INDIVISIBLE: A Practical Guide For Resisting The Trump Agenda

[Frankeneinstein]

Good luck — we will win.

out of curiosity...what's plan B?

Trump talked about "2nd Amendment remedies" regarding Hillary. I suspect the CIA is working on it...

I have to admit, that kinda worked out well

 

[Auld Phart]

From the OP:

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
- President Barack Obama
​

We wrote this guide because we believe that the coming years will see an unprecedented movement of Americans rising up across the country to protect our values, our neighbors, and ourselves. Our goal is to provide practical understanding of how your Members of Congress (MoCs) think, and how you can demonstrate to them the depth and power of the opposition to Donald Trump and Republican congressional overreach. This is not a panacea, nor is it intended to stand alone. We strongly urge you to marry the strategy in this guide with a broader commitment to creating a more just society, building local power, and addressing systemic injustice and racism.

Finally, this guide is intended as a work in progress, one that we hope to continue updating as the resistance to the Trump agenda takes shape. We are happy to offer support to anybody interested in building on the tactics outlined in this guide, and we hope that if you find it useful or put any of the tactics described above into action, that you will let us know how it goes. Feel free to ping some of us on Twitter with questions, edits, recommendations, feedback/stories about what is helpful here, etc: @IndivisibleTeam, @ezralevin, @angelrafpadilla, @texpat, @Leahgreenb. Or email [email protected].

Good luck — we will win.

win?

Win what?

What did the Tea Party win?

the House, the Senate..

 

[easyt65]

Rigging the Primary
Encouraging illegals to vote
Intimidating/beating Trump Supporters
Firebombing GOP HQs
Failed Recounts
Declaring a Popular Vote win merits the WH
Trying to flip Electoral Voters
'Russian Hack' Conspiracy Theory
Declaring they will be 100% Obstructionists
Now passing out 'Subversive material'

Poor snowflakes will stop at nothing

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Nothing new...just a page torn from the old .C.C.C.P. handbook on how to defeat America...nothing to see here, keep moving

They tried for nearly seventy years. How did that work out?

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Good luck — we will win.

The game is over. You lost.

 

[Lakhota]

Rigging the Primary
Encouraging illegals to vote
Intimidating/beating Trump Supporters
Firebombing GOP HQs
Failed Recounts
Declaring a Popular Vote win merits the WH
Trying to flip Electoral Voters
'Russian Hack' Conspiracy Theory
Declaring they will be 100% Obstructionists
Now passing out 'Subversive material'

Poor snowflakes will stop at nothing

Funny. Just keep on making shit up. You're pretty good at it. You remind me of Tokyo Rose.

 

[easyt65]

Poor Lakhota is offended by the Facts....

Here's another: Hillary LOST.

Get over it, snowflake.

 

[Hossfly]

Rigging the Primary
Encouraging illegals to vote
Intimidating/beating Trump Supporters
Firebombing GOP HQs
Failed Recounts
Declaring a Popular Vote win merits the WH
Trying to flip Electoral Voters
'Russian Hack' Conspiracy Theory
Declaring they will be 100% Obstructionists
Now passing out 'Subversive material'

Poor snowflakes will stop at nothing

Funny. Just keep on making shit up. You're pretty good at it. You remind me of Tokyo Rose.

Here's some add ons, Kawlija.

 

[Lakhota]

Even ignorant NaziCons should know that "what goes around comes around"...

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Trump talked about "2nd Amendment remedies" regarding Hillary. I suspect the CIA is working on it...

Yours is the side that hates the Second Amendment, and hates the idea of honest citizens being allowed to exercise their rights thereunder. What makes you think that a bunch of cowardly, unarmed pussies are going to have any chance, picking that fight with the side that actually has guns and knows how to use them?

 

[WaitingFor2020]

From the OP:

Here’s the quick and dirty summary of this document. While this page summarizes top level takeaways, the full document describes how to actually carry out these activities.

CHAPTER 1
How grassroots advocacy worked to stop President Obama. We examine lessons from the Tea Party’s rise and recommend two key strategic components:
1. A local strategy targeting individual Members of Congress (MoCs).
2. A defensive approach purely focused on stopping Trump from implementing an agenda built on racism, authoritarianism, and corruption.

CHAPTER 2
How your MoC thinks — reelection, reelection, reelection — and how to use that to save democracy. MoCs want their constituents to think well of them and they want good, local press. They hate surprises, wasted time, and most of all, bad press that makes them look weak, unlikable, and vulnerable. You will use these interests to make them listen and act.

CHAPTER 3
Identify or organize your local group. Is there an existing local group or network you can join? Or do you need to start your own? We suggest steps to help mobilize your fellow constituents locally and start organizing for action.

CHAPTER 4
Four local advocacy tactics that actually work. Most of you have three MoCs — two Senators and one Representative. Whether you like it or not, they are your voices in Washington. Your job is to make sure they are, in fact, speaking for you. We’ve identified four key opportunity areas that just a handful of local constituents can use to great effect. Always record encounters on video, prepare questions ahead of time, coordinate with your group, and report back to local media:

1. Town halls. MoCs regularly hold public in-district events to show that they are listening to constituents. Make them listen to you, and report out when they don’t.

2. Non-town hall events. MoCs love cutting ribbons and kissing babies back home. Don’t let them get photo-ops without questions about racism, authoritarianism, and corruption.

3. District office sit-ins/meetings. Every MoC has one or several district offices. Go there. Demand a meeting with the MoC. Report to the world if they refuse to listen.

4. Coordinated calls. Calls are a light lift but can have an impact. Organize your local group to barrage your MoCs at an opportune moment about and on a specific issue.

Thanks for posting this here, L. It is written by several dozen congressional staffers, not snowflakes. That is da' bew-dee of it.

 

[WaitingFor2020]

NOTE FROM THE INDIVISIBLE TEAM

Since this guide went live as a Google Doc, we’ve received an overwhelming flood of messages from people all over the country working to resist the Trump agenda. We’re thrilled and humbled by the energy and passion of this growing movement. We’ll be updating the guide based on your feedback and making it interactive ASAP. You can sign up for updates at www.IndivisibleGuide.com.

Every single person who worked on this guide and website is a volunteer. We’re doing this in our free time without coordination or support from our employers. Our only goal is help the real leaders on the ground who are resisting Trump’s agenda on their home turf. We hope you will take this document and use it however you see fit.

We want to hear your stories, questions, comments, edits, etc., so please feel free to ping some of us on Twitter: @IndivisibleTeam, @ezralevin, @angelrafpadilla, @texpat, @Leahgreenb. Or email [email protected]. And please please please spread the word! Only folks who know this exists will use it. Good luck — we will wi

Donald Trump is the biggest popular vote loser in history to ever call himself PresidentElect. In spite of the fact that he has no mandate, he will attempt to use his congressional majority to reshape America in his own racist, authoritarian, and corrupt image. If progressives are going to stop this, we must stand indivisibly opposed to Trump and the members of Congress (MoCs) who would do his bidding. Together, we have the power to resist — and we have the power to win.

We know this because we’ve seen it before. The authors of this guide are former congressional staffers who witnessed the rise of the Tea Party. We saw these activists take on a popular president with a mandate for change and a supermajority in Congress. We saw them organize locally and convince their own MoCs to reject President Obama’s agenda. Their ideas were wrong, cruel, and tinged with racism — and they won.

We believe that protecting our values, our neighbors, and ourselves will require mounting a similar resistance to the Trump agenda — but a resistance built on the values of inclusion, tolerance, and fairness. Trump is not popular. He does not have a mandate. He does not have large congressional majorities. If a small minority in the Tea Party can stop President Obama, then we the majority can stop a petty tyrant named Trump.

To this end, the following chapters offer a step-by-step guide for individuals, groups, and organizations looking to replicate the Tea Party’s success in getting Congress to listen to a small, vocal, dedicated group of constituents. The guide is intended to be equally useful for stiffening Democratic spines and weakening pro-Trump Republican resolve.

We believe that the next four years depend on Americans across the country standing indivisible against the Trump agenda. We believe that buying into false promises or accepting partial concessions will only further empower Trump to victimize us and our neighbors. We hope that this guide will provide those who share that belief useful tools to make Congress listen.

DETAILS: INDIVISIBLE: A Practical Guide For Resisting The Trump Agenda

Hooray! The anti-Trump movement begins!

Nothing new...just a page torn from the old .C.C.C.P. handbook on how to defeat America...nothing to see here, keep moving

Nope. It's the Tea Party playbook, actually.

 

[Maryland Patriot]

Good luck — we will win.

out of curiosity...what's plan B?

Trump talked about "2nd Amendment remedies" regarding Hillary. I suspect the CIA is working on it...

why would anyone be worrying about that old has been pee leaking hag now? she lost, she has been put out to pasture, dont you think it better for her to live the rest of her life out watching President Trump make decisions that she will think she is supposed to be making? every day as the dribble runs down her leg and soaks the carpet (They will blame it on the cat) her standing there, drunk, swearing, throwing ash trays at Bill until she passes out and falls to sleep in her own putrid puddle.
I think we can leave her be now. Her life will go just as it should from this point on.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

What did the Tea Party win?

Important difference: The Tea Party appealed to common, honest, decent, hardworking, law-abiding American citizens. Your side appeals only to criminals, perverts, parasites, illegal aliens, and other subhuman filth. There are a lot more of us than there will ever be of you.

 

[Nosmo King]

From the OP:

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
- President Barack Obama
​

We wrote this guide because we believe that the coming years will see an unprecedented movement of Americans rising up across the country to protect our values, our neighbors, and ourselves. Our goal is to provide practical understanding of how your Members of Congress (MoCs) think, and how you can demonstrate to them the depth and power of the opposition to Donald Trump and Republican congressional overreach. This is not a panacea, nor is it intended to stand alone. We strongly urge you to marry the strategy in this guide with a broader commitment to creating a more just society, building local power, and addressing systemic injustice and racism.

Finally, this guide is intended as a work in progress, one that we hope to continue updating as the resistance to the Trump agenda takes shape. We are happy to offer support to anybody interested in building on the tactics outlined in this guide, and we hope that if you find it useful or put any of the tactics described above into action, that you will let us know how it goes. Feel free to ping some of us on Twitter with questions, edits, recommendations, feedback/stories about what is helpful here, etc: @IndivisibleTeam, @ezralevin, @angelrafpadilla, @texpat, @Leahgreenb. Or email [email protected].

Good luck — we will win.

win?

Win what?

What did the Tea Party win?

Who was the Tea Party candidate?

ted cruz

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Nothing new...just a page torn from the old .C.C.C.P. handbook on how to defeat America...nothing to see here, keep moving

They tried for nearly seventy years. How did that work out?

Not sure why you are asking me this since my post basically made that point you are making but yeah, the OP may think this is the way to bring down America, but it will meet with the same fate as his forefathers plans in the FORMER U.S.S.R did

 

[Lakhota]

What did the Tea Party win?

Important difference: The Tea Party appealed to common,honest, decent, hardworking, law-abiding American citizens. Your side appeals only to criminals, perverts, parasites, illegal aliens, and other subhuman filth. There are a lot more of us than there will ever be of you.

Yeah, and Adolf Trump conned all of them. What's your point?

 

[WaitingFor2020]

From the OP:

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
- President Barack Obama
​

We wrote this guide because we believe that the coming years will see an unprecedented movement of Americans rising up across the country to protect our values, our neighbors, and ourselves. Our goal is to provide practical understanding of how your Members of Congress (MoCs) think, and how you can demonstrate to them the depth and power of the opposition to Donald Trump and Republican congressional overreach. This is not a panacea, nor is it intended to stand alone. We strongly urge you to marry the strategy in this guide with a broader commitment to creating a more just society, building local power, and addressing systemic injustice and racism.

Finally, this guide is intended as a work in progress, one that we hope to continue updating as the resistance to the Trump agenda takes shape. We are happy to offer support to anybody interested in building on the tactics outlined in this guide, and we hope that if you find it useful or put any of the tactics described above into action, that you will let us know how it goes. Feel free to ping some of us on Twitter with questions, edits, recommendations, feedback/stories about what is helpful here, etc: @IndivisibleTeam, @ezralevin, @angelrafpadilla, @texpat, @Leahgreenb. Or email [email protected].

Good luck — we will win.

win?

Win what?

What did the Tea Party win?

the House, the Senate..

That's right!

 

[WaitingFor2020]

Rigging the Primary
Encouraging illegals to vote
Intimidating/beating Trump Supporters
Firebombing GOP HQs
Failed Recounts
Declaring a Popular Vote win merits the WH
Trying to flip Electoral Voters
'Russian Hack' Conspiracy Theory
Declaring they will be 100% Obstructionists
Now passing out 'Subversive material'

Poor snowflakes will stop at nothing

Funny. Just keep on making shit up. You're pretty good at it. You remind me of Tokyo Rose.

Or Baghdad Bob.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Even ignorant NaziCons should know that "what goes around comes around"...

Considering the power the Republicans now possess, it may well NOT come around again, if they play it well.

Not that I want single party rule. I just want the Democrats destroyed.

There are thirty-seven other political parties. Perhaps one will rise to take their place.