Actions

Resources including Immigrant Support, Eastside Protests, Postcarding and more. 

For the week of August 10, 2026

 

🎙️Aug 10, 2026 Weekly Actions Audio – available for when you’re on the go

🔷 Our thoughts are with everyone in the Spokane area who has been impacted by the wildfires. If you or someone you know is in the area you can access help with immediate needs from one of the organizations mentioned in this local media news article. Some suggestions for monetary donations are:

As usual, use caution when donating, and particularly when using QR codes, as outlined in this article.  More donation tips are available from the AG’s office here.

🔷 Our local rapid response teams continue to show up to support families who have been impacted by ICE enforcement activity. Did you know that from Oct 2025 to Aug 3, 2026, there have been 192 documented incidents and 80+ confirmed detainments in Bellevue, Issaquah, Kirkland, Bothell, Newcastle, and Sammamish? The number grows every week. In order to spread awareness of the scale of this on the Eastside, we have yard signs to distribute that will raise awareness so that people understand what is happening in their neighborhoods. If you would like one (see graphic at the top of the newsletter) please email us at hello@indivisibleeastside.com. There is a suggested donation of $7 per sign to offset costs. You can use the Donate link on our website. 

🔷 King County Library, in conjunction with the Washington Secretary of State’s Office, will be running a series of classes called Civics 101 at Newport Library on Tuesday evenings, starting in September. They will cover aspects of local, state and federal government. You can attend any or all of the events. Please see the calendar for details.

Weekly Actions

 

✊ Action 1 – Help protect WA vehicle emission standards from weakening by the Federal government

From Washington Conservation Action

Recent federal actions are threatening California’s vehicle emission standards, which Washington uses to set our own state standards. These standards help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as reducing pollution that causes cancer, asthma, heart disease, and other health problems.

The Washington Department of Ecology has recognized that by changing our state rules, we can create a backstop that would mitigate against possible actions of the federal government. If we’re forced to use the backstop, our vehicle emissions standards will be weakened, but not as much as they otherwise would be. So Ecology is proposing these changes.

Specifically, the changes will provide a backstop against increased pollution from light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles and require new fleet reporting to support electric vehicle infrastructure, with the ultimate goal of reinstating our stronger emission standards. For more context and details, you can also review this slide deck presented by the Department of Ecology.

Action: Submit a comment today to support defense of state regulations for vehicle pollution. The deadline for submitting comments is August 13. Choose from two methods:

  • Through an online form (easiest method): use Washington Conservation Action’s online form. This will email your comment to Gopika Patwa, the rulemaking lead. (Ecology is accepting comments through email as well as through a webpage.)
  • By submitting your comment yourself (more direct method): write your own comment, using the sample below for ideas, and submit it through the comment page. Providing your contact information is optional. Responses will be published and posted online, so don’t put your personal contact information into the body of the comment.

☎ Sample Comment Text (please add a personal comment about why you care–the end of the first paragraph is a good spot for this)

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed revisions to Chapter 173-423, Washington’s Clean Vehicles Program rule. I appreciate Washington state’s vehicle emission standards because I know they help reduce carbon emissions, protect clean air, and reduce the incidence of cancer, asthma, heart disease, and other devastating ailments.

I strongly support the amendments in this rulemaking, because they provide Washington with a backstop to protect against increased on-road pollution, pending litigation. The litigation is necessary to defend against the federal administration’s illegal actions–hopefully, this litigation will succeed, but we need to be prepared in case it fails.

The expanded fleet reporting requirements proposed will further support Washington’s continued movement forward on transportation. Ultimately, stronger vehicle emission standards will protect public health, resulting in fewer community members being put at risk for respiratory and cardiovascular disease.

If the ongoing litigation succeeds in proving the illegality of recent federal actions, the current, more protective standards should be reinstated as quickly as possible.

Thank you for your consideration, and for your work to establish standards that protect Washington’s environmental and public health.

✊ Action 2 – Start to plan for the midterm elections

Now that the dust is settling after the Primary election, we have a clearer picture of what the midterms in November will look like, both locally and nationally. We also know that, despite his continuing court losses over state voter rolls (the DOJ is 0 for 21 at this point), Trump will try to interfere with a free and fair election to the greatest extent possible. There are several ways that we can begin work to ensure that he is unsuccessful.

  1. Engage with Indivisible National’s Midterm Election Protection Program. This recently launched campaign is structured to be relevant across the country, taking into account the different ways in which states set up and run their elections. We will be looking at this as a group but there are plenty of actions for individuals to take too. Check out the toolkit and please share with anyone you know in states that are more vulnerable to attacks on their voting systems.
  2. Consider how you can step up your activism to support good candidates and ensure their election by increasing turnout. It’s a lot harder to dispute resounding victories at the polls. After taking a well earned breather after the primaries, campaigns will soon be ready to start working for the November races. How can you get involved? Some ideas are:
    • Use this grid put together by our friends at Indivisible Vashon to look at specific races across the country and how you can help to impact them. Indivisible Vashon works hard to keep this updated and will have more information as time goes on. 
    • If you are interested in the postcard component of it, check out our groups that meet weekly and use many of these resources.
    • Keep an eye on resources such as Bolts.mag to help you plan.
    • Sign up for updates for Events on the WA Dems website.
    • Donations are always helpful! Go to candidates’ websites and donate there directly to minimize the flood of emails (Unsubscribe is your friend!).

We’ll be devoting space here in upcoming newsletters to GOTV (Get Out The Vote) activities. If you learn of any that you would like us to share by organizations (including LDs), initiative campaigns and so on, please let us know. 

⛅ Bright Spots

  • Recently a  federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s ban on nonpartisan groups helping newly naturalized U.S. citizens register to vote. He found the 2025 policy from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to be likely driven by intentional discrimination against new citizens.
  • Last week a federal judge dismissed the DOJ’s voter roll case targeting Washington, D.C. This marks a 0-21 record for the DOJ.
  • A New Mexico judge has ruled that Meta helped fuel the state’s youth mental health crisis through the design of Facebook and Instagram, finding the company created a public nuisance and ordering it to pay $567 million for treatment and prevention programs.

Upcoming Events

📣 Everyday Actions

 

See Eastside and Seattle Protests 2026

See Ways to Help our Immigrant Neighbors 

See Postcarding & Letter Writing resources on our website

Sign up for Take Action Network to take actions by Indivisible groups around the state

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