General Body Meeting. Register here! Take Action End the purge: Tell SOS David Whitley to rescind the phony “voter fraud” letter A lot has changed since last week, when the Texas Secretary of State issued an advisory that drove Ken Paxton, Greg Abbott and even Donald Trump into a froth of voter-fraud-conspiracy theorizing. To recap: …
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Donald’s usual word salad of lies and empty boasting | How your voices are making a difference
After the speaker of the House engineered the reopening of the government shutdown by Donald’s tantrum over his compensatory wall, Nancy Pelosi’s opening bid in the renewed wall negotiations is…zero. 😀 Meanwhile, perhaps anticipating another tantrum by the toddler-in-chief, a bipartisan group of senators has introduced legislation that would withhold salary from the president, vice president, and …
Take Action Newsletter: What the SOS actually said about noncitizen voting; John Cornyn’s shutdown flipflop; #TXLEGE committee assignments
Poll: When can you join our general body meetings? Take Action No, the Texas Secretary of State did not say that thousands of people voted illegally The Texas secretary of state’s office flagged 95,000 registered voters who the state says counties should consider checking to see whether they are U.S. citizens. This set off a …
Pelosi taught Donald what it’s like to face off with a grown-ass adult | How your voices are making a difference
Who run the world? Nancy Pelosi taught Donald what it’s like to face off with a grown-ass adult by refusing to negotiate funding for his border wall until Donald reopened the government—to which demand he caved after costing the American economy more than $6 billion during his tantrum—more than the $5.7 billion he was pouting over not …
How to make an Impeachment Slackbot
If you’re using Slack to organize, here’s a fun and easy way to make Slackbot deliver random articles of impeachment for Donald J. Trump. Depending on your team’s Slack setup, you might need administrative permissions to do this, but by default anyone can make a Slackbot response. Step One: Click the dropdown next to your team name, …
Rally at Cornyn’s to end the #TrumpShutdown, Jan. 23 at 11:30 a.m.
Update: If you can’t make it to the rally, sign up to phone bank instead! Hosted by TX10 Indivisible WHEN: Wed. Jan. 23 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: This is the Chase Tower on the corner of 6th and Congress. The tower has paid parking, and the 801 and 803 CapMetro buses stop nearby. WHAT: …
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Take Action Newsletter: Impeachment roundup; Support local food banks; National call-in day to end the #TrumpShutdown; Rally at Cornyn’s; general body meeting
Impeachment Resource Roundup! Buzzfeed reported last week that Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about Trump Tower Moscow. This would be suborning perjury and would be a Very Big Deal. Although Mueller disputed some of the reporting—it’s hard to say which parts—the chances of the House impeaching the president just rose significantly. …
Afghan Interpreter Released from ICE Custody | How your voices are making a difference
Rudy Giuliani is just melting right on down, stating that he “never said there was no collusion” (after bleating for months that there was no collusion, a lot of times, on the record), desperately backpedaling as Mueller’s noose draws a bit tighter. Expect to see the jackals turn on each other more and more as …
Take Action Newsletter: End the shutdown; free a detained Afghan interpreter; Austin Women’s Rally; Fire John Cornyn!
NEW: Joint Statement to the 86th Texas Legislature from Texas Indivisible Groups TXLEGE is in session! Download our guide! Calls to Make Call Cruz and Cornyn about… The shutdown and border wall “Mess with Texas!” “Fence me in!” That is the message our senators are telling President Trump over the stupid, unworkable border wall. Cruz …
The walls are closing in | How your voices are making a difference
Could Donald’s engineering of the longest government shutdown in history be another of his distraction techniques to call attention away from the revelation that PAUL MANAFORT SHARED 2016 POLLING DATA WITH AN ASSOCIATE TIED TO RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE? Or that in 2017 the FBI opened an investigation into a SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES on suspicion that …
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