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For the week of August 24, 2026

 

🎙️Aug 24, 2026 Weekly Actions Audio – available for when you’re on the go

🔷 Indivisible Eastside has been serving dinner quarterly at the Porchlight Men’s Shelter in Bellevue for over a year and  on September 24th, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, Porchlight will host a fundraising luncheon at Bellevue College. They are in need of volunteers for this event, so if you are able to help out, please review the available volunteer opportunities and sign up using the access code porchlight. Please register to attend the fundraiser and if you are unable to attend or volunteer, consider making a donation. This year’s theme, A Place at the Table, reflects a simple but powerful belief that everyone deserves a place where they are welcomed, valued, and supported.

🔷 From August 1 through August 31, Indivisible National is matching the funds raised by individual chapters across the country, dollar for dollar, up to a maximum of $300 per chapter. Help us get our $300 match–donate HERE!

🔷 The American Federation of Teachers is urging its 1.8 million members and families to boycott Target when buying school supplies this fall. This boycott is in response to Target’s ongoing refusal to take a stand against ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis, where Target is headquartered.

Weekly Actions

 

✊ Action 1 – Tell Congress: Stop ICE’s Online Surveillance Dragnet 

From Seattle Indivisible

DHS is using taxpayer dollars to identify, monitor, and intimidate people for criticizing immigration enforcement online. A Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that DHS paid ICE contractors millions to conduct a round-the-clock digital dragnet across social media platforms to build dossiers on posters who demand accountability for ICE’s illegal behavior.

The reporting shows that DHS has sent subpoenas to social media companies seeking identifying information about users who criticized federal immigration actions and some people have been tracked down in person and asked to sign letters warning that their online speech may be a crime.

ICE  has enormous power to detain, deport, and separate families. Giving that same agency a secretive surveillance apparatus aimed at critics creates a direct threat to the civil liberties of anyone who documents government abuse. A government agency should not be allowed to treat dissent like a threat database.

Contact your representatives and tell them to demand that the House Homeland Security Committee investigate DHS surveillance of online critics and stop taxpayer funds from being used to intimidate people exercising their first amendment rights.

🔷 Sen. Patty Murray: DC 202-224-2621 | Seattle 206-553-5545 | EMAIL

🔷 Sen. Maria Cantwell: DC 202-224-3441 | Seattle 206-220-6400 | EMAIL

🔷 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

☎ Sample Script:

Hello,

My name is [NAME], and I’m a constituent from [CITY].

I am calling because the recent Wall Street Journal reporting on ICE’s online surveillance program is extremely concerning. According to the investigation, ICE contractors are monitoring social media posts around the clock and compiling dossiers on anyone who speaks out against ICE.

Criticizing government agencies and documenting enforcement actions are protected First Amendment activities. Congress has a responsibility to ensure federal agencies are not using taxpayer funds to intimidate or surveil lawful dissent.

I am asking you to urge the House Homeland Security Committee to launch a full investigation into ICE’s surveillance of online critics and stop taxpayer funds from being used to monitor or intimidate people for criticizing immigration enforcement.

Thank you.

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

✊ Action 2 – Encourage Young People to Vote

From Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)

The voter turnout for the Washington State Primary election is about the same as last year’s primary election at approximately 37% of registered voters.  An increase in overall turnout is essential in November, especially for turnout of 18-34 year olds, which is below 20%.

Gen Z’s partisan preference is the most Democratic of any living generation. If they voted at the same rate as seniors, Democrats would have a structural national advantage of several points on top of their current position. The turnout gap is primarily what prevents that preference from fully materializing.

The mechanisms driving the gap are well-documented and include lower residential stability, less habitual voting behavior, and lower perceived stakes in midterm contests.

Young voters also receive less targeted campaign contact in off-year elections, with campaigns focusing resources on  voters who skew older. Campaigns that invest in young adult and youth organizing infrastructure such as campus events, text banking, and focused TikTok content are crucial for getting this generation to the polls at midterms.

Now is the time to talk to your younger family members, friends, and neighbors about the importance of this upcoming election and encourage their participation in the midterms this November.

Action:  Share information about the history of voting rights and why voting is important. The League of Women Voters offers a 6-part online course about Civics with content geared towards grades 6-12, offering a free interactive experience to inform and engage youth in the democratic process.

Consider supporting organizations such as Washington Bus who partner with high schools to support students with learning how to create change in their communities by combining a social justice curriculum with structured opportunities to gain hands-on community organizing skills.

Getting young people registered to vote is critical. In Washington state, 16- and 17-year-olds can sign up as Future Voters and be automatically registered to vote when they become eligible. It is also important to provide resources for voters over age 18 on things like voter registration and how to obtain a ballot when out of town.

If you need to reach young people outside of Washington state, organizations such as National Voter Education Week offer support on how to register and vote in their respective states.

⛅ Bright Spots

  • Washington secured a court victory in protecting gender-affirming care under the Affordable Care Act. On Friday, the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts ruled that the Trump Administration unlawfully modified the categories of essential health benefits without following the proper procedures the ACA requires.
  • The Save America Act remains stalled after upper chamber Republicans left Washington for their August recess without finding a path to pass the sweeping elections bill. The full bill has come up for a vote five times without Republicans finding the 60 votes needed to overcome a Democratic filibuster.
  • The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln is leaving the Middle East after a nine month deployment and is heading home to San Diego.

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