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In My Opinion

As Editor of this newsletter I am going to take up a little space to support State Representative Tarra Simmons. You may have read an article or two in local news media about an ethics complaint filed against Rep Simmons by the 23rd LD Dems. That is misleading in many ways. The Chair of the 23rd LD took the unusual move to file the complaint without informing the Executive Board or the general membership. At the next general membership meeting, the members voted to withdraw the complaint. However, the Public Disclosure Commission, by law, must investigate once a complaint is filed. Please keep an open mind and more information will be forthcoming. Read a Letter to the Editor that was published today in the Sun.  Watch and Read Investing in Care Close to Home: Rep. Tarra Simmons Champions Healthcare Education in Kitsap County.

Carollynn Zimmers

Featured Actions

Saturday, February 14 – 12:15 to 1:30pm
North Kitsap Indivisible Sign-Waving
Where: Kingston, Corner of Bond Rd (Hwy 104) and Miller Bay Rd

Every Saturday at George’s Corner. Parking at the (closed) Rite Aid lot.  Bring your own signs or we have extras. Afterwards we will head over to the Puerto Vallarta restaurant across the street for a friendly get-together!

Hosted by North Kitsap Indivisible 

Sunday, February 15th – 11am to 12:30pm.
Democracy Rally in Poulsbo
Hosted by Poulsbo For All.
Check Poulsbo For All Facebook Page for weather cancellations
Where: Meet at the gazebo in waterfront park, 18809  Anderson Pkwy, Poulsbo
Bring your signs, your friends, and your determination to sink the tRump. This is a peaceful event, and it starts with an inspiring talk. Then attendees march with chants and signs, ending with open mike and inspirational comments from attendees at the gazebo.

Why We Resist

ICE – The Gestapo of the current Fascist Regime. No need to explain further.

The Epstein Files – No need to explain further

With Minnesota surge winding down, PNW volunteer networks brace for more ICE agents

Why Is Trump Dumping East Wing Rubble in a Public Park?

The East Potomac Golf Links is a municipal course that has been a fixture in Washington for decades. President Trump is turning it into something else. This is a story about mud and power in Washington.

New Trump Banner Hung on Justice Department Headquarters

Other federal buildings across Washington, D.C., are also adorned with huge banners of President Trump. Large banners of President Trump now hang from multiple federal buildings in Washington, including the nation’s top law enforcement branch, in a bold statement of power and influence over the government.

GOP passes bill to rig the 2026 elections  Republicans know they’re on track to lose the 2026 midterms — and they’re trying to rig the election to stop it. In this video, Marc breaks down the Save America Act, the most sweeping voter suppression bill in a generation, and explains how it would make it harder to register, harder to vote, and easier for Trump and Republicans to throw out ballots. SAVE Act is Costly, in Time, Money and to our Freedom. With former Clark County League president Nancy Halvorson and others at her side, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell was in Vancouver Wednesday morning to explain how costly the passage of the SAVE America Act would be for Americans.

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What Resistance Looks Like

Watch: Stephen Colbert explains to his broadcast audience that a new directive from Brendan Carr’s FCC makes it next to impossible for CBS to air his interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico on CBS. 

Supreme Court, on a 6-3 vote, blocks Trump’s IEEPA tariffs. Chief Justice John Roberts found that there actually are structural limits on the president’s powers. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck a blow to one of President Donald Trump’s key economic policies, holding on a 6-3 vote that Trump’s the challenged set of Trump’s mass-tariffs are not authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). “When Congress grants the power to impose tariffs, it does so clearly and with careful constraints. It did neither here,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the court. Trump accuses Supreme Court justices of disloyalty for declaring his tariffs illegal. Trump’s dangerous outburst against the court came after six justices, including two he appointed in his first term, declared that he violated federal law by unilaterally imposing sweeping tariffs across the globe last year.

Millionaires Tax Passes Key Step in WA legislature. The thorniest issue this legislative session, which pervades all others, is the revenue shortfall relative to the funding required to sustain needed services. But Washington may be a step closer to addressing that challenge after the Senate voted on Monday to approve SB 6346, the so-called “Millionaires’ Tax.”

400 Christian leaders urge resistance to Trump administration on Ash Wednesday. A group of nearly 400 prominent Christian leaders called President Donald Trump’s administration “cruel and oppressive” and accused the government of being corrupted by an aberrant form of Christianity, in an Ash Wednesday (Feb. 18) statement.The statement, provided exclusively to Religion News Service in advance, has a list of signers that includes a mix of denominational leaders, seminary presidents, scholars and leaders of prominent congregations. In it, they urged fellow faithful to commit to “greater acts of courage to resist.”

STUDENTS!: San Antonio Students Gather for a Student Peace Press Conference and Protest. Students from 50+ Texas schools demand an end to cooperation with ICE. A high school senior, Lily, shared, “We’ll never be aliens so long as we reject the push to alienate one another”. – AND –  In Biting Cold, More than 150 Red Hook Students Walk Out of School to Protest ICE Actions. Despite temperatures of just 17 degrees in Red Hook NY, more than one-third of the Red Hook High School student body walked out of school at 1 p.m. Friday, joining a nationwide day of protest in response to two killings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis. Protest at Bainbridge Island High School on February 13th.

The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, is ready for his political tour in the US

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Republicans have unveiled what they believe is the ultimate airtight argument for strict voter ID laws: buying a six-pack of beer is hard, so voting should be too. 

Take Action

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Bills to support

Pro Tip: So many bills to support may feel overwhelming. Don’t think you need to do all, get burned out and then do none. Pick a category or do a few at a time and then come back. Click the “DONE” button each time you do an action.

Civil Liberties

SB 6002 (Flock/ALPR regulation): Tell the committee the bill is much too weak to protect immigrants and other Washingtonians
DEADLINE: Feb 24 • 10:30am
The Driver Privacy Act regulates ALPRs like Flock, which allow law enforcement to track where people drive and when. The current bill needs to be strengthened significantly to protect Washingtonians — and prevent data sharing with ICE.

Support SB 5331: SSB 5531 strengthens consumer protection through increased insurer accountability for violations of the insurance code. Requested by OIC
DEADLINE: Feb 25 • 11:00pm
SSB 5331 empowers our Insurance Commissioner to get your money back when insurance companies break the law. —just direct restitution with 8% interest. Support this bill to protect Washington consumers from insurance company abuses and ensure wrongdoers pay you back, not just the state.

Support HB 2105: Immigrant Workers Protections
DEADLINE: Feb 25 • 11:00pm
An employer, or a person acting on behalf of the employer, may not provide voluntary consent to federal agencies to access, review, or obtain the employer’s worker records without a subpoena or judicial warrant.

Support HB 2355: Establishing labor protections for domestic workers
DEADLINE: Feb 25 • 11:00pm
The bill aims to correct historical injustices, as domestic work, often performed by women, immigrants, and people of color, has been devalued, granting these vital workers dignity and rights.

Climate

Support HB 2271: Increasing Recycled Content in Plastics
DEADLINE: Feb 24 • 10:00am
Using recycled plastic in new plastic products saves energy and lowers GHG emissions. This bill would expand our existing post-consumer recycled content law by adding more plastic product and packaging categories such as rigid plastic items, storage containers, and plastic film overwrap.

Oppose HB 1210 (tax incentives which would encourage even more dangerous nuclear energy reactors.): Sign in “Con” for Senate Ways & Means’s Public Hearing
DEADLINE: Feb 26 • 12:30pm
Oppose SHB 1210, which would give millions in local property tax breaks to a $3.5 billion nuclear enrichment project to produce High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) fuel, which poses higher nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism risks than fuel used by reactors operating today.

Support HB 1923: expansion of cost-effective, environmentally friendly passenger only ferries
DEADLINE: Mar 2 • 11:00pm
Our communities need HB 1923: WSF service disruptions will continue for years. Passenger only service helps solve problems now.

Oppose HB 2090: “advanced” nuclear energy
DEADLINE: Mar 12 • 11:00pm
Nuclear energy is polluting, expensive, and a dangerous distraction from proven climate solutions. This bill would integrate “advanced” nuclear energy into our State’s energy strategy and require consideration of policies to expedite or curtail siting and permitting requirements.

Oppose SB 5821: “advanced” nuclear energy
DEADLINE: Mar 12 • 11:00pm
Nuclear energy is polluting, expensive, and a dangerous distraction from proven climate solutions. This bill would integrate “advanced” nuclear energy into our State’s energy strategy and require consideration of policies to expedite or curtail siting and permitting requirements.

Oppose HJM 4016: attempts to turn Washington State into a nuclear energy campus.
DEADLINE: Mar 12 • 11:00pm
This bill tries to force nuclear energy onto Washington State residents, an initiative of the Trump administration to suppress renewable energy resources in favor of expensive, unreliable and health endangering nuclear energy and it’s radioactive waste products.

Healthcare

Provide Written Testimony on SB 5984 (Regulating AI companion chatbots): Don’t allow ChatGPT to manipulate seniors and other vulnerable adults!
DEADLINE: Feb 21 • 10:30am
AI companion chatbots like ChatGPT blur the lines between human and artificial interaction and can contribute to emotional dependency and reinforce harmful ideation, including self-harm. It’s time to do something about it!

Support SB 6173: creating an apple health employer assessment to fund the health care affordability account
DEADLINE: Mar 12 • 11:00pm
SB 6173 asks large employers whose workers rely on Apple Health to pay their fair share, directing new dollars into Washington’s Health Care Affordability Account to lower costs and strengthen coverage for low‑income residents—without burdening small businesses or public employers

Support SB 5808: Funding health insurance premium assistance
DEADLINE: Mar 12 • 11:00pm
Support HB 2073 to make health insurance more affordable for all Washingtonians! This bill redirects excess reserves from nonprofit insurers—funds exceeding safe operating levels—into premium assistance that helps working families afford coverage.

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Kindred Organizations

Indivisible Bremerton: Facebook, Calendar, Website, Current Newsletter
Indivisible Bainbridge Island: Website, Current Newsletter
South Kitsap Indivisible: Website, Facebook, Calendar
Poulsbo for All: Website, Facebook, Calendar
Save Secular Healthcare WA: Website, Current Newsletter
Kingston Alliance for Democracy: Facebook
Kitsap Palestine Solidarity Coalition: Facebook
Kitsap ERACE Coalition: Facebook, Calendar
50501 Bainbridge Island: Private Facebook Group
Health Care is a Human Right WA: Newsletter
WA Immigration Solidarity Network (WAISN): Website
West Sound chapter of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA): Website

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