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2 April 2026

Before plunging into actions, let’s take a moment to celebrate!

• The No Kings 3 protests were the biggest yet, with over 8 MILLION Americans out in the streets across the country—including in every single Congressional district in the nation! 

• The Guardian has a great photo gallery from NK3 protests.` We show up because we’re angry, appalled, and grief-laden–but we protest with joy, wit, creativity, and love of community.

• Six things the DC No Kings survey data—and the pivot to May Day—tell us about a resistance that keeps stepping up.

• “Early anecdotal evidence suggests that participating in No Kings events is motivating the women organizing them to think more about what they can do to support their country’s democracy.”

• Rebecca Solnit with data showing how NK3 increased the reach of the resistance. “Organizers said two-thirds of participants who signed up live in suburban, small town or rural areas. That's a 40% increase over last time in protesters from outside big cities.”

Coming on May Day! A day of no work, shopping, or business as usual.

From National Indivisible, the next major national action isn't another protest—it's flexing our collective economic muscle. We're inspired by the Twin Cities' Day of Truth and Action, where teachers, faith leaders, workers, students, and business leaders refused work, school, and shopping on a single Friday in January—preceding the regime's retreat. We're doing the same nationally on May 1. 

With gratitude for all of us who are doing whatever we can,

Melinda

Federal Actions

Note: We focus on actions that are easy to do and put you directly in contact with your Members of Congress (MoCs) or other elected officials. There are many great tools to do this such as Resistbot and 5 Calls.

What about signing letters/petitions you receive online from some organizations? (1) Useful in alerting you to timely issues, and in providing talking points; (2) not useful because identical mass messages are often ignored. Use the information in the letter or petition to contact your members of Congress and write your own message in Resistbot, or in email or direct calls to your members of congress (via 5 Calls).

Say no to increased drilling in Chaco Canyon by April 7

Trump’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed eliminating protections for the Greater Chaco Region that safeguard the area from new oil and gas leasing, undoing a 20-year ban on new oil and gas leasing that has kept public lands surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park off-limits to new development. Approximately 91% of the public land around Chaco Canyon has already been leased to oil and gas companies. The BLM limited the public comment period to only 7 days (normal is 30 or more days).

• Fast ACTION: Send an email to BLM’s New Mexico state office: blm_nm_comments@blm.gov. Voice your strenuous objection to a mere 7-day comment period for such an important proposal. Reference NEPA No. DOI-BLM-NM-F010-2026-0002-EA. 

• ACTION: Submit a comment before April 7 at 9 PM PST. Reference NEPA No. DOI-BLM-NM-F010-2026-0002-EA.

• Talking points from the:

• • National Parks Conservation Association

  • Native News Online

  • Wilderness Society

Tell Fish and Wildlife Service by Apr 8: Protect polar bear cubs

From Earth Justice: Trump’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing a rule which would permit companies to harass, disrupt, and displace polar bears during oil and gas operations in one of our planet’s most fragile ecosystems.

ACTION

• Use Earth Justice’s online letter for talking points,` (but write your own comment, and submit below.

• Submit your comments here before April 8.

• Need help with the process of writing public comments? Here are concise directions

Oppose Trump’s war

From Indivisible National: Trump’s war of choice has already cost the lives of US servicemembers, and at least thousands of Iranian civilians and others caught in the crossfire throughout the region. Democrats’ efforts to end it with a War Powers Resolution failed, but the fight is far from over. The regime and Pentagon is expected to ask for an additional $200 billion to continue their reckless war.

ACTIONS: Continue to contact our senators and your representative and demand they refuse to fund Trump’s war.

• Here are some messaging suggestions.

• Use Resistbot, 5 Calls, and/or Member of Congress online contact forms. Rinse, repeat!

Protect and Get Out the Vote

Early primary and special election results as well as polls show that the GOP is in trouble: A democrat just flipped a state legislature position for the Florida district that includes Mar-a-Lago!

WA State is in this fight! The WA Legislature passed—and the governor signed—a suite of bills that offer added protection for voters: SB 5892, SB 6035, HB 1710 and HB 1916.

Our assignment is two-fold: Protect the vote from GOP attempts to suppress it, and turn out the votes of our allies in record numbers. 

Protect the vote: Defeat the SAVE America Act!

This new–and worse–version of the SAVE Act, if enacted, would disenfranchise millions of voters, including women, college students, BIPOC communities, and more. 

ACTION: Keep contacting Senators Murray and Cantwell, and express your strong opposition to this bill until the SAVE Act is dead. Tell them you support any legislative strategies to defeat it.. Call, email, etc. such as via Resistbot and 5 Calls. 

Turn out the vote: Send postcards to voters!

ACTIONS:

• If you can provide paper, envelopes, and stamps, and can print the letters provided, Vote Forward has data-supported campaigns to turn out voters. Get addresses and letters for printing from Vote Forward.

• Wallingford Indivisible hosts regular “postcard to voters” parties! Join us! Email deb.carstens@gmail.com to get addresses and other instructions. See Events for this month's schedule. 

Local Actions

Local weekly ICE-out protest 

ACTION: Join Southend Indivisible and our partners Friday morning (and every Friday rain or shine) 9 am–10:30 am on the sidewalk outside of ICE HQ in Tukwila to demand an end to the kidnappings of our neighbors, separation of families, and terrorizing of our community by DHS, ICE, and CBP. RSVP and get more info. 

Gratitude Post

We are grateful for the local businesses who donated supplies for our poster parties: Queen Anne Frame and Gift, Frame Central Wallingford, and U Frame in Ballard! Please thank them if you have any framing that needs to be done.