FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 14, 2024
Contact: Emily Phelps | press@indivisible.org
Washington, DC — Last night, the national grassroots advocacy organization Indivisible released its new guide document, “Indivisible: A Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink” on a call with over 31,000 attendees. (Watch full call here).
Since the first Indivisible Guide went viral in 2016, spawning a national movement, the Indivisible Project has released a new “Guide” at the beginning of each Congress with practical advice on how ordinary constituents can best apply local pressure on their lawmakers in the new political landscape.
You can read ‘Indivisible: A Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink’ here.
After covering What Happened in the Election, Why it Matters, and a Primer on Constituent Power, the guide lays out Our Gameplan to get through the next two years and save democracy from another Trump administration:
- We all throw in to say NO to Project 2025 when it’s pushed by the White House and Congress. We’ll stop what we can, and we’ll pick strategic fights to drive national backlash to win in 2026.
- We play hardball wherever we’ve got Democrats in local, city, or state office — supporting and/or pushing them to block, delay, and challenge MAGA’s attacks.
- We work to protect and win elections — defending against election deniers in swing states and turning all that national backlash into an electoral majority coalition that delivers big wins in 2026.
The Guide includes strategies on “Protecting People and Operating Under Authoritarian Creep,” including ways to organize to stand with communities under threat and to fight for democracy under increasing authoritarian creep and fear for democracy. The Guide also concludes with the basics of “How To Get Involved,” including how new readers can find or start Indivisible groups across the country on the Indivisible group map, a tentpole of Indivisible movement since the beginning, how to register events, and how to join trainings and workshops throughout the year.
As Ezra Levin, Indivisible’s co-founder and co-executive director, said on last night’s call:
“Why should we have hope? I know we’re feeling a lot of feelings but I think something everyone on this one call must be feeling at least one ounce of is determination. Trump is not omnipotent. Trump is coming into office with 49.9% of the vote. The country did not embrace fascism. The country did not embrace Project 2025.
“When Trump 2.0 comes to their town dress as callousness, as chaos, as corruption, as cruelty – a lot of Americans are going to say: ‘what the hell? I didn’t vote for this. I didn’t like the price of eggs, but I didn’t want fascism.’ They’re going to be pushing back against what their representatives and Senators are doing.
“I don’t know what’s going to come. I know a lot of damage is going to be done. I’m not telling you everything is going to be ok – nobody can tell you that. But what I can tell you is that we do still live in a representative democracy. Trump is not all powerful. We have power at the federal level, at the state level, at the city level.
“There will be a Supreme Court election in Wisconsin in the Spring. There’s going to be a fight over the Trump tax cut scam in the Fall. There are going to be elections in New Jersey and Virginia in November of 25. There are going to be midterm elections in 2026. That’s real. That’s coming.
“The question is going to be: do we harness the backlash to this aggressively unpopular, damaging agenda they’re going to try to run over the country with? I see 31,000 people here [on this call] who say: ‘yeah, that’s what we’re going to do.’
“That gives me hope.”
# # #
ABOUT THE INDIVISIBLE PROJECT
The Indivisible Project is a registered 501(c)(4) nonprofit. Our mission is to cultivate and lift up a grassroots movement of local groups to defeat the Trump agenda, elect progressive leaders, and realize bold progressive policies. Across the nation, thousands of local groups are using the Indivisible Guide to hold their members of Congress accountable. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee.