12-18-23 Newsletter

 

Our best wishes for your winter holidays. May you enjoy everything good and fulfilling, and, as a friend says, "blessings that mostly escape words, a hand to hold." We will need each other in the challenging political months ahead, so we are thankful for everyone who works to safeguard our freedoms. INCO LEADERSHIP TEAM Laurie Caplan, Mary Beth Cottle, Eric Halperin, Carmen Hammersmith, Bebe Michel, Ken Potter   -- Photo from the James Webb Space Telescope -- Hopium Chronicles, December 16, 2023 TALKING POINTS -- A PARTIAL LIST  -- Hopium Chronicles, December 15, 2023 THE YEAR AHEAD Your next newsletter will arrive January 1, 2024. Get ready for a year of energy, activism, elections, and success. We have "the power within each of us to maintain the guardrails of democracy."  --Cover from The Atlantic, January/February, 2024  INCO INSIGHTS “The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is." -- Nadine Gordimer, author Indivisible defends democracy by opposing authoritarianism, bigotry, and corruption. Comments, news, and photos to INCO at incoregon@gmail.com.  Resources and other information at www.incoregon.org and www.indivisible.org. Encourage others to sign up for the INCO newsletter at our website or here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter   December 18, 2023 Website Email Facebook Copyright © 2023 INDIVISIBLE North Coast Oregon, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or signed up at a community group meeting. Our mailing address is: *|766 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, OR 97103:HTML|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

12-11-23 Newsletter

 

-- Hopium Chronicles, December 8, 2023 "Preventing the end of the rule of law and the Republic is our most important job for the next eleven months." -- Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, December 8, 2023 "The only thing that can check the authoritarian movement and save our democracy is sustained electoral defeat at the ballot box. By running moderate, centrist candidates, Democrats and the small rump of pro-democracy Republicans must beat MAGA. And we must do it for as long as it takes for the lesson to sink in." -- Sarah Longwell, political strategist, publisher of the neoconservative news and opinion website, The Bulwark, and founder of Republican Voters Against Trump "As my colleagues have reported over the past year, Trump has made clear his stark, authoritarian vision for a potential second term. He would embark on a wholesale purge of the federal bureaucracy, weaponize the Justice Department to explicitly go after his political opponents (something he claims is being done to him), stack government agencies across the board with political appointees prescreened as ideological Trump loyalists, and dole out pardons to myriad officials and apparatchiks as incentives to do his bidding or stay loyal." -- Ishaan Tharoor, citing Post reporting; quoted in Steady newsletter, December 4, 2023  "American democracy is not guaranteed at this point in history. Take heed, all of us -- it's up to us to fight for what we've had, however imperfect a democracy it's been, and to then make it a better, stronger, and more equitable government / country." -- Irna Gadd, reader's comment, Steady newsletter, December 4, 2023 75th ANNIVERSARY Historian Heather Cox Richardson tells how and why the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was announced 75 years ago, on December 10, 1948, and its impact today.  Photo is Eleanor Roosevelt with the declaration, courtesy of the FDR Presidential Library & Museum, via Wikipedia Commons. Optimistic and lively - that's a recent conversation with historian Heather Cox Richardson and Tom Nichols as they discuss America and her new book, DEMOCRACY AWAKENING. We recommend this YouTube video. INCO INSIGHTS “The long arc of history doesn’t just bend itself. We have to do the work of bending it.”  -- Andrew Marantz, author and journalist Indivisible defends democracy by opposing authoritarianism, bigotry, and corruption. Comments, news, and photos to INCO at incoregon@gmail.com.  Resources and other information at www.incoregon.org and www.indivisible.org. Encourage others to sign up for the INCO newsletter at our website or here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter   December 11, 2023 Website Email Facebook Copyright © 2023 INDIVISIBLE North Coast Oregon, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or signed up at a community group meeting. Our mailing address is: *|766 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, OR 97103:HTML|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

12-4-23 Newsletter

 

WHICH PATH DO YOU WANT? "Let’s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality: There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day." --   Robert Kagan, Editor at large, Washington Post, November 30, 2023 "Trump poses an existential threat to democracy. It won’t be easy, but we can beat him. We beat him in 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2023; we can beat him again. But it will take every ounce of determination and hard work we can muster. We can spare no effort and we must unite to protect our freedoms. Join me in the fight to defeat Trump!" -- Robert Hubble, Weekend Edition newsletter, December 2, 2023   HOW TO PROTECT OUR FREEDOMS Posted by Maricaibo, Reader's Comment, Washington Post, November 30, 2023 "You can vote for the 81 year old Democrat in 2024 and then vote for the next generation Democrat in 2028, or you can vote for the 78 year old Republican in 2024 and never vote again. "Run for office and make these anti-American Republican fossils extinct! "If you want to know what public offices are available to you in your community enter your ZIP code here: https://www.runforoffice.org/. Get busy! "Become a Precinct Committee Officer, sometimes it's a Ward officer. Meet with neighborhood Dems and find good citizens willing to run for office. Check with your local party Chair. Boots on the ground Democracy begins here. "Run for School Board. Make sure Civics is being properly taught. Today's 17-year old's will be voting for President in 2024. "Run for State Legislature or Congress. Are you smarter than MTG? OK, that's a low bar. "Run for Mayor, City Council, County Commissioner, Borough Assembly, County Sheriff. Get appointed to your local Planning Commission. Know everything going on in your community. "Register people to vote. The GOP fears a level playing field because if everyone voted, they'd always lose. To see your state's voter registration requirements look here: https://vote.gov/ "Download and print copies of this Federal Voter Registration form, valid in all 50 states and in all US Territories. If you're a US Citizen you can help any other US Citizen register to vote: https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/eac_assets/1/6/Federal_Voter_Registration_ENG.pdf "The Brennan Center for Justice has a TON of good voter information, https://www.brennancenter.org/ and, if you don't already have one, organize a chapter of the League of Women Voters. Democracy better when they're involved. "The American Association of University Women has a how-to on organizing a voter registration drive or just sitting outside Wal Mart with a folding chair and a card table. https://www.aauw.org/resource/organize-a-voter-registration-drive/ "VOTE BLUE like your life depends on it." INCO COMMUNITY MEETING No meeting in December. We'll get together again Thursday, January 11. WHAT A PROTEST VOTE MEANS "Staying home in the 2024 presidential election, casting a protest vote for a fringe candidate or voting for Trump all amount to the same thing: a willingness to consign American democracy to the dustbin of history and turn over the presidency to a profoundly unfit, dangerous character. Voters who chose one of these options cannot complain if a Trump second term systematically shreds their cherished values and dismantles constitutional government." -- Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post newsletter, December 1, 2023 INCO INSIGHTS "Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."   -- Theodore Roosevelt Indivisible defends democracy by opposing authoritarianism, bigotry, and corruption. Comments, news, and photos to INCO at incoregon@gmail.com.  Resources and other information at www.incoregon.org and www.indivisible.org. Encourage others to sign up for the INCO newsletter at our website or here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter   December 4, 2023 Website Email Facebook Copyright © 2023 INDIVISIBLE North Coast Oregon, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or signed up at a community group meeting. Our mailing address is: *|766 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, OR 97103:HTML|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.