'No Kings' activist group Indivisible will only support Dem Senate candidates that call to cancel Chuck Schumer

The leftist activist group Indivisible, which promoted and launched the "No Kings" protests in June and October, has announced that they will only support candidates in the upcoming primaries for Senate midterms that call to cancel House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Their reasoning is that Schumer allowed the government to reopen after Democrats kept it closed for "leverage."

Indivisible has announced that they are targeting Schumer as a single-issue. They say that the "two criteria for Indivisible’s support" are for Senate candidates, to oppose Schumer as Majority Leader and for every Democratic primary candidate to make "a clear commitment to abandon the status quo of feckless leadership, and use every tool available to fight MAGA attacks on our communities, our health, and our democracy."

"Chuck Schumer and a critical mass of Senate Democrats surrendered," said Indivisible's Ezra Levin. "For nearly six weeks, Republicans held the government hostage while threatening health care, food assistance, and basic services for millions of Americans. In these six weeks of the shutdown, Democrats had their best election night in over a decade, polls showed Republicans were losing this shutdown fight, and their base turned out for the largest protest in modern U.S. history with a resounding rejection of Trump and Republicans."

Democrats were the party that refused, some 14 times, to not pass a continuing resolution that extended President Joe Biden's 2024 budget. Instead, they made additional demands about health insurance subsidies. These subsidies were a holdover from Covid relief which were launched with the America's Rescue Plan Act under Biden and then extended to 2025 under the Inflation Reduction Act, a climate change funding bill.

"Instead of standing with that energy," Levin went on, "Senate Democrats surrendered – yet again. That’s why Indivisible is launching our largest primary program yet. This is no longer about them - it’s about us. We’re done waiting for Democrats to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak and cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, and threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, and we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights."

New York Senator Schumer faces a potential primary challenge in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who came to prominence in the party due to her far leftist views. She has led a group of progressives in Congress, which includes Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and others. Two of those who were in that group, Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman, were both voted out of office, and they both blame Israel for that loss.

The Democratic Party has moved resoundingly left as in-fighting and factionalism have left them ripe for a takeover by their socialist wing in the Democratic Socialists of America. The Democrats ran a committed socialist to serve as mayor of financial capital New York City, and that man, Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, will begin his term in January.

Indivisible's Leah Greenberg said "Our democracy is facing an existential threat. We need leaders with backbone and conviction – not timidity and excuses. Democrats can’t defeat authoritarianism by running from the fight. It’s in our hands to make sure those who can’t fight make space for the leaders who can. Indivisible is ready to clean house and build a party that actually has the energy to act like an opposition."