Take Action What’s Next In case you missed our post-election email: Our next steps remain the same. We will continue to defend our most vulnerable community members against the rising tide of global authoritarianism. We will continue to hold our elected officials accountable. And we will begin to focus on the next round of elections. …
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“Exit polls, Election Day polls and actual returns showed significant gains for Democrats in suburbs and among independents…. Democrats have captured the middle.” If you’ve heard people bemoan that last Tuesday’s elections weren’t a decisive win for Democrats, please smack those voices down—Tuesday was a gorgeous win for sanity from the local level up—and the …
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What’s next Last night we flipped the U.S. House of Representatives, including at least two seats in Texas. This represents a seismic shift in the direction of our country. The incredible wins in the Texas House show that many Texans are ready for change at the #txlege, even if we weren't able to change statewide …
Two years ago if someone had said we have a good chance of flipping Ted Cruz’ seat, I would have laughed. But tomorrow I will be crushed if we don’t. While I’m optimistic I’m also anxious. On the eve of the election in which progressives in Texas have invested so much, I am fearful that …
You voted. Now be a voter multiplier. Two things are true: Early voting turnout was impressive. We could still lose. We have an uphill battle: gerrymandering of our House districts, voter intimidation and suppression, old and buggy technology—all contribute to the likelihood of losing on Tuesday. Chances are you have already voted. So now your …
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11.5.18 “There is no invasion. No one is coming to get you. There’s nothing at all to worry about.” Considering Texas’s usual abysmal voter-turnout rates, it’s astonishing that our state this past week led the country in first-time voter numbers, with more than 200K new voters voting already. We lead the next-largest new-voter turnout, in California, by …
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Polls close at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 6. If you'd like your event to be included, please email noah@indivisibleaustin.com with details. Election Night Watch Party for Mike Siegel! You've volunteered, knocked doors, made calls, written postcards, and - most importantly - voted! Now it's time to celebrate all of our hard work as we …
Lives Depend on Your Vote Last week, a Trump zealot in Florida mailed pipe bombs to prominent Trump critics, including Jewish investor George Soros, and on Saturday a gunman walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered 11 worshipers on Shabbat. The gunman believed the fake, yet very mainstream, rumor that refugees …
If you’ve been sitting on the sidelines, now is the time to suit up. We need you. Texas needs you. And if you’ve been canvassing, phonebanking, texting, dragging friends across broken glass to the polls—thank you. Let’s redouble our efforts through November 6. Early Voting ends on Friday. If you haven’t already voted, don’t wait …
If you’ve voted in Travis County, you are familiar with the voting machines that bear more resemblance to rotary telephones than to any technology currently in use. Those machines have been buggy in the past few elections, and this one is no different—except that there is massive national attention on the race at the top …
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