APRIL 22, 2026

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THIS WEEK:

• May-Day Strong: Collective Gathering on May 1, Save the Date
• The People Have Spoken: A Big Win for Democracy in Virginia
• Second Book Chosen for IH’s Democracy Reads: The Project
• Mark Your Calendar
• Good Reads / Good Watches / Good Listens
• This Week’s TO-DO List for the Good Trouble In Helena

“Participate in or organize boycotts of companies that are enabling the Trump regime — including Elon Musk’s X and Tesla, Amazon, Meta (Facebook), and any companies that advertise on X or on Fox News. Never underestimate the effectiveness of consumer boycotts … Loud, boisterous, attention-getting boycotts can harm brand names and reduce the prices of corporations’ shares of stock.”  

—Robert Reich

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May Day, May Day!

Join us on May Day, Friday, May 1, to protest the Trump regime and their billionaire buddies who are wrecking our democracy. Send a message that we will not do business as usual while these billionaires trample our rights, terrorize our communities, and drag us into a senseless war.

May Day (Friday, May 1) is a national day of protest to demand WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES.

In Helena, join union workers, members of the Democracy Roundtable, and Indivisible Helena:

MAY DAY — Friday, May 1
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Corner of Montana Avenue and along 11th Avenue to the Interstate

We’ll have signs, so bring flags, noise makers, your voices loud and strong.

Want to help make some signs?

Sign-Making Gathering
Thursday, April 30
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Montana Federation of Public Employees Office
1232 E. 6th Ave

We Won’t Continue Business as Usual.

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The People Have Spoken
A Big Win for Democracy. Thank You Virginia!

Virginia voters just handed a big win to democracy, approving a new map that could flip four House seats and blunt recent GOP gains. It’s a clear pushback against the Trump-driven gerrymandering playbook — and a sign that organizing, turnout, and persistence are working. This is what sustained pressure looks like.

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IH Reading Group Book #2

The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

by David A. Graham

When: Thursday, May 21, 2026 11am–1pm
Where: Lewis & Clark Library, large conference room

Indivisible Helena started a reading group for anyone who enjoys reading, learning, and thoughtful discussion. Our next book The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America by David Graham, summarizes the Heritage Foundation’s 920-page manual, Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership, the roadmap used by the current regime to dismantle our federal bureaucracy, greatly expand presidential power and destroy democracy.

Join us … it will be an eye-opening read! If you’re interested, please send an email to indivisiblehelena@gmail.com with “Book Club” in the subject line.  Montana Book Co. has ordered several copies of The Project—check there first if you need a copy. Avoid ordering from Amazon!

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Mark Your Calendar

Tuesday, April 28, 6–8 p.m. — Candidate Forum–MT State Legislature
St. Paul’s Methodist Church. Helena Sewing Circle invites you to the “Think Forward Candidate Forum” where candidates running for the state legislature, can engage directly with community members to share perspectives and positions on critical issues important to voters in our area.

We ask for a respectful, informative evening where candidates can present their views and respond to questions form attendees. The forum is open to the public. We anticipate a large turnout of engaged community members and candidates. As of today, 13 candidate have confirmed participation.

Thursday, April 30, 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. — Sign-Making Gathering
MFPE Office, 1232 E. 6th Ave. Help make signs for the MAY DAY STRONG gathering.

Friday, May 1, 3:30–5:30 p.m. — MAY DAY STRONG: Support Workers, Starve Oligarchs
This is a national event. Helena’s folks equipped with signs will line 11th Ave. from Montana to the Interstate. Bring signs, flags, and noisemakers.

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Good Reads / Good Watches / Good Listens

1
Whitney Wimbish
Union Now Is America’s New Strike Fund
The American Prospect’s Daily Prospect
April 20, 2026

Whitney Wimbish reports on Union Now, a new nonprofit led by flight attendants union president Sara Nelson, that aims to remove one of the biggest barriers to organizing: money. With roughly 70% of Americans supporting unions but far fewer able to join, the group plans to create a centralized national strike fund to provide direct financial support to workers—helping them organize without losing income and backing those fired in retaliation. Targeting high-profile campaigns at companies like Amazon and Starbucks, Union Now bets that real resources—not just momentum—can shift the balance of power toward workers.

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3
Harold Meyerson
Why Americans Hate Data Centers: Let Us Count the Ways
The American Prospect
April 16, 2026

You are probably familiar with some of the objections to these data centers: rising energy costs for consumers, massive need for water that can never be clean again, noise pollution, and so much more. Harold Meyerson discusses a big reason Americans of all political persuasions are coming together to “just say NO.”

“But the collapse of the trans-partisan support for the centers has causes that to go well beyond neighborhood sentiment and rising power bills. They also clearly reflect the public’s rising apprehensions of and resentments toward the coming of AI, whose expansion is the reason for the surge in data centers.”

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This Week’s To-Do List
Make Good Trouble in Helena!

1. MAY DAY STRONG
Support Workers, Starve Oligarchs

Friday, May 1
3:30–5:30pm
Line 11th Ave from Montana to the Interstate

We’ll have signs, so bring flags, noise makers, your voices loud and strong. We are planning a sign-making party and will share the details as soon as they’re set.

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2. CONTINUE CALLING OUR FEDERAL DELEGATION

Senator Steve Daines: (202) 224-2651
Senator Tim Sheehy: (202) 224-2644
Representative Ryan Zinke: (202) 225-5628
Representative Troy Downing: (202) 225-3211

This is a three-alarm fire that needs an immediate response

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has gleefully noted that the tallies for phone calls objecting to actions of the current regime, to federal representatives and senators in red and rural red states, have decreased and signals a trend toward an apathetic collapse.

This is according to sources who are well-versed in political strategy tracking. This perceived collapse results in the regime assuming more latitude to continue their assaults on public lands, immigrants, LGBTQ+ communities, foreign countries and their citizens, transparent governance, and the working people in this country.

The reason we call our federal reps every day is to have the calls tallied. It is not to change their minds. It is to signal a strong and enduring pushback against the authoritarian takeover.

You can use the Five Calls app to do this (here are the Montana response tallies), or the numbers we provide you above. Simply pick the atrocity de jour, object to it, personalize your objections.

Have a family member or friend deployed in this illegal, immoral war in Iran? Let the delegation know you’re concerned about their care if they’re wounded now that the Veterans Administration has been subjected to budget cuts and the outsourcing of services to corporations as part of the administrations policies of grift and bribery.

Gas prices threatening to impact you or yours in some critical way? Let them know you won’t forget their coziness with big oil when you go to the polls next. And tell them we’re watching them for any and all shenanigans they might pull at the polls.

Once in a while, ask for a follow-up email on your call.

Call every day. Call. Be counted and boost the tally counts. It can result in brake-pumping by the regime, and we need that! Note that emails and handwritten letters are not currently included in the tally.

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3. HONK & WAVE

Saturdays, noon to 1 p.m.
11th and Montana Ave.

In true Montana fashion, the Honk & Wave continues weekly.

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4. STOCK THE PUREVIEW PANTRIES

Mondays – Fridays, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Drop-Off at PureView: 1930 9th Ave.
or 630 N. Last Chance Gulch

The two pantries are always accepting non-perishable food and personal hygiene products.

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Get Your No Kings Yard Signs!

We’ve got ‘em, you want ‘em

Request by email, and we’ll get them to you. The No Kings sign campaign is here until we are sure there will be NO KINGS, EVER!

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Support Indivisible Helena

If you’d like to support Indivisible Helena in pushing back against fascism, please consider a donation via this link to the Indivisible Helena ActBlue donation portal or use the QR code below. Your information will remain private — neither IH nor ActBlue shares or sells personal data.

Together, we’ll make sure the U.S. has NO KING.