For the Week of December 22, 2025

🎙️Dec 22, 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.

🔷 Our terrific newsletter team will be taking a break next week so this will be the last newsletter of 2025, and what a year it’s been! We have never seen such a growth in both membership and activism with our group and we want to say a heartfelt ‘Thank You’ to everyone who has stepped up in all sorts of ways. While the reason for this growth is not a cause for celebration, we are grateful to you all and look forward to continuing to work with you.

This year, we collectively faced fascism at a scale that we never have before in America, and our communities did not take it lying down. We showed up in ways big and small – from record-breaking mobilizations to communities shielding their neighbors from ICE to individuals donating to mutual aid to feed the hungry and more. So let’s celebrate our movement with Resistance Wrapped. Check out this summary on one of these platforms.

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🔷 Communities in our area continue to struggle following the recent devastating flooding. It will be a long and difficult recovery for many. Opportunities to help, both by donating and volunteering, are listed in the Donation Corner section.

The state Department of Social and Health Services have announced that affected residents of several counties can obtain emergency cash assistance and replacement food benefits until mid-January. More information HERE.

🔷 Many of you are familiar with WAISN (Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network). As detentions increase, they are one of the leading organizations in the fight against the inhumane policies that we are experiencing. We have worked with them for several years in various capacities as an organization and now they are also offering individual memberships. This will enable individuals to increase their ability to help organize, build relationships, deepen trust, and shape strategies for immigrant justice and deportation defense. Please consider joining.

🔷 The whistle kits parties are going from strength to strength! At the last gathering 500 kits were completed for the WA Whistles Project. There are new opportunities to participate in Redmond (twice a month). Details are at this link, which you can also find in Ways to Help our Immigrant Neighbors.

Here are your 2 Actions, Donation ideas and Bright Spots.

✊ Action 1 – Tell our Senators: No War With Venezuela

From Indivisible National

The Trump regime has been amassing forces in the Caribbean as it threatens war against Venezuela.

Over the past few months, the regime has bombed small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific that they claim were being used to traffic drugs to the US. In at least one of those strikes, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved a strike on a boat which resulted in a second strike that killed two shipwrecked civilians — an act that some experts say constitutes a war crime. Over 87 people have been killed in these actions so far.

And now, the regime has escalated tensions with Venezuela by seizing an oil tanker off its coast.

The regime has offered no legal justification for these actions, nor have they received Congressional authorization, even though the Constitution states clearly that war powers belong to Congress — not the White House.

Democrats in the Senate have introduced War Powers Resolutions to block further military assaults on Venezuela.

Every senator must vote to check this regime’s lawless violence, or there’s no telling where this will end. Please tell our Senators that you expect them to support the War Powers Resolutions that would halt the Trump administration’s unauthorized military operation against Venezuela.

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 am a constituent from [CITY], WA.

I’m calling to urge you to support the War Powers Resolutions that would halt the Trump administration’s unauthorized military operation against Venezuela. The White House has rapidly escalated their military pressure, carrying out lawless boat strikes, seizing an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast, and stationing troops and aircraft carriers in the Caribbean. All without authorization from Congress.

The Constitution gives you and your congressional colleagues the authority that Donald Trump is usurping. Your constituents do not want another endless war. We’re counting on you to check the Trump administration’s lawless attacks against Venezuela. Vote YES on the War Powers Resolutions.

Thank you.

[NAME]

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

✊ Action 2 – Don’t forget to sign up for Take Action Network for Legislative Action

The new session of the WA legislature begins in just three weeks (Jan 12) and goes for 60 days. This is perhaps the most important time to make your voice heard with our state’s elected representatives. State and local policies have an enormous impact on our lives and in many cases can insulate us from dangerous federal policies.

Your electeds want to hear from you, how you feel about the issues, and why. The Washington Indivisible Legislative Action (WILA) team uses Take Action Network (TAN) to make it easy for you to have your voice heard on important topics like immigration; environmental policy; housing & homelessness; reproductive rights; voting rights; firearms purchases/transfers; diversity, equity, and inclusion in school curricula; fair wages; privacy; and lots more.

In under 5 minutes a day you can support/oppose bills, and send customizable emails to your senator and representatives. Due to the superior functionality of TAN, the Weekly Actions and Events email will not include legislative actions, so please sign up for TAN today!

New to TAN? Click here to learn more, and sign up to make taking action a daily habit in 2026! You can only join TAN by invitation – the green button on the slide.
Want to know more about TAN after signup? Join an interactive intro to TAN training https://bit.ly/TAN-Training-Dates-2026 (you don’t have to wait until 2026).
Already signed up for TAN? Make sure TAN emails aren’t going to your SPAM folder by dusting off your Take Action Network skills.

Donation Corner

The Snoqualmie Valley has taken a big hit in the recent floods and both families and businesses are struggling to recover. These links (HERE and HERE) will take you to lists of organizations who are coordinating help, both financial and volunteering. Do you have a favorite farm to visit? Perhaps you get deliveries from one of them. Reach out and see how you can help, or send us an email (steering@indivisibleeastside.com) and ask about others not listed. There are Indivisible members who are part of this community and could use some support.

Our friends at Indivisible Skagit have shared that marginalized homeless and farmworkers are getting hit the hardest during this flooding emergency. Community to Community (C2C) and Immigrant Resources & Immediate Support (IRIS) expect to be putting people up at motels for many months, as they did after the flood in 2021, and they have already been stretched because of the deportations of breadwinners in families needing assistance. If you’re able, please donate to these organizations.

Whatcom Long Term Recovery Group is accepting donations to help provide recovery services to those affected in Whatcom County.

⛅ Bright Spots

Let’s be grateful for the good people who don’t hesitate to stand up for their fellow citizens, such as Ahmed al Ahmed, the resident of Sydney who ran towards trouble when he heard gunshots. After an awful weekend of bad news last week this was a much needed bright spot. May his recovery be swift.
Elise Stefanik, one of the more toxic Republican lawmakers of recent years, has announced that she is dropping out of the Governor’s race for New York and will leave Congress. Despite ‘transforming herself from a moderate Republican into a full MAGA warrior’ she failed to get the President’s endorsement for the race. Other Republican defections are continuing to mount as lawmakers feel increasingly sidelined.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has struck down the right-wing, conspiracy-driven, and deeply religious state standards for public school social studies classes that former Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters attempted to impose on everyone.
Let’s not forget the memorable Vanity Fair article and accompanying photos that gave us the inside scoop on this administration’s ‘junkyard dogs.’ The interviewer and photographer did a great public service.

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