At Chaffetz’s event, attendees — mostly progressives — cited a long list of ways they’d heard it was taking place. Some said they’d read it in the Salt Lake Tribune. Others via word of mouth. Several said they’d gotten notices from Chaffetz’s office.
Most frequently, attendees pointed to Utah’s chapter of Indivisible, a loosely organized, weeks-old group with hundreds of regional affiliates.
Leah Greenberg, one of Indivisible’s five co-founders, said the organization started as a Google Doc offering advice for protesters — instructing them to focus their efforts on their local lawmakers, rather than figures like the House speaker, and telling them that “you have the most leverage as a constituent when you are focusing on the issues that are on your member of Congress’s mind at one time.”
The protest guide, which they expected to go without much notice, gained immediate traction.
The five co-founders and volunteers from their personal networks of progressive friends and fellow congressional staffers launched a website and social media accounts, and then added those who formed local groups based on the Indivisible protest guide’s principles into a database.
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