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Feb. 6, 2017, 4:32 p.m.

A couple of years ago, Doug Todd went to a town hall meeting for Republican Rep. Tom McClintock in the Northern California town of Lincoln. It was a laid-back affair, with muffins and a small group of constituents asking the congressman questions.

But over the weekend, Todd helped organize some of the hundreds of people who showed up to another town hall McClintock was hosting, this time to protest the congressman's support of President Trump's executive actions.

McClintock was escorted out of the event by several police officers as hundreds of people rallied outside.

I think the importance was to show Mr. McClintock that we are not going to stand for anyone whos on board with the Trump agenda, said Todd, who lives in McClintocks district. We werent just going to smile and nod the whole time.

Like many of the volunteer organizers, Todd considers his group an affiliate of Indivisible, a group recently created by former congressional staffers trying to deploy the same strategiesagainst Trump that made the tea party so successful in challenging then-President Obama.

Local affiliates of the group all over the state have begun showing up at the district offices of their members of Congress, all part of a strategy modeled after the tea party, focusing on local congressional representatives and just saying no to policy changes.

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The left is trying out tea party tactics with hopes of building a successful anti-Trump movement - Los Angeles Times