ILS Blog
Senator Durbin votes to end government shutdown
Senator Durbin failed to stand up for healthcare. He needs to know how upset his constituents are with his vote.
DICK DURBIN
U.S. Senator for Illinois
Phone:
Chicago: (312) 353-4952
Springfield: (217) 492-4062
D.C. : (202) 224 -2152
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Sign up for the ILS Rapid Response Team
Want to take your Indivisible Lincoln Square involvement to the next level? We need you! As the Trump administration ramps up deportation efforts, we’re launching a Rapid Response Team to stand up for our neighbors and defend our community. Rapid Response Leaders will help monitor a local hotline, mobilize team members in real time, and take swift action—confirming ICE activity, canvassing the area, and supporting affected families.
Ready to step up and make an impact? You can sign up here.
Get ICE out of Spotify
From national Indivisible
Spotify is running ads recruiting agents for ICE, the federal agency charged with mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. These ads target vulnerable populations, promise signing bonuses, and normalize fear and intimidation in our neighborhoods.
Spotify claims these ads comply with their policy, but the truth is streaming hate is not neutral. It’s a choice. We refuse to fund it. We refuse to ignore it.
CHECK OUT OUR CANCELLATION TOOLKIT here.
We did it! Keep the momentum growing!
The November 4 election was a massive victory for our democracy. In New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, and across the country, voters turned out at historic levels to say hell no to the regime. From ballot propositions and school boards to state Supreme Courts and gubernatorial races, the pro-democracy side is winning -- and beating expectations by huge margins.
The wins were powered by thousands of grassroots volunteers who phone banked, doo rknocked , and texted; and dozens of Indivisible groups(like ILS who organized for months to secure this outcome. More than a million voters were contacted in the lead-up to Election Day.
Some folks question if the energy we’ve mobilized in the streets from Hands Off! to No Kings would translate to wave-like energy at the ballot box. Last night’s results prove the answer is yes. But we've got to keep organizing and growing our movement if we want to save our democracy.
Our next big electoral test will be the 2026 midterms and the work to win them starts now.
You can keep the momentum growing by volunteering to:
Plan and strategize our Wisconsin canvassing program
Write postcards to help turn a historically red Tennessee seat to blue
Sign up for the newly formed ILS Rapid Response
Deliver food and necessities to our vulnerable friends and neighbors via 19th District Mutual Aid
Let’s do this!
Let’s take back Congress!
Date: Monday, November 10, 2025
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Location: Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N Lincoln Ave., Chicago (Study room A on second floor)
No registration is required
With the midterm elections looming, it's time to take back control of Congress. The national election is a mere 12 months away!
Please join us at a meeting of the Indivisible Lincoln Square Election Committee to strategize and plan how best to reach voters who will determine the future direction of the country.
Write postcards to rally progressives in TN special election
There is still time to show off your postcard writing prowess.
We have an opportunity to flip Tennessee's 7th Congressional District on December 2nd. This is an open seat following the retirement of GOP Rep. Mark Green in July. Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn won the Democratic primary last month, and she has a chance to shock the world by winning this fairly Republican district. The race is within 10 points — you could be the difference!
Once you sign up, you’ll be mailed your free postcards within three days, so you should receive them within about a week or sooner. Included will be a voter list and instructions with three short message options. You'll have until Nov 17 or Nov 21 to mail the postcards depending on the instructions you receive. As always, you're responsible for providing the Postcard Stamps (currently $0.61).
New Illinois commission set to document ICE abuses
Governor JB Pritzker last week announced a new commission tasked with documenting alleged civil rights abuses of immigrants in Illinois.
The state body, dubbed the Illinois Accountability Commission, will maintain a public record of actions tied to federal immigration enforcement actions in the state. It will also report the impact of those actions on local communities.
Sign up for the ILS Rapid Response Team
Want to take your Indivisible Lincoln Square involvement to the next level? We need you! As the Trump administration ramps up deportation efforts, we’re launching a Rapid Response Team to stand up for our neighbors and defend our community. Rapid Response Leaders will help monitor a local hotline, mobilize team members in real time, and take swift action—confirming ICE activity, canvassing the area, and supporting affected families.
Ready to step up and make an impact? You can sign up here.
Nothin’ doing in Washington amid continued shutdown
Make your voice heard as the government shutdown continues:
As the government shutdown enters its fourth week, Republicans are still unwilling to negotiate extension to ACA healthcare subsidies in the budget. On Monday, the Senate failed for the 11th time to advance a House-passed measure to fund the government until Nov. 21.
There are calls you can make to get the ball rolling.
What comes next after the largest single-day protest
Our pro-democracy movement is surging. Now it’s up to each of us to channel this incredible energy into the organizing power it will take to win.
Protests serve many purposes -- they change the narrative, they grow our movement, they show people reeling under the weight of the regime’s atrocities that they are not alone.
But a single day of protest -- even the largest single-day protest we’ve seen in our lifetimes -- will not overcome the fascist onslaught we face.
It’s going to take ongoing, strategic organizing -- exactly the kind of organizing Indivisible was created to foster -- to deliver us from tyranny.