HEALTH COACH - They voted to abrogate Obamacare. Now they are a target.

HEALTH COACH - 
 They voted to abrogate Obamacare. Now they are a target.  

 "The reef is from now until 2018," said Angel Padilla, political director of Indivisible, an umbrella of national groups, including Front Range Resistance. "That 's what has pushed many of our groups, and that' s been at the center of the town halls, and it 's not over, this vote will motivate them more than if they continue to play. 
 
 With the House repeating this week (the Senate is coming home later this month), few members have scheduled city council meetings that are often the staples of travel in their neighborhoods. The demonstrators are promising fireworks for those planning to hold sessions - including Tom MacArthur of New Jersey, a moderate who negotiated an amendment that supported the members of the Conservative Freedom Caucus by weakening insurance regulations, including the protection of people having already existed 
 
 "All those who voted for it feel like heading for a political saw, The organizers of Indivisible Colorado wrote in "Make Them Shake," a guide created after last week's vote. He urged demonstrators to donate to the challengers of two historic Republicans, Mike Coffman and Scott Tipton, and groups that hire Latin organizers to help out the vote. 
 
 "Let's go to the Senate that we are just starting" The organizers wrote: "What we will do at the House GOP For this vote, that is exactly what will happen to them next. "
 
 The story and the numbers are intimidating. More Republicans than Democrats tend to turn out to be halfway through. The Democrats are also in full battle because they are defending seats that will be re-elected in the Senate next year. 
 
 Yet the organizers say there is a palpable feeling that voting by the House will trigger energy toward their ultimate goal: to overthrow seats for Democrats, especially in the 23 Republican districts where Hillary Clinton won in November. After an earlier version of the bill failed to vote, some groups feared their victory would have come too soon. The passing of the House bill restores a problem that has been a unifying force for their movement. 
 
 At the national level, members of the House have come to the head of the demonstrations. Many groups offered training sessions for members on how to solicit votes and how to report to the office. 
 
 
 
 "This increases the amount of energy," said Lise Talbott, founder of Stanislaus Resistance in the 10th District of California Congress, where representative Jeff Denham, a Republican who voted for The bill Thursday, won the re-election in November of four points - or about 10,000 votes. 
 
 The band members videotaped Mr. Denham in a town hall in April, promising to vote no on repeal. "There is a lot of feeling that he lied to us," Talbott said. Her group has started trying to increase voter registration by Hispanics and is working to get registered Democrats Which were not traditionally revealed on polling day to vote. 
 
 "People in the community understand the impact of this vote," said Ms. Talbott. "There are 300,000 people here with pre-existing conditions. This is the family of everyone." 

 In Kansas City, Kansas, dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the office of Kevin Yoder, another member of the Republican House in a district won by Mrs. Clinton, 39, voted on Thursday. Mr. Yoder, like dozens of others, said that he was undecided in the hours before the vote. He voted yes. 
 
 "We were hoping that it would show the courage to make the right choice," said Hannah Williams-Touch, one of the organizers of the event. "Once again, he proved the policy on people." A group came into her office to express her disappointment, she said, and left a message for Mr. Yoder with the workers there. "We told him that this proves his siege is seriously threatened in the upcoming elections, and we plan to continue to lobby." 
 
 In Wheaton, Illinois, demonstrators gathered outside A republican fundraiser in a golf club, warning representative Peter Roskam that his seat was also in danger because of his "Yes" vote. 
 
 Jessica Vealitzek, organizer of a group called People Over Party, said the group's leaders were looking for candidates to fight against Mr. Roskam. Their next monthly appointment will include a speaker to train people in prospecting and volunteering for the campaigns. 
 
 "He claims to have heard more people in favor, but I do not see the people on the streets who advocate AHCA," said Ms. Vealitzek, using an abbreviation for the plan of care Of Republican health. "It is hard to believe that he is telling the truth." 
 
 Resistance groups felt some victory in the "no" votes of 20 Republicans of the House last week. In Colorado, for example, Representative Mike Coffman voted not after weeks of protests outside his office. "Now, our attention turns to Gardner," said Michael Himawan, an organizer of an Indivisible Group in Mr. Coffman's District. "We can not allow the bill such as it is to pass the Senate." 
 
 Republicans who voted yes, often after weeks of refusing to take a stand on repeal, faced a new anger. 
 
 "I feel a pivot," said Debra Caplan, a founder of NJ-11th for Change, a group that for months has revealed hundreds of protesters every week outside New offices Jersey of Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen, the powerful chairman of the House's Appropriations Committee. 
 
 Mr. Frelinghuysen opposed an earlier version of the health bill in March, expressing concern about his cuts to Medicaid coverage, but the Republicans drew this bill Before the vote. Many members of the militant group were hoping to no longer vote on Thursday, because the same Medicaid cuts remained in the bill. Mr. Frelinghuysen voted yes, prompting 120 protesters to appear in a driving rain outside his district office in Morristown, N.J., on Friday morning. 
 
 "I think there were lots of people who thought he would vote no," said Mrs. Caplan. "I think this goodwill has been erased by this vote.There are many people who were not interested in replacing it that are very present now.Lots of people say that this is the last drop . "
 


 Correction: May 8, 2017  
 Due to editing errors, an earlier version of this article did not identify the resistance group for which Michael Himawan is an organizer and Group for which Angel Padilla is director of policy. Mr. Himawan is an organizer of an Indivisible group, not an Indivisible Front Range Resistance group. Mr. Padilla is a policy director for resistance to the indivisible and non-indivisible range. 
 


 Correction: May 8, 2017  
 An earlier version of this article ignored the name of Jessica Vealitzek's band. This is People Over Party, not People Over Politics. 
 


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