11-25-24 Newsletter

 

We are grateful to all of you who are working to ensure hope, opportunity, democracy, truth, decency, justice, and a thriving future for everyone.  Our best wishes, The INCO Leadership Team  Beeb Ashcroft, Laurie Caplan, Mary Beth Cottle, Eric Halperin, Carmen Hammersmith, Bebe Michel, Ken Potter ACTION ALERT On Thursday the House of Representatives passed a bill to give the Trump administration the power to revoke the tax-exempt nonprofit status of any organization by simply saying the group supports terrorists. No proof, no hearings, and no due process - just an anti-democratic President going after any group he wants. This terrifying bill, HR 9495, now goes to the Senate. Our Members of Congress WANT and NEED to hear from you! Please call Senators Wyden and Merkley. Ask them to vote NO and to encourage their colleagues to do the same. Senator Ron Wyden  202-224-5244 Senator Jeff Merkley 202-224-3753 * INCO MEETING * Showing Up for Each Other SAVE THE DATE! Saturday, December 14 11 am - 12:30 new location: Astoria Senior Center, 1111 Exchange Parking on street and across Exchange in the parking lots INCO needs you to help us defend our democracy! DEFENDING OUR DEMOCRACY We have an abundance of opportunities to make an impact in our communities, state, and nation. What do you want to tackle first? What issues are on your mind? LOCAL At the November 19 INCO 2.0 meeting, there was widespread interest in local attention and action. Suggestions included protecting communities at risk from discrimination, keeping Clatsop County blue, partnering with other like-minded groups, focusing on local public health, including women's reproductive health; and attending city and county government meetings.  If you'd like to focus on issues here in Clatsop County, then please attend: The first Local Issues and Action Team meeting   Tuesday, December 3 at 3-4:30 pm WineKraft, 77 11th Street, east end of the Pier 11 building, on the Riverwalk. OREGON An excellent guide for following state issues is COIN, the Consolidated Oregon Indivisible Network,  made up of several dozen Indivisible groups in Oregon. Sign up here to get COIN newsletters and alerts. If you'd like to help Indivisible volunteers from across the state evaluate and track pending legislation, contact COIN or incoregon@gmail.com. INCO's Cheryl Conway is a key member of COIN's legislative team. NATIONAL Local Indivisibles also want to follow national issues, like gun safety, health care, foreign policy, democracy and the rule of law, etc. What do you want our Members of Congress to do? How can INCO have a voice at the national level? One example is public heath:  Healthcare policy is already threatened by Trump's nominees, as described by Joyce Vance of Civil Discourse:  "Increasingly, I’m contemplating the issues we are going to face at the intersection of public health and the rule of law. Dr. Vin Gupta posted on BlueSky today, “We need as many healthcare professionals to be courageous and speak to truth, for our patient’s sake and for the sanctity and credibility of our profession. That starts now. We cannot allow the highly abnormal to be normalized.” He said it in the context of the qualifications, or lack thereof ...." INCO's National Team is ready to get started! Please contact incoregon@gmail.com if you'd like to work on national issues with INCO's National Team. "ASPIRATION AND INSPIRATION" Thank you for this reminder of the good and great things one individual can do, what words can mean, what aspiration and inspiration can help us achieve. I feel compassion and pity for those who live without courage, integrity, truth, self-respect, kindness, and dignity. The rest of us must continue to set an example of decency and help lead our communities and country forward. It's never been easy, but we can do it. -- Reader's Comment, Letters from an American, November 19, 2024 INDIVISIBLE AND RESISTANCE *  Check out INCO's website to find how to contact elected officials, reliable news and information, tips for planning events and publicity, and more! Let us know what else you'd like to see on the site - we've already started updating it. Contact incoregon@gmail.comwith your suggestions. *  INCO encourages you to watch the November 13 national Indivisible call on YouTube here:  Strategy, the new Indivisible Guide, Elizabeth Warren, inspiration, and solidarity! *  Read Indivisible's 'Worth Fighting For: A Post-Election Community Gathering Guide' - a tremendous resource for pro-democracy Americans, including INCO.  *  We encourage you to sign up for emails from national Indivisible here.  Check out AP's article about how to use Bluesky, an increasingly popular site for pro-democracy people and those leaving X (Twitter).   INCO IS ON INSTAGRAM! If you're new to Instagram, sign up here for an account. "LESSONS FROM OUR SUCCESS!" "Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal from consideration for Attorney General is instructive on many levels. Most of the lessons learned should fortify us for the battles to come. "Lessons include: "Public pressure works.  "... Just because Trump wants something doesn’t mean he can get it. Timothy Snyder advises us, “Do not obey in advance.” To that admonition we should add, “Do not concede before the battle is over.” ".... Trump was bluffing about recess appointments.  ".... Every defeat suffered by Trump weakens the illusion that he is invincible.  ".... Trump has other corrupt and corruptible candidates to replace every nominee we defeat. That’s okay. "There is no bottom to the supply of corrupt and corruptible Trump loyalists who can (and will) replace every corrupt and corruptible nominee or appointee who takes office in the Trump administration. That’s okay. The point is to resist, disrupt, and expose the corruption. We need to keep it up, every day!" -- Robert Hubbell, Today's Edition, November 22, 2024 PROJECT 2025: THE GOP'S ANTI-DEMOCRACY BLUEPRINT • "What Project 2025 means for you." It's terrific graphic, suitable for printing as a flyer. • A long list of major features of Project 2025, from Robert Hubbell in his Today's Edition newsletter •  FROM INDIVISIBLE:  - Project 2025 Explained -- An in-depth analysis of the MAGA playbook - 25 Things to Know About Project 2025 -- A quick list of 25 extreme things MAGA Republicans have planned with Project 2025 - Talking About Project 2025 -- Key messaging strategies for educating voters about Project 2025 and ensuring they understand the stakes • The 920-page Project 2025 document is here. Find a topic that interests you in the Project 2025  table of contents.   FUN STUFF INCO INSIGHTS "Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower 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 here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter  •  November 25, 2024 Website Email Facebook Copyright © 2024 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.