Action Planning

Town Hall Guide

Some expanded tips and strategies on how to maximize this opportunity to influence your MoCs.

What to do When Your Member of Congress Holds a Sham Town Hall

Several Members of Congress (MoCs) have adopted tactics aimed at suppressing your involvement in their public events and town halls. Here are some tips for dealing with sham town halls in your district.

How to Give a Media Interview

There may be times when you and other members of your group are asked to speak to a journalist. Leadership team members may be asked to answer questions about the story of your group or correct misinformation that is out there. Individuals impacted by a certain policy may have opportunities to share their stories.

How to Organize Your First Group Planning Meeting

There’s no right number of participants for your first meeting. It might be you and your roommates in the living room or it might be you and a few dozen other activists. Get started today and let your group grow to match your ambition!

Get Started Organizing Your Campus

Organizers motivate and mobilize people, they build relationships with the people around them, and they craft a plan to act.

Campus Toolkit

The fact that Trump’s agenda depends on MoCs gives a constituents a ton of power when they act on their home turf—and that means college students too. MoCs love making speeches to big crowds, they are constantly trying to convince people to vote for them in their next election, and they desperately seek people who will help knock on doors and make calls for them. Yes, this applies to residents of the district, but it applies to students in the district too.

Organizing is Mainly About Listening

How to have a one-on-one conversation, reach a shared understanding, and get things done.

How to Have a Successful District Office Visit

As we discuss in the Indivisible Guide, every MoC has one or more local offices, but constituents very rarely visit them. The Tea Party understood this, and they knew they could make their voice heard by going in person to those offices, often unannounced. This demonstrates to them that you, their constituents, care very much about the issue you’ve come to speak about and that you’ll be watching what they do going forward.

How to Write Letters to the Editor that Really Get Attention

Letters to the editor might not seem like the flashiest way to get your Member of Congress’s attention. But there’s something about a sharp letter to the editor in a hometown paper that can really get under the skin of the most powerful lawmaker.

Tips From Journalists: How To Build Great Connections with Media