For the Week of November 24, 2025

🎙️Nov 24, 2025 Weekly Actions Audio – available for when you’re on the go

📣 See Eastside and Seattle Protests 2025 for up-to-date opportunities.

📣 See Ways to Help our Immigrant Neighbors for up-to-date opportunities.

🔷 NOV. 27TH – DEC. 1ST, 2025 “WE AIN’T BUYING IT” Pause on shopping from major companies that are enabling this administration. We are boycotting Target, for caving to this administration’s biased attacks on DEI; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts. This Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday – let’s make our dollars count. Hit pause on shopping from major corporations. Plan ahead and shop local independent stores for things you need last minute.

🔷 The League of Women Voters WA needs your help to effect meaningful change to Washington’s State Redistricting Commission. Please fill out this questionnaire to give your input on building a new type of redistricting commission. You don’t need to know anything about redistricting to fill it out, so please participate if you’re able.

🔷 Please join us Sunday Dec 7 for Indivisible Eastside’s In Person Group Meeting in Redmond. Register to attend using the access code ‘indivisible’. The meeting is 3-4:30 pm, with a new-member orientation at 2:30.

Here are your 2 Actions and Bright Spots.

✊ Action 1 – Pressure Congress members to come out against WISeR

From Seattle Indivisible & Indivisible.org

On June 27, the Centers for Medicare and Services’ (CMS) Innovation Center announced a new public-private partnership model called the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model. WISeR’s supposed purpose is to reduce wasteful spending in Medicare. The model would require AI-backed prior authorization for more procedures, resulting in more denials for legitimate claims. The WISeR Model is a six-year federal pilot program set to launch on January 1, 2026, by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). However, House Democrats, partly in response to public pressure from groups like Indivisible, have introduced a repeal measure.

The stated goal of the WISeR model is to reduce wasteful and inappropriate services in original Medicare by using artificial intelligence (AI) to review certain medical claims and enforce prior authorization for a dozen specific procedures deemed overused or low-value (e.g., some steroid pain injections). Private AI vendors will review claims. If the AI flags a claim for denial and Medicare saves money, the vendor receives a share of those savings. Critics argue that paying AI companies based on the savings generated from claim denials creates a direct conflict of interest, incentivizing companies to deny necessary care to seniors. Critics also point to lawsuits against private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, such as UnitedHealthcare, which allegedly used AI algorithms to deny thousands of valid claims, as a warning against introducing similar practices into traditional Medicare. There are worries that the reliance on AI will lead to a lack of qualified human oversight and result in undue burdens and denials for patients and doctors.

The program is a pilot in six states: Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington. It will not apply to emergency care or hospital stays, and licensed clinicians are intended to make the final denial decisions, though this aspect is a point of contention.

Indivisible and other advocacy groups are actively campaigning against the WISeR model, urging members of Congress to support measures to block its implementation. Representatives DelBene and Schrier have already taken action in the form of a repeal measure. Call your Senators and your Representative, either to thank them for taking action (thanking them helps them stay strong!) or to ask them to fight back against this legislation.

🔷 Sen. Patty Murray: DC 202-224-2621 | Seattle 206-553-5545 | EMAIL

🔷 Sen. Maria Cantwell: DC 202-224-3441 | Seattle 206-220-6400 | EMAIL

🔷 Rep. Suzan DelBene (1st): DC 202-225-6311 | Bellevue 425-485-0085 | EMAIL

🔷 Rep. Kim Schrier (8th): DC 202-225-7761 | Issaquah 425-657-1001| EMAIL

🔷 Rep. Adam Smith (9th): DC 202-225-8901 | Renton 425-793-5180 | EMAIL

For Representatives DelBene and Schrier:

☎ Sample Script:

Hello, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY]. Thank you very much for your efforts to protect Medicare recipients from facing undue claim denials because of the so-called WISeR Model. Your legislative efforts hold the potential to block Trump and Dr. Oz from having AI choose who can and can’t get healthcare. Thank you for your advocacy!

During the upcoming federal funding negotiations, please do everything you can to restore the vital funds Medicare, Medicaid, and our hospitals need. Thank you again for being a voice for strengthening our health care system on behalf of patients and providers.

[IF LEAVING A VOICEMAIL: please leave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied]

For Senator Murray, Senator Cantwell, and Representative Smith:

☎ Sample Script:

Hello, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY]. I’m extremely concerned to hear that President Trump and Dr. Oz are letting greedy and unproven AI companies come between Medicare patients and their doctors.

Healthcare decisions should be between a patient and their doctor – not AI companies who profit from denying care.

I’m calling to demand that you speak out LOUDLY against Trump and Oz’s plans to let AI choose who can and can’t get healthcare! Then, use the upcoming federal funding negotiations to restore the vital funds Medicare, Medicaid, and our hospitals need.

I’ll be keeping a close eye on what you do to protect healthcare in the coming weeks.

Thank you.

[IF LEAVING A VOICEMAIL: please leave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied]

✊ Action 2 – Call for Schumer’s resignation and tell Senators our tax dollars shouldn’t support this self dealing

The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday night to repeal a new law that potentially awards Republican senators millions of dollars in damages over the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation.

The vote was unanimous, with the bill passing 427 to 0. It’s unlikely the Senate will take it up without majority leader Thune’s support. The provision granted senators — and only senators — the right to file special lawsuits against the government if their phone records were obtained by the Justice Department in the course of an investigation, with damages amounting to $500,000 per violation.

The provision was specifically written to benefit several Senate Republicans whose phone records (date and time of calls, not content) were obtained in the course of special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal investigation into President Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. “This is the most self-centered, self-serving language that I have ever seen in any piece of legislation,” Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) said before the vote. “There are a select few people who did the wrong thing in putting language in the bill that would make themselves individually wealthy.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) added the senator payout to the bill with agreement from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).

Sen. Patty Murray: DC 202-224-2621 | Seattle 206-553-5545 | EMAIL
Sen. Maria Cantwell: DC 202-224-3441 | Seattle 206-220-6400 | EMAIL

☎ Sample Script:

Hello, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY]. I am calling to ask [Senator] to demand that Senator Schumer step down as Senate Minority Leader.

Senator Schumer has once again demonstrated ineffective leadership by allowing the passage of the spending bill with a last-minute provision tacked on. This provision could result in millions of tax payer dollars being paid out to Senators if their phone records become part of an investigation. This is self dealing at its worst and it is completely unacceptable that Senator Schumer agreed to this language being added to the bill, particularly when he could not keep his caucus together to prevent the passage.

Leader Schumer has shown he is not up for this fight. It’s time to call on Schumer to step down.

Thank you.

[IF LEAVING A VOICEMAIL: please leave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied]

Donation Corner

From IE Member Michelle M: I work at the Riverton Church legal clinics helping immigrants file for asylum and work permits. Both of these filings have always been free. Now the Republican Congress is charging $100 per asylum application and $550 per work permit application. Where are people supposed to get the money for this if they can’t work? This GoFundMe raises money for these fees, so immigrants can support their families and contribute positively to our economy while pursuing asylum. “Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Give a person a work permit and you feed them for a lifetime.” Contributions are tax deductible because they go to the Riverton Church. Thank you so much for your generosity!
Seattle Humane’s Warm Hearts, Full Bellies Pet Food Drive is running the entire month of November! All this month we’re asking our friends and neighbors to donate online. More info is on our website at SeattleHumane.org/petfoodbank! Together we’re serving nearly 1 million meals each year to community pets in need. Thank you so much to everyone for your support!

⛅ Bright Spots

from Jessica Craven

With Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva finally sworn in, the bill requiring the Epstein files to be released was passed at last, and Trump signed it into law. Questions remain about the release of the files, but the effort to force a vote on the bill by means of a discharge petition, which once seemed like a long shot, has now succeeded.
A federal judge ordered an end to Trump’s troop deployment in D.C., calling it “unlawful.” Hundreds of National Guard troops will leave Portland and Chicago as weekslong court battles have stalled their deployments. The legal process surrounding the deployments is not over, of course, but it is clear that multiple judges are willing to question their legality.
South Park is basically devoting their whole season to trolling Trump, and their ratings are way up as a result.
America’s Roman Catholic bishops issued a rare statement on Wednesday in support of immigrants, their most forceful collective action yet that rebukes the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign.

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