Author Archives: Trish Nelson

After Successful #HANDSOFF Protests What’s The Plan?

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Trish Nelson

You won’t want to miss the Thursday, April 10 weekly check-in call with Indivisible founders Ezra Klein and Leah Greenberg. Excellent strategy information here including what happens next. Questions answered. Doubts and fears addressed. Wrong media narratives exposed. Master re-framers, … Continue reading →

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Greenpeace Will Appeal

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Trish Nelson

Viewer supported news from democracynow.org  – Donate to Democracy Now! A jury in North Dakota has ordered Greenpeace to pay more than $660 million in damages for defaming Energy Transfer Partners, the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Texas-based … Continue reading →

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Tim Walz Gets Around

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Trish Nelson

He’s not just in Iowa anymore.. and he’s killing it everywhere he goes. Here are links to Tim Walz in Iowa and Tim in Texas with Beto O’Rourke.  

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Scenes From Iowa City #Handsoff Protest

Posted on April 8, 2025 by Trish Nelson

I’m sure you’ve seen the local news coverage, social media posts about the massively successful April 5 #handsoff protests around Iowa, the country and even other countries. Here is a look at the crowd in Iowa City. First video is … Continue reading →

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On Tyranny Lesson 20: Be As Courageous As You Can

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Trish Nelson

From the On Tyranny series by Timothy Snyder, Lesson #20 of twenty. This will be the final post of the series posted here every Monday for the last twenty weeks.  You can find them all on YouTube.  They are all … Continue reading →

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No One Else

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Trish Nelson

Here is a letter our friend Laura posted on Facebook. She gave permission to share in order to help others.  She is a lawyer and a dog trainer and an all around good human being.  This is one of the … Continue reading →

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Cory Booker Joins Rachel Maddow After Record Breaking Filibuster

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Trish Nelson

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Hands Off! Mass Call For Mobilizing Against Trump Power Grab

Posted on April 3, 2025 by Trish Nelson

  Check out our updated list of Iowa events for Saturday, April 5th national call to action. ICYMI – this live mass call for mobilization happened on Tuesday, April 1, to make sense of the Trump administration’s unprecedented power grab, … Continue reading →

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Getting Ready For #HandsOff Saturday April 5th

Posted on April 2, 2025 by Trish Nelson

If you prefer to read instead of watching a video,  a written version of the Indivisible Guide can be found here: https://indivisible.org/resource/guide If you are already on board and ready to take action click here for our list of Iowa … Continue reading →

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Tim Walz Holds Raucous Texas Town Hall With Beto O’Rourke

Posted on April 1, 2025 by Trish Nelson

This event was A-MA-ZING.  An incredible amount of fired up energy for fighting back against oligarchy and taking on Trump and Elon. It went on for almost two hours so it may be too long to just sit and watch. … Continue reading →

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