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Call to Meeting Thursday November 20, 2025
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Mark you calendar:
Sat, Nov 22nd
Indivisible Book and Knitting Club
Book this month:
Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear Into Pride, Power, and Real Change
By: Christina Jiménez
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Here are some ways you can take action.
- Fri, Nov 28 @ 9am
Activism Alliance › - Sun, Nov 30 @ 6pm
Activist Hour – Sundays › - Sun, Nov 30 @ 7pm
Indivisible Polk Last Sunday Zoom › - Tue, Dec 2 @ 6pm
Activist Hour – Tuesdays › - Sat, Dec 6 @ 9am
Civil Resistance Study Group › - Thu, Dec 11 @ 6:30pm
West Coast Connection Coalition Call – Alliance for Democracy Hosting ›
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Now that we’re fully done counting, we trained 1440+ candidates in 2025, and totaled 965+ wins — we count 50 new mayors and 640+ new city council and school board members who trained with NDTC. Also, 20% of the current Virginia House of Delegates Dems are NDTC learners. And we are r.e.a.d.y. for 2026.
If you are looking at this week’s headlines and think we deserve better — you’re right. And you, yes YOU, can step up. You’re the person who knows your community better than anyone. You can be the reason our schools get funded, our communities are livable, our government responsive. If you’re ready to run on work on a campaign in 2026, we’re ready to train you.
PS. We will be closed for Thanksgiving break Nov 24 – 28,
so no TL;DR next week!
UPCOMING LIVE TRAINING
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12.02
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12.04
10am PST
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If you want to put more faces to the VA Blue Wave, meet NDTC learner Lindsey Dougherty. Lindsey is a Democratic organizer whose message focused on health care, education, and working families has made her a standout voice in the 2025 General.
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Here are some ways you can take action.
- Sun, Nov 23 @ 2pm
Boycott Planner Training for We Ain’t Buying It! › - Mon, Nov 24 @ 5pm
Power in Solidarity: Fundamentals for Community Organizers (3-part Series) › - Thu, Dec 4 @ 3pm
Recruitment Phone Bank › - Wed, Dec 10 @ 5pm
SURJ Action Hours and Welcome › - Thu, Dec 11 @ 3pm
Listen to Working People: Phone Bank with SURJ! ›
All times PST
News flash: the majority of Americans disapprove of ICE. Which makes sense – after nearly a year of the Trump administration and corporate America’s attacks on working families, immigrants, and people of color, every day people are looking for a way to break out of this pain and disrupt the status quo.
That’s why, in partnership with Black Voters Matter, Indivisible, and the Working Families Party, SURJ is joining the We Ain’t Buying It! Boycott Campaign.
The TL,DR:
Take 20 seconds and sign on to boycott Home Depot, Target, and Amazon from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday.
Take 2 minutes and sign on as a Boycott Planner with SURJ. We’ll train you to show up in person at a Home Depot near you between 11/27-12/1 to bring the boycott right to their doors.
The full scoop:
We Ain’t Buying It! is a national boycott of Home Depot, Target, and Amazon from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday 2025. People from all across the US are signing on because enough is enough. If they profit off our pain, they don’t deserve our dollars.
This holiday season — when 20% of annual retail sales happen — we’re using our collective power to show corporate America that our values aren’t for sale.
From SURJ’s perspective, we as white folks carry a unique responsibility in this boycott because we are the largest consumer base in the US and spend almost double that of Black households. Our outsized wealth drives the economy, and when we take ownership of what and how we spend, we can drive change.
Because of that positioning, we’re taking it one step further:
SURJ wants to take the boycott right to Home Depot’s doors by training our people to become boycott planners and hold an event at their local stores between November 27th and December 1st.
In addition to withholding your dollars, we’re asking you to commit to planning a local boycott event, and here’s why:
- SURJ is targeting Home Depot because they’ve cooperated with ICE, and we stand in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors. (If there’s not a Home Depot near you, you can choose to hold your boycott at a local Target or Amazon store, too!)
- Right now there are an estimated 59,000 people held in ICE detention centers, and we want to make a direct connection between that cruelty and Home Depot’s complicity.
- We need to know what we’re capable of now so we can build on it for the fight ahead. SURJ continues to do our part in this broad movement towards racial and economic justice, and in big moments where folks are looking to take action and make sense of the world around them, it’s our duty to show them how, and learn ourselves what we’re capable of so we can continue to grow.
By becoming a boycott planner, you’re committing to:
- Gathering you and 5 or more people to show up in-person at a Home Depot near you between November 27th and December 1st.
- Handing out flyers, making some noise, and securing boycott commitments from people who have yet to spend their money at the store you’re outside of.
It’s a chance to go BIG and make a real-time impact.
SURJ will support you with:
- A toolkit that includes instructions, tips, and printable signs + flyers that you’ll get as soon as you sign on.
- A live training on Zoom on Sunday, November 23rd, from 5-6:15pm ET — you’ll get the link when you sign up to be a boycott planner
- Check-ins with a SURJ coach who can answer questions, offer guidance, and make sure you’re ready to show up and make your boycott count.
We know this is a tight turn around, but if we can pull this off we’ll be taking a huge slice of sales away from these retailers on their biggest sales weekend of the year. Black Friday sales numbers make the national news — and so can we if we pull this off.
There’s momentum right now in the world to fight back, and as changemakers we can harness it. Join SURJ to call out corporations and show the power we hold when we act together.
Sign the pledge to boycott and become a Boycott Planner. Join us in declaring — We Ain’t Buying It!
Onwards,
SURJ
Showing Up for Racial Justice
PO Box 1376
Buffalo, NY 14205
United States
Join Our Call December 3rd 5pm PST!
Dear Rural Indivisibles,
I’m writing with a quick reminder and warm invitation to join us for this month’s Rural Caucus Call. As we close out the year, we’re gathering to reflect on what our local groups have accomplished, connect those wins to our broader national priorities, and share an early look at what’s ahead for the caucus in 2026.
This call is also a space to ground ourselves before the year ends — to celebrate, listen, and prepare for the work and care we’ll need moving forward.
You’ll leave with a clear picture of the incredible work rural groups have led this year, how those efforts strengthen our national strategy, and what our early plans are for the caucus in 2026 — including ways you can plug in.
Our hope is that you leave feeling an even stronger sense of ownership in the Rural Caucus. We’ll uplift stories directly from local groups and include a listening segment with a short survey so your voice shapes where we go next.
Before the holidays begin, we want you to take something for yourself — so we’ll be inviting everyone to make a small self-care plan and commit to returning together in January, ready and renewed.
We truly hope you’ll join us for this closing conversation of 2025. Your presence continues to shape this caucus and the possibilities we’re building across red & rural communities.
Looking forward to being in community with each of you.
Warmly,
– The Indivisible Red and Rural Caucus Team
– Cameron, Kimberly, Molly and Scott
Indivisible Project
PO Box 43884
Washington, DC 20010
United States
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This is just a reminder that the Washington State organization of the League of Women Voters has some excellent resources on becoming involved in your democracy.