Lower Cape Indivisible

Join LCI & Oppose Trump's Coup

We're just weeks into Trump's second presidency, and already he and his minions have made drastic changes in the federal government that violate the Constitution, multiple laws, and may be defying the courts. Yes, dozens of lawsuits have been filed but they may be too late and may not be enforceable. The damage may be permanent.

  • Some or all of federal funds for a broad sweep of programs (from Medicaid to cancer research and foreign aid) have been frozen and many of them may not survive.
  • The language and initiatives to support anyone who's not white, male, and Christian are in the process of being erased from federal websites and prevented from carrying out mandates.
  • Swathes of staff at all levels are being revenge fired from those arms of the federal government (DOJ, FBI) that could enforce legal mandates against Trump's efforts.

In addition, the richest man in the world, billionaire Elon Musk - who holds no elected or congressionally approved office - has seized control of key federal systems and is using them to promote the "broligarch" agenda.

  • He has taken control of the system that makes payments on behalf of the entire government and is now working on ways to halt payments unilaterally and/or selectively to, say, individual dissidents receiving social security.
  • He also controls the Office of Personnel Management and its data systems which gives him access to all federal employees' information and has already allowed his to send individual messages to all requesting resignations.
  • His "staff" are young men in their late teens or early twenties with no government experience or security clearances whose main qualifications seem to be racism ("I was racist before it was cool") and/or misogyny (case in point: Big Balls).

Project 2025's Blueprint for Trump II is well on its way to full implementation and there's more to come. A barrage of "Executive Orders," most of which violate the law, many of which are barely coherent, and some of which still aren't public, flooded the executive branch on Day One and continues.

  • The EOs promote Project 2025's goals of turning our democracy into an autocracy of white, Christian males.
  • As Curtis Yarvin, whose theories inspire both Project 2025 and the Broligarchy, explains, the goal is a government whose power and actions are beyond the reach of most citizens.

What Can Be Done?

There are reasons to be hopeful.

  • While many activists concluded from Trump's win that our efforts failed, there's good evidence that they worked. In 2024 the Harris Walz campaign targeted swing states. Among some of them (North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Georgia), according to data from Jay Kuo, the campaign actually performed better than Biden in 2020 Several others were close. Focused effort works.
  • Trump's winning margin was razor thin. His favorability ratings have always been low and are starting to slip further.
  • Many of the actions we find horrifying aren't playing well on the national stage. Already there's a backlash to the prominent role of billionaires in a "populist" MAGA government. Even Republican legislators are alarmed by the sudden cut off of federal funds to their constituents. rattling the businesses that depend on their labor (construction, especially now in areas hit hard by storms and fires, needs workers; and agriculture (growing, harvesting, processing) can't produce our food without cheap labor. And quiet efforts to slash government air travel safety programs are making the front pages due to horrific airline accidents.

Join the Opposition

As Josh Marshall has written, given that Republicans will control the entire apparatus of federal government until 2026 at least, "this is fundamentally a battle over public opinion." Lower Cape Indivisible is well equipped for this battle, both for the present day and in the all-important lead up to the 2026 midterms.

  • Our army of postcard writers- we wrote and sent 15,200 postcards to voters in 2024 -- stands ready to communicate the truth to voters in low-information Red States.
  • Our newsletter has over 1,100 subscribers to whom political developments and actions can be communicated.
  • Our website can track progress and publicize public actions of opposition.

Trump & Opposition

Want To Know How The Orange Menace Intends To Pay For His War of Choice?

Published on April 06, 2026

Trump has released his budget and wants $500 billion more for the military to pay for his war against Iran. He proposes to fund it by cutting:

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 $486 million - Grants for public transit projects

 $4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure

 $372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities

 $145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure

 $204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities

 $1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement

 $100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully

eliminated)

 $1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection

 $2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds

 $90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated)

 $3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research

 $297 million - NASA technology innovation programs

 $1.1 billion - International Space Station operations

 $143 million - STEM education programs

 $309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs

 $170 million - Small Business Administration operations

 $158 million - Loans for small businesses

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Want To Know How The Orange Menace Intends To Pay For His War of Choice?

Published on April 06, 2026

Trump has released his budget and wants $500 billion more for the military to pay for his war against Iran. He proposes to fund it by cutting:

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Election Coverage

There is no election news we're reporting on, please check back at a later time or refer to our archive for a complete history of our coverage.

Past Elections

In the years since its founding, LCI has come to focus a good part of its energy on electoral politics - elections. Lower Cape Indivisible was founded in response to an election - the 2016 election of Donald Trump - so the electoral focus feels natural. It's also the case that the Cape hosts a number of organizations that are effective promoters of LCI's values - Cape Cod Climate Change, Cape Downwinders, Grandmothers Against Gun Violence, and so on - that concentrate on various strategies and particular goals. LCI's strategies to promote its vision and values in the political arena have grown to include the following:

  • Publication of an online newsletter that focuses on national and local developments relevant to promoting our values.

    View LCI's most recent newsletter.

  • Sponsoring and publicizing rallies, marches, and other public actions that support issues and candidates aligned with our values.

    View current opportunities.

  • Organizing Get Out The Vote (GOTV) campaigns through writing postcards to voters urging them to exercise their precious right to vote. LCI is proud to have sent 55,000 postcards and letters to voters encouraging them to register and vote. We foresee many many more in the months to come.

    Check out current GOTV postcard efforts.

Barring some unforeseen, dramatic development, it's likely that the political scene in general and LCI's efforts in particular will be fairly low-key during this coming summer of 2023. However, we anticipate that energy and activity will ramp up quickly in the Fall as candidates and issues campaigns prepare for the critical 2024 presidential election. Please check our newsletter for an overview of what is happening and consult the relevant section(s) of the website for current activities.

Get Out The Vote Past and Present

This section is divided into three parts:

  1. Current efforts to Get Out the Vote (GOTV) for candidates around the United States whose election this year will promote LCI values.

    Read about our current efforts.

  2. A brief summary of how this effort developed and what it has accomplished.

    Read about the development of this effort.

  3. A description of LCI's role in the "Blue Wave" that swept the Cape in the 2022 elections.

    Learn about LCI's role in the Blue Wave.

Take Action

Postcards

Help write postcards to raise awareness!

Rally

Come to a rally, support our issues, bring a sign!

Contact

Call or email your elected officials!

Canvass

Solicit support from voters in your area!

Phonebank

Call voters in crucial states to GOTV!

Current Actions

JUN
06

Grandmothers Against Gun Violence 5th Annual "Home" Baked Goods Sale

Village Improvement Society Bandstand Rte 6A Dennis

Gun Violence

11:00 am - 12:00 pm Rain Or Shine

Live music - bring a chair and settle in!

In honor of Gun Violence Awareness Weekend, we come together to honor the communities shattered by gun violence and unite in our call to end gun violence and raise awareness for the issue. Every day, 120 people are shot and killed in this country and hundreds more are wounded.

As with almost everything we do, we count on our members and Board to make things happen for Grandmothers. And this is a great opportunity with summer traffic starting. We can bring awareness to gun violence prevention weekend as well as remember those who are gone from us through senseless gun violence.

HERE'S HOW YOU CAN HELP!

WE NEED HOMEMADE BAKED GOODS!

Pies...cookies, bars, rolls, scones, (maybe two things?)

Nothing that needs refrigeration. Please ask your friends and family to bake as well - you don't need to be a member to contribute!

When does it need to be there?

Please deliver by 10:00 on June 6 (Saturday) to the location above.

Labeling if possible: Please label the item with what it is and if there are nuts or allergens.

(We will also label onsite.)

Please email karenderusha@gmail.com by May 15th and let her know what you plan to bring.

HELP US PROMOTE THE SALE!

Help us spread the word by putting up 8 x 11 posters anywhere possible (post offices, dry cleaners, churches, libraries, etc.) sharing the poster graphic on social media and telling your friends and family.

We will have posters printed and ready to hang or you can print them off our home page soon. POSTERS WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE AT MAY 6th MEETING.

If you can pick up posters, email waldsonthecape@comcast.net with date and time and we can leave them out for you.

HELP WITH SET UP OR CLEAN UP!

Many hands make light work. If baking isn't your thing, we can always use help with set up, pricing of food and break down. Set up is 9:30 am.

Please email capecodgagv@gmail.com and let us know how you would like to help, and we will get back in touch with instructions.

We need your help for this to be successful!

Orleans Village Green - Purpose TBA

11:00 - 12:00

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Nauset Citizens Alliance

Indivisible Outer Cape

Lower Cape Indivisible

MAY
23

Salt Pond Visitors Center, Eastham - Purpose TBA

11:00 - 12:15

Protect Democracy

Nauset Citizens Alliance

Indivisible Outer Cape

Lower Cape Indivisible

MAY
21

Support Jeffrey In Court

Barnstable District Court 3195 Main St Barnstable, MA - 9:00 - 10:30 am

Protect Democracy

We will sit together in court May 21, 2026 to support Jeffrey who was attacked by Peter Afouxenides after our October 18th No Kings protest at the Hyannis Airport Rotary.

Maps - like google maps and waze - give confusing directions to District Court and often send you to superior court that is on rt 6A, the District court is in the parking lot behind the Superior Court.

Afouxenides next court appearance is in Barnstable District Court, scheduled for 9am-WE WILL MEET IN THE LOBBY BEFORE COURT OPENS at 8:55 am - we will hand out ribbons to wear in the courtroom.

Go through metal detector and find us in the lobby or check to see if we are in the courtroom on the left. We have been sitting in the front right.

We will wear green ribbons to show solidarity.

This is pretrial appearance but chances are this will be more significant.

We need to be there to show our community will NOT allow this crime to be ignored. When we show a critical mass, Afouxenides and his family, and most likely his lawyer take note.

A core principle behind all Indivisible events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.

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MAY
16

We Say "No" to Jim Crow

Standout - Eastham Windmill 11:00 - 12:00

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"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." MLK Jr.

Nauset Citizens Alliance

Lower Cape Indivisible

Indivisible Outer Cape

Eastham Windmill - Purpose TBA

11:00 - 12:00

Protect Democracy

Nauset Citizens Alliance

Indivisible Outer Cape

Lower Cape Indivisible

MAY
13

Attention All Postcard Writers

New Day For Indivisible Outer Cape Group

Protect Democracy

The IOC postcard writing group will meet on Wednesdays starting on May 13th

Same Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Same Location: Wellfleet Preservation Hall

With elections often decided by slim margins, every connection we make can influence the results.

Midterms are coming up fast, so join us and make a difference!

MAY
12

Voter Registration

Election Day Voter Registration Ballot Measure

Protect Democracy

It is time to get out the clipboards, fast. There is an important ballot measure for 2026 sponsored by the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Bill Galvin. The ballot measure is for Election Day Voter Registration (EDR) -- learn more by following the link below.

This campaign needs democracy heroes like you ASAP to collect 12,000 more signatures and submit them by the end of the first week in June. The petition papers are now available and early progress is essential.

Sign up to collect signatures

Please sign up now and commit to spending a couple of hours outside your local grocery store, town meeting, or other venue or event of your choice collecting ballot signatures. It's easy, it's fun, it gives you a glowing feeling of connection to the people you live near -- and it is your chance to improve election law. See link below to sign up.

Once you sign up, we will follow up with you with everything you need to know to get started.

Voter Choice Massachusetts supports EDR

Massachusetts made big strides on voter access with the passage of Automatic Voter Registration in 2018. However, a significant number of voters are still slipping between the cracks -- especially non-homeowners. These voters are disproportionately younger or have lower incomes.

If you are moving regularly, especially if you don't drive, it's easy for election day to roll around, and only then you realize you are not registered to vote at your new address. EDR takes care of these voters -- so they still have the choice to vote and don't lose their voice in a critical election.

Expand and protect democracy with EDR

We are living in an age of brazen underhanded maneuvers in politics right now, whether its demolishing the Voting Rights Act, gerrymandering, or trampling the public will with ever larger mountains of dark money and misinformation.

In this moment, resistance and reform are essential, and critical voting access laws like Election Day Voter Registration are table-stakes for our survival as a united, self-governing people.

Thank you for making Massachusetts stronger

Thank you for all you are doing to strengthen democracy and create government "of, by, and for the people" in Massachusetts.

We look forward to seeing you on the streets collecting signatures for Election Day Voter Registration!

Ed Shoemaker, Executive Director

Voter Choice Massachusetts

 

Click Here To Learn More

Click Here to Sign Up

MAY
10

Support Linda in the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute Walk

Boston, May 10th

Gun Violence

Let's Help Linda!

A Grandmothers Member Working for a Great Cause!

Linda has always been a great member of Grandmothers Against Gun Violence and now it is our turn to show her how much we appreciate her work over the years by supporting her walk as we have done with other teams on this walk in the past. So now a few words from Linda on her choice of supporting the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute Walk in Boston on May 10th - Mother's Day.

"Holy cow! Time marches on and I am turning 80 in a few weeks. I have decided to celebrate my birthday by doing something I love - walking - for a cause I wholeheartedly support - the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute.

My husband, daughter and her family and I will be walking as team 'Linda's League for Louis' in the 30th annual Mother's Day Walk for Peace. Please consider donating to our team. Any amount is appreciated to support this group who works with survivors of gun violence victims.

I have been volunteering with Grandmothers Against Gun violence for nearly a decade, and despite the expanding gun culture and gun ownership in this country, we continue to promote the 'gun sense' message. The gun lobby would love it if we backed down, but WE WON'T! So, let's all do something in whatever small way we can to help fund the work of the Peace Institute and to help me celebrate my 'big' birthday.

The first link below will bring you to my march where you can donate to our march or sign up to walk.

The second link will bring you to the site where you can learn all about the details of the march and the Institute.

Thank you for all your support. When we advocate and walk, we remember and stand with all the victims and survivors of gun violence.

Linda's League for Louis"

Click Here To Donate or Sign Up To Walk

Click Here To Learn More

MAY
09

Bridge Brigade NOT FIT TO SERVE - Various Locations 10:00 - 11:00

May 9th

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Locations:

Harwich - Exit 82 - Park and Ride

Brewster - Freemans Way - Street Parking

Orleans - Rock Harbor Road - The Farm parking

Wellfleet - Long Pond Road - Wellfleet Elementary parking

MAY
08

De-ICE Citizens Bank

Standout at Citizens Bank - Hyannis Rotary 11:00 - 12:00

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Citizens Bank is a major funder of Immigration Warehouses for ICE - no profit over people!

Nauset Citizens Alliance

Cape Cod Women for Change

Lower Cape Indivisible

Indivisible Outer Cape

De-ICE Citizens Bank Standout - No profit over people

Hyannis Rotary 11:00 - 12:00

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Citizens Bank is a major funder of Immigration Warehouses for ICE.

Cape Cod Women for Change

Indivisible Outer Cape

Lower Cape Indivisible

Nauset Citizens Alliance

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A practical guide to resisting the MAGA agenda. Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen.

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Find your Senators & Representatives

Senator Ed Markey

Boston Office
617-565-8519
DC Office
202-224-2742
Springfield Office
413-785-4610

Senator Elizabeth Warren

Boston Office
617-565-3170
DC Office
202-224-4543
Springfield Office
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Congressman Bill Keating

Hyannis Office
508-771-6868
DC Office
202-225-3111
Plymouth Office
508-746-9000
New Bedford Office
508-999-6562

Julian Cyr, State Senator, Cape & Islands District

State House
617-722-1570
District Office
508-237-7001
Email
julian.cyr at masenate.gov

Dylan Fernandes, State Senator, Plymouth & Barnstable District

State House
617-722-1330
Email
dylan.fernandes at masenate.gov

Kip A. Diggs, State Representative, 2nd Barnstable District

State House
617-722-2013
Email
kip.diggs at mahouse.gov

Thomas Moakley, State Representative, Barnstable, Dukes & Nantucket District

State House
617-722-2800 x7302
Email
thomas.moakley at mahouse.gov

Christopher Flanagan, State Representative, 1st Barnstable District

State House
617-722-2080
Email
christopher.flanagan at mahouse.gov

Hadley Luddy, State Representative 4th Barnstable District

State House
617-722-2800 x7313
Email
hadley.luddy at mahouse.gov

David Vieira, State Representative 3rd Barnstable District

State House
617-722-2230
District Office
508-548-8683
Email
david.vieira at mahouse.gov

Steven George Xiarhos, State Representative 5th Barnstable District

State House
617-722-2488
District Office
508-681-9673
Email
steven.xiarhos at mahouse.gov

Who We Are

Lower Cape Indivisible (LCI) is an organization whose members have elected to participate based on the organization's mission: to mobilize for social, economic and environmental justice; promote universal participation in the democratic process; resist agendas that subvert American democratic values. We are one of more than 6000 Indivisible groups in the U.S. committed to resisting the Republican agenda, as well as holding our state and local leaders accountable for fair and ethical action. Our work is based on the Indivisible Guide, created by former congressional staffers who wanted to demystify political activism, and share what tactics were most effective.

Our Priorities

  • Fighting systemic racism and white supremacy
  • Protecting democracy from autocratic threats at home and abroad
  • Protecting voting rights and elections
  • Protecting union rights and promoting American products (and labor)
  • Protecting and promoting human rights
  • Protecting and promoting women's rights
  • Protecting the environment and promoting solutions to the climate crisis
  • Supporting universal health care
  • Promoting free public education from birth through college
  • Ensuring safe, affordable housing for all
  • Creating a pathway to citizenship for current undocumented
  • Protecting immigrants and streamlining the current system for asylum seekers
  • Supporting laws based on common sense gun safety

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