One Million Rising: One Million Trained, Millions More Empowered

Hosted by No Kings

Indivisible National is strongly encouraging folks to attend.

When:

Wednesdays, 7:00–8:00pm CDT

Where:

Online

"One Million Rising — a national effort to train one million people to help lead in this moment and gain the skills to lead others. This is how we build people power that can't be ignored. You're invited to join us—and lead."

What's the Plan?

Indivisible weekly conversation

The tone of last Thursday's weekly conversation was markedly different. We are in a critical time for our democracy. Ezra & Leah from Indivisible national were quite articulate about that. We recommend folks watch the recording of their community call and join their upcoming "One Million Rising" training (see above).

Each Thursday: Calls with Indivisible's Co-Founders

You can attend the weekly "What's the plan?" Zoom calls with Indivisible's co-founders Leah and Ezra each Thursday afternoon at 2pm Central Time.

The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it's all meant to overwhelm us. It's a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back. The antidote: Coming together in community to process what's happening, to sift through what's important and what's just noise, and coalesce around strategies for fighting back. Join Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin each week, as we carve out an hour to discuss what's happening and – more importantly – what's the plan.

History and Practice of Nonviolent Resistance

Erica Chenoweth

Political scientist Erica Chenoweth unpacks what makes a successful movement against authoritarianism, and how nonviolent resistance can be used to uphold democracy.

Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know

Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard University, explains that civil resistance is a nonviolent strategy where ordinary people coordinate to demand and protect democracy.

Successful movements typically rely on four key factors:

Mass Participation & Momentum

Broad-based, active involvement (often referred to with the "3.5% rule") helps build pressure and legitimacy.

Loyalty Shifts

Civil resistance works when it causes key supporters of a regime (e.g., military, business elites) to defect or withdraw support.

Resilience Under Repression

Movements must stay organized and peaceful, even when facing crackdowns, using tactics like the "backfire effect" to turn repression against the regime.

Innovation in Tactics

Successful campaigns go beyond protests, using strikes, boycotts, and other forms of noncooperation to sustain pressure.

Chenoweth emphasizes that nonviolence is inclusive and more likely to succeed because it allows widespread participation.

GOP Budget Bill Will Make ICE "Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the History of the Nation"

Democracy Now

This bill provides a whopping $170 billion to transform immigration enforcement and detention. This includes $45 billion for new detention jails. That's 265% more than the current ICE detention budget and more than the budget of the federal prison system. ICE's enforcement budget would increase by $30 billion, a threefold increase, and there's some $46 billion for border walls and more.

American Immigration Council calls the bill, quote, "the largest investment in detention and deportation in US history; a policy choice that does nothing to address the systemic failures of our immigration system while inflicting harm, sowing chaos, and tearing families apart"...

The administration is targeting immigrants as a "gateway, "opening the door into violating the rights of anyone they choose to. They're banking on citizens not paying attention if "only" immigrants are affected.

But this $170 billion is to fund a private army that answers only to Trump, and it would be the third largest military force on Earth, after the U.S. and Russia. For perspective, the FBI has a budget of $10 billion

Concentration Camp Labor

by Timothy Snyder

The Rev William Barber’s ‘moral movement’ confronts Trump’s America.

from the Guardian

"Barber, the co-chair of the revived Poor People’s campaign, a national movement to challenge inequality in all its forms through moral protest and policy change, has spent years preparing people for moments like this."

Stay on task: Overwhelm the opposition

from Robert Hubbell

"We must tune out the noise and continue to drive the outpouring of pro-democracy fervor that will eventually overwhelm Trump and his MAGA extremists. The mass movement of concerned citizens is gaining momentum and heft. We must make it unstoppable, irresistible, and inevitable.

"Pro-democracy rallies have been growing slowly and steadily since Inauguration Day. The No Kings Day rallies were the largest single-day protest in our nation’s history. On July 17, 2025, there will be a continuation of the No Kings Day rallies under the banner of Good Trouble Lives On..."

America: A Work in Progress, Powered by the People

Laurie Woodward Garcia and People Power United

"We are builders and dreamers, inventors and caregivers. Like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reminded us, 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice'—but only because people like us rise up and help bend it. From Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat to Dolores Huerta shouting 'Sí se puede,' our history is shaped by the courage of ordinary people who refused to stay silent.

"We are not defined by our darkest moments, but by what we choose to do in their aftermath. We are not a nation that cowers to bullies or bows to fear. We rise. We speak out. We show up. We march forward."