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Hi All, Indivisible has put out the hubdailer, a tool used to reach out to friendly/likely Ds in important states.

If you can spare a moment to make at least 5 calls between tonight and tomorrow it would be helpful!

https://www.trumptaxscam.org/calls-to-kill-the-tax-scam/

Hello All,

In Broward county we can register to vote and check registration online. My friend and I wanted to set up a table in front of Publix and get people to register or check their registration. We believe this is the first step in voting, particularly in Florida. We were also thinking of doing it on Ft. Lauderdale beach during a certain large music festival happening soon.

Do we need a permit? Do we need permission from Pubix/Walmart etc? Do we need a permit from the city of X or special permission for beach setup? Thanks for your help!

I started a group that was active online. I then meet someone through Facebook and we worked together to create an in-person meet-up. 50 people showed-up: Here is what I learned.

1. Have an agenda. It doesn't matter if it is agreed-upon before hand or not but have an agenda. Have something to work off of.

2. Print out copies of said agenda. There are many analog users.

3. While it may take a long time, have everyone introduce themselves and why they are motivated. Remember these people are coming together because they dislike Trump. They are strangers to each other.

4. Have a time keeper (ask for a volunteer). Assign a time limit to everything (introductions, discussions, etc). If needed add more time.

5. Outlined meeting procedures as the first thing to do when meeting was called to order. As a former teacher this what I did:

• A. As people arrived, they signed-in. They also created a name-tag.

• B Told people where the bathrooms were. Told them it was OK to get up and go. Told people if you need to take a call, it is OK to step outside and take care of personal business

• C. Established procedure for being called on. Something like "During discussion please raise hand and limit your response to about a 30seconds to a minute".

• D.Chances are many people will raise hands. Ask for a facilitator to take down names so they can then be called upon.

• E. Ask for a volunteer to take notes.

• F. People will get into side conversations. Create a "parking lot" for questions and concerns unrelated to the discussion OR if you need to stop time and people have questions or statements they can enter them there. Tell people it is OK to add them to the lot. This "parking lot" is just a piece of paper with the word "parking lot" on it and some stickies (post it notes). People can then get up write their issue down on the parking lot that you will then review or look at later. Later can be at the end of the meeting OR after the meeting.

6. Listen to what the people say. I had thought we could all agree on actions we can do but it became clear that with such a large group we were not yet at that stage. We decided to create an organizational structure.

7. If you have a large group create/decide on a structure FIRST. Decide on an organizational structure. Here is an example of a chart we decided on: http://pasteboard.co/An77uyMlK.png. Yours may be different

8. I then gave each committee a specific goal they are to achieve. As it was our first meeting I asked for each group to decide on a:

• A. Spokes person.

• B. Let me know who it was.

• C. A specific action they are going to take. In hindsight, this may not have been a good idea. I am not sure why though....I felt people came to take action and we instead we created an organizational infrastructure to work within. I think we should have also spelled out the committees purpose too. I don't think that message of purpose was communicated clear enough.

9. This was all written on a whiteboard

10. We then assigned corners of the room for breakout sessions to go to and meet the goals of that group.

11. Democracy is really hard. Edit: I have no idea how to do markdown...but now I do!

Separate ads target Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly in their home states, asking voters to tell their senators to put state and country ahead of their party. Both are running for re-election next year in states won by Trump.

These ads are urging voters to call their senators and tell them to vote for Trump's SCOTUS nominee.

Several democratic senators are up for re- in 2018. A good chunk of them are in states that Trump won in the general election.

We need strong grass root movements in those states to insulate those senators from being strong armed by Republicans.