Email to Indivisible Mobile re "Practicing non-cooperation at scale"
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; "jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org" <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; Info@CandiceDuvieilhforCongress.com <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; "info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com" <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; hello@howardjrforalabama.com <hello@howardjrforalabama.com>; info@sneedforcongress.com <info@sneedforcongress.com>; contact@markwheelerforsenate.com <contact@markwheelerforsenate.com>; citizensforapusczek@gmail.com <citizensforapusczek@gmail.com>; Elizabeth Anderson <elizabeth@eaforcongress.com>; purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com <purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com>; hivealabama@gmail.com <hivealabama@gmail.com>; shelbycountydems65@gmail.com <shelbycountydems65@gmail.com>; nayoungdems@gmail.com <nayoungdems@gmail.com>; Blueprintalabama Info <info@blueprintalabama.com>; Membership Coordination <membership@birminghamindivisible.org>; alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com <alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com>; indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com <indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com>; Celeste Davis-Dill <cdavisdill@gmail.com>; Udval Info <info@udval.org>; Laurie Beth Kesterson <lauriebethkesterson@gmail.com>; Barry Marks <barry@leaselawyer.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 06:29:49 PM CDT
Subject: Practicing non-cooperation at scale
Dear Indivisible Mobile:
This email is prompted by your Facebook post announcing a training session "to build the necessary strength to practice non-cooperation at scale"
Your Facebook post says:
Non-cooperation is a key component of nonviolent resistance, and was a hallmark of the Civil Rights movement, as well as having been a successful strategy for striking back against authoritarian regimes all over the world and throughout history. Non-cooperation is best aimed at the pillars that in good times support a healthy society, but in bad times can be forced to serve an authoritarian regime. The main pillars are Business, Labor, Faith Organizations, Educational Institutions, the Civil Service, the Military and Police. (I would include the Media and Health Care, and you can probably think of some others.)
I think targeted emailing I have been doing in Alabama directed at the legal profession, chambers of commerce, local TV stations, educational institutions, churches, and public health constituents has potential for being strong "non-cooperation."
Some of my targeted emailing is set out at Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Rage Against The Regime challenge.
I have been soliciting Alabama Trump resistance groups and others to join in to do ORGANIZED, targeted emailing that I think could make for "non-cooperation at scale." Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Continuation of appeal for organized, targeted emailing
Please call me if you see potential here for discussion.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
205-967-5586
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From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; Info@CandiceDuvieilhforCongress.com <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; "info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com" <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; info@sneedforcongress.com <info@sneedforcongress.com>; contact@markwheelerforsenate.com <contact@markwheelerforsenate.com>; citizensforapusczek@gmail.com <citizensforapusczek@gmail.com>; Elizabeth Anderson <elizabeth@eaforcongress.com>; purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com <purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com>; hivealabama@gmail.com <hivealabama@gmail.com>; shelbycountydems65@gmail.com <shelbycountydems65@gmail.com>; nayoungdems@gmail.com <nayoungdems@gmail.com>; Blueprintalabama Info <info@blueprintalabama.com>; Membership Coordination <membership@birminghamindivisible.org>; alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com <alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com>; indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com <indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com>; Celeste Davis-Dill <cdavisdill@gmail.com>; Udval Info <info@udval.org>; Laurie Beth Kesterson <lauriebethkesterson@gmail.com>; Barry Marks <barry@leaselawyer.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 06:34:28 PM CDT
Subject: Re: Practicing non-cooperation at scale
Thank you very, very much, Maura. Your reply email is immensely encouraging to me.
Absolutely, please have an Indivisible Mobile member follow up with me.
I am copying on this email (which includes your reply to me) the parties I copied on my original email to you, with a view to nudging them further to take up the organized, targeted emailing I am advocating.
Sincerely,
Rob
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On Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 11:29:37 AM CDT, Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, Rob, and thank you for getting in touch!
This targeted emailing is exactly the kind of noncooperative effort that we would like to help with or organize among our own members. I see that you are in Birmingham, so would not be able to attend our One Million Rising training here in Mobile this Saturday, but we plan to offer attendees a number of different campaigns to choose to work on. May I include your target emailing campaign and have a member follow up with you?
Best,
_________
Indivisible Mobile
Email re Joyce Vance book
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>; Jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; "jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org" <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; Info@CandiceDuvieilhforCongress.com <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; "info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com" <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; info@sneedforcongress.com <info@sneedforcongress.com>; contact@markwheelerforsenate.com <contact@markwheelerforsenate.com>; citizensforapusczek@gmail.com <citizensforapusczek@gmail.com>; Elizabeth Anderson <elizabeth@eaforcongress.com>; purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com <purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com>; hivealabama@gmail.com <hivealabama@gmail.com>; shelbycountydems65@gmail.com <shelbycountydems65@gmail.com>; nayoungdems@gmail.com <nayoungdems@gmail.com>; Blueprintalabama Info <info@blueprintalabama.com>; Membership Coordination <membership@birminghamindivisible.org>; alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com <alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com>; indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com <indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com>; Celeste Davis-Dill <cdavisdill@gmail.com>; Udval Info <info@udval.org>; Laurie Beth Kesterson <lauriebethkesterson@gmail.com>; Barry Marks <barry@leaselawyer.com>
Cc: Joyce Vance <jvance@law.ua.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:35:58 AM CDT
Subject: Organized, targeted emailing regarding Joyce Vance's book?
To Alabama Trump resisters:
Joyce Vance has a book coming out entitled Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy.
I have some ideas for organized, targeted emailing utilizing Joyce's book.
Is there anyone who is interested in joining me on this?
Please contact me if you are.
Thanks.
Rob Shattuck
205-967-5586
(for filing in Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Continuation of appeal for organized, targeted emailing)
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From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>To: Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; "jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org" <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; Info@CandiceDuvieilhforCongress.com <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; "info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com" <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; hello@howardjrforalabama.com <hello@howardjrforalabama.com>; info@sneedforcongress.com <info@sneedforcongress.com>; contact@markwheelerforsenate.com <contact@markwheelerforsenate.com>; citizensforapusczek@gmail.com <citizensforapusczek@gmail.com>; Elizabeth Anderson <elizabeth@eaforcongress.com>; purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com <purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com>; hivealabama@gmail.com <hivealabama@gmail.com>; shelbycountydems65@gmail.com <shelbycountydems65@gmail.com>; nayoungdems@gmail.com <nayoungdems@gmail.com>; Blueprintalabama Info <info@blueprintalabama.com>; Membership Coordination <membership@birminghamindivisible.org>; alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com <alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com>; indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com <indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com>; Celeste Davis-Dill <cdavisdill@gmail.com>; Udval Info <info@udval.org>; Laurie Beth Kesterson <lauriebethkesterson@gmail.com>; Barry Marks <barry@leaselawyer.com>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2025 at 05:19:23 PM CDT
Subject: Re: Organized, targeted emailing regarding Joyce Vance's book?
Maura, thank you. Great!!
In the meantime, identifying the Alabama legal profession as "a main pillar that is being forced to serve an authoritarian purpose," today I sent targeted emails to my Alabama lawyers list and Alabama State Bar Bench & Bar Relations Committee list.
The emails put forth to them Joyce Vance's book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy, as my making an initial foray for trying to build "non-cooperation at scale" In Alabama.
My emails are posted at https://trumptweet.blogspot.com/2025/08/non-cooperation-at-scale-in-alabama.html.
I hope Indivisible Mobile and the other Alabama Trump resister groups I have been contacting will study the emails I sent today and are stimulated to think about how such emails can built on for further targeted emailing.
I look forward to your getting back in touch.
Rob
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On Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 03:29:27 PM CDT, Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com> wrote:
I should have some people who will want to help with this after our meeting on Saturday. I'll be back in touch!
Maura
Email to Alabama lawyers
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: fhelmsing@joneswalker.com <fhelmsing@joneswalker.com>; mendheimforalabama@gmail.com <mendheimforalabama@gmail.com>; Brannon Buck <bbuck@badhambuck.com>; Terri B. Lovell <terri.lovell@alabar.org>; mckinney@watsonmckinney.com <mckinney@watsonmckinney.com>; suzanneduffey@mc-ala.org <suzanneduffey@mc-ala.org>; flatta@burr.com <flatta@burr.com>; wbrewbak@law.ua.edu <wbrewbak@law.ua.edu>; sgarrett@bsol.com <sgarrett@bsol.com>; ccampbell@faulkner.edu <ccampbell@faulkner.edu>; blakehudson@samford.edu <blakehudson@samford.edu>; christy.crow@jinkscrow.com <christy.crow@jinkscrow.com>; richard.raleigh@wbd-us.com <richard.raleigh@wbd-us.com>; daoffice@baldwincountyal.gov <daoffice@baldwincountyal.gov>; baldwinDA@baldwincountyal.gov <baldwinda@baldwincountyal.gov>; "baldwinda@baldwincountyal.gov" <baldwinda@baldwincountyal.gov>; bob@schreiberadr.com <bob@schreiberadr.com>; jvance@law.ua.edu <jvance@law.ua.edu>; jws@willsellers.com <jws@willsellers.com>; cdobson@maynardnexsen.com <cdobson@maynardnexsen.com>; jwilson@birminghambar.org <jwilson@birminghambar.org>; Ross Cohen <rcohen@bakerdonelson.com>; spratling@wskllp.com <spratling@wskllp.com>; Mark Ezell <mee@ezell-law-llc.com>; John Steiner <john@steinerlawllc.com>; spoer@scottdukeslaw.com <spoer@scottdukeslaw.com>; ddowd@burr.com <ddowd@burr.com>; Chris Christie <chris.christie@dentons.com>; Gwen Windle <gwindle@charter.net>; hello@waterssullivan.com <hello@waterssullivan.com>; ryeilding@bradley.com <ryeilding@bradley.com>; glondon@burr.com <glondon@burr.com>; katherine.robertson@alabamaag.gov <katherine.robertson@alabamaag.gov>; Barry Marks <barry@leaselawyer.com>; Fasking Info <info@fasking.law>; Celeste Grenier <furgren@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2025 at 11:24:48 AM CDT
Subject: "Non-cooperation at scale" in Alabama - Joyce Vance's book
To Alabama lawyers:
This email avails of Joyce Vance's new book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy, for my making an initial foray for trying to build "non-cooperation at scale" in Alabama.
The "non-cooperation" terminology comes from an Indivisible Mobile Facebook post , which said, among other things, as follows:
"Non-cooperation is best aimed at the pillars that in good times support a healthy society, but in bad times can be forced to serve an authoritarian regime. The main pillars are Business, Labor, Faith Organizations, Educational Institutions, the Civil Service, the Military and Police." (I [the Facebook poster] would include the Media and Health Care, and you can probably think of some others.)"
I believe the Alabama legal profession is such a main pillar that is being forced to serve an authoritarian purpose.
I hope many Alabama lawyers join in non-cooperation as regards the Alabama legal profession.
If you disagree with my belief that the Alabama legal profession is being forced to serve an authoritarian purpose, please speak up.
Thank you.
(for filing in Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Non-cooperation in Alabama at scale)
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: [Sent to 52 members of Alabama State Bar Bench & Bar Relations Committee. Email addresses were obtained from Alabama State Bar website. It is believed the email address information is not available to general public, and email addresses are omitted here.]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2025 at 02:01:21 PM CDT
Subject: "Non-cooperation at scale" in Alabama - Joyce Vance's book
To Alabama State Bar Bench & Bar Relations Committee:
[remainder of email is identical to above Email to Alabama lawyers]
Email re 2026 Alabama Attorney General election
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>To: Laurie Beth Kesterson <lauriebethkesterson@gmail.com>
Cc: Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>; jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; Info@CandiceDuvieilhforCongress.com <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; hello@howardjrforalabama.com <hello@howardjrforalabama.com>; info@sneedforcongress.com <info@sneedforcongress.com>; contact@markwheelerforsenate.com <contact@markwheelerforsenate.com>; citizensforapusczek@gmail.com <citizensforapusczek@gmail.com>; Elizabeth Anderson <elizabeth@eaforcongress.com>; purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com <purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com>; hivealabama@gmail.com <hivealabama@gmail.com>; shelbycountydems65@gmail.com <shelbycountydems65@gmail.com>; NAYoungDems@Gmail.com <nayoungdems@gmail.com>; Blueprintalabama Info <info@blueprintalabama.com>; Membership Coordination <membership@birminghamindivisible.org>; alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com <alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com>; indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com <indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com>; Celeste Davis-Dill <cdavisdill@gmail.com>; Udval Info <info@udval.org>; Barry Marks <barry@leaselawyer.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 05:29:02 AM CDT
Subject: Re: Organized, targeted emailing regarding Joyce Vance's book?
Laurie:
Non-cooperation at scale in Alabama needs non-cooperating candidates, and Joyce Vance for Alabama Attorney General would be great.
In May, former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Mitchell announced his candidacy for Alaba,a Attorney General, saying "President Trump is moving boldly to restore the United States Constitution - and we must ensure that his agenda takes root not only in Washington, but also in the states. I feel called to play a larger role in that effort in Alabama."
In response to former Supreme Court Justice Mitchell's announcement, I sent him (and other possible AG candidates) an email that I posted at Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: The January 6th lawbreaker President, day 123. In that email, I say:
"My view is that Donald Trump is seeking to undermine the United States Constitution and the rule of law as part of a relentless. overriding motivation on his part to amass unchecked and ultimately unconstitutional power in himself to rule over the United States.Whether or not Joyce Vance decides to become a candidate for Attorney General, non-cooperators in Alabama must find ways to press their non-cooperation in connection with the AG election.
I will be endeavoring to get my view of Donald Trump raised in, and debated by the candidates in, the 2026 Alabama Attorney General election."
I have ideas for organized, targeted emailing to do this regarding the AG election.
Any Trump resister who is interested in helping out on this should please contact me.
Thanks,
Rob
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On Friday, August 22, 2025 at 06:55:56 PM CDT, Laurie Beth Kesterson <lauriebethkesterson@gmail.com> wrote:
Would love Joyce Vance to run for AG
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: UnmuteAlabama@gmail.com <unmutealabama@gmail.com>
Cc: Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>; Jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; "jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org" <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; Info@CandiceDuvieilhforCongress.com <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; "info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com" <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; info@sneedforcongress.com <info@sneedforcongress.com>; contact@markwheelerforsenate.com <contact@markwheelerforsenate.com>; citizensforapusczek@gmail.com <citizensforapusczek@gmail.com>; Elizabeth Anderson <elizabeth@eaforcongress.com>; purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com <purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com>; hivealabama@gmail.com <hivealabama@gmail.com>; shelbycountydems65@gmail.com <shelbycountydems65@gmail.com>; nayoungdems@gmail.com <nayoungdems@gmail.com>; Blueprintalabama Info <info@blueprintalabama.com>; Membership Coordination <membership@birminghamindivisible.org>; alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com <alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com>; indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com <indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com>; Celeste Davis-Dill <cdavisdill@gmail.com>; Udval Info <info@udval.org>; Laurie Beth Kesterson <lauriebethkesterson@gmail.com>; Barry Marks <barry@leaselawyer.com>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2025 at 07:54:08 AM CDT
Subject: Unmute Alabama and organized, targeted emailing
Dear Unmute Alabama:
The Unmute Alabama Facebook page was called to my attention by Marsha Sue Sturdevant.
The page proclaims "UNMUTING TRUTH, UNMUTING PROGRESS, UNMUTING ALABAMA" and further says the page is "A platform for empowering progressives in Alabama and beyond. Join us to amplify voices, share solutions, and push for better leadership."
I am trying to participate in a "non-cooperation at scale" strategy being developed by Indivisible Mobile and particularly am advocating the use of organized, targeted emailing as a tool in the strategy. Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Non-cooperation in Alabama at scale
The purpose of this email is to ask whether Unmute Alabama's functioning has room for "non-cooperation at scale" activities and the organized, targeted emailing I am advocating for.
I would very much like to talk with Unmute Alabama about this.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
205-967-5586
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From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>To: UnmuteAlabama <unmutealabama@gmail.com>
Cc: Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>; Jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; "jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org" <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; Info@CandiceDuvieilhforCongress.com <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; "info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com" <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; info@sneedforcongress.com <info@sneedforcongress.com>; contact@markwheelerforsenate.com <contact@markwheelerforsenate.com>; citizensforapusczek@gmail.com <citizensforapusczek@gmail.com>; Elizabeth Anderson <elizabeth@eaforcongress.com>; purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com <purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com>; hivealabama@gmail.com <hivealabama@gmail.com>; shelbycountydems65@gmail.com <shelbycountydems65@gmail.com>; nayoungdems@gmail.com <nayoungdems@gmail.com>; Blueprintalabama Info <info@blueprintalabama.com>; Membership Coordination <membership@birminghamindivisible.org>; alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com <alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com>; indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com <indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com>; Celeste Davis-Dill <cdavisdill@gmail.com>; Udval Info <info@udval.org>; Laurie Beth Kesterson <lauriebethkesterson@gmail.com>; Barry Marks <barry@leaselawyer.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 06:20:14 PM CDT
Subject: Re: Unmute Alabama and organized, targeted emailing
Ok, thanks very much, Tami.
Organized, targeted emailing seeks to bust out of one's likeminded networks and the sharing messages there, and instead to engage in combat politics in the full arena.
While Unmute Alabama may wish to stay in its lane, I welcome any suggestions from you or others in Unmute Alabama for how I might do better in doing combat politics in the full arena.
Given my objective, I trust you won't mind if I copy on this email the other parties to whom I have been sending my emails.
Sincerely,
Rob
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On Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 08:50:38 AM CDT, UnmuteAlabama <unmutealabama@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Rob,
Thanks for following up and sharing more about your work. I appreciate the energy you’re putting into organizing and looking for ways to resist Trump.
Unmute Alabama has a very specific mission as a grassroots messaging platform. My focus is making sense of Alabama and national politics in calm, clear, values-forward language — and empowering everyday Alabamians to share those messages with their own networks. That’s the lane where I think we can make the biggest impact.
I’d still be glad to talk with you about your organizing. Do you see a way Unmute Alabama’s focus on messaging might be helpful as you move forward? Let me know when you’d like to have a phone conversation.
Best,
Tami
Hi Rob,
Thanks for following up and sharing more about your work. I appreciate the energy you’re putting into organizing and looking for ways to resist Trump.
Unmute Alabama has a very specific mission as a grassroots messaging platform. My focus is making sense of Alabama and national politics in calm, clear, values-forward language — and empowering everyday Alabamians to share those messages with their own networks. That’s the lane where I think we can make the biggest impact.
I’d still be glad to talk with you about your organizing. Do you see a way Unmute Alabama’s focus on messaging might be helpful as you move forward? Let me know when you’d like to have a phone conversation.
Best,
Tami
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: UnmuteAlabama <unmutealabama@gmail.com>; Jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; "jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org" <jeremy@jeremytakesthehouse.org>; Info@CandiceDuvieilhforCongress.com <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; "info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com" <info@candiceduvieilhforcongress.com>; info@sneedforcongress.com <info@sneedforcongress.com>; contact@markwheelerforsenate.com <contact@markwheelerforsenate.com>; citizensforapusczek@gmail.com <citizensforapusczek@gmail.com>; Elizabeth Anderson <elizabeth@eaforcongress.com>; purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com <purplepeopleresistance@gmail.com>; hivealabama@gmail.com <hivealabama@gmail.com>; shelbycountydems65@gmail.com <shelbycountydems65@gmail.com>; nayoungdems@gmail.com <nayoungdems@gmail.com>; Blueprintalabama Info <info@blueprintalabama.com>; Membership Coordination <membership@birminghamindivisible.org>; alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com <alabamademocraticchairs@gmail.com>; indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com <indivisiblewestalabama@gmail.com>; Celeste Davis-Dill <cdavisdill@gmail.com>; Udval Info <info@udval.org>; Laurie Beth Kesterson <lauriebethkesterson@gmail.com>; Barry Marks <barry@leaselawyer.com>
Cc: Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 06:17:02 PM CDT
Subject: Indivisible Mobile is trying organized, targeted emailing
To Alabama Trump resistance groups and others:
Today Indivisible Mobile allowed me to post on its private Facebook page Indivisible Mobile | Facebook the following:
I am in Birmingham.Following making the foregoing Facebook post, I sent an email to my contacts at Indivisible Mobile, saying:
I have joined the Indivisible Mobile Facebook private group, and I am being allowed to introduce myself to the group and tell the group about organized, targeted emailing that I am trying to promote in Alabama.
I have piggy-backed on the strategy of "non-cooperation at scale" that Indivisible Mobile is trying to develop.
For further explanation of all of this, please read Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Non-cooperation in Alabama at scale.
Organized, targeted emailing seeks to break out of one's likeminded networks and the sharing of messages there, and instead to engage in combat politics in the full arena.
I solicit members of Indivisible Mobile to participate with me in organized, targeted emailing in the Mobile area, and, even if members don't do actual emailing, I solicit their suggestions for increasing the effectiveness of organized, targeted emailing in the Mobile area.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks.
Thanks for the post I have made on Indivisible Mobile's private Facebook page to get this going.I hope other Alabama Trump resistance groups will try organized, targeted emailing, as Indivisible Mobile is doing.
There's lots of directions this may go. Let me throw out some of the things I am thinking about.
Consideration needs to be given to what messaging and communicating is "public" (my blog and personal Facebook; outward directed emails) and what messaging and communicating is "private" (Indivisible Mobile's private Facebook group page; internal emailing). The "private" stuff may, with appropriate permission, get copied and pasted into "public" space.
An immediate form of the latter is that I may copy and paste my Indivisible Mobile post into my personal Facebook, other groups' Facebooks, and/or an email I send to the parties Maura has seen on numerous emails.
In my blog, I have a number of separate blog entries that target particular categories of targets. I may identify parties in the Mobile area who are in those categories and start sending emails to them. I may post in my blog the emails I send and/or may post the emails on Facebook.
I may draft suggestions for emails to be sent by others who are doing the targeted emailing I am urging to be done.
I will post information on Indivisible Mobile's Facebook page about things I am doing (which posting will be subject to monitoring by the administrators).
Please tell me your reaction to my above thinking and your own thinking.
Thanks.
Rob
Thanks.
Rob Shattuck
(for filing in Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Non-cooperation in Alabama at scale)
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Wyatt Darley <wdarley@proton.me>; Alec Austin <alecaustinimportant@gmail.com>; Billie London <billielondon@bellsouth.net>; Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, September 1, 2025 at 08:46:48 AM CDT
Subject: Re: Trump "national emergency" tariffs blocked; will Dale Strong rush back to DC to get legislation?
Thank you, Maura, for your very thoughtful email.
I think the question is whether anything will budge Alabama's "institutions," such as Alabama TV stations, Alabama's legal profession, and the Alabama business community.
For more than two years, I have tried reasonable importunings addressed to such "institutions" for them to speak up (or at least have internal discussions), appeals to the institutions' professional self-respect, being public for others to judge such "institutions," and raising the specter of fear of Trump as determining what the institutions say or do. E.g., Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Getting AL TV stations to do better in 2024 elections; Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: The condition of the Department of Justice and its FBI and Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: How fearful of Trump is the Alabama business community?
Virtually nothing I have tried has gotten any response from such "institutions."
I have been doing the foregoing by myself, and seeking organized, targeted emailing is to try to overcome the weakness of one and to gain the strength of many.
Thus far, on top of the unresponsiveness of the target "institutions," I am encountering non-responsiveness of parties, such as those who have been receiving my emails that you have been receiving, which parties should want what I am trying to achieve with the organized, targeted emailing.
Most of the parties have not seen fit to communicate back in any way, such as saying they think I am wasting my time in what I am trying to do and making a pitch to me to join in what they are doing, or that they are supportive of my objective but they do not have the resources to help out, or they are supportive and they have suggestions to me for how I might do better in what I am trying to do.
The emails you have drafted are very worthwhile as being initial emails sent by someone other than myself that may stimulate others to do their own emailing and also stimulate thinking and discussion about what forms and content of targeted emails may actually budge Alabama's "institutions" (such as Alabama TV stations, Alabama's legal profession, and the Alabama business community).
So, yes, please send your emails.
I continue very open to having phone conversations with anyone who wants to talk about organized, targeted emailing.
Also, I am copying on this email parties I have copied on other emails, for whatever "stimulation" of them may result.
Rob
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On Sunday, August 31, 2025 at 01:18:59 PM CDT, Indivisible Mobile <indivisiblemobileal@gmail.com> wrote:
Rob,
I'm just trying to get a feel for our role here. I'm thinking we should take your email as a template for local action. We could send an email like this (I've made small changes) to Mobile area TV stations as well and to our own reps? For example:
Dear WKRG News Editor,
The U.S. appeals court has ruled that most Trump tariffs are illegally imposed. A Reuters article quotes the court as finding that "Trump justified both sets of tariffs - as well as more recent levies - under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act...which gives the president the power to address 'unusual and extraordinary' threats during national emergencies. The statute bestows significant authority on the President to undertake a number of actions in response to a declared national emergency," the court said, "but none of these actions explicitly include the power to impose tariffs, duties, or the like, or the power to tax." They went on to say that "it seems unlikely that Congress intended, in enacting IEEPA, to depart from its past practice and grant the President unlimited authority to impose tariffs."
Will your reporters press Representative Barry Moore to say whether he supports these illegal tariffs? And ask Congressman Moore if he believes there is a true "national emergency" despite this administration providing no real evidence beyond wanting to wield power to which they are not entitled?
Will you or will you not get a REAL answer from Moore that you can report to your viewers?
Thank you.
Congressman Moore,
The U.S. appeals court has ruled that most Trump tariffs are illegally imposed. A Reuters article quotes the court as finding that "Trump justified both sets of tariffs - as well as more recent levies - under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act...which gives the president the power to address 'unusual and extraordinary' threats during national emergencies. The statute bestows significant authority on the President to undertake a number of actions in response to a declared national emergency," the court said, "but none of these actions explicitly include the power to impose tariffs, duties, or the like, or the power to tax." They went on to say that "it seems unlikely that Congress intended, in enacting IEEPA, to depart from its past practice and grant the President unlimited authority to impose tariffs."
As your constituent, I want to know: do you support these illegal tariffs which are hurting Alabamians? Do you really believe there is a "national emergency" even though President Trump has provided no evidence of one, and clearly seems determined to take on powers to which the Executive is not entitled?
Thank you.
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 7:24 AM Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com> wrote:
Dear Huntsville area TV stations:
The article Most Trump tariffs are not legal, US appeals court rules | Reuters says:
Trump justified both sets of tariffs - as well as more recent levies - under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. IEEPA gives the president the power to address "unusual and extraordinary" threats during national emergencies.
"The statute bestows significant authority on the President to undertake a number of actions in response to a declared national emergency, but none of these actions explicitly include the power to impose tariffs, duties, or the like, or the power to tax," the court said.
"It seems unlikely that Congress intended, in enacting IEEPA, to depart from its past practice and grant the President unlimited authority to impose tariffs."
Will or will not Dale Strong rush back to Washington DC to get Congress to enact legislation that affirms Trump's declaration that there is a national emergency and that gives Trump the legal authority he needs to impose the tariffs in question?
Will or will not your TV stations pose the foregoing question to Dale Strong and get an answer from him that you can report to your viewers?
Thank you.
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
(for filing in Citizens Acting to End the Trump Presidency: Targeting Dale Strong)
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