We are not powerless. We choose to fight back.

 

Back in December 2016, things were looking pretty friggin' bleak. Trump and Republicans had won a trifecta. There was a daily barrage of news about white nationalists getting jobs in the White House. Some Democratic leaders were talking about “working together” with an administration that was promising mass deportations, the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and a host of other horrific policies that’d cause significant real-world pain. 

 

Our founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin began drafting a Google Doc to outline how ordinary folks could take local action to resist the Trump agenda. It was called the Indivisible Guide. And within weeks, thousands of Indivisible groups organically popped up all over the country, using lessons from the guide to defend their communities and our democracy. To support those groups, we started this organization, Indivisible. 

 

Together, our movement helped save the ACA. We won the largest midterm margins ever in 2018 to retake the House. And eventually, we defeated Trump in 2020 and prevented some of his most dangerous policies from coming to pass. 

To our immense sadness and rage, we find ourselves in a similar -- though admittedly scarier -- moment today, and Trump is praying we’ve got no fight left in us. Like all fascists, he craves our acquiescence, and wants us to feel alone and powerless. 

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But we are not powerless. We choose to fight back.