Indivisible’s Election Protection Campaign starts now!

Worried about protecting the midterm elections in November? The saying is true:

Don’t agonize, organize! Indivisible and their hundreds of top tier pro-democracy organizational allies have been planning for this moment since before the 2024 election.

The strategy is clear, and it’s time to deploy.

As Beyoncé said, “let’s get in formation.”

• Step 1: Help pre-bunk voting misinformation and be a trusted local messenger.

• Step 2: Track local/state attacks on voting rights and respond.

• Step 3: Participate in national calls to action and be ready for rapid response moments.

• Step 4: Get trained and ready for election support and mass mobilization this fall.Check out the toolkit here: https://indivisible.org/campaigns/our-vote/

Find your lane. Choose your action. This will take all of us, and there is a necessary task for everyone!

Weekly Protests:

• Fridays at noon, Court House, Mount Vernon

• Sundays at noon, the Safeway intersection 12th Street and Commercial Avenue, Anacortes

• Saturdays at noon, Gilkey Square on First Street, La Conner

• Fridays 4:00-6:00, Ferndale ICE Facility, 5200 Pacific Highway in Ferndale

The Immigrant Support Task Force is a working group of Indivisible Skagit. The Task Force was formed in 2017 as Donald Trump was first inaugurated US President on a platform of persecuting, excluding, and deporting immigrants. People in Skagit were concerned about the safety and well-being of our neighbors and community members, especially those who are undocumented.

We remained concerned about the well-being and safety of our community members despite the change in administrations. While leadership in the Biden administration spoke of policy changes, they did not demonstrate an ability to rein in the behavior of ICE/CBP in our community.

With the escalation of brutality and gutting of civil rights protections by masked, armed, unidentified thugs in the name of “immigration enforcement” since the advent of the second Trump presidency, our work is more urgent than ever before in the national emergency of growing fascism we face today.

Our goal is to provide concrete, specific, tangible support to immigrants in Skagit by responding to the needs they express to us directly. We collaborate with statewide organizations and local organizations to identify and respond to these needs.

We welcome new members. We provide training for all our activities. You do not need to speak Spanish to join in. Many of our members do not. But, if you do speak Spanish, or any of the indigenous languages spoken by the local immigrant community, we need your help. Task Force actions are rewarding on many levels. Don’t miss the chance to take action on your values. Get connected to the Task Force by email to ImmigrantSupportTaskforce@indivisibleskagit.org , or leave a voice message or send a text to (360) 217-9141‬.

​Now is the time to Join Take Action Network (TAN)!
. . . TAN makes it easy to track bills you care about, write your legislators, sign in for hearings all from your own home. Get daily Take Action alerts. Make your voice heard in Olympia!

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Skagit County government needs broader representation. Of the seventy-three commissioners elected since 1884, only four have been women and one a person of color, with little variation in age or perspective. Ranked Choice Voting offers a practical path to change that: it lets voters rank their preferences, so elected officials better reflect the community's full range of views, and it can eliminate the need for a costly primary. A more sweeping alternative — restructuring county government through the charter process outlined in the state constitution — is available but considerably more complex.

Other jurisdictions already use RCV successfully at the state, county, and city level, and Washington's 2018 Voter Rights Act gives local governments the authority to adopt it. The Secretary of State has raised concerns about the voter education RCV would require, but other communities' experience suggests the learning curve is manageable, not a barrier. Skagit voters should give Ranked Choice Voting serious consideration as a straightforward, achievable step toward a county government that better represents everyone who lives here.

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