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Campaign Finance Law FAQs

As local Indivisible groups have engaged in several election cycles, we’ve received many questions about campaign finance law. While we’re not able to provide legal advice, this is meant to be a helpful resource to provide a general overview and answer common questions.

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Legal and Organizing Related Definitions

Do you find the legal terms around organizing confusing? The guide helps define what a contribution, coordinated expenditure, independent expenditure, and electioneering communications are.

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Coordination and Federal Election Law

"Coordination" is a legal term defined by federal election law and FEC regulation. Once a group has been exposed to nonpublic strategic info, any money the group spends on that election will likely be treated as a coordinated expenditure.

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Group Leadership Planning Explainer and Worksheet

A sustainable group will likely need to go through several leadership transitions over time. It’s a normal part of group development and will even strengthen the group to bring new folks into leadership.

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The Art of a One-on-One

No matter how many new and exciting digital tools we develop to organize and stay in touch, there will never be a replacement for face to face conversations.

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Before Your Text Party: Signing up for TextOut

To ensure you can get up and texting as quickly as possible, we are asking that you take a few moments to create your textbanking account with TextOut before the training!

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How to Organize a Virtual Town Hall

Organizing your own virtual town hall is a great way to connect with your Member of Congress and we’re here to help! Here are 6 simple steps to organizing your Virtual Town Hall event.

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Statement of Commitment to REI in our Organizing Work

Indivisible staff, leaders, and members in this movement are responsible for holding ourselves and each other accountable to living our values and transforming our day-to-day practices.

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Coordinate with Other Indivisible Groups

You’re not on your own here. The Indivisible team is creating new tools to help you coordinate with your local groups, and we’re available to help make connections and answer question. Here are some of the key resources for coordination.

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Building a Great Leadership Team for your Local Indivisible Group

Many Indivisible groups have a single leader: the person who registered the group on Indivisible’s website, who first put out the call for his or her neighbors to participate, who led the first meeting. But a single leader can’t effectively lead an Indivisible group for long. You need a leadership team to be successfu

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