Thursday, September 21 - Finish the Job in Wisconsin and Ohio / Do Better, Durbin
Action You Can Take Today
Action 1: Finish the job in Wisconsin and Ohio
Action 2: Tell Senator Dick Durbin to do better and fix the Supreme Court
Action 1: Finish the job in Wisconsin and Ohio
We've scored some impressive wins in 2023. After reducing last year’s predicted “red wave” to a puddle, we helped to elect Judge Janet Protasiewicz to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, by a huge margin, and to defeat the Republicans’ sneak attack on abortion rights in Ohio, by an even bigger margin.
So why do things seem so scary as we enter the 2024 election season? Because the more we win, the more desperate and outrageous the Republicans get. As soon as Wisconsin voters expressed a clear preference for a liberal-leaning Supreme Court, the fringe right began promoting a scurrilous plan to nullify the vote by impeaching Justice Protasiewicz before she heard a single case. Similarly, after getting thumped in their attempt to keep Ohio’s abortions rights initiative off the November ballot, Republicans conspired to put it on the ballot in a deceptively worded and politically loaded summary.
It’s become a familiar pattern: Republican extremists overreach. Voters resoundingly reject them. Extremists reach further. Instead of trying to persuade their voters or propose policies that voters will support, they try to win by changing the rules.
Many of us were hoping for a respite this fall, a chance to relax and regroup before the 2024 shitstorm. Sorry, but the vacation is over. We may be seeing a party in its death throes, but while it thrashes around we have to be vigilant.
Here’s what we can do this week:
Phone bank with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. They’re asking voters to call their state reps and senators and warn them off the far right’s extreme impeachment scheme. Currently sessions are scheduled for Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays in September (in other words, right now!), with more possibly to come.
Donate to the WisDems Defend Justice Campaign. Help get the word out to Wisconsin pols: don’t you dare!
Phone bank with the Democratic Party of Ohio. We spent weeks asking Ohio voters to "Vote No on Issue 1." Now we have to get them to vote yes! Tuesday and Thursday evenings 4:30-6:30 CT, Wednesday sessions possibly to come.
Donate to Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, a coalition of abortion-rights organizations fighting to protect abortion rights with a constitutional amendment.
Action via Blue Beginning
Action 2: Do Better, Durbin!
Thanks to your feedback, the Indivisible digital team has developed a tool to track emails sent to Durbin's office about court advocacy issues. You let us know that emails are an important way that activists want to contact Durbin's office and you recognized the importance of being able to track how many times Durbin is being contacted about these issues.
Use this form to contact Senator Durbin's office directly. PLEASE NOTE: we have provided sample text, but it is important to edit it so that this is a customized letter, directly from you!
We’re partnering across the movement in asking you to sign on to this letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, urging them to address instances of blatant SCOTUS corruption. In short, the Senate has no choice but to subpoena Justices Thomas, Alito, and their billionaire benefactors as well as launch a full-scale investigation in the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other relevant committees, into the ethical crisis engulfing the Supreme Court. Please sign the letter and share it with your networks of like-minded constituents. The deadline to sign on is September 28.
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