JULY 17th 4:30-7pm All Peoples Rally for Voting Rights “Good Trouble”

•

 

Louisville Chapter  

Email: indivisiblelouky@gmail.com

BlueSky: indivisible-louky-bsky.social

Instagram: IndivisibleLouKy  

TikTok: Indivisible.LouKy

Indivisible’s Vision:

A real democracy- of, by, and for the people.

 

 

                                                            GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON…

Join us on Thursday, July 17th from 4:30 – 7pm

Join us for the Human Chain starting at the

Federal Building on 6th Street @ Broadway

for some “Good Trouble”.

Bring Your Signs, Bring Your Voices

Our Congregation is supporting a national rally this Thursday July 17th starting at 4:30-7PM.  It’s called “Good Trouble”- a John Lewis tribute and voting rights protest.  It’s now posted on our Facebook page to share with others.

 

“We won’t be walking at this event.  This protest consists of lining up rally supporters from all over the city to stand in place and hold OUR PEACEFUL PROTEST signs demanding Voting Rights equality along with our other justice messages.    HOW FAR CAN WE STRETCH OUR “GOOD TROUBLE”  EAST AND WEST ON BROADWAY?”

With the ongoing attack on democracy, our goal is to bring people together with their Representatives and call on Congress to pass national voting rights legislation such as the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, the Freedom to Vote Act, the Native American Voting Rights Act and DC Statehood.

We need carpool drivers!   Whoever can help carpool, please contact Ellen Wade, so she knows who to count on.  The carpools will leave our church this Thursday at 3:45pm to get a good parking spot and walk to our meeting place.

We will meet on the northwest corner of 6th and Broadway at 4:20pm.  Stay for coffee hour to help make protest signs!  Children are welcome to help make signs with their parents!

With the ongoing attack on democracy, our goal is to bring people together with their Representatives and call on Congress to pass national voting rights legislation such as the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, the Freedom to Vote Act, the Native American Voting Rights Act and DC Statehood.

 

 

National News You Might Have Missed. . .

  • International students applying for visas to study in the U.S. will have their entire online presence reviewed, including their social media activity, during the visa application process. (from The NYT)

  • Republicans are ready to undo President Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, the most aggressive ever to confront the climate crisis. (from The NYT)

According to People Power United, Project 2025:

  • Dismantles democracy and installs authoritarian rule

  • Criminalizes dissent and minority communities

  • Ends reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights

  • Defunds public healthcare and education

  • Destroys labor, environmental, and disability protections

  • Increases tax burdens on working people

  • Erases civil rights and church/state separation

  • Suppresses voting and opposition voices

  • U.S. analysts who visited Tehran three weeks ago stated that the Iranian foreign ministry and nuclear team were actively exploring options for a deal. They proposed low-level uranium enrichment capped at 3.67%, with international oversight. They even offered to ship enriched uranium to Russia and allow U.S. inspectors on the ground. They were bending over backward to meet us at the table. (from Arms Control Association, 2025)

  • A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Dept. of Transportation from withholding billions of dollars in funding to states unless they complied with the Trump administration’s demands on immigration enforcement. (from the NYT)

  • Senator Bernie Moreno, R., Ohio, proposed that President Trump should receive the Nobel Peace Prize for the June 21 Iranian strikes. (from The NYT)

  • Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, said on Sunday that he would not seek re-election next year, a day after President Trump threatened to back a primary challenger against him because Mr. Tillis had said he opposed the bill carrying Mr. Trump’s domestic agenda. (from The NYT)

  • The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration has said that in the next few days it will stop providing data from satellites that have been helping hurricane forecasters do their jobs for decades. The satellites are jointly operated by NOAA and the Dept. of Defense. No explanation has been given. (from The NYT)

  • The Trump Administration’s proposal to cut NASA to the bone – including a nearly 50% reduction in science funding– jeopardizes the country’s pursuit of discovery and undermines capabilities that are essential in an era when rivals are advancing in terrestrial and extraterrestrial arenas. (from a NYT’s editorial by Bill Nelson)

  • At 44 years old, Emil Bove has been nominated for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. Trump said Bove will “do anything necessary to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.” If confirmed, he would go to the top of Trump’s list for the next Supreme Court vacancy. (from The NYT)

  • Senator Rand Paul tried to force the U.S. Postal Service to auction off its entire electric fleet, all 7,200 zero-emission trucks and over 14,000 charging stations currently being installed in post offices nationwide in the budget reconciliation process. Luckily, his efforts were stalled by the Senate parliamentarian – but he could try again. (from Save the Post Office)

Click here for This Week in Trump World.

Here in Kentucky

Here’s what the Big Beautiful Budget would affect Kentucky:

  • Take away Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians – Put at least 35 rural Kentucky hospitals at risk of closure, making medical care further out of reach when minutes matter most.

  • Make it harder to get SNAP/food stamp benefits, putting 135,000 Kentuckians at risk of food insecurity.

  • End the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) program, which helps thousands of KY families keep the lights and heat on when they need it most.

  • Cut funding for programs that make clean energy affordable for rural communities, like Rural Energy Savings Program(RESP) and Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).

  • Rollback Inflation Reduction Act investments that Kentuckians and utilities could use to lower our energy bills, like Solar for All.

  • Institute additional tax breaks for the wealthy through a dollar-for-dollar scheme for school vouchers (ECCA), up to $10 billion over 4 years. (from Kentuckians for the Commonwealth)

 

  • Mitch McConnell just told 1.4 MILLION Kentuckians on Medicaid to

    “get over it” when they lose their health care.

  • The Republican Party of Kentucky does not care about the lives of the people in our Commonwealth. Kentucky Democrats always will.

  • Under the Trump administration’s broader march against diversity, equity, and inclusion, the EPA has sought to ax funding for the EPA’s Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program designed to provide funding to local organizations and governments to mitigate health risks from extreme heat, wildfires, air pollution and other environmental threats in disadvantaged communities. At least $1.5 million has been terminated in Louisville so far, along with more throughout the Ohio River Valley. (from the Courier-Journal)

 

The Trump administration’s proposed elimination of the Legal Services Corporation would have devastating effects on residents of Louisville and Legal Aid Society’s fifteen county service area. Legal Aid Society has been providing critical civil legal assistance to the community for over a century, and currently 30% of its funding comes from LSC.

Eastern Kentucky attorney, Ned Pillersdorf, says he’s planning to run for the 5th Congressional District seat now held by Republican Hal Rogers.

Did you know that the Kentucky Hospital Association supports the House version of the “Big, Beautiful Bill”?  However, they say the Senate Medicaid cuts are a bridge too far.

 

If You Live in a Republican House District

�� Flood the phones. Tell your representative that a vote for this bill is a vote to destroy lives — and you’ll remember it. Then, send an email to drive home the point.

�� Fight back with friends. We’re stronger together, so encourage your friends and family to take action to stop the cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. Sign up and get access to Empower, an app that has everything you need to text your circle about the Republican tax scam: ready-to-use scripts and messages with links they can use to call their own Members of Congress.

��‍�� Help spread the word about what’s in this bill using our social toolkit. When people know what’s in the bill, they overwhelmingly oppose it — but a lot of people still aren’t aware of the details. You can help change that.

�� Forward this email. Five texts. One group chat. You never know who’s in a swing district until you ask.

If You Don’t Live in a Republican District

�� Call folks whose GOP representatives are flippable. If you can spare 1-2 hours for the fight, join a phonebank to call people in vulnerable Republican districts, sound the alarm about this bill, and patch them through to let their GOP representative have it. Anyone can join a phonebank; you just need a phone and a computer.

�� Fight back with friends. We’re stronger together, so encourage your friends and family to take action to stop the cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. Sign up and get access to Empower, an app that has everything you need to text your circle about the Republican tax scam: ready-to-use scripts and messages with links they can use to call their own Members of Congress.

��‍�� Help spread the word about what’s in this bill using our social toolkit. When people know what’s in the bill, they overwhelmingly oppose it — but a lot of people still aren’t aware of the details. You can help change that.

�� Forward this email. Think your friends in swing districts already know? Don’t risk it. Hit forward.

We already changed the trajectory of this fight in the Senate. We may have come up a vote short, but all the pressure we’ve built is now being felt by the House.

Will we win? I don’t know.

But this is what movements do. We rise when they expect us to fold. We organize through the setbacks. And we win the fights they say are impossible — because we refuse to give up.

You ready?

Let’s finish what we started.

 

 

Help if you can…Donate

(The Louisville Chapter planners have been paying for rental expenses out of their own pockets- please help them continue to afford expenses!)

Indivisible, Louisville chapter, is now certified to accept donations through ActBlue and would appreciate any amount you feel you can comfortably give. Just click the link

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/indivisiblelou1337078050

or use the QR code below.

This will take you to our account on ActBlue. As a nonprofit, we sincerely thank you!

*