Happy Pride Month! Trump’s Republican regime wants the LGBTQ+ community to be invisible. Pride has always been both celebration and protest. We stand with you, indivisible.
Check out upcoming pride events here or head over to Bangor Pride’s site for a full calendar and info.
We are in the final stretch of the Democratic Primaries! By now you should either have voted early or assembled your primary voting day plan so you can VOTE on Tuesday 6/9. There are a ton of great candidates on the ballot (yay for ranked choice, am I right?) and Indivisible Bangor has endorsed a couple of them:
- US Senate: Graham Platner
- US House Congressional District 2: Matt Dunlap
Check out Graham and Matt’s upcoming Get Out the Vote events on our events page. Head over to Maine People’s Alliance to see their 2026 Legislative Scorecard. It will help underscore how important your vote is.
āGet out and VOTE in the primaries!
HAPPENING TONIGHT
ICE Watch Verifier Training
PRESENTE! Maine
June 2, 2026 – Tuesday – 5:00 pm
By signing up as an ICE Watch verifier, you’ll help verify reports of ICE operations in Maine and help create a safer environment for our neighbors.
Keeping Up With the Chaos
It’s been two weeks since the last newsletter – so much has happened that it feels more than a little overwhelming. If you are feeling it too, you’re not alone! Spend time taking care of your mental health – it’s easy to feel the soul-crushing weight of the absolute insanity and corruption of this regime. Every passing day it feels like we’ve turned into three casinos in a trenchcoat pretending to be a country.
I had intended on writing another snarky article here, but Indivisible sent out an excellent article about the situation happening at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility concentration camp. I will instead post the article in its entirety here but first -ICE has not gone away. They’ve just started blending in better. They are still terrorizing people every day in these camps like Delaney Hall, Camp East Montana in El Paso, the Whipple building in Minneapolis, and in the streets here in Portland and Lewiston. I don’t know if they have a new “cheeky” operation name this time around, but they have definitely increased activity.
Everyone should attend ICE verifier training tonight (it’s linked above). Check out our ICE resources and read up on Action 230 with more info. Our community needs us and the best time to act is now.
Read Indivisible’s article below (and subscribe!):
I wrestled with how to write about the crisis at Delaney Hall. Rather than give you a screed, I collected my own thoughts by just writing down what I know. I hope itās useful.
- What is Delaney Hall? The Delaney Hall Detention Facility is an immigration concentration camp in Newark, New Jersey with more than 1,000 beds. Itās one of many other such facilities that play a major role in Trumpās multi-billion-dollar mass deportation agenda.Ā
- Who funds and runs it? Delaney is federally funded and privately run for profit. GEO Group, ICEās single largest contractor, received a $1 billion contract from ICE to run it. GEO operates more than a dozen similar ICE-funded camps around the country.Ā
- Whoās being held there? Human beings. Immigrants whoāve been here for decades. Parents and spouses of US citizens, Dreamers like the 18-year-old pulled out weeks before her high school graduation, pregnant women, the elderly, and overwhelmingly people with no criminal records at all. People who are detained do much of the facility’s own labor — cooking, cleaning, repairs —Ā for as little as $1 per day.
- What are the conditions like inside? Horrible. There are reports of maggot-ridden food, overcrowding, extreme heat, scalding showers, and dangerously inadequate healthcare — no doctor on site, and Tylenol handed out for everything from cancer to chronic disease.Ā
- Why are we just hearing about it now? Delaney has been a flashpoint for over a year. But on May 22, a few hundred detained people organized a hunger and labor strike, followed by solidarity protests outside the building. Then it escalated:
- Last weekend, ICE agents pepper-sprayed press and protestors, including US Senator Andy Kim.
- This past weekend, Gov. Sherrill sent in state police that used tear gas, flash-bangs, rubber bullets, and mounted units to attack protestors and press; Proud Boys counter-protestors showed up; and the city set a curfew.
- What are the protestors inside and out demanding? Local Indivisible members are among the throng of protestors. Immigrants detained inside Delaney are bravely demanding dignity, due process, and the freedom to be with their families. They wantĀ Delaney and all detention centers closed down. They demand that the most vulnerable — particularly the elderly, the young, and the seriously ill — be released, and investigations into the facility and those running it.
- What are Republicans doing? Republicans are accepting no blame and are escalating. DHS Secretary Mullin criticized Senator Kim for showing up, and he threatened to effectively shut down the Newark International airport in retaliation.
- How are Democrats responding? Mixed. Senator Kim has continued to show up and helped keep a spotlight on whatās happening inside the facility. House Minority Leader Jeffries led a delegation inside the facility and said afterwards it āmust be shut down immediately.ā The Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill has demanded that health inspectors be allowed into the facility, but is also getting lots of criticism for doing her best imitation of George Wallace by directing anger at protesters rather than Trump’s fascist goons.
The only other relevant thing I know is that all elected officials answer to us. Itās federal funds flowing through private hands tormenting the moms, dads, and kids inside Delaney and camps like it across the country. Congress controls the purse and has oversight power, and members are returning from recess this week to try to pass a reconciliation bill that would shovel billions more to ICE and Border Patrol. Now is the time for us all to act. We’ve got a number of ways to do that in our weekly to-dos.
In solidarity,
Ezra Levin
Co-Executive Director, Indivisible
Your weekly to-dosCongress is in revolt over Trumpās $1.8 billion slush fund. Tell them to pass legislation to block it before a cent is released to January 6 insurrectionists. Trump raiding his own treasury to create his own private budget, bypassing Congress and the Constitution, for that matter, appears to be a bridge too far for many Republicans in Congress. But anonymous statements and expressions of concern arenāt enough. Congress needs to end this corruption now.Ā
Show your solidarity with hunger strikers by demanding Congressional action against Trumpās mass detention regime. People detained at Delaney Hall and other detention centers are on hunger strike to protest their captivity and inhumane treatment by ICE. Use the link above to call your representative and demand Congress address the captivesā demands and stop the Trump regimeās inhumane incarceration of our immigrant neighbors. Then, use this link to call your senators, too.Ā
If you have a Republican Member of Congress, email them to oppose another penny of funding for ICE and Border Patrol. The scenes outside Delaney over the past week have put ICE and Border Patrolās brutality and lawlessness on public display once again. And yet, as soon as this week, Congress could hold a vote to hand those thuggish agencies tens of billions more. We need to increase the pressure NOW to peel off enough Republicans to sink the funding bill.Ā
Tell Congress to stop Trumpās war with Iran NOW. Republican leadership canceled a vote on a resolution to end the Iran war just before Congressional recess because it appeared the legislation was about to pass the House. This week, amidst new flare ups in the war that could lead to more death and chaos, the vote could come up. Email your representative and demand they vote to end this illegal war now!Ā
Send an email to your Members of Congress demanding they block a new war with Cuba — and deliver immediate humanitarian relief to the Cuban people. Even as the war with Iran drags on, the Trump regime is racing toward yet another military conflict 90 miles from the United States. Already, Cubans are starving and hospitals are without power because Trump has imposed a catastrophic blockade on the island. Use our email tool to call for immediate action to prevent war and mass starvation.Ā
Take Action
āSign up to volunteer with the Maine Democratic Party here.
āTell Congress to pass 100% Tax on payouts from Trump’s $1.8 Billion MAGA slush fund here.
āTell Congress to say no to payouts for insurrectionists here.
āIf you haven’t already, sign the petition to show your support for the implementation of the divestment law and share it with your networks here.
āTell Congress to protect the right to abortion, including medication abortion, and guarantee meaningful access to abortion for everyone, regardless of who they are or where they live, here.
āWe are deeply disappointed that Maine Congressman Jared Golden has once again voted against the House War Powers Resolution bill, this time casting the only Democratic vote against the bill, which resulted in the bill being defeated by one vote. Sign the petition to tell Congress about it here.
āTell Your Republican Representative to Stop Bankrolling ICE Brutality here.
āHead over to take action on our site, or visit 5calls.org to demand Congress take action NOW!
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MAINELY NEWS
āHate has no home hereā: Protesters rally against Vance regarding fraud press conference in Bangor
Protesters gathered outside General Aviation at the Bangor International Airport to rally against Vice President JD Vance regarding his arrival to Maine for a press conference on alleged fraud across the state.
āI think that itās really important that thereās a very visible and audible opposition to whatās happening in the country right now,ā said Rebecca Hartwell, who came from Cornish to peace keep at the event.
Read the entire article here.
Maine Democrats splitĀ over taxing 2nd homes in sharp debate exchange
Maineās five Democratic gubernatorial candidates debated taxes, housing and the limits of bold promises Wednesday, with the sharpest exchange coming over a proposal to impose higher property taxes on out-of-state second-home owners.
The dispute offered a rare glimpse of friction in a Democratic field that has been notably collegial. For most of the debate, the five candidates agreed on raising the minimum wage, banning cellphones in classrooms and standing up to President Donald Trumpās administration against healthcare cuts.
Read the entire article here.
Bangor bans storing belongings on sidewalk amid homelessness debate
Bangor city councilors unanimously passed an ordinance Monday night banning the storage of belongings on sidewalks amid rising concern around homeless residents gathering near the public library.
Councilors made their decision after more than an hour of public comments about the cityās homelessness crisis in a room packed with both supporters and critics of the ordinance.
Read the entire article here.
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