For the Week of December 1, 2025

🎙️ Dec 1, 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.

🔷 Tues Dec. 2 is Giving Tuesday, an international day of giving – of time or money – to organizations making a positive contribution in the world. If your schedule and/or budget allow it, it’s a great time to support one or more nonprofits. For ideas, you can use the Giving Tuesday website or the WAGives website to search by topic (e.g. immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, climate and environment, civil rights, and so on). Every dollar helps.

🔷 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’s a webinar worth checking out. It’s about Montana’s new ballot initiative designed to counteract Citizens United v. FEC, which in 2010 opened the floodgates of untraceable political spending. Montana’s Transparent Election Initiative seeks to limit the power of corporations to spend money on elections, campaigns, or candidates. Under the plan, Montana would no longer grant its corporations the power to spend money in politics within the state, limiting not only in-state but out-of-state corporations.

The initiative was rejected by the Montana Attorney General (based on rules limiting complexity in initiatives), but initiative backers are suing and expect a ruling in time to begin gathering signatures. Polls suggest 74 percent of voters in the state will back the ballot initiative. To learn more, register for the webinar, Making Citizens United Irrelevant through a Corporate Power Reset on Wed, Dec 3, 1-2 pm (note that by registering, you can watch the recording later), sponsored by the Rural Urban Bridge.

Here are your 2 Actions and Bright Spots.

✊ Action 1 – Help Direct Legislative Effort in Washington State

From Olympia Indivisible

The Washington State Legislature meets annually, starting on the second Monday in January. In odd-numbered years, it’s a 105-day “long session” for the biennial budget, and in even-numbered years, it’s a 60-day “short session” to make adjustments to the existing biennial budget and pass laws. A special session can also be called by the Governor or the Legislature at any time.

The legislature resumes session January 12th for a short session. One way we can increase the power of our voices is to complete the 2026 WILA Legislative Priorities Survey. The Washington Indivisible Networks Legislative Action (WILA) workgroup wants to hear your concerns so they can be shared with the state legislators. There are over 100 Indivisible groups in Washington. Imagine the power in saying, “In our 49 legislative districts, constituents consistently identified the following concerns…”

The short survey lets you rank your three highest concerns and will take less than ten minutes. Please complete the survey by December 7, 2025.

You can also contact your representatives directly.

✊ Action 2 – Say NO to Nuclear Weapons Testing

Source: Olympia Indivisible and Union for Concerned Citizens

In the last 25 years, the only country to carry out nuclear weapons testing is Korea. The U.S. conducted nuclear weapons testing from 1945 to 1992, carrying out over 1,000 tests before a moratorium was established. Since 1992, the U.S. has relied on the Stockpile Stewardship program to ensure its nuclear arsenal remains safe, secure, and effective without explosive testing. Testing has relied on computer simulations designed to predict how a weapon would respond if fired. On Oct. 29, Trump announced on social media that we should resume testing. “That process will begin immediately,” he wrote. Experts all point out, If the United States shatters the taboo against nuclear tests it helped create, other nations are sure to follow.

There are different types of nuclear testing. Subcritical tests produce no explosion. Experts from Los Alamos routinely conduct subcritical tests at an underground test site in Nevada as part of the United States’ ongoing evaluations of its nuclear stockpile. Supercritical tests are the other extreme, causing chain reactions that produce nuclear detonations.

A third form of testing, hydronuclear tests, reach the supercritical change but ‘get snuffed out quickly’ before they become giant detonations. Clinton prohibited these in the 90s because they were seen as producing an explosive force. In recent years, suspicions have grown that these hydronuclear tests are being conducted by some nations. When Trump ordered nuclear testing to begin, it was unclear what he meant by testing. Although Dr. Jill Hruby, former administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said the low-level tests could provide some information “that’s hard to learn,” she argued that other tools could achieve the same ends. Dr. Daryl G. Kimball, the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association in Washington, said the risks of any restart of American nuclear testing, including the hydronuclear type, far outweighed any possible benefit.

Representatives in the House have introduced two bills that take somewhat different approaches to explosive nuclear testing:

Prohibit explosive testing: H.R. 5894, the RESTRAIN Act, directly prohibits the U.S. from conducting any explosive nuclear weapons testing and specifically limits the availability of funds for such purposes, while clarifying it does not limit subcritical tests.
Require explicit congressional approval: H.R. 5951, the No Nuclear Testing Without Approval Act, would prevent the executive branch from unilaterally deciding to conduct explosive nuclear testing without explicit Congressional authorization.

Companion legislation has also been introduced in the Senate – S.3090 – No Nuclear Testing Act of 2025.

Urge your Representative and Senators to support bills against explosive nuclear testing.

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
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 strongly opposed to the White House’s plan to increase nuclear testing. As a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the United States has an obligation to work toward nuclear disarmament. I urge you to support:

For Representatives: H.R. 5894, the Restrain Act
For Senators: S.3090, the No Nuclear Testing Act

Thank you.

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

⛅ Bright Spots

from Jessica Craven and other sources

Run for Something (RFS) helps young progressives run for office. In the last year, 72,000 people have signed up. Between the polls closing on November 4 and the morning of November 6, RFS had more than 5,000 new young people sign up to run for office.
U.S. District Judge Currie threw out the indictments against Comey and James, ruling that Attorney General Pam Bondi did not have the authority to appoint Halligan as an interim U.S. attorney. Federal law limits such appointments to one 120-day period, after which the authority to name a replacement shifts to the local federal judges. As usual, the legal back-and-forth may not be over, but the Comey and James indictments both have additional serious flaws.
The Kettering Foundation/Gallup Democracy for All Project survey of over 20,000 U.S. adults show that eight in 10 U.S. adults agree on a variety of issues that reflect core aspects of U.S. democracy. These include that using violence to achieve political goals is never OK; that elected leaders should compromise to get things done; and that having a mix of races, religions and cultures benefits the nation.
Since 1990, the cancer death rate in the U.S. has fallen by 34%, a decline driven by decades of research into prevention, screening, chemotherapy refinements, targeted therapies, immunotherapy, and bone marrow transplantation. See Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN – Gratitude List for Public Health Progress We Take for Granted.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), headed by Representative Suzan DelBene, launched a campaign targeted at winning back rural voters through localized messaging.

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