Despite its origins as a movement dedicated to helping citizens pressure elected officials into resisting the Trump agenda, Indivisible National has not endorsed Trump’s impeachment, telling a local chapter via email that it is “not an endorsed priority” for the No Kings! Coalition. In Montana, the organization went further, requesting that the same chapter not use the “No Kings!” logo or branding for their impeachment-focused event—and threatening to remove them from statewide communications after they didn’t comply. That dispute followed another undemocratic intervention in the state’s politics: a campaign by Indivisible National to convince Alani Bankhead, the Montana Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, to withdraw from the race. (Levin and Greenberg did not respond to Current Affairs’ request for comment, or an interview.)
These incidents raise questions about the direction of one of the country’s largest anti-Trump organizing networks. Is the country’s leading resistance group still focused on “resistance,” or has its strategy become increasingly concerned with preserving the Democratic Party’s electoral prospects?
The unfortunate truth is that while local Indivisible chapters are made up of committed individuals laser-focused on opposing fascism, at the national level, it seems that Indivisible serves to insulate Congress from the honest rage of the American people.
Back in 2016, Indivisible provided information and tactics that taught Americans how to make things uncomfortable for elected officials. The Indivisible Guide taught constituents to hold onto the microphone at town halls until they got an answer, and explained exactly how to get a staffer to go off-script during a phone call. It urged Americans to disrupt congressmembers’ ribbon-cutting ceremonies (“Don’t let them get photo-ops without questions about racism, authoritarianism, and corruption”), and to “barrage” them with demands until they answered.
Today, the group’s website explicitly writes that one of their core principles is “no civil disobedience.” An updated version of Indivisible’s viral 2016 handbook now simply tells Americans “while some of the original Indivisible Guide is applicable, not all of it is.”
The 2026 guide is almost exclusively focused on electoral politics, assuring the reader that a resounding win in the midterms will puncture Trump’s aura of omnipotence, create federal checks on MAGA power, and protect the democratic transfer of power in 2028.
There is nothing inherently wrong with organizing for electoral victories. But at a time when the administration is flagrantly defying the Constitution while deploying unaccountable paramilitary forces to detain children, kidnap people off the streets, and even raid the homes of elected officials, this strategy is far from enough.
Some local organizers wanted to change that—and in Montana, they were punished by the national organization.
– “No Kings. No Demands. What Happened?” Current Affairs.
It doesn’t seem like an organization that has any plans on doing anything at all, really.