INDIVISIBLE - A Practical Guide For Resisting The Trump Agenda

There's No Longer Any Excuse For Not Getting Involved and Being Effective In Our Future

John A. Smith, Founder/Editor, New York, January 5, 2017 10:15 AM

www.indivisibleguide. com

Ex-Hill Congressional Staffers Offer Guide To Resist Trump

     Ezra Levin, Leah Greenberg, and Angel Padillajan, authors of "Indivisible - A Practical Guide For Resisting The Trump Agenda" is catching on like wildfire. I first heard about it when Rachael Maddow, MSNBC - The Rachel Maddow Show interview co-author Ezra Levin on Wednesday nights show. I started my blog Get Involved For A Better America in November of 2013, my mission was to get people involved in politics by finding, contacting, and tracking their own politicians. These ex-Hill congressional staffers have authored the most useful, and more importantly, effective ways, to get involved and make a difference with very effective strategies to win local and federal elections and stopping the Republicans and Trump from destroying our democracy, which actually is an oligarchy/plutocracy. Ezra Levin in the interview with Rachel says they put up a Google doc 2 1/2 weeks ago and Google immediately crashed. They put up a website just so people could download Indivisible - A Practical Guide For Resisting The Trump Agenda As of that interview last night there have been over 600,000 page views and 130, 000 downloads. He also said that there have been over 350 groups all over the nation register in the last 24 hours. They have followers in literally every congressional district in America. Now is the time to get involved.

The Guide (Updated December 31, 2016)

     Online petitions and form letters have very limited effectiveness. As my Facebook page Stop The Obstructionist Tea Party and my blog Get Involved For A Better America have always had the same mission, educate people on important issues from as reliable a source as possible and get them to contact their own Representatives, I am greatly appreciative of this guide being published and think it wiLl, or can, be extremely useful and most importantly, effective, BUT ONLY IF PEOPLE SHARE IT, use it, and talk about it with everyone you know. On my blog I offer links to find and track your U.S. Senators (Senate.gov), your U.S. Congressmen and women (House.gov), as well as websites to find, track, and contact state and local politicians. I, long ago, pretty much gave up signing online petitions because I didn't think they were doing anything to get our Representatives attention, much less action. Form letters are convenient but again, I don't believe our Representatives pay much attention to them. This guide (on page 3) says "Together, we have the power to resist - and we have the power to win." This was evident very recently when the newly installed 115th Congress tried to make it's first action, to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) after holding a closed-door secret session to create a bill putting the responsibility of overseeing congressional ethics under the House of Representatives control, yes, virtually putting the fox in charge of the hen house. Although the Main Street Media (MSM) for some time tried to give credit to Trump's tweet they had no choice but to admit it was the Representatives being inundated with phone calls and e-mails from constituents that got them to withdraw that ludicrous bill. The power of the people is there, it always has been, but we must stand together and get involved, take action, for it to be effective. Ronald Reagan knew this and used it. Every time Congress was against him he would go on TV and address Americans directly, causing them to call their Representatives and the Representatives really had no choice but to follow what the people were insisting on. That's what happened with that ethics bill on Wednesday, pressure from YOU, the constituents, flooding their phones lines and inboxes, got them to withdraw the bill. This guide is what Democrats should have written and published right after the success the Tea Party had in the 2010 elections. Perhaps all democrats in office, wanting to run for office, and certainly those in control of the DNC, should take notes from Ezra Levin, Leah Greenberg, and Angel Padillajan.

So You're Interested And Want To Know Where To Start?

     First and foremost, if you don't know who is representing you locally and nationally, use these links, right now, to find who they are and write down their phone numbers and ways to e-mail them:

U.S. Senators (2): www.senate.gov 

   

U.S. Congress: www.house.gov

State Senators, Assembly, Legislators: votesmart.org 

(When you go to this site, just under the title banner, you'll see a search box called "I Spy," put in your address, (Zip+4 if you know it) it will show you everyone that is representing you from the President on down to your most local politicians. 

Once you've entered your address and hit enter you will be given that full list of those representing you. It starts with the President, then his cabinet and appointees, and then your Governor, and State Senators, Legislators and so on, but remember, the only ones listed are representing YOU. Look specifically for "U.S. Senate" members; "U.S. House" members; and for your State Representatives look for "State Senate" "State Assembly" (some states have legislators, some Assembly, whichever your state has will be listed) and "Legislator" (your list may not contain some positions, some may show other positions, but it will show you who is representing YOU.) 

Click on a members name, now just below the search box you will see file folders, click on "Bio and it will give you all the information, from their capitol phone numbers, district offices, e-mail addresses their children's names and more. you should write the phone numbers and addresses of their local district offices if you want on a piece of paper so you have it immediately available should an issue arise that you want to immediately weigh in on. 

Here is my "Contact List" that I can utilize in a minutes notice should I hear something is going on in government whether I'm for it or against it:

So Now That You Have Your Contact Sheet

     Read the guide that is so informative. Remember the Bold Faced, last sentence in the first paragraph of the introduction "Together, we have the power to resist - and we have the power to win." Also, in the highlighted box "Who Is This Document By And For" on page 3, the introduction, is instruction for YOU, It says YOU: should use this guide, share it, amend it, make it your own, and get to work." I, for one, have seen, as you assume have, that when the people speak up, contact their representatives in large numbers, we can get things done. That's what I've been trying to promote with my blog, and Facebook page, because I've seen it work. If you're willing to let the Executive Producer of a realty show, a narcissist, a hateful, racist, man, who says things "off the cuff" that are proven to be about 80% outright lies, then take your chances, sit back, and wait for the disaster that is sure to come with the megalomaniac, and the Repuglicans, and TeaPublicans, who now have control of all three branches of government and 32 State Houses and/or Governorships. Remember that by simply refusing to do their jobs, their sworn duty, by not even giving President Obama's  nomination for the U.S. Supreme court a hearing, much less a vote, they won! They will now select the next Supreme Court Justice. That in itself should be enough for people to be outraged and want to act. 

The One Page Summary - The Outline For Success

     The summary explains how the authors studied what made the Tea Party's success against President Obama, their strategies, and how a small group was able to make such drastic reality, and how we can use those same successful strategies against them. Two years into President Obama's first term it was clear, with all the seats lost in congress, and as important, all the state and local seats lost, change was obvious, but not the change that we wanted. I'm not going to continue inserting excerpts from the guide because I want you to read it! Download it, print it like I did, Indivisible - A Practical Guide For Resisting The Trump Agenda right now. Read it, make YOUR  "Political Contact List," and get involved, or buckle your seat belt of life and hope that our children don't live in a country that has been damaged beyond repair. Hope that an irresponsible, ignorant, inexperienced, racist, misogynistic man, that has chosen people for his cabinet that are also inexperienced in their chosen positions, most whom have positions that are 180 degrees from their agencies missions, don't have us going into more wars-for-profit, and situations that will hurt all Americans, except that one-tenth-of-one percent, who has 95% of all wealth in this oligarchy/plutocracy.