For the Week of December 15, 2025

🎙️Dec 15, 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 hearts go out to those affected by the devastating flooding in Western Washington and British Columbia. One of the hardest hit areas is Skagit Valley and Whatcom county. See the Donation Corner below to help.

🔷 On the Eastside, immigrant day laborers at Home Depots are at extreme risk of detainment. ICE is taking workers based on profiling, not because of warrants for arrest. For many families, income is hard to come by – because of fear of being taken by ICE as well as it being the slow season due to weather. These workers are looking for work, they all need to pay for housing, food, transportation. Please consider hiring these workers or encouraging others to hire these workers. It’s the most effective thing you can do to support them.

🔷 Thank you to our generous members who donated toys at our meeting for local children going through some tough times. They have been delivered to the folks at the distributing agency who were very appreciative.

🔷 At last week’s meeting we packed up whistle kits for the WA Whistles Project. We completed 400 kits + 189 kits needed to have lanyards added. Then Tuesday’s Whistle Party assembled 1,000 full and 200 partial kits. Wow! Future Whistle Kit Assembly opportunities will be posted in Ways to Help our Immigrant Neighbors.

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

✊ Action 1 – Sign up for Take Action Network for Legislative Action

The WA legislature begins January 12th and goes for 60 days. This is perhaps the most important time to make your voice heard with our state’s elected representatives.

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.
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✊ Action 2 – Thank our Senators for voting for ACA tax credit extension

from Chop Wood Carry Water

The US Senate just voted on two different versions of a healthcare bill. Neither passed.

Democrats proposed their three-year extension of existing federal subsidies, but that measure failed 51 to 48.

Republicans proposed the Crapo-Cassidy bill, which would have provided qualifying Americans up to $1500 a year in an HSA account to pay for their healthcare (but not insurance premiums). It’s a laughable, cruel plan. It failed.

Now it’s up to House Republicans to try to propose something. Every Democrat has already signed on to a discharge petition that would bring an ACA extension bill to the floor, but not a single Republican has. Instead, Mike Johnson is proposing some amalgam of the Senate Republicans’ bill and his own jumble of ideas. No one has any idea what will ultimately be in it.

Meanwhile, new PEW research shows that most Americans (66%) now say the government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. As in, Americans support Universal Healthcare! It’s the only way, and more and more people can see that now. Please call for it every time you speak to any lawmakers about healthcare!

Action: Thank our Senators for voting for ACA premium tax credit extensions

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:

I’m calling to thank [Senator name] for voting for the ACA premium tax credit extensions. I am sure she’s as disappointed as I am that this bill didn’t pass, but I appreciate her being on the right side of it. We are going to face a healthcare apocalypse next year without these subsidies. Please ask the Senator to keep fighting to extend them and then start working towards Universal Healthcare.

Thank you,
[NAME]

Donation Corner

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. Local churches are also providing assistance. If you’re able, please donate to these organizations.

Whatcom Long Term Recovery Group set up two response trailers in anticipation of the flood and is accepting donations to help provide recovery services to those affected in Whatcom County.

The Evergreen State Fair Park, opened its Monroe grounds to house livestock threatened by flooding, and is in need of financial donations (done through donations to the Snohomish County Parks and Rec website).

⛅ Bright Spots

from Democracy Docket and other sources

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, out of ICE custody, leaves with ‘head held up high’ – The Salvadoran immigrant and Maryland resident walked out of a check-in Friday at the ICE field office in Baltimore, a day after a federal judge ordered him released from ICE detention in Pennsylvania.
Indiana Rejects GOP Gerrymander – In a powerful reproach to President Donald Trump, the Indiana Senate voted, by a wide margin, against a mid-decade redistricting that would have gerrymandered the state’s congressional maps.
Second Grand Jury Rebuffs DOJ Attempt to Re-Indict NY AG Letitia James – For the second time in a week, a federal grand jury refused the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) attempt to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) on alleged mortgage fraud charges.
Georgia Democrat Eric Gisler Flips State House seat – Gisler’s victory is a major upset, as President Trump won the district by 12 points last year.
A Democrat wins Miami mayor’s race for the first time in nearly 30 years – Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor’s race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump. This ends her party’s nearly three-decade losing streak and give Democrats a boost in one of the last electoral battles ahead of the 2026 midterms.

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