National purpose with local action
Next meeting: April 6, 2026 at 7:00pm – (📣 With VRA Training!)
Christ Lutheran Church
1701 Arroyo Chamiso Road, Santa Fe
Are we done with kings yet?? 🚫👑 💙🇺🇸 Short answer, no... the regime did not get the message and is still clinging to their fading power 😞 But the No Kings III celebration / rally was excellent as expected. The speakers were awesome, the signs were variously hilarious (mostly) and depressing (some), and the weather was amazing 🌞
Estimates vary on the size of the crowd, somewhere in the 7000-8000 range seems to be the general consensus.
Steph writes about her mission to reclaim the American flag at the rally:
Steph Bonzek (she/her)
Here is some aerial drone footage to give you a different sense of the crowd energy:
With some good coverage in the Santa Fe New Mexican as well:
André Salkin asalkinsfnewmexican.com
Protests, Rallies, and Events
Showing up with the Body Politic
Post-Session Town Hall
Tonight (Tuesday, March 31) at 6 there is a Post-legislative session town hall at the SF Public Library (Southside Branch)
States' Sovereign Powers
Also tonight (Tuesday, March 31) our Governor explores states' sovereign powers vs. the federal government. States have sovereign powers – learn how blue states like ours are using them to resist the authoritarianism of the Trump regime.
April 6: VRA Training
We'll be holding a training and refresher for Voter Registration Agents (VRA) at the meeting next Monday, April 6.
Signs of Fascism
The next Signs of Fascism will be at DeVargas Center on April 4th at 10 am. Arrive 10 minutes early for signs and instruction. Meet at Southeast corner between Homegoods and the Bowling Area. SOF will parade on the Center's walkway around to Market Street and return on the street side sidewalks back to the cars.
Regular protests
Guest post
Donovan Kolbly
Donovan Kolbly
In the News
What folks are saying, of interest around here and elsewhere
Surprise! ICE Skirting the Law
505omatic reports on how detention centers in NM are skirting the new laws.
505OMATIC
Dispatch from Dhaka
I finally caught up with Debra's dispatches from Bangladesh:
Debra Efroymson
Celebrating Rural Indivisibles
Dimid Hayes, facilitator of rural Indivisibles and our sometimes visitor, writes about an upcoming day of celebration in Abiquiu/Youngsville:
Guest post
Stay in touch with us
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Indivisible National
In this week’s newsletter, we talk about what’s next after No Kings, provide an update on the DHS shutdown, invite you to an event honoring Trans Day of Visibility, and introduce you to our newest endorsed candidate. Let’s get to it! |
I wrote most of this on the plane ride back from the Twin Cities’ No Kings flagship event. What an incredible day, y’all. With more than 8 million people out at more than 3,300 protests on all seven continents, we collectively produced the largest protest in American history. Let’s reflect on this monumental feat and talk about how we build on the momentum.
No Kings 3 was a triumph of organizing. We brought friends, family, colleagues, strangers, and fellow community members out. We got permits and stages and lighting and traffic cones. We invited speakers, balanced coalitions, and ran safety marshal trainings. After producing one historic No Kings after another, it starts to look easy and inevitable, but every Indivisible group that helped make this happen knows that nothing about it this is easy or inevitable. A thousand dramas played out in the lead up to this historic day, and a thousand more on the day itself. The price of the hope and inspiration millions of people are now feeling is the burden that the thousands of leaders on the ground carried.
This is the product of organizing. And it’s why we do what we do.
Scenes from the flagship No Kings. There were more than a couple moments in the Twin Cities that felt transcendent, but let me highlight a couple. At one point, after Bruce Springsteen started playing Streets of Minneapolis, I turned from him to look at the sea of 200,000 Minnesotans who've gone through hell and were standing together with love, swaying, cheering, and chanting "ICE OUT". Later Joan Baez sang a duet of The Times They Are A-Changin, the song she sang with MLK Jr. at the March on Washington in 1963. Those artists, those songs, that crowd of battle-hardened American patriots -- for me, about the closest the political gets to the spiritual. Despite everything, we believe enough in a better world to demand it together.
What’s next. We all know that fascism does not announce defeat purely because an historic number of people come out on a Saturday. But it was more than a day of joy, courage, community, and headlines -- it was a welcome orientation for millions of new patriotic Americans to get connected to the fight where they live. That gives us an opportunity to build the movement and escalate.
So there are two main tactics Indivisible is focused on now:
- Nationwide, local “What’s Next” movement absorption events. We're advising every Indivisible group and local No Kings host to put together "What's Next?" events in the next couple weeks. Think of this as both a welcoming orientation for newly activated community members and strategic alignment for what's to come. More guidance in our toolkit here.
- May Day: a day of no work, shopping, or business as usual. The next major national action isn't another protest -- it's flexing our collective economic muscle. We're inspired by the Twin Cities' Day of Truth and Action, where teachers, faith leaders, workers, students, and business leaders refused work, school, and shopping on a single Friday in January -- preceding the regime's retreat. We're doing the same nationally on May 1. We know that when Trump tries to sabotage the midterms, we'll need this movement muscle. May Day is how we build it. The May Day Strong coalition is bottomlining this -- more from Indivisible in the weeks to come -- and it’ll be a big topic on tomorrow’s No Kings Mass call (register here).
I hope you take time this week to reflect on what you’ve been part of. Political commentators will argue about it, historians will write about it, artists will create art about it, and millions of people around the globe will be inspired by it. At a time when the world needed us, we did what we had to do. It’s why Indivisible exists, and I’m thankful, proud, and humbled to be part of such a historic force for good in the world with all of you.
In solidarity,
Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible
Your weekly to-dos
- Join the What’s Next After No Kings 3 call (Tuesday, 8pm ET/5pm PT) Gather virtually with friends and partners nationwide to celebrate our impact and discuss specific, actionable plans to funnel No Kings's momentum into ongoing organizing -- from community meetings focused on local actions to a national day of economic disruption on May 1, led by May Day Strong. Mass mobilizations are a coalition-building tactic; what we do next is even more important. Join us.
- Tell your Members of Congress: Trump’s illegal war must be stopped. Trump’s war is grinding on and has already taken the lives of 13 US servicemembers and nearly 2,000 Iranians. Many others have been killed and wounded across the Middle East. Now, Trump is threatening a ground invasion and attacks on civilian infrastructure (war crimes). Recently, some Republicans have signalled they could finally back legislation to stop Trump’s illegal war when Congress returns from recess. Use the link above to email all of your Members of Congress, then call your senators and representatives and demand they stop this war.
- Tonight! Celebrate Trans Day of Visibility by attending this month's entry in our Solidarity in Action: Building Power that Lasts discussion series: Centering Trans Leadership and Accountable Allyship (Monday 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT). We'll explore how to practice accountable allyship and inclusive leadership that centers trans voices in movement spaces.
- Find and join a local Indivisible group. We know we’ve got a lot of new folks on our email list via the No Kings protests, and if you found it energizing to be part of a political community resisting authoritarianism at No Kings, we have good news for you: You can have that feeling all year round by organizing with your closest Indivisible chapter! Check out our map to see what groups are organizing near you.
P.S. As a movement dedicated to year-round organizing everywhere, mobilizations like No Kings are not the culmination of months of work, they are the starting point for establishing new chapters and connecting new activists into our work. Now it’s time to absorb this energy, train new leaders, and grow this popular front against fascism. Please chip in, if you can, to help fuel the sustained organizing work necessary to defeat authoritarianism.
Honoring Trans Day of Visibility
Trans Day of Visibility (March 31) is an opportunity to celebrate the trans community in its many expressions, fierce persistence, and joyful authenticity, and learn from the lessons that persistence has brought.
And the need to celebrate and stand with the American trans community has never been greater, as its members face an onslaught of hate campaigns and legislated dehumanization. How cisgender people can best stand in allyship with the trans community -- in times of joy as well as struggle -- is a question of real urgency.
This virtual event is the latest in Indivisible's ongoing discussion series, Solidarity in Action: Building Power that Lasts. It will be led by Alex del Rosario and Devon Ojeda of Advocates for Trans Equality; Mandy Giles, CEO and founder of Parents of Trans Youth; and public education specialist Tekla Taylor.
IndivisiWIN of the Week
We usually dedicate this space to celebrating a recent win by a single, local Indivisible group, because none of this work happens without the consistent, tireless work of the grassroots groups making it happen.
But this week? How could we possibly talk about just one group! Turnout was huge for No Kings on Saturday, and many Indivisible and partner groups, not to mention over 8 million protesters, played a massive role in making that happen.
So today we're celebrating EVERY ONE OF YOU and your accomplishment in turning out world-historic numbers. Give yourself a couple of minutes to just bask in the glow of Saturday's tremendous success with this montage of No Kings Day protests in all fifty states and across the globe. You can watch on YouTube above, or watch and share it on Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads, and Substack.
DHS Shutdown Update
Over the weekend, House Republicans torpedoed a bipartisan Senate deal that would have funded the entire Department of Homeland Security except for ICE and Border Patrol. Then they left town for two weeks.
The deal was a win. It didn’t deliver the reforms we’ve been demanding to those lawless, thuggish agencies, but it denied them a cent more funding while we kept up the fight. It also would have ended the chaos for travelers at airports across the country, funded FEMA, and prevented federal workers from missing another paycheck. All good stuff, but House Republicans decided they’d rather continue the shutdown than deprive Trump’s secret police of additional funding to terrorize our communities.
Separately, Trump released an executive order to pay TSA, and it appears that’s really happening, despite questionable legality. The fact that Trump did this now is an indication he could have gone this route from day 1 -- DHS had billions available from the big ugly bill. But, he thought long airport lines would put political pressure on Dems to cave and fund all of DHS. They haven’t -- and that’s a good thing.
There’s no obvious end in sight, but Republicans are now unequivocally the owners of the longest shutdown in history, and as it continues, Border Patrol and ICE are drawing down their slush funds and some of their budget is presumably being redirected to pay TSA.
As a reminder, only two months ago Congress was racing forward to pass DHS appropriations that would have given ICE and Border Patrol BILLIONS in additional funds. YOU stepped up, called your members, and stopped that. The fight isn’t over, but Trump and Republicans are flailing, and we’re winning.
Indivisible endorses Julie Gonzales in Colorado's US Senate race
As we work to build a Democratic Party that’ll fight authoritarianism in Congress as hard as we're fighting it in the streets, we’re proud to announce our newest endorsed candidate: Julie Gonzales, an inspiring candidate challenging John Hickenlooper for the Democratic Senate nomination in Colorado.
Julie has always been a fighter, getting her start as a community organizer defending immigrant rights before entering politics. In the Colorado state senate, Gonzales racked up a number of unabashedly progressive legislative achievements, including legislation enshrining the right to abortion access and increased protections against ICE. Her people-powered (not PAC-powered) campaign for US Senate is equally progressive and ambitious.
Like the Indivisible Colorado Action Network that first endorsed her, we believe Gonzales is a better choice for Colorado and the party than John Hickenlooper -- who has voted to confirm more of Trump’s nominees than almost any other Democrat.
You can learn more about and support all Indivisible Action’s endorsees here.
Paid for by Indivisible Action. Not authorized by any candidate or committee.
Upcoming events for you
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