National purpose with local action
Next meeting: November 10 at 7:00pm (w/AG Raúl Torrez speaking)
Christ Lutheran Church
1701 Arroyo Chamiso Road, Santa Fe
Mutual Aid 💙 As we find ourselves abandoned by our federal government – which many of us have always understood as an institution dedicated to supporting all Americans – we are developing new ways to help each other. Mutual aid is a grass-roots concept of helping out each other, and by so doing develop a the connections which foster community. It achieves a similar goal as charity, but is not rooted in a hierarchical "helper-helpee" dynamic, but rather in the shared belief that, in solidarity, we can through community overcome adversity. I am heartened to see the work of the Burrito Brigade and others in Santa Fe bring this much needed concept to life in our community.
Upcoming Events
📣 Nov 8: Speakers' Corner
Heidi Li Feldman
Heidi did a recap of the Oct 25 event:
Heidi Li Feldman
Nov 9: GET Meet & Greet
Greater Eldorado Together Indivisible (GET) and Eldorado Area Dems is having their first Democratic Candidate Meet & Greet of the 2026 Primary season. Come meet Matthew McQueen (NM Land Commissioner) and Sarah Boses (NM House 50). RSVP now, space is limited!
Action Network
🍎 Nov 10: Food Drive
Announcing a City-Wide Food Drive to begin 11/10 and continue through 12/8.
The Food Depot in partnership with Indivisible Santa Fe is mobilizing this Food Drive.
Refer to The Food Depot and Indivisible Santa Fe websites for a list of drop off locations and shelf stable canned foods accepted. We thank the business community and local faith-based community for stepping up to assist Santa Fe in this time of crisis.
Guest post
Nov 10: Speaker Series – Raúl Torrez
Guest post
Nov 10: Legislators Respond to Federal Cuts
State Senator Benny Shendo and State Representative Derrick Lente, members of the New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee, will attend a Town Hall to address what the State is doing to backfill Federal funding cuts, detail their legislative priorities for the upcoming session, and answer questions and concerns from their constituents. The event will be held at the Peña Blanca Community Center Monday, Nov. 10, from 5 to 7 pm.
Senator Shendo and Representative Lente, the first Native American Pueblo members to serve on the Legislative Finance Committee, will detail the state response to Federal budget cuts to New Mexico food assistance programs, increases in health insurance costs and other items which will affect their constituents.
The event, sponsored by Cochiti Lake Indivisible, is open to the public. The Pena Blanca Community Center is located at 778 Route 22 (currently accessible from I25 by a detour on Route 16).
Protests and Rallies
Showing up with the Body Politic
Heidi Li FeldmanDonovan Kolbly
Donovan Kolbly
Also, check out the web calendar of grass-roots events from around New Mexico. Filter by Santa Fe or your area of interest!
In the News
What folks are saying, of interest around here and elsewhere
Burrito Brigade
The Burrito Brigade mutual aid group is organizing a community response to the loss of SNAP benefits, helping people connect in solidarity.
Dispatches from the Indivisible Santa Fe desk
Donovan Kolbly
Gary Kowalski
Debra Efroymson
Committee Reports
what's going on in our committees
- Healthcare – If you have a NM healthcare story, either as a patient or provider, please call or text David L. who is collecting our stories …. each out to him at (505) 501-0445 Your stories will be presented to the NM Legislators responsible for bringing much needed upgrades to our current laws.
- Economic Action – finishing up a document with suggested alternatives to big bad corporations. If anyone has suggestions on how to best share that information, please contact committees@indivisiblesantafe.org
- Collaboration and Outreach – starting youth One Million Rising groups. The first in-person training will be Sunday, Nov. 9 from 1-3pm and Tuesday Nov. 11 from 6-8pm. If you know a young person (under age 40) who is interested, please contact outreach@indivisiblesantafe.org
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.
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Indivisible National
In certain corners of the internet today -- and maybe in your own life -- it's common to see people throwing up their hands and saying “Well, democracy is over! No point in organizing now. The fascists won!”
I have no patience for this. If there's a single motto we go by here at Indivisible, it’s this: “Don’t give this regime power it doesn’t have.”
The regime wants you to believe it’s unstoppable. If they were popular and confident in their power, they wouldn’t have to lash out, censor media, bully political opponents, or attack your voting rights. They’re doing those things because they’re weak, insecure, and the backlash is catching up with them -- and they know it.
With elections, we go on offense. This week, we get to show our movement’s strength with a tool authoritarians fear deeply: our vote. And we’ve got to wipe the floor with them.
Here are the elections tomorrow I’m keeping an eye on:
- California Prop 50: If passed, it will counteract Texas’s mid-decade gerrymander. That won’t completely undo what was done by GOP map-rigging nationwide, but it will make a very large pro-democracy dent.
- New York Mayor: Zohran Mamdani's victory over a corrupt, disgraced sexual abuser Andrew Cuomo in the Dem primary was one of the first electoral moments of hope this year. Mamdani's relentless focus on affordability, fighting back against the regime, and his sunny, creative campaigning, is a lesson for Dems nationwide. I’m hoping New Yorkers reject the sore loser Cuomo decisively.
- New Jersey and Virginia Elections: New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial, statewide, and legislative races are crucial chances to demonstrate that this regime has sparked massive and widespread backlash. Electeds in at-risk districts nationwide will treat big wins here as a bellwether for what's to come in 2026. We’ve got to crush it in both states
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court: Somewhat flying under the radar, there are three Democratic Supreme Court races up for retention in Pennsylvania. Losing two could throw the court balance to the Republicans. As Trump menaces blue states and cities across the country, I don’t want a regime-aligned court ruling in Pennsylvania.
- Maine Prop 1: The first ballot initiative in Maine tomorrow is an attack on absentee voting. When I was up in Maine a few weeks ago for a statewide convening of Indivisible leaders, I heard from many locals that defeating this was a top priority for them.
Ignore the hot takes -- our one goal tomorrow is to electorally crush the regime. Immediately after the election, political commentators from all ideological persuasions will come out to say “Here’s why the election results confirm that my ideology is the one true path forward for the Democratic Party.” Many of those takes have already been written -- the election outcomes themselves are almost incidental. Ignore them.
Don’t get me wrong, I think we should have a debate about the future of the Democratic Party. With congressional primary season coming up, I hope Indivisibles will get involved as much as possible because I think it’s very important that we rally behind the fight-back faction of the Democratic Party -- building a brand that people can actually believe in; a brand that will crush the fascists next year.
But tomorrow’s election is a general election, not a primary. And in a general election the choice is between the regime and the Democrat. So while Chuck Schumer can’t bring himself to endorse the Democratic nominee for mayor of the largest city in the country, we at Indivisible are cheering on every candidate up against this regime.
Tomorrow, I’m looking for only one kind of result again and again and again: the regime lost, badly. I want them to lose to a Democratic Socialist in New York, and I want them to lose to a moderate CIA officer in Virginia. I want a cross-ideological rejection of fascism all across this country -- and I want high levels of turnouts across the board.
I can hardly wait to get into the coming primary debates about what kind of Democratic Party is most best equipped to win, lead, and govern into the future. But first, let’s do the work to win tomorrow.
We’re not going to give this regime power it desperately wants but doesn’t have. We’re not going to give them anything at all. The power is ours, and we’re keeping it.
In solidarity,
Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible
Your weekly to-dos
- If you have a state or local election tomorrow, make sure you have a plan to vote. Election Day is tomorrow, and millions of us have a chance to elect leaders -- lawmakers, judges, school boards, and more -- who are vital to defending and rebuilding democracy. Make a plan to vote if you haven’t already!
- Join our FINAL Virginia phonebank of 2025 tonight, November 3, at 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT! Virginians are on the verge of flipping the governor’s mansion and building a blue trifecta to stand against Trump, so we’re calling into VA to turn out every vote! You can join from anywhere. All you need is a phone and computer, and we offer training before the shift!
- Support families hurt by SNAP cuts or federal furloughs by donating food, supplies, or funds to local food banks. After a Trump-led delay and federal court battle, SNAP benefits will be late and significantly reduced this month -- leaving millions of families at risk of going hungry. We’re stepping up to support them. Read the latest on SNAP below.
- Email your Democratic senator(s) and urge them to keep standing strong in the Trump Shutdown. As Trump’s “maximum pain” shutdown strategy ramps up, Dem leaders need to hear we’re still with them. We do NOT have to trade short-term pain for long-term suffering and a broken healthcare system. Tell Dems we’re thankful they are fighting, and urge them to hold the line.
- Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism. Don’t use Spotify? Support the campaign by spreading the word on social media.
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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Making sense of SNAP lapses
There have been a ton of rapid updates, misinformation, and disinformation surrounding what is happening to SNAP benefits recently, so let’s take a moment to set things straight:
- Donald Trump said there was nothing he could do to fund SNAP. That’s a flagrant lie. Congress established a $5 billion emergency fund to ensure SNAP benefits are still available in moments exactly like this one, but Trump refused to use it, believing millions of hungry Americans would give him leverage in the shutdown fight.
- Federal judges ruled that Trump has to release some SNAP benefits. The courts essentially found that (shocker!) the law says exactly the opposite of what Trump claimed. Not only can he release the SNAP benefits; he has a legal obligation to do so.
- Even after the court rulings, SNAP benefits will be significantly cut and delayed this month. The courts can’t undo the delays Trump already caused and only mandated that partial payments go out this month, so millions of families who rely on SNAP will receive only a fraction of their usual benefits -- with assistance arriving 1-2 weeks late.
Bottom line: A portion of SNAP benefits will go out later this month -- but that still leaves 42 million Americans, including 16 million kids, at risk of going hungry in the next few weeks. We are rallying the massive No Kings community to help keep food on neighbors’ tables and ease the food anxiety Trump is causing.
Trump Shutdown update: the longest closure ever
Tomorrow will be the 36th day that the federal government has been shut down, making this Trump Shutdown the longest in US history, but Republicans still can’t agree on a plan to reopen the government.
Senate Republicans have voted NO on a bill to immediately reopen the government AND stop health insurance premiums from skyrocketing over and over again. House Republicans aren’t even in DC -- they’re hiding out at home “on recess” for the fifth week in a row.
And as Republicans do nothing, federal workers are missing paychecks, families are going hungry, air travel is becoming a public nightmare, and our economy is sputtering. All this suffering is thanks entirely to DC Republicans. They’d rather watch Americans struggle than fix a healthcare cost crisis they created.
IndivisiWIN of the week
In North Texas, Indivisible TX-12 has organized a creative way to support local families AND highlight their Republican representative’s inaction and complicity during the Trump Shutdown!
Every Thursday in November, group members are hosting a “pull-up protest” and donation drive outside GOP Rep. Craig Goldman’s office in Fort Worth. Community members are invited to donate food and supplies for TX-12 mutual aid groups while rallying to protest the Trump Shutdown.
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.
