National purpose with local action
Next meeting: March 2, 2026 at 7:00pm
Christ Lutheran Church
1701 Arroyo Chamiso Road, Santa Fe
Countdown to NK3 🚫👑 More updates will be coming, the plans are getting clearer and clearer. Our podcast that drops next Monday at noon will be with Natalie and Scott discussing the plans. For now, we are getting going on fundraising. Steph put together the fundraising pitch with an "Agave-ometer" so we can watch our progress toward the goal!
Steph Bonzek (she/her)
Heidi distributed flyers for a crowd-sourced business fundraising campaign at the meeting on Monday; expect more on that front too!
Protests, Rallies, and Events
Showing up with the Body Politic
505omatic Action Pack
Among other interesting upcoming events – meet 1:1 with the Mayor on Thursday and Friday! Appointments are open!
505OMATIC
Mar 14: Postcards for Gabe
Come on by Vista Grande Public Library on Saturday March 14th from 10:30 to 12:30 to help write postcards to keep CD 2 Blue – Gabe Vasquez is continuing to protect progressive values in NM's southern congressional district (CD2); MAGA Republicans are targeting Gabe's district and every vote is needed.
Handwritten postcards have been proven that they provide the push some folks need to get to the polls. Grab your bestie and your favorite pen and come help us fight to New Mexico Blue!
Register here:
Feb 27: Constitutional Observer and Bystander Training
The NM House Democrats partnered with NM Immigrant Law Center and the ACLU to put together a couple of training sessions. The last one is this coming Friday:
Constitutional Observer/Bystander Training (in English): Friday, February 27 at 6:00pm
Regular protests
- The next Banner Drop will be Saturday the 28th at 10:00am. Meet at the Rodeo Road and St Francis overpass. If you can come, email Linda at lindawilderflatt@proton.me so she can get a headcount. It's a great way to reach hundreds of people!
- The next Signs of Fascism will probably be at the Lensic when Amy Coney Barrett visits on March 8
Guest post
Donovan Kolbly
Donovan Kolbly
In the News
What folks are saying, of interest around here and elsewhere
Economic Action
The folks at venerable Minocqua Marketplace are hoping to level up their ability to provide a progressive alternative to Amazon; they have a kickstarter going to support the initiative. 💙 kudos to all the creative ways to fight fascism in all its forms.
Makers Unite!
Wired had an article about how Makers, both individual and at maker spaces, are using their skills to build back against ICE. Our own Whistle production program for No Kings 3 has been greatly helped by the folks at Santa Fe's own maker space, Make Santa Fe. (if you love creating things IRL (IRL=In Real Life), check them out!)
Boone Ashworth
The Obelisk
Longer-time Santa Fe residents probably know the story of the Obelisk; I've only been here a couple of years, and the understanding that's unfolding is interesting indeed. Public comment at the City Council is TODAY (Tuesday). Liesl came and spoke at the Monday meeting and encouraged everyone to bring their ideas in person if possible, or submit a public comment at least.
505OMATIC
Healthcare Update
There were several important tax or expenditures in the session. Most were rolled into HB 2 – the General Appropriation Bill for 2026: The SFC (Senate Finance Committee) amendment provides resources to expand the University of New Mexico medical school and provides additional supports for healthcare professionals, including increased funding for the Health Care Authority (HCA) to provide rate increases for personal care professionals (an additional $5 million); $20 million for clinical faculty pay and $2 million for graduate resident and fellow salaries at the UNM Health Sciences Center; $5 million to HCA to recruit, retain, and provide stipends to behavioral health preceptors; $3.7 million to HCA to ensure occupational therapist pay parity; and $24 million to UNM for rural graduate medical education, graduate medical students, and graduate medical education.
SB 13, eliminating the GRT tax did not pass.
Preparing for a Community Strike
from Dave Bazell
While there may be more to do than we have time for, I wanted to mention an upcoming training that people might be interested in. The first priority of Indivisible Santa Fe is to support the No Kings rally (NK3) on March 28. Nevertheless, if you find yourself with some free time or you want to think ahead to the next big thing, consider the Economic Boycott being organized nationwide to take place on Mayday, May 1, 2026.
Freedom Trainers is hosting several online trainings they are calling “Community Strike Readiness Training”. You can sign up at https://freedomtrainers.net/trainings/ after choosing your preferred day.
The Mayday event will be considered a Structure Test. A Structure Test is an action that helps us see how many groups and individuals we can call to action, and essentially participate strike on a particular day. This is very similar to the strike that was called in Minnesota on January 23, 2026. It is a step towards calling a national strike, teaching us how to organize for a strike and discovering who is currently willing to participate and who we have to convince.
So consider signing up at https://freedomtrainers.net/trainings/ for an upcoming training.
Dispatches from the Indivisible Santa Fe Desk
Gary Kowalski
Guest post
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I’ve got two quick things to cover this week. I’m going to start with a celebration because it’s fun and inspiring (to me at least). Then I’ve got an update on the live fight against the regime’s secret police force.
Hey, good job team! We’re building a fighting Democratic Party. In my last newsletter, I wrote about Indivisible’s first three Democratic primary endorsements. Those candidates are Peggy Flanagan (Minnesota Senate), Brad Lander (NY-10), and Jasmine Clark (GA-13). Clark stopped by What’s the Plan last week too -- you can check out the interview here. These candidates are all fighters, backed by their local Indivisible groups, and up against status quo Democrats. And one way you know they're fighters is by who funds their campaigns. They’re all refusing money from AIPAC, crypto, and corporations of any kind, relying instead on grassroots donations to take on the system.
For every one of us who's complained that Democrats aren't doing enough, it’s up to us to demand a better party. The way to demand that party in primary season is to support fighters, and one way to do that is by chipping in a few bucks. So last week I sent out our first-ever fundraiser for one of these candidates -- Dr. Jasmine Clark.
Drumroll please.
Indivisible members have already contributed nearly $170,000 to her campaign! That is huge. To put that in perspective, her do-nothing incumbent opponent raised less than half that from individuals in the entire 4th quarter of last year. Just incredible. I am so damn proud of the Indivisible movement!
We’re not just complaining about failed leaders, we’re doing the work to change those leaders. We’re putting our money where our mouth is. Race by race, we’re building a unified opposition party in this country. Doesn’t that just make you feel good?
Reading this judicial order might help you feel sane. I’m not a lawyer and I don’t read a lot of judicial orders. But I’m going to quote at length from one that came out of West Virginia last week because it's just so damn refreshing to read something with such simple clarity on the grotesque use of secret police. Federal District Court Judge Joseph Goodwin wrote this opening paragraph:
Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice to what is happening. Across the interior of the United States, agents of the federal government – masked, anonymous, armed with military weapons, operating from unmarked vehicles, acting without warrants of any kind – are seizing persons for civil immigration violations and imprisoning them without any semblance of due process. The systematic character of this practice and its deliberate elimination of every structural feature that distinguishes constitutional authority from raw force place it beyond the reach of ordinary legal description. It is an assault on the constitutional order. It is what the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent. It is what the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment forbids.
You can read the whole thing here. I’d especially point your attention to Page 11, where he notes, “The deepest objection to anonymous government force…runs to the very nature of legitimate government itself.”
We are winning the political fight against DHS -- we need to keep up the pressure. It’s this anonymous government force, using tactics reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan as Judge Goodwin notes (p.16), that Republicans are refusing to reform.
Democrats have demanded a set of reasonable if not earth-shattering reforms to DHS in order to allow a vote on its annual budget. Republicans and Trump have refused to negotiate because they want ICE, Border Patrol, and the other DHS goons to operate indiscriminately and with impunity. As a result, TSA, FEMA, and other DHS employees are going to get a partial paycheck this week. In early March, if the “shutdown” continues, they’ll miss a full paycheck.
This is the kind of thing that causes one side of the negotiation to buckle -- and it better not be us.
DHS’s secret police force is illegal, unconstitutional, and -- importantly in a democratic republic -- deeply unpopular. Currently, Senate Democrats are holding strong -- neither watering down their demands nor signaling that they will cave. We’ve seen this movie before though, so I’d say my mood is cautiously optimistic with an emphasis on caution.
Our message to Dem leadership now is clear: As long as you’re holding strong, we’ve got your back. But if you surrender yet again to this regime’s demands, well, No Kings III next month is going to be the largest protest in American history. And it’s smack dab in the middle of primary season. More to come on that front, but read on to this week’s action items!
In solidarity,
Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible
Your weekly to-dos
- Join the week of action to halt ICE/Border Patrol terror. Members of Congress return to DC tomorrow; this will be a critical week in our fight against new ICE and Border Patrol funding without meaningful guardrails and a stop to the violence in our communities. Groups are encouraged to organize nonviolent rallies outside congressional offices, and everyone should use our call and email tools to keep up the pressure on their Members of Congress.
- Sign up for the ICE Out for Good Funding Fight weekly phonebank. On Tuesday (1pm ET), we'll be calling voters in key states to encourage them to call their Members of Congress and urge them to hold the line and demand that ICE’s terror tactics be stopped for good.
- Watch the People's State of the Union, Tuesday (8pm ET). Instead of watching Trump lie to the Joint Session of Congress, join us and partners MoveOn and MeidasTouch for a livestream of counterprogramming featuring progressive Members of Congress, organizers, and Americans impacted by regime policies.
- Attend tonight's Black History Month launch of the 2026 Solidarity in Action speaker series - Systems and Power: Lessons from Those Who Came Before Us, Monday (7pm ET). Barbara R. Arnwine, president and founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition, will explore how best to apply Black organizers' historical lessons to movement-building practices today.
- Join Fight Back with Friends to call on colleges and universities to keep ICE off campus, Tuesday (6:30pm ET). We'll review the basics of using ready-to-go messaging and relational organizing to both take action and empower friends and loved ones to get active, too.
P.S. With just about a month to go before No Kings Day, we’re hard at work to make this the largest single day of protest in US history. If you have a few bucks to spare to help us with the costs of planning, safety, tech, promotion, and event infrastructure, please chip in today.
Don't watch the SOTU - join our livestream instead!
The State of the Union (SOTU) is a Constitutionally-mandated presidential address traditionally attended by every Member of Congress and, since the advent of television, watched by millions. This year will be different!
We'll be joined by, among others, Senators Tina Smith and Chris Van Hollen, Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Delia Ramirez, fellow organizers, and Americans directly impacted by the regime's cruelty and chaos. We cannot give Trump and his lies the attention he craves. This SOTU isn't business as usual -- it's a call to action. We hope you'll join us!
IndivisiWIN of the week
Indivisibles of all ages lined Washington St. in Brainerd, MN on Presidents Day last week for a "Power of the People" rally that garnered great coverage by their local PBS station. In addition to handmade signs, American flags, and winter coats, the group brought a special focus to what's at the heart of the pro-democracy movement: community.
"I think that people have been really looking for a place to belong, a place that feels loving," said Hallie Pond, the group's co-leader. "We believe that community is built over time and the fabric of our democracy is only as strong as the fabric of trust that cloaks it."
"I know everyone here and I have a deep sense of care for them," echoed participant Talia Walsh. "I can't live in a world where care isn't the main sense of everything."
At Indivisible, from the grassroots up to the national organization, we're fighting to stop a regime that's rooted in fomenting division and bent on isolating us from each other. Building and sustaining communities of care is how we win.
Upcoming events for you
These nationwide events, calls, and training sessions 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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