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Saturday, We Start Canvassing! Saturday, August 22nd, 1:30 pm IMV’s 2026 Canvass Launch This is where direct voter contact begins. We win elections by talking to voters one at a time at their doors, answering questions, sharing information about our candidates, and helping people make a plan to vote. We’ll have slate cards for voter education, walkable turfs, training, and opportunities to pair up…
Voting. Some never miss it. Some need a reminder. Some need a reason. Sometimes a conversation is all it takes. In local elections, a few conversations can mean a few more votes — and a few votes can decide a race. And this week, we have some very good news about one race where that could matter.
Welcome to August! Post-IMV Picnic News What a wonderful potluck picnic last week with beautiful weather, good food, and strong turnout from our members and friends and our candidates! And THANK YOU! for your contributions when we took up a collection for a few families with children who had an emergency need for rent when breadwinners for the family were kidnapped by ICE in our local community.
Thank You for Supporting our Local Democratic Candidates! Thanks to everyone who has been showing up to walk with candidates in parades, attend fundraisers, and take part in meet-and-greets. And don’t forget this evening’s IMV Annual Summer Potluck Picnic and Candidate Meet-and-Greet — July 30 Potluck picnic at SherillBrook Park. Bonus! Meet and greet our local candidates running for office. for…
Last week, smoke from Canadian wildfires hung over the Mohawk Valley and made familiar views look strange. Now the skies have cleared, just in time for one of Rome’s best-known summer traditions: Honor America Days. Honor America Days grew out of Rome’s Fort Stanwix celebrations, and this year’s theme is “Honoring 250 Years of America.” The parade, concert, and fireworks give the community a…
Across America, let’s make good trouble. We are facing the most brazen rollback of civil rights in generations. The same spirit that fueled Selma, Montgomery, and the March on Washington lives on in our unified action. Join us from July 17th – July 19th as we honor the legacy of John Lewis and carry the torch of the civil rights movement.
If They Count on Silence, We Get Organized This week’s newsletter is about visibility, local accountability, and action. We’re highlighting ways to support immigrant-defense work, push for oversight around ICE operations in Salina, join Good Trouble actions across the region, learn more about proposed AI data centers in New York, contact members of Congress on urgent national issues, and gather…
250 Years: Marking July 4th Together This July 4th marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, and many of us are feeling the weight of this moment. Pride, frustration, grief, determination, and hope can all exist in the same complicated country. Local action gives us a way to turn those complicated feelings into something we can do together. This week, we can march in Utica, gather at…
Congratulations to Jon Lipe and Everyone Who Volunteered! Jon Lipe, running in the Democratic primary for the 119th Assembly seat, cleared a big hurdle on Tuesday night, winning by 264 votes. Now he will be on three ballot lines in the fall, and continue to have the support of IMV volunteers, many of whom he trained over the past nine years to win elections by having conversations with voters at…
Join Indivisible’s Immigrant Justice Summer Training SeriesWhen ICE comes to your community, do you know what to do? This summer, Indivisible is giving you a blueprint. Immigrant Justice Summer is a five-call national training series that will level up how you show up for immigrant justice. You’ll learn how to build up hyper-local networks and connect to experienced organizations to respond to ICE…
