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For the week of March 16, 2026

 

🎙️Mar 16, 2026 Weekly Actions Audio – available for when you’re on the go

🔷 We look forward to seeing you on Zoom for Indivisible Eastside Group Meeting March 21st 3-4:30 pm. If you’re new to Indivisible Eastside please join at 2:30 for a Welcome and Orientation! Register to attend. Agenda will include a brief update on the legislative session and the inside scoop for No Kings 3 Kirkland!

🔷 You’ve seen the moving videos out of Minneapolis. A new group Singing Resistance Eastside is forming and you’re invited to join the inaugural rehearsal and learning gathering March 22, 1-3 pm in Kirkland. They will learn emerging resistance songs, connect with neighbors, hear the political context of how Singing Resistance was born and develop the courage and people-power to resist this current political moment. They are preparing to bring the joy of song to our efforts, including the Kirkland No Kings Rally and March on March 28. 4 to 6 songs from the Singing Resistance Songbook will be chosen. Sign up to attend!

🔷 Another opportunity on Sunday is the excellent IE Digital Security Workshop March 22, 2-3:30 pm on Zoom. They’ll cover protest security, anti-ICE activity, and other scenarios. Whether you’re a beginner or a tech whiz, they’ll help you use tools, assess risks, and understand the landscape of surveillance and organizing. Register to attend.

Weekly Actions

 

✊ Action 1 – Tell Governor Ferguson to sign the Sheriff’s Accountability Bill

From Washington Indivisible Legislative Action

SB 5974, which strengthens standards concerning sheriffs, police chiefs, and others, will soon reach the governor’s desk! It contains much-needed updates regarding the eligibility and accountability of law enforcement leaders. Governor Ferguson needs to hear how important this bill is to all of us because he’s getting an earful from those who want the bill to die.

Please help us get this over the finish line by reaching out to the governor to express your support!

Contact Governor Bob Ferguson: 360-902-4111 | Contact Form

☎ Sample Script:

I strongly support SB 5974 which ensures equal accountability for all police leaders—sheriffs, chiefs, and marshals—so that no one in charge of public safety is exempt from basic professional standards.

Please sign the full bill into law.

Sincerely,

[NAME]

[CITY, ZIP]

EXPAND the script to include any of these talking points in your own words where possible:

  • Protecting Public Safety: Requiring background checks and certification before someone can run for or assume leadership promotes professionalism and reduces the risk of corruption or dangerous behavior at the highest levels of local enforcement.
  • Closing Volunteer Loopholes: Volunteers and cadets should never exercise police authority unless they meet the same training and certification standards as sworn officers; the bill helps prevent untrained individuals from carrying firearms or enforcing laws.
  • Modernizing Law Enforcement Roles: This reform brings decades-old statutes into alignment with contemporary expectations for training, ethics, and independent oversight in law enforcement leadership.
  • Building Community Trust: Clear standards and accountability mechanisms help restore trust with communities—including those historically harmed by policing—by showing that leaders must meet rigorous qualifications.
  • Ensuring Consistency Across Jurisdictions: Whether someone lives in a small town or a large county, they deserve law enforcement leaders held to the same standards of professionalism and fitness to serve.

✊ Action 2 – Tell WA UTC Don’t Approve Rate Hikes while favoring Microsoft

From Zoned Out PNW

Are you a Puget Sound Energy (PSE) customer? PSE is asking for three future rates hikes:

  • +16.75% increase in 2027
  • +3.76% in 2028
  • +8.81% in 2029

PSE is a private utility owned by a consortium of five Canadian pension funds and one Dutch pension fund. Because PSE is a monopoly, Washington’s Utilities and Transportation (UTC) regulates PSE by approving rate hikes.

If the state UTC commission approves the rate hike, every customer class in PSE’s rate filing sees an increase. Everyone except the special contract customer, Microsoft, which is scheduled for a rate cut. On that same rate table, PSE special contract customers are getting a rate cut of -12.49%, -2.04%, and -3.06%. The UTC Board is chaired by a former Microsoft Executive, who worked for Microsoft just one day before Governor Ferguson appointed him.

While Oregon enacted legislation regulating data centers, Washington State legislators caved in to tech lobbyists and killed a bill which would have added regulations on data center consumption. By 2029, Northwest data centers could consume as much power as all of PSE’s residential, commercial, and industrial customers combined, and Washington State residents could pay billions to foot the bill.

Action: Submit feedback on the upcoming rate hike on UTC’s website. Fill in the form, and at the bottom, for the company, type Puget Sound Energy, and for the question about being in favor of the proposal, mark No. Then type or paste your comment.

Sample comment:

This is a comment on Docket Number 260005. I urge you to deny PSE’s proposed rate hike. Under the proposal, almost all PSE customers face steep increases, such as the 16.75% increase in 2027, while one “special contract customer,” Microsoft, gets rate cuts. This is extremely unfair. The builders of data centers, which consume enormous amounts of energy, must pay their fair share for electricity, not shift costs onto other Washington state residents who are PSE customers. Thank you.

⛅ Bright Spots

  • More than 110 (and counting) No Kings 3 Events are scheduled in Washington for March 28th and thousands around the country! Whether you’re here or traveling, make a plan to join one!
  • The panel reviewing Trump’s White House ballroom project got an earful from the public opposed to it. The overwhelmingly negative comments called the ballroom project “ugly,” “grossly out of scale” and a “gold gilded edifice to one man’s ego,” among other criticisms.
  • A judge blocked DOJ subpoenas of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, who has been under investigation as a result of Trump’s attempts to dictate interest rates to the Fed. The judge said that the government has “produced essentially zero evidence to suspect Chair Powell of a crime” and called its justifications for the subpoenas so “thin and unsubstantiated” that they were simply a pretext to put pressure on Powell.

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