Biden’s finest moment as President has been his leadership in supporting Ukraine and enlisting countries in economic warfare against Russia. It is an enormous and dangerous commitment to democracy. Unfortunately, that’s being challenged in Congress by a growing number of Republican obstructionists. Is Ukraine about to become the next fabricated culture war battleground?

The message from this week’s midterm primaries is clearly that, this November, the life of our democracy is on the ballot.
Every week, we try to bring you stories and give you actions you can take on important issues. But they add up to one thing: our democracy is taking a beating, And we all need to get involved and resuscitate America.

May 17: THIS OUT-OF-CONTROL SUPREME COURT MUST BE STOPPED
MAY 18: THE REPUBLICAN ROLE IN THE BUFFALO SLAUGHTER
MAY 19: Behind The Mommy Mask: the “mothers” fighting the War Against Women

Popular legislation about reproductive freedom, universal healthcare, federally subsidized childcare, and more favored by most women is being torn apart systematically by rightwing so-called “non-partisan” women’s groups that are funded by rightwing anti-feminist billionaires and corporations. We need to make this dark money public and keep our private lives private.

Republicans have been using racism since Nixon’s day. Now, they’ve weaponized a new racist conspiracy theory to further frighten White people. The Great Replacement Theory plays on fears that minorities are replacing White culture and power. It has become an “engine of racist terror.” Racists marched in Charlottesville, VA, shouting, “we will not be replaced.” Now they’re shooting “replacers” in New Zealand, El Paso, Charlestown, and Buffalo. This rhetoric is lethal.

• Overturning Roe v. Wade will clearly demonstrate that MAGA Republicans have packed the Supreme Court with ideologues committed to imposing their patriarchal, conservative Christian vision on America—an indication that we will soon be living in a theocracy, not a democracy. Americans will lose our reproductive freedom immediately and other privacy-based constitutional rights soon thereafter. And no other precedents will be safe from these ideological zealots. The only way to stop this runaway train is by passing the Judiciary Act, which will rebalance SCOTUS by adding four justices who will honor the constitution and safeguard our democracy.

Democracy relies on the wisdom of a majority. This week we see the danger and destruction when a country’s direction is set by a minority or even one person. So this week, our Indivisible Oregon’s Daily Actions focused on:

May 10: CONGRESS MUST PROTECT WOMEN’S RIGHT TO CONTROL THEIR BODIES - Read it here: https://www.indivisibleor.org/daily-actions/2022-05-10
MAY 11: PUTIN’S WAR INTENSIFIES WORLD FOOD CRISIS - Read it here: https://www.indivisibleor.org/daily-actions/2022-05-12
MAY 12: CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS SAY: “ROME WASN’T BURNED IN A DAY” BUT REVOKING ROE IS START - Read it here https://www.indivisibleor.org/daily-actions/2022-05-12

Conservative evangelicals have engaged in decades of cultural battles and often lost. But one of their many crusades has been to insert enough like-minded Justices to capture the Supreme Court. Trump gave them three and solidified ultra-conservative, even biblical-tinged rule. If the Court reverses Roe, overruling decades of precedent and even massive public opinion, the future of our culture, politics, race relations, poverty programs, and climate will be dictated by a handful of unelected, untruthful, and unaccountable Christians.

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated the world food supply. Millions of poor people from the Middle East to Asia and from Africa to the Caribbean are facing acute shortages of basic foodstuffs as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and their blockade of exports of grain from Ukraine. The U.S. government has committed to protecting Ukraine’s frail democracy. It, along with other Western governments, must also provide massive food aid to forestall a famine in countries already suffering from droughts, unprecedented heatwaves and Covid.

Justice Alito’s draft opinion overturning women’s right to control their reproduction ignores precedent, relies on a faulty reading of history, and will greatly harm the most vulnerable Americans and their families. All Senators who claim to care about women’s equality and the health and wellbeing of American families, whatever their party, must show American voters where they stand by passing the Women’s Reproductive Health Act, which will be voted on tomorrow, and working to expand SCOTUS with Justices willing to protect Americans’ fundamental rights.

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine starkly demonstrates the conflict between democracy and dictatorship. Biden has committed the US to protecting Ukraine’s fragile democracy. But Americans must simultaneously fight to preserve our democracy which is under constant attack by Trump and MAGA Republicans—demonstrating that we cannot separate domestic and international politics. Americans must stand behind the President on both fronts.