching out to the Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse-Oliver for a face-to-face meeting to establish channels of communication in preparation for the fall. We plan to offer our support in her efforts to educate county sheriffs, electoral officials, and the general public.
We meet every Tuesday at 11:00 AM via Zoom and are looking for passionate, motivated representatives to join us. For more information, please contact Dimid Hayes at 505-660-2212.
Project Jupiter Comments End Soon
As mentioned in earlier newsletters, the public comment period for Project Jupiter's new air quality permit application runs until July 6.
A southern New Mexico grassroots organization, Fight Chihuahuan Desert Extraction (FCDX), has created a helpful form š that you can use to submit a comment. The form includes sample text as well as information about the emissions of the proposed power plants, much of it taken from the project's own air quality permit application.
Project Jupiter would emit 10 million tons of CO2 per year ā more than Las Cruces, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe combined. It would release several tons per year of other toxic and hazardous air pollutants. And it would do all of this in DoƱa Ana County, where air quality already fails to meet federal standards.
Please submit your comment āļø before the July 6 deadline!
Judge Blocks DHS Citizenship Database šļø
This past Monday brought some good news š about the Trump administration's efforts to control who can vote. Federal Judge Sparkle Sooknanan stopped DHS from using its SAVE system to remove voters from rolls.
Jim Saksa
DHS had been issuing notices to modify the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program. Among the changes: include information on natural-born citizens; include Social Security numbers and other SSA records; and permit bulk record search by SAVE users.
Judge Sooknanan ruled that those changes violated the Social Security Act, the 1974 Privacy Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act.
The suit was brought by the League of Women Voters and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. They were represented by lawyers from Democracy Forward, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, and Fair Elections Center. (All of these organizations accept donations! š)
From the desk of Indivisible Santa Fe
Gary Kowalski
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Indivisible National
Trump plans to sabotage the midterms, so we're going to need a plan to stop him. As soon as he took office again, Trump started signaling that he intends to interfere with the midterms. There are too many examples to cover everything, so here are some of the lowlights from just the last year:
- March 2025: An executive order trying to unilaterally overhaul election administration.
- July 2025: Ordered Texas to gerrymander five new Republican House seats.
- August 2025: An executive order to "get rid of" mail-in ballots ahead of the midterms.
- January 2026: Told the House GOP "they should cancel the election.ā He regretted not seizing the voting machines after 2020, and then later that month he sent goons to raid Fulton County's election hub.
- February 2026: Said Republicans should "nationalize" elections. The next day Steve Bannon said, "You're damn right we're gonna have ICE surround the polls come November," and urged Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.
- March 2026: Issues an executive order to create state-by-state citizen lists and orders USPS to deliver mail ballots only to federally approved names. Installed election denier Dan Bishop to run DOJ's "election-integrity" efforts.
- April 2026: Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act, paving the way for racial gerrymanders in former Confederate states. Trump team threatens to force blue states to redraw their own maps.
- June 2026: Raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a voter-registration nonprofit.
Even as he meets resistance from the courts and some blue states, he's clearly not backing down. So what's our plan?
We need to get into election protection formation -- letās talk about how. For the last 75 weeks or so, Leah and I have hosted What's the Plan, our live Q&A with the Indivisible movement. Itās a unique space: thousands of people from across the country and the world, together every week, working through the strategy and tactics of organizing against fascism. When weāre at our best, weāre cutting through the noise, demystifying some process or institution, and focusing on what we all can actually do.
If Indivisibles are going to plan together for how we organize in defense of the midterms, the place to have that conversation is Whatās the Plan. We donāt want to shortchange the big topic, so this week weāre trying something a bit different.
- This Thursday at 3pm ET, we'll be joined by Corey Dukes from Protect Democracy, an ally in this fight.
- We're asking you to do a few minutes of pre-reading so the discussion is as fruitful as possible.
- We're inviting you to submit a question ahead of time here. Iāll go through all these Wednesday night to help us steer the conversation before turning it over to live Q&A.
If we pull this off, you'll come away with a better understanding of how this sabotage threat actually works, and the steps you and your local group can take to blunt it.
As a movement, we have to learn, grow, and act together, so I hope you can join us Thursday (or catch the podcast Friday!). But whatever your schedule, there are plenty of ways this week to organize your community in defense of democracy -- read on!
In solidarity,
Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible
Your weekly to-dos
- Phonebank for Indivisible endorsed candidate Julie Gonzales (CO-Sen) tomorrow, Tuesday, June 23 (7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT). Gonzales is up against a Democratic incumbent who has voted to confirm more of Trumpās cabinet nominees than any other Democrat not named Fetterman. Coloradans deserve a progressive fighter in the battle against authoritarianism, not a centrist. Gonzalesā primary is in just over a week on June 30, so your calls can make a big difference right now. Paid for by Indivisible Action. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee.
- Continue to urge your Members of Congress to demand dignity for detained immigrants at Delaney Hall and detention centers across the US. Just last week, Members of Congress were denied access to immigrants detained at Delaney Hall during an oversight visit after previously being allowed to speak with people inside. We must insist that Members of Congress do everything in their power to escalate their oversight actions and bring attention to the horrifying conditions and human rights abuses at Delaney Hall and Trumpās concentration camps around the country.
- Keep calling your US senators and urge them to oppose AI mass surveillance. FISA, an infamous spying law that opened the door for warrantless surveillance of American citizens, expired earlier this month. Unless our Members of Congress want to be complicit in the continued chilling of our freedom of speech, they must hold the line for our civil liberties.
- Once youāve called your US senators, call your US representative and demand the same. Given FISAās potential to be supercharged by AI and abused by this regime, serious guardrails on this legislation are more important than ever. You can follow up with a quick email to all of your Members of Congress.
- Register for our Immigrant Justice Summer Training Series, beginning July 9, to learn how to build a safe, hyper-local, immigrant-aligned response when ICE comes to your community. ICE announced it's offloading 7 of the 11 warehouses it bought for mass detention after communities across the country organized, sued, and showed up. With $70 billion in new DHS funding, the fight isn't over. We need to be prepared on how to respond in our own communities. Immigrant Justice Summer will give you the tools you need.
P.S. On June 16, the Department of Justice indicted 15 Minnesota anti-ICE activists on federal conspiracy charges. Trumpās regime is weaponizing the DOJ in an attempt to intimidate organized, nonviolent resistance -- but we know who is really putting our communities and our immigrant neighbors in danger. If you can, chip in to the Minnesota 15ās legal defense fund launched and managed by friends and family of the defendants to help them cover costs for whatās sure to be a long legal battle against the regime.
Good Trouble Lives On
Mark your calendars for the Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action(GTLO) on July 17-19!
GTLO honors the legacy of civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis and brings communities together to take peaceful, non-violent action to challenge injustice. This yearās theme is Teach! Reach! Preach! and encourages non-partisan voter engagement, civic education, and faith-based organizing.
Amid the most dangerous rollback of civil and voting rights in decades, itās up to us to carry the spirit of John Lewisā call for āGood Troubleā forward.
Find a Good Trouble Lives On event near you!
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 GroundThis week, weāre highlighting a roundup of local Indivisible groups organizing against data centers. From Wisconsin to California, Indivisibles across the country are raising their voices against data centers in their communities. Data centers draw down local reservoirs and require enormous water use, put a massive strain on power grids, and create sound pollution that impacts communitiesā health, sleep, and daily quality of life.
Cyndi Greening, the leader of Chippewa Valley Indivisible, summed up her opposition to data centers perfectly: āFor us the land really matters. This is where we swim and play and raise our kids.ā Want to organize in your own community? Find a local Indivisible group near you here. |
Follow Indivisible National on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads to keep up on the latest information, and text āINDIVISIBLEā to 59798 to opt-in to their text messaging program, where they send rapid response actions a few times a month.
