Quote of the Week:“While the rapid responders I spoke with were proud that Minneapolis did not cower in the face of deadly repression, but instead sprang into greater, more determined action, they also warned people in other cities not to wait for a heartbreaking, galvanizing event before organizing fiercely. ‘Two of our neighbors are dead, another person was shot in the leg,’ Sasha said. ‘We shouldn't wait until they kill the next person to be as fucking pissed off as we all collectively have been about this situation.’” – Kelly Hayes, “‘We Belong to Each Other Now’: Lessons from Minneapolis.” February 22, 2026
 Photo by zaya odeesho on Unsplash Want the scoop on upcoming rallies, marches, and related events? Visit OI’s Rallies, Marches, Town Halls and Boycotts webpage! Indivisible National Actions:Action 1: Tell Congress: No War with Iran. Trump has launched unauthorized military strikes on Iran, dragging the United States into yet another war without approval from Congress. Action 2: Join the week of action to halt ICE/Border Patrol terror. use Indivisible National’s call and email tools to keep up the pressure on our Members of Congress to protect our communities by reining in ICE NOW. Washington State Legislative Actions Community Safety, Immigrant Justice, Voting Rights, Education Use your constituent power to advocate for progress and justice in the 2026 Washington Legislative Session–we’re coming down to the wire on really important legislation and your help is vital! Action: Here is a link to the list of the latest TAN actions. Federal Actions:Curb Pete Hegseth and the AI Doomsday Machine Image source: Graphic produced by the US government, in public domain. Which is more important — allowing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use artificial intelligence (AI) however he wants, or preventing AI from spying on us, manipulating us, and creating lethal weapons without human oversight? AI has tremendous potential for world-changing good or evil. Now is the time to put guardrails on it — but corporate greed and the Trump regime stand in the way. Corporations fund politicians who’ll do their bidding; corrupt Trump officials have financial stakes in AI. And to authoritarians, unrestricted AI offers mass surveillance, propaganda indistinguishable from fact, and autonomous weapons. Anthropic PBC is one of the most safety-conscious AI companies. Its CEO Dario Amodei has battled the Trump regime, advocating state and federal AI guardrails. He and Hegseth have fought over the Pentagon’s use of Anthropic’s AI “Claude.” Amodei insists: no domestic surveillance, no autonomous lethal weapons without human control. Last Tuesday, Hegseth issued an ultimatum: either Anthropic allows the Pentagon to use Claude for anything, or the regime invokes the Defense Production Act, authorizing the Pentagon to use Claude however it will for nothing, and putting all Anthropic’s government contracts at risk. This isn’t just a dispute between two men. The outcome could affect humanity’s future. Action: Contact your Members of Congress and tell them you don’t want the Defense Department to take Anthropic’s AI technology, and you do want strict controls on the use of AI.
Our Senators must Fight the SAVE Act via Filibuster Image source: Terri Sewell via Wikimedia public domain Background: House Republicans just passed the SAVE Act. It’s even worse than it was. Trump claims if the SAVE Act passes the Senate “Republicans will win every election for the next 50 years”. That’s because the Act guarantees a wide swath of Democrat voters will lose their ability to vote, especially those without ready access to passports or birth certificates. Minorities and women also will be disenfranchised. The states would be required to send voters' information to DHS. The SAVE act is so important that Sen. Chuck Schumer has publicly vowed to block its final vote in the Senate via filibuster. Filibusters are rarely used maneuvers used by the minority party to ‘kill a bill.’ This rarely used maneuver can The bill is prevented from proceeding to a Senate vote, as long as Democrats continue via debate and speeches to hold onto the floor. We can’t let our voting laws be eviscerated. Ask our Senators to support a filibuster as an alternative way they can prevent the dangerous SAVE Act from passing, in addition to Indivisible’s CTA. Action 1: Contact your Members of Congress:
Script: I thank you for your strong work to address all the many issues that have hurt Democrats since President Trump’s election. I’m writing to urge you to fight the SAVE Act in every possible way. As the bill comes to the Senate floor, it is extremely important for you to support Senator Schumer’s filibuster. We absolutely need retention of our fair voting system in order to uphold the mid-term elections this fall. Action 2: Olympia Indivisible members, contact your Senators via national forms. Use them to personally send a national request on voting against the Save Act. Local Actions:Olympia Indivisible Substack Olympia Indivisible emails, including the Call to Action newsletter, will be published in Substack starting 3/9/2026. We will continue to use Mailchimp for our members database. Please do not unsubscribe from Mailchimp emails. Action: Subscribe to Olympia Indivisible Substack. For help subscribing contact [email protected]. Have You Scheduled These Events? Weekly Olympia Indivisible GatheringsCaffeinated & Activated
Saturdays at 10am. C&A is a weekly Saturday coffee meet-up for Olympia Indivisible members and friends. It's a time for connection, conversation, and shared purpose at whatever level works for you. See you @ DECAY (402 Washington St NE, Olympia). Saturday, March 7: Hear from Olympia Indivisible’s brand-new LGBTQIA+ Rights Team AND from a No Hate in WA State field organizer about state ballot initiatives which are threatening our schools as places of safety and welcome. Find out what we’re doing to respond and, if you wish to do so, how to get involved. Action Cafe Mondays at Noon. A Zoom lunchtime gathering where folks meet, make new friends, and take timely, impactful actions together– with a side order of laughter and live music. Sign up to be on the Action Cafe email list. |
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