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Members of Congress

  • Sen. Patty Murray
    (202) 224-2621 | Email

  • Sen. Maria Cantwell
    (202) 224-3441 | Email

  • Rep. Suzan DelBene (1st)
    (202) 225-6311 | Email

  • Rep. Kim Schrier (8th)
    (202) 225-7761 | Email

  • Rep. Adam Smith (9th)
    (202) 225-8901 | Email
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    📣 See Eastside and Seattle Protests 2025 for up-to-date opportunities

    For the Week of August 4, 2025

    🎙️Aug 4, 2025 Weekly Actions Audio – available for when you’re on the go

    🔷 One more day to vote! Ballots are due August 5th. If you still need to get yours in please use a drop box to ensure that it arrives on time. You can find your closest one HERE. You can check out the King County Voters’ Guide for official statements from candidates and measures, and Fuse Washington’s Progressive Voters Guide, The Urbanist’s Primary Election Endorsements, and King County Democrats for progressive recommendations.

    🔷 Election sign waving opportunity Monday and Tuesday! Join member Jennie J. and others sign waving for Kirkland candidate Kurt Dresner. Sign up HERE to stand on a Kirkland corner and wave campaign signs during rush hour on Monday and Tuesday. It’s fun, energizing and a great way to get to know other folks deeply interested in local issues. Exact times and locations tbd depending on interest, so sign up today!

    🔷 Join us Sun Aug 17, 3-4:30 pm, at Kirkland’s waterfront park for the Anti-ICE Resistance Social – a gathering to chill out with ice cream while standing up against oppressive systems disguised as sweet deals. This isn’t just about dessert; it’s about solidarity, community, and building a world without ICE. Come for the scoops, stay for the community, melted metaphors, and mutual aid. Chat with candidates for the November election who will be in attendance. RSVP now so we know how much ice cream to buy: https://bit.ly/IE-Ice-Cream-2025, access code ‘icecream’

    🔷 Our weekly Eastside Rising protests organized by IE members are a great way to let people in your community know they’re not alone in their concerns about Trump, and show them a simple way to step up and speak out. Please consider setting aside an hour a week, or more, and showing up!

    🔷 Our next volunteer opportunity to prepare and serve dinner at the Porchlight Men’s Shelter in Bellevue will be on Sept. 18 (prep-12:30-2:30 pm) and 19th (serve- 4-7 pm). You can sign up HERE (access code ’porchlight’) You will receive full details after signup.

    Here are your 2 Actions, our first Candidate Corner of the season, and Bright Spots.

    ✊ Action 1 – Ask our Members of Congress to push Trump to end starvation in Gaza

    From Indivisible

    We have all seen the truly awful pictures of children and their families dying from starvation in Gaza. Recent attempts to deliver aid have been too little too late for many of the residents, and some of the deliveries have been nothing short of death traps. Recent airdrops of food have been condemned as ineffective and potentially dangerous. The harsh realities facing Gazans are beginning to penetrate even the denial of some Republicans, but not sufficiently to affect the delivery of life saving food and medicines. Reports that Hamas stole aid provided by the UN and other agencies have actually been denied by Israeli military officials. That must no longer be used as an excuse for delivering life saving supplies to the region. It is going to take an all out push by Members of Congress to apply enough pressure to Trump to end this horror. He could do it with one phone call to Netanyahu. Meaningful deliveries of aid by trusted third parties are the absolute minimum that we should expect for an improvement to the crisis.

    Please contact our Members of Congress today and tell them to demand immediate action to end the intentional starvation of the people of Gaza. They need to apply all possible pressure to bring an end to this.

    ☎ Sample Script:

    My name is [NAME] and I am a constituent from [CITY], WA. I am contacting you because of my concern about the famine being deliberately inflicted on the people of Gaza. Reports that Hamas stole aid provided by the UN have been denied by Israeli military officials. The persistent blockage of meaningful deliveries of aid and medicines is nothing short of disgraceful, and the US must refuse to be complicit. Recently, even President Trump has acknowledged the horror. Now, Congress needs to push him to take immediate action, and demand the opening of ALL border crossings for unrestricted humanitarian aid. Too many lives have already been lost.

    Thank you.

    [NAME]

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

    If you are able, please also send a donation to World Central Kitchen or the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. Both organizations are highly rated by Charity Navigator.

    ✊ Action 2 – Tell King County & City of Seattle: No Public Money for Musk

    From Troublemakers

    Elon Musk and D.O.G.E.’s actions have done a lot to damage both the economy AND our democracy. Despite Musk’s change in status within the Federal government, he remains an oligarch (or would-be oligarch) in the US. We have the power to tell the City of Seattle and King County not to invest our money in any of Musk’s enterprises. Boycotts and divestment that have already happened at an individual level can extend to the city/county level, if residents demand it.

    Please sign this PETITION asking the City of Seattle and King County to:

    1. Cancel all current government contracts with Musk-controlled enterprises.
    2. Pass a resolution banning future government contracts with Musk-controlled enterprises.

    Candidate Corner (please send submissions to hello@indivisibleeastside.com)

    From I.E. member Wendy G.

    Name: Senator Vandana Slatter

    Position: State Senate LD 48

    Website: https://vandanaslatter.com

    Donate at: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/vandanaforsenate

    Senator Slatter was the State House Representative for LD 48, and when the corresponding State Senate seat became open, she was appointed unanimously by King County Council to fill the role. Now she is running for the seat. Senator Slatter took some tough votes this year to work on our budget shortfall. She is a champion of reproductive rights, environmental protection, and has our district in mind when voting. Senator Slatter is the only Senator that has a healthcare background.

    The primary election is very competitive as two Democrats are running. Senator Slatter is not supported by PACS or business interests. She has been endorsed by many progressives with years of experience in local and state governance, including Former Governor Jay Inslee, King County Councilmember Claudia Balducci, and the former Senator in the 48th, Patty Kuderer, who is now the State Insurance Commissioner.

    ⛅ Bright Spots

    • Fernando Rocha, Juanita High School theater manager, was released on a $10,000 bond Tuesday after nearly two weeks in the Northwest ICE Processing Center.
    • A federal judge has blocked, for now, Secretary Noem’s move to terminate temporary protected status for immigrants from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal, finding that the cancellation was likely rooted in “racial animus.”
    • A former Louisville police officer convicted of violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights during a police raid in which she was killed was sentenced to 33 months in prison. The Trump administration wanted a one day sentence.
    • The United Nations reported a global shift toward renewable energy, passing a “positive tipping point” where solar and wind power will become even cheaper and more widespread.
    • Since the election, the number of new local Indivisible groups has more than doubled. New groups are being founded every single day. At the moment, there are around 2,500 active local Indivisible groups, spread across every state and almost every congressional district (all but AL-6, FL-12, TX-20, TX-34, TX-5).

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