- Tonight: Join MoveOn’s emergency mass call – Iran in Focus: Stop Trump’s War (7pm ET/4pm PT). Indivisible and several other national partners are co-hosting MoveOn’s mass, movement-wide call to discuss what’s at stake, map out next steps, and launch a nationwide push to tell every elected official: no more endless wars. We’ll hear from activists, foreign policy experts, and Members of Congress calling for immediate de-escalation in Iran and demanding immediate action to keep Trump in check.
- Call your senators, call your representative, and email them all: They must stop Trump’s war! The Constitution is clear: Congress holds the power to declare war. Trump’s reckless and unconstitutional Iran escalation has already led to the deaths of, as of this writing, six US servicemembers and hundreds of Iranians civilians. Americans didn’t ask for this war and we absolutely don’t support it. Members of Congress must use every lever in their toolbox to put an immediate end to it. Let all your Members of Congress know: We won’t accept anything less.
- Tell Congress: Halt the ICE terror machine. GOP lawmakers have been quick to exploit Trump’s war as an excuse to insist Democrats drop their opposition to new funding for ICE and Border Patrol (details, below). Use our call scripts and email tool to contact your Members of Congress and demand that they refuse to expand Trump’s capacity to terrorize our communities just because he decided to bomb Iran. Demand serious guardrails be placed on those agencies as a bare minimum for any DHS funding deal.
- Register for the ICE Out for Good Funding Fight weekly phonebank. On Tuesday (1pm ET/10am PT), we’ll be calling voters in key states to encourage them to call their Members of Congress and urge them to hold the line and demand that ICE’s terror tactics be stopped for good.
- Find your March 28 No Kings Day event. March 28 was already set to go down in history as America’s biggest single-day protest ever, but Trump’s war has made it even more urgent that we turn out in numbers too great to ignore. There are nearly 2000 events registered! If you don’t find anything within an hour of your home, consider hosting an event yourself.
UPDATE: REPUBLICANS’ DHS SHUTDOWN
Today is Day 17 of the GOP’s DHS shutdown — a shutdown that happened only because Republicans aren’t willing to hold ICE and Border Patrol to the same sort of standards as law enforcement — and now the GOP wants to use Trump’s war to get Democrats to cave and let them shovel billions more into those agencies’ coffers.
So far, Dems have stood firm, refusing to vote on the Republicans’ DHS funding bill. Democrats have even put forward a bill that would fund every part of DHS other than ICE, Border Patrol, and Kristi Noem’s office. But no, the GOP would rather let their shutdown drag on and keep ICE unaccountable.
Americans have been clear: No more ICE terror, and no more wars. Indivisibles in particular have made sure Democrats hold the line on DHS, making a record-breaking number of calls to Congress — but the fight really isn’t over. We need to keep up the pressure and make sure elected officials know their constituents are still watching closely.
That means more calls, more emails, more rallies at their offices — more making your voice heard above the noise of the ICE machine.
- Call your senators and
- Call your House representative, then
- Email all your Members of Congress to underscore that Americans say no to yet more ICE and Border Patrol funding.
- Plan a nonviolent rally or visit to your Members of Congress’ local offices – Protests and rallies are protected free speech under the First Amendment, and constituents have a right to visit electeds’ offices even when they’re not in their districts (and staffers are sure to let their bosses know if they had visitors).
The longer the shutdown lasts, the more time skittish Democrats will have to back away from our demands. Let them know what you think!
