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Join the IndivisibleNOCO Research Team
As the 2025 election season winds down, we are gearing up for the Democratic primaries in June - which will be here before we know it. We need volunteers to help research candidates so we can inform voters, host forums, and make thoughtful endorsements. Time commitment? Whatever you can contribute! Even researching one candidate makes a difference. Email us to get started.
Learn How to Get Involved
To help people get involved, we created a Welcome to IndivisibleNOCO guide. It is a one-stop resource for learning how to get involved, stay connected, and discover opportunities for action. We will update it regularly, so bookmark the link and check back whenever you find yourself asking, “What can I do?”
Join Signs of Solidarity
IndivisibleNOCO is building solidarity with local businesses to support our immigrant community. Our small teams go door‑to‑door sharing Know Your Rights information so businesses are prepared if ICE arrives. We also provide window signs with the “Butterfly” symbol that visibly signal support and help immigrants feel welcome. You’ll see these signs across downtown Fort Collins, and soon in Loveland and Windsor. Join us in expanding this movement.
Mutual Aid Opportunities
IndivisibleNOCO has received a grant to connect our community with mutual aid groups like Clothe the People and Street Medics. Join us in collecting tents, sleeping bags and hand warmers and helping Clothe the People distribute the items. For more information, contact Reid@indivisiblenoco.com.
Other mutual aid opportunities in Northern Colorado include Vindeket Foods, Food Not Bombs, and Weld County Mutual Aid.
Work on the Progressive Business Guide
Community members often ask which local businesses align with (or don’t align with) progressive values. We are building a guide, but right now it is informal and incomplete. We’re looking for 2–3 volunteers to help crowdsource and verify entries. If you are detail-oriented and community-minded, this is a great way to contribute. Email us to get started.
Respond to an Urgent Call to Action
Help harness the power of the people by responding to an urgent call to action. Responding en masse gets the attention of media, elected officials and others who need to hear our voices.
We recommend putting phone numbers for your Members of Congress in your contacts so that you can quickly dial their numbers.
Sign Up For Caucus
Tired of the same old - same old running our government? This is YOUR CHANCE TO GET FRESH, PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES ON THE BALLOT! We know that Pueblo is a haul and we know that the No Kings Rally is scheduled for the same day - but the November election is probably the most important election in our lifetime. The outcome will determine whether the Trump regime will continue its cruel policies or whether it will be held accountable. Every person who attends the State Assembly can carry one proxy vote. This means, for example, if Larimer County sends 110 delegates to the State Assembly, only 55 really have to attend in person. Candidates will help you find proxies to carry your vote.
Confused about the caucus and assembly process? Read IndivisibleNOCO's Quick Guide to Caucuses and Assemblies. If you still have questions, please email us!
So - save the dates and sign up for caucus! Run to be a delegate! Larimer County Caucus is March 5 from 5 - 8pm and Assembly is March 7 from 9am - 1 pm. Both are virtual so you can invite your friends for a caucus/assembly party!. Weld County Caucus is March 7 from 9am-12pm and Assembly is March 14 starting at 9 am. Weld County events are in-person.
No War In Iran
Call and email Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper and your Representative and tell them - they must stop Trump's war! Trump's reckless and unconstitutional Iran escalation has already led to the deaths of US servicemembers and hundreds of Iranians civilians. The administration’s justification for the war has already been shown to be false (there was no imminent threat of an attack by Iran), Americans didn't ask for this war and don't support it. The Constitution is clear: Congress holds the power to declare war. Members of Congress must use every lever in their toolbox to put an immediate end to it.
Hold the Line: No DHS Funding Without ICE Reforms
Congress is now three weeks into a GOP‑driven DHS shutdown—one Republicans triggered because they refuse to hold ICE and Border Patrol to basic law‑enforcement standards. And instead of ending it, they’re trying to use Trump’s war as leverage to pour even more money into these unaccountable agencies.
Democrats have held the line. They’ve refused to pass the GOP’s DHS bill and have offered an alternative that funds every part of DHS except ICE, Border Patrol, and Kristi Noem’s office. Republicans would rather extend the shutdown than accept any accountability.
Indivisibles have already made record‑breaking calls, and it’s working—but we need to keep the pressure on.
Call and email Senators Bennet and Hickenlooper and your Representative today. Demand that they refuse to expand Trump's capacity to terrorize our communities just because he decided to bomb Iran. Demand serious guardrails be placed on those agencies as a bare minimum for any DHS funding deal.
Fight Back Against Corporations Helping ICE
You may feel helpless watching Trump’s DHS, ICE, and Border Patrol terrorize communities. But you are not helpless - you have real power as a taxpayer, investor, voter, and consumer, and you can use it right now. ICE’s cruelty depends on public money, private investment, and corporate partnerships. That means we have leverage - individually and collectively.
The Crisis: ICE and Border Patrol are holding 70,000 people in 224 detention sites across the country — many run by the private prison giant CoreCivic. These facilities are notorious for medical neglect, isolation, overcrowding, and record-high deaths in custody. At Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center alone, emergency 911 calls happen at least 15 times a month. This system survives because public money, private investment, and corporate partnerships keep it alive. That means we have leverage.
Five Ways to Use Your Power Today
1. Pressure Congress: DHS funding is on the table right now. Democrats are trying to attach guardrails to ICE and Border Patrol — things like banning masks, requiring IDs and body cameras, ending racial profiling, requiring warrants, limiting force, and ensuring medical care. Call Senators Hickenlooper (who previously voted to extend DHS funding) and Bennet as well as your Representative (e.g., Neguse, Boebert or Evans) and tell them: No DHS funding without accountability. Contact information is at the bottom of this newsletter.
2. Check Your Investments: You may be funding CoreCivic without knowing it. BlackRock and Vanguard - two of the biggest managers of retirement and savings accounts - are also CoreCivic’s biggest shareholders. Look at your statements. If your money is with them, you can move it. Tell your broker you do not want your savings propping up detention abuses.
3. Push the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) to Cut Ties: The DGA has accepted over $1.2 million from CoreCivic. That is unacceptable. Call the DGA ((202) 772‑5600 ) and tell them to stop taking money from companies profiting off human suffering.
4. Confront CoreCivic Directly: Let them know you refuse to support their business model - not with your taxes, not with your investments. 1‑800‑624‑2931.
5. Use Your Consumer Power: Major corporations enable ICE’s machinery of raids, detention, and deportation, including YouTube/Google (distributes ICE’s extremist‑coded recruitment ads), AT&T, Home Depot, Amazon and Microsoft (provide cloud, surveillance, and logistics) and Verizon (holds a $176 million DHS contract powering communications for raids and detention). These companies care deeply about their public image. Tell them to stop profiting from ICE’s abuses - and consider boycotting those that refuse.
As taxpayers, savers, voters, and consumers, we can disrupt the system that enables abuse. And together, we can demand a country that refuses to tolerate cruelty done in our name.
We thank Robert Reich for this call to action. His newsletters provide valuable insight and calls to action for steps that we, the people, can take to flex our individual and collective power.
Switch to Connexion
Keep chipping away at the financial resources propping up the authoritarian power grab - if you still use Comcast, switch to Connexion.
If you live in Fort Collins, you’ve got a better option than Comcast - Connexion, our community-owned internet and cable service. While Comcast is funding Trump’s destruction of the White House, Connexion is reinvesting in Fort Collins. Your dollars stay local, powering public services, providing jobs and strengthening our economy.
Connexion provides fast and reliable internet service at a fraction of the cost of Comcast. And it provides customer service that actually serves you. Call Connexion and you will talk to a real person - someone who listens, solves problems, and goes the extra mile.
Donate to a Food Bank
November SNAP benefits are canceled due to the Trump government shutdown.
Did you know that SNAP is designed to keep feeding families even during government shutdowns—thanks to $6B in emergency reserves. But the Trump administration said it won’t use those funds. That’s right: the safety net is there, but the GOP is choosing to let people go hungry.
In few days, almost 36,000 Larimer County residents, including many federal workers who were laid off or are fuloughed, are going to experience food insecurity. Even without the shutdown, the new work requirements, changes to the states’ funding responsibility and changes to eligibility that were part of the GOP funding bill in July will likely lead to reduced SNAP benefits for about 60,000 Coloradans starting this year.
Now is a time for our community to come together and help each other weather the storm that this administration is unleashing upon the most vulnerable among us. If you are able, please consider a monthly or one-time contribution to the Larimer County Food Bank. Other ways to contribute include donating food and non-food items or hosting a food drive. Information is available on the Food Bank’s website.