Statewide GOTV WG Recommendation on Judicial Retention Elections The Indivisible California State Network Working Group on GOTV has been focused on ways to encourage Early Voting in this critical election cycle. To that end, they have gathered information about ballot recommendations in the run-up to the voting season, so as to enable voters to fill-out their By Joel Ellinwood • 2 min read
Statewide Read Simon Rosenberg's Take on Early Voting/Vote on Day 1. Here's the best explanation that we've seen yet. https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/voting-early-why-it-matters?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email By Joel Ellinwood • 1 min read
Statewide GOTV Working Group Ballot Proposition Webinars Available on You Tube The third and last of Indivisible California State Network GOTV Working Group's series reviewing all 14 of the Statewide Ballot Propositions is now available on YouTube. Thanks for all the hard work it took to prepare the materials and put these on! By Joel Ellinwood • 1 min read
Statewide Laurie Friedman's Briefing Now Available on YouTube Indivisible Marin's Political Director, Laurie Friedman's zoom presentation on the status of five key California Congressional races for the midterms from Tuesday, September 29, is now available on YouTube. The five districts are CA-06 (Pan (D) v. Kiley(I)), CA-13 (Gray (D) v. Lincoln By Joel Ellinwood • 1 min read
Statewide RearView Resistance "car-casts" the Vote Early message Indivisible Palo Alto Plus and Blue Turn Indivisible collaborated to create and host RearViewResistance.com, VoteEarlyCA.com, and WhyVoteEarly.com to help spread the word in Bay Area traffic with colorful messages painted on car windows about voting early. The RearViewResistance.com website gives instructions on how to turn your By Joel Ellinwood • 1 min read
Statewide Local Becomes Regional Four local Indivisible groups in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties collaborate on promoting each other's events with a shared website calendar, https://www.indivisiblepeninsulabayarea.org/. The groups are Blue Turn Indivisible, Indivisible Palo Alto Plus, Indivisible Mid-Peninsula and Indivisible Portola Valley. Just another example of how By Joel Ellinwood • 1 min read
Statewide California Banned Sharing Your License Plate Data. A Dozen Cities Learned Theirs Was Shared Anyway. On February 2, Mountain View turned off its license plate cameras. The city's police department had run an audit of its own pilot program and found something it didn't expect: federal and state law enforcement agencies had been accessing Mountain View's data, in violation By David Anthony • 4 min read
Photo by Lesli Whitecotton / Unsplash Statewide Where California Can Flip the House: A Briefing With Laurie Friedman California will help decide who controls the House in 2026, and five districts are drawing especially close attention: CA-06, CA-13, CA-22, CA-45 and CA-48. On Tuesday, September 29, Laurie Friedman of Indivisible Marin will walk through each one and explain the political landscape shaping it. By David Anthony • 1 min read
Orange Mary Agnes Erlandson is lacing up her walking shoes for immigrant families From September 29 to October 6, Mary Agnes will join a walking pilgrimage that begins at the Adelanto Detention Center in San Bernardino County and ends at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. The walk is organized with CLUE (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice), where she By David Anthony • 1 min read
Photo by Mohammed Ibrahim / Unsplash Statewide 41 California Indivisible groups sent a letter to stop the 2,000-pound bomb sale to Israel. A sign-on letter from Indivisible groups across California asks Senators Schiff and Padilla to co-sponsor a resolution of disapproval, oppose new military aid while Gaza is cut off, and reject NDAA provisions that would end Senate oversight. By David Anthony • 1 min read
Statewide Indivisible California StateStrong (CASS) state proposition recommended positions November 2026 ballot Fourteen statewide measures are on the ballot. Each of the Indivisible California StateStrong five workgroups reviewed the measures in its area, and the organizing team made the final calls. Here is how CASS recommends you vote. 6 Yes 7 No 1 Neutral Propositions 1 to 5 Prop1 By David Anthony • 2 min read
Statewide Indivisible Takes on AI Leah and Ezra talk about how social movements can counter the AI threat and technofascism in September 17th's edition of What's the Plan. Summary (prepared by Gemini) In this broadcast of What's the Plan?, co-founders of Indivisible, Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, discuss By Joel Ellinwood • 1 min read
