Indivisible movement

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Indivisible is a progressive movement and organization in the United States initiated in 2016 as a reaction to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. The movement's organizational leadership includes the Indivisible Project, Indivisible Civics, and Indivisible Action.{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://indivisible.org/about |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221031020637/https://indivisible.org/about |archive-date=2022-10-31 |access-date=2023-09-06 |website=Indivisible |language=en}} The movement began with the online publication of a handbook written by Congressional staffers with suggestions for peacefully but effectively resisting the move to the right in the executive branch of the United States government under the Trump administration that was widely anticipated and feared by progressives.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4xmSPefMnI|title=Anti-Donald Trump Backlash Outpacing Tea Party|first=Rachel|last=Maddow|publisher=MSNBC|date=February 2, 2017|access-date=July 18, 2017|via=YouTube}} According to Peter Dreier, the goal of Indivisible is to "save American democracy" and "resume the project of creating a humane America that is more like social democracy than corporate plutocracy."{{cite web|last1=Dreier|first1=Peter|title=The Anti-Trump Movement: Recover, Resist, Reform|url=http://prospect.org/article/anti-trump-movement-recover-resist-reform-0|publisher=The American Prospect|access-date=July 28, 2017|date=April 4, 2017}}

Indivisible's founders, Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, were included in Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2019.{{Cite magazine|title=Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin: The 100 Most Influential People of 2019|url=https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567710/leah-greenberg-ezra-levin/|access-date=2020-09-22|magazine=TIME|language=en-us}}

Origin

The movement started with the online publication of a 23-page handbook, Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda.{{Cite web|url=https://indivisible.org/guide|title=Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda|website=Indivisible Guide|access-date=March 13, 2017|archive-date=February 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223223723/https://indivisible.org/guide|url-status=dead}} The authors of the document, most notably Ezra Levin, Jeremy Haile, Leah Greenberg, and Angel Padilla,{{cite web|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/13/anti-trump-indivisible-tea-party/|title=Meet the husband-wife duo who are sparking a liberal Tea Party movement|author=Caey Tolan|date=May 13, 2017|website=mercurynews.com|access-date=July 18, 2017}} were former Congressional staffers. Greenberg worked as an aide to Democratic Representative Tom Perriello of Virginia,{{cite web |last1=Schor |first1=Elana |last2=Bade |first2=Rachael |date=2017-02-10 |title=Inside the protest movement that has Republicans reeling |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/protest-movement-republicans-234863 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906224421/https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/protest-movement-republicans-234863 |archive-date=2023-09-06 |access-date=2017-04-17 |website=POLITICO}} while Levin, Greenberg's husband, worked as an aide to Lloyd Doggett, a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas. After the 2016 presidential election, in mid-December 2016, Levin and Greenberg began working on an online guide in the form of a Google Document on how to make contact with congressional aides as a way of grieving over Trump's victory. Angel Padilla, Jeremy Haile, and dozens of other staffers for Democratic members of the United States Congress joined in the creation of the online publication.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JwOLRWaGX4|title=Online Guide Helps Focus Anti-Donald Trump Movement - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC|last=MSNBC|date=January 5, 2017|access-date=July 18, 2017|via=YouTube}}

The authors modeled their document after the Tea Party movement, which focused on local activism and obstructing the Democratic Party's agenda following the election of President Barack Obama in 2008.{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-crowd-sourced-guide-to-fighting-trumps-agenda|title=The Crowdsourced Guide to Fighting Trump's Agenda|last=Bethea|first=Charles|date=December 16, 2016|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=March 13, 2017}} They thought that similar action taken by the left could be effective against what they perceived as Trump's "bigoted and anti-democratic agenda".{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/opinion/to-stop-trump-democrats-can-learn-from-the-tea-party.html|title=To Stop Trump, Democrats Can Learn From the Tea Party|date=January 2, 2017|first1=Ezra|last1=Levin|last2=Greenberg|first2=Leah|last3=Padilla|first3=Angel|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=January 31, 2017}} The purpose of the guide was to encourage resistance to Trump's presidency, most notably by targeting Republican elected members of Congress by attending town halls, calling congressional officials, visiting their offices, and showing up at public events.{{Cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/11/politics/indivisible-profile-trnd|title=What is Indivisible? Political group hopes to be flip side of tea party|last=Criss|first=Doug|date=February 11, 2017|work=CNN|access-date=March 13, 2017}}

The guide was first published online on Google Docs on December 14, 2016, with Levin posting a link to it on his personal Twitter account. It soon went viral, with, among others, Robert Reich, Jonathan Chait, George Takei, and Miranda July circulating it online.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/magazine/democratic-party-election-trump.html|title=The New Party of No|last=Homans|first=Charles|date=March 13, 2017|work=The New York Times Magazine|access-date=March 13, 2017}}

History

Since the guide's publication, its authors have created a website with further resources on using the guide and organizing local movements. The guide is continuously updated and is available in English and Spanish. By February 4, 2017, less than two months from the publication of the Indivisible Guide, and about two weeks after Trump's first inauguration, more than 3,800 local groups identifying as "Indivisibles" had formed and declared their support for the movement.{{cite web|url=https://indivisible.org/act-locally|title=local action groups|website=indivisibleguide.com|access-date=July 18, 2017}} In February, they organized as a 501(c) organization.

[[File:Tax_March_SF_(34075168575).jpg|thumb|300px|Indivisible members at Tax Day March

in San Francisco in 2017]]

Many groups attended town halls,{{cite web|url=http://buffalonews.com/2017/02/18/huge-crowd-progressives-overwhelms-reed-town-hall-meeting/|title=Raucous crowds overwhelm Reed town hall meetings|first=Jerry|last=Zremski|date=February 18, 2017|website=buffalonews.com|access-date=July 18, 2017}} demonstrated against nominees for Trump's Cabinet, and worked with organizers of the Women's March. John Kasich and Mo Brooks acknowledged that the protests would affect efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kasich-obamacare-protesters_us_58b2dcb8e4b060480e08b507|title=John Kasich Admits Protesters Are Affecting Obamacare Debate|first=Matt|last=Fuller|date=February 26, 2017|access-date=April 17, 2017|via=Huff Post}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/24/politics/kfile-mo-brooks-obamacare-repeal/index.html|title=GOP Rep. Mo Brooks says town hall protests may prevent Obamacare repeal|first=Chris|last=Massie|work=CNN|date=February 24, 2017|access-date=April 17, 2017}} David Weigel said the movement was a possible reason for the initial failure of Republicans to pass the American Health Care Act of 2017.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/03/24/left-out-of-ahca-fight-democrats-let-their-grass-roots-lead-and-win/|title=Left out of AHCA fight, Democrats let their grass roots lead — and win|newspaper=washington post|access-date=April 17, 2017}}

In 2018, the group and its volunteers contributed money, endorsements, and volunteer time to many House races, which was followed by Democrats winning back control of the chamber.{{Cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/the-untold-story-of-the-progressive-insurgency-that-is-remaking-congress/|title=The untold story of the progressive insurgency that is remaking Congress|last=Voght|first=Kara|website=Mother Jones|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-13}} In 2019, the group endorsed a series of events aimed at supporting the impeachment of Donald Trump.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/pro-impeachment-group-to-spend-31-million-targeting-senate-republicans/2019/10/01/00a284ea-e487-11e9-b403-f738899982d2_story.html|title=Impeachment Group to Spend 31 Million Targeting Senate Republicans|date=2019-10-01|newspaper=Washington Post}}

The group continued its advocacy activities into the post-Trump era following his loss of the 2020 election. In 2021, Indivisible advocated in favor of Democrats' $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill.{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/09/03/how-the-left-sees-reconciliation-508972|title=Dems prepare to fight their own over $3.5T megabill|website=Politico |date=September 3, 2021 }} In October 2021, Indivisible planned to spend $1 million to protect eight Democratic incumbents in Congress, an effort that overlapped partly with that of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.{{cite news |last1=Krieg |first1=Gregory |title=Indivisible launches project to protect Democratic incumbents in 2022 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/15/politics/indivisible-2022-democratic-incumbents/index.html |access-date=July 14, 2022 |work=CNN |date=October 15, 2021}} In May of 2022, a board member of Indivisible Houston directly confronted Senator Ted Cruz about gun reform in the wake of the Uvalde shooting and the NRA convention.{{Cite magazine |last=Moseley |first=Terry |date=2022-05-28 |title=Senator Ted Cruz Challenged By Gun Reform Activist At Restaurant: "Is That So Hard?" |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/senator-ted-cruz-confronted-by-gun-reform-activist |access-date=2024-06-17 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}} In June 2022, Indivisible planned to spend $7 million.{{cite news |last1=Schneider |first1=Elena |title=Trump-era progressive organizing group unveils $7M midterm plans |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/07/indivisible-2022-election-spending-00037504 |access-date=July 14, 2022 |work=Politico |date=June 7, 2022}}

On September 5, 2023, Indivisible Action endorsed President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election bid.{{Cite web |last=Oshin |first=Olafimihan |date=2023-09-05 |title=Progressive advocacy group Indivisible endorsing Biden reelection bid |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4187592-progressive-advocacy-group-indivisible-endorsing-biden-reelection-bid/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230906001028/https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4187592-progressive-advocacy-group-indivisible-endorsing-biden-reelection-bid/ |archive-date=2023-09-06 |access-date=2023-09-06 |website=The Hill |language=en-US}}

Since the inauguration of the second Trump administration in January 2025, the Indivisible organization has continued its activities and declared that the democracy of the republic is under threat and that the organization will not yield to fascism, pledging to stand together to fight in defense of rights, communities, and values. They post the organized efforts to protest and

the Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin hold a weekly conversation regarding the news of the week, to answer questions, and to inform about calls to action. Registration is through the website.