Aloha Reader, What a weekend 🤩🤩. Hundreds of us filled the highway in Kona on Saturday to say No Dictators: Hands Off My Vote, part of 8,400 people rallying across the islands. Now the ballots are in our mailboxes, and the most important thing any of us can do this week is simple: vote, then make sure everyone we know votes too. Election Day is two weeks out, but in Hawaiʻi and many other states, voting is already underway. Early turnout is running high in swing states like Georgia, North...
10 days ago • 4 min read
Aloha Reader, For more than a year, millions of Americans have joined together around one simple message: this country has no kings. Power doesn’t belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think the rules don’t apply to them. It rests with the people, as long as we exercise it. Tomorrow, Saturday, October 17, from 4:00-5:00 pm, we put that power to work with a peaceful sign-waving protest on Queen Kaʻahumanu Highway, south of Henry Street, behind the Mormon temple. Kona’s rally is...
14 days ago • 3 min read
Aloha Reader, Three weeks from today is Election Day, and this week brings four ways for you to help: a rally Saturday, our last postcard party of the season, a say on police cameras in our county, and your own ballot arriving in the mail. Will the election be too big to rig? We know Trump will try any chance he has. He's spent years sowing doubt about election integrity. It's been his number one topic since he's been back in the White House. He's actually attacked election integrity more...
17 days ago • 4 min read
Aloha Reader, Four weeks from today is Election Day, and this week we have four ways for you to make those weeks count. Mahalo to everyone who joined us for postcards and potluck at Kahaluʻu on Sunday. Our message for the rest of October is simple: vote early. That goes for you, your friends, your family, and especially voters in the swing states on the continent. Early votes are the easiest way to keep the election and its results from being undermined. Sunday's Indivisible Hawaiʻi Statewide...
24 days ago • 3 min read
Aloha Reader, Election Day is five weeks away, and the best thing any of us can do now is help get out the vote in swing states, then vote early and bring your friends and family along. Since last Sunday's Indivisible Hawaiʻi Statewide Network (IHSN) newsletter covered the big picture, we're keeping this one short with five ways to show up this week. Voting in Hawaiʻi is safe and secure. If you have concerns, we recommend the webinar Worried about Election Interference? Our goal is to...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Aloha Reader, This week we're going behind the scenes on Act 11 (Senate Bill (SB) 2471), spreading the word on Saturday's voter registration event, and keeping the postcards moving. Behind the scenes of Act 11 Register voters this Saturday, September 26 Postcarding Thursday at Gypsea Gelato Save the date: October 17 County Bill 170 and data centers on the Big Island Behind the scenes of Act 11 This year, Hawaiʻi passed Act 11 (SB2471), the first law in the nation to directly counter Citizens...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Aloha Reader, Thanks to everyone who's been postcarding, textbanking, and phonebanking. The energy is up, and every effort, big or small, makes a difference. On Thursday, Trump told his supporters to "cheat like hell." Whatever the regime has planned, we live in reality, not his delusions of a small, wealthy few deciding how the rest of us live. That's the opposite of what America stands for - We the People - and plenty of folks seem to get the assignment. Thrilled to be in this fight...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Aloha Reader, Mahalo nui to all who joined the talk story at the Salt Farm Saturday. Papahānaumokuākea is a great positive story of science, culture and government working together successfully over decades. Did you know six U.S. presidents have protected it? Theodore Roosevelt started it in 1905 - learn more here. Unfortunately the Trump administration continues its attacks on our protected national lands and waters—including Papahānaumokuākea, opening them to resource extraction for private...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Aloha Reader, Mahalo nui to all who joined our Protect the Vote! rally on Friday. We need to remember the history of the voting rights struggle at a time when the regime is trying to strip them away. Whatever we need to do in 2026 is peanuts compared to the years of sacrifices and the lives given to guarantee the freedom to vote for all Americans as an unalienable right. In this issue: Mahalo for joining Protect the Vote! Why this election calls for a Blue Wave Postcarding at Gypsea Gelato -...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read