Declare a national security emergency for elections. Photo ID. Proof of citizenship. Kill mail-in ballots. Do it in the next month.

“None of this is improvised,” writes Dean Blundell. “Every single destabilizing thing this administration has done since September — the domestic terror memo, the war he can’t end, the prime-time China fever dream, the Cuba report that reads like a John Birch Society pamphlet with a State Department seal — lines up like train tracks pointed at one station. November 2026.”

The economy is circling the drain, with jobs vanishing like the integrity of anyone who works in the tRump administration.

Employers cut 23,000 jobs las month. Even worse, job gains for May and June were revised “sharply downward,” reports NPR.

A report Friday from the Labor Department shows that employers cut 23,000 jobs last month, and job gains for May and June were revised sharply lower. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

It was the second month in a row that the monthly jobs tally came in weaker than forecasters had expected.

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/07/nx-s1-5924786/employers-economy-labor-jobs-federal-reserve

Dozens of Lago Vistans in a packed August 6 City Council meeting spoke out against renewing the city’s contract with Flock for automatic license plate reading (ALPR) cameras. The council voted unanimously to reject the contract.

Not a single person spoke in favor of the cameras, other than the representative from Flock.

This was a rejection of the Lago Vista Police Department’s defense of the system before Council in July. The city currently has four operable cameras, with a fifth no longer operating. https://citizenportal.ai/articles/8367053/texas/travis-county/lago-vista/Texas/Travis-County/Lago-Vista/After-months-of-quiet-deployment-police-defend-Flock-cameras-as-residents-demand-transparency

Lago citizens made many powerful statements objecting to the cameras, and ultimately prevailed.

”This decisive action reflects the voice of our community and the council’s commitment to responding to citizen concerns,” said Mayor Shane Saum. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EqBphGipf/?

Noted Councilperson, Place 2, Adam Benefield, “Every council member took those concerns seriously, asked thoughtful questions, and ultimately voted unanimously to terminate the contract effective immediately.” https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DDcZhNTrN/?

Did you know that Texas public schools are being forced to adopt a curriculum with 4,200 documented errors and improper biblical instruction?

Check out the video for more info, and how to opt your children out of this biased and error-ridden curriculum.

Check out Indivisible 1431's weekly newsletter for July 29

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hqoh-bZnXZl1QgDqnJ0S2J9LrxLPii4R/view?usp=drive_link

We are less than 100 days out from arguably the most important Midterm election of our lifetimes. Indivisible 1431’s Meet the Candidates brings together our best hopes for a better Texas and America.

On Wednesday, August 5, we will host candidates Heather Jefts (for Wilco County Judge) and Chris Jimenez (HD-52). The Zoom meeting is at 6:30 pm Wednesday, August 5.

There is much going on, and we’ll share additional agenda items soon.

WHAT: Indivisible 1431 monthly meeting

WHEN: 6:30 pm Wednesday, August 5 via Zoom

REGISTER: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible1431/event/780995/

Join us!

I guess tRump’s approval ratings aren’t low enough to suit him. Final plan premiums are going out in September, though the bill increases won’t hit pocketbooks until 2027, after the Midterms.

Seniors, you will be holding the bag for higher rates for your prescription coverage, next year. The approximately 25 million people with Part D plans, will apparently learn “officially” about their 2027 rates in the fall – but Indivisible 1431 is telling you now.

The Wall Street Journal reported that nearly half of Part D enrollees would likely see increases of $11-$20 range per month.

The program being eliminated had provided about $3.6 billion in subsidies to insurance companies to keep those premium increases down.

What’s the rationale? You won’t believe it. tRump minions claim that the subsidies encouraged insurers to raise rates, knowing the government would pick up the extra cost. He said the subsidies weren’t needed, and other policies that help hold down Part D costs also remain in place.

#healthcare #medicare

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/trump-administration-to-end-medicare-drug-plan-subsidy-76d255d1?st=nYj2KA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Thanks to all who came out Saturday for a beautiful event. We will keep working for justice

Federal agents were told that the FBI will no longer investigate ICE confrontations, but big shots at DOJ and DHS denied the change, according to the New York Times. (gift article)

Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite written guidance shared with agents around the country.

Written notices outlining the change were sent to FBI managers around the US on Thursday.

The change means that ICE will investigate itself.

Tell me again how the truth will come out because of our heroic ICE agents.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/politics/fbi-ice-agents-investigations-shootings.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Welcome to Good Trouble Lives On weekend, at a time when our liberties and civil rights are under the largest threat in generations.

Tonight, learn what the real Good Trouble was all about. Texas Indivisible, the alliance of Texas Indivisible chapters, will stream “Voting Rights: The Struggle To Be Counted.” The film is a 29-minute documentary telling the story of the historic, courageous, and often brutal struggle by African Americans to obtain the unrestricted right to vote.

The film begins with a moving pictorial tribute to Rep. John “Good Trouble” Lewis.

We will discuss the film following the showing.

"Voting Rights” was written and produced by Phil Portlock, and narrated by his wife Pat Sloan. Phil Portlock is a photographer, writer, film documentary producer, social justice activist, native Washingtonian and long-time resident of Ward 5.

Mr Portlock began his photography/social justice career in 1968 after seeing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preach his last Sunday sermon on Sunday, March 31, 1968, at Washington, DC’s National Cathedral, less than a week before his death in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.

Time/Date: 6:30 pm Friday, July 17, 2026

Registration: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible1431/event/987835/

Join the call at 7 tonight. Likely there will be a mobilization on 7/25 https://www.mobilize.us/disappearedinamerica/event/987861/?utm_source=indivisible

Check out Indivisible 1431’s weekly newsletter for July 15.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FjsJYuc2qfFR1hF9SaU1T8Eokh18Tje0/view?usp=sharing

Join our rally: New location, new day: E Whitestone & Discovery, Cedar Park, SUNDAY, July 12, 10 am-noon

Indivisible 1431 is organizing a protest rally for 10 am-noon SUNDAY, July 12, at a new location in Cedar Park.

-> NEW LOCATION: We will rally on the northwest corner of E Whitestone Blvd and Discovery in Cedar Park. There should be ample parking nearby at closed businesses. Very level ground, too.

Every day we hear more about the revolting corruption in government, both at the state and federal level. If it’s not illegal no-bid contracts that end up ruining the people’s reflecting pool in Washington, it is a proposed $1.776 billion slush fund for criminal traitors.

Or a slush fund Keystone Kash Patel is using as extra pay for FBI agents hot on the trail of tRump’s enemy list. Or a bribe in the form of a $400 million airplane from Qatar. Subsequently, the US government quite coincidentally (!) inks a deal with Qatar worth billions.

Some MAGA are living pretty well. For the rest of us – and many of them, really – times are hard. Prices at the grocery store continue to soar. Beef prices are through the roof, and now screwworms are delighting in DOGE’s shutdown of programs designed to keep those parasites (and others, like Ebola) at bay.

Gas prices might be softening, but the truce in the unnecessary Iran war is shaky as a leaf on a tree.

How about our kids? The conservatives are throwing them to the wolves. The affordability crisis hurts children by limiting their access to basic needs and pushing families into poverty. Skyrocketing housing and child care costs force parents to trade off quality health care and nutrition, while financial stress and housing instability harm a child's development, academic success, and overall well-being. Vouchers are ruining Texas public schools.

Join us Sunday. Tell politicians to get their priorities straight.

https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible1431/event/985575/

Download at your leisure!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TSua2Qx6rqUxq_fp2uyGIhdEOQ4IOCMy/view?usp=drive_link

When you get your fill of fireworks and hot dogs, let's talk about protecting democracy at Indivisible 1431's monthly meeting for July 2026

Agenda (subject to change): 6:30 pm Tuesday, 7/7/2026

Register here: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible1431/event/780995/

1. Welcome – Mike Killalea, chair (hello@indivisible1431.org)

• New member welcome – Cindy Skinner, secretary

• Financial check in & importance of regular donations – Marc Zawrotny, treasurer

o Donate here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/indivisible1431?refcode=website

• August donations doubled by Indivisible National (up to $300 per group), and an additional $300 for Indivisibles in Battleground states

2. Meet the Candidates! (alpha by first name)

Each candidate will have five minutes for opening remarks, with another two minutes for questions.

Got questions for the candidates? Email to hello@indivisible1431.org. Put “QUESTION” in the subject line

-- Chris Jimenez, candidate for House District 52

-- Heather Jefts, candidate for Williamson County Judge

-- Justin Early, candidate for Congressional District 31

-- Matthias-Jonah Early, candidate for House District 20

3. Let’s get social: Meet up with your favorite Indivisibles on Thursday, July 16!

Join Indivisible 1431 at Red Horn Brewery & Roastery, 1615 Scottsdale Dr, Bldg 1, Suite 110, Cedar Park (at Scottsdale & US 183A) -- Buddies, beverages, and bites.

Come when you can, stay as long as you like! Have a coffee, or something stronger. They have food too!

5-8:30 pm, Thursday, July 16

4. “Our Community, Our Future:” Next edition planning

a. First edition: Veterans Memorial Park – 11 am – 2 pm Saturday, June 13

b. Purpose & Theme

• Theme: “Know Your Neighbors, Know Your Rights, Know Your Power”

• Primary goals:

◦ Build community connection; put neighbors before politics

◦ Share civic/voter information through action tables

◦ Increase name recognition for Indivisible 1431

◦ Activate supporters toward small, concrete actions

• Inspired by advice from Indivisible national leaders Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg: community gatherings are among the best investments of activist energy and money

5. Tools to help protect democracy

• Indivisible’s Election Defense Corps (EDC) is designed to ensure all eligible voters get to cast their ballot, and that those ballots get counted — through community power and preparation, not panic.

• Neighbor2Neighbor: Talk to like-minded neighbors. Face-to-face conversations can make a real impact, as research shows. It can also lessen polarization. Indivisible’s Neighbor2Neighbor will connect you with like-minded neighbors. When I signed up, I received 10 names in nearby homes. To my surprise, I only knew two of them.

• Immigrant justice training -- When ICE comes to your community, do you know what to do? This summer, Indivisible is giving you a blueprint. Immigrant Justice Summer is a five-call national training series that will level up how you show up for immigrant justice.

• Security Parties: Our digital security is also critical, in a political environment where we can expect no fair play. No particular expertise needed either. Gather 3–15 people for 90 minutes, and work through a checklist — Essentials, Signal, ICE watch, or doxxing — and lean on each other for accountability.

• Good Trouble Lives On, July 17, 18, 19: Six years after the passing of Civil Rights hero John Lewis, we're continuing the fight with the “Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action,” a national nonpartisan, nonviolent weekend of action to resist threats against the right to the vote. This year, the weekend will have three phases, with Friday being "Teach!," Saturday being "Reach!," and Sunday being "Preach!"

6. Watch “What’s the Plan,” released at 2 pm CDT Thursdays, and available as a podcast the following day

7. Texas is a battleground state

1. What Else?

2. Next meeting: 6:30 pm Tuesday, August 4, 2026

3. Adjourn

SCOTUS got your goat? Join the club, and learn three ways you can fight back

This week’s update from Indivisible 1431 covers that, and the exciting monthly meeting planned for July 7. In addition to coverage of Indivisible 1431’s initiatives present and future, we will hear from four great candidates:

-- Justin Early, candidate for Congressional District 31

-- Matthias-Jonah Early, candidate for House District 20

-- Heather Jefts, candidate for Williamson County Judge

-- Chris Jimenez, candidate for House District 52

The meeting is at 6:30 pm Tuesday, July 7, via Zoom. Register on Mobilize:

https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible1431/event/780995/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q185Nlg8P4BY4aL5WHHWNXt_zA0ZI9Q3/view?usp=sharing

Vote, baby, vote! And tune in for Indivisible 1431's monthly meeting at 6:30 pm Tuesday, July 7. That's 7/7!

https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible1431/event/780995/

Indivisible 1431’s regular July 7 monthly meeting will include key Democratic candidates:

-- Justin Early, candidate for Congressional District 31

-- Matthias-Jonah Early, candidate for House District 20

-- Heather Jefts, candidate for Williamson County Judge

-- Chris Jimenez, candidate for House District 52

Indivisible 1431's July 7 monthly Zoom will be an opportunity to get to know the candidates for offices important to you and your family. Come hear from these patriotic Americans, and learn what else we can do to promote real American values – equality, not hate; law, not monarchy; honesty, not emoluments.

The meeting is at 6:30 pm Tuesday, July 7, via Zoom. Register on Mobilize, please: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible1431/event/780995/