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Courtesy of the Initiative 82 Campaign How Tipped Workers Won in DC
When elected officials wouldn’t deliver, tipped workers and their progressive allies went to voters.
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Courtesy of Training for Change SONG’s “Free From Fear” Campaign
The Birth of Black Mama’s Bail Outs
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Photo by Nelly Fuentes How Undocumented Farmworkers Helped Flip the Michigan State House
Among the unsung heroes of the Democrats’ historic triumph in the Michigan legislature are the same unsung heroes that have kept our country fed for generations: rural, undocumented farmworkers and their families.
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Courtesy of Brendan Walsh View from the Grassroots: Worker Power
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Brendan Walsh from Worker Power in Arizona learned.
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Courtesy of Make the Road Action View from the Grassroots: Make the Road Action
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what <a href="https://www.maketheroadaction.org/">Make the Road Action</a>'s (MRA) co-Executive Director and its Pennsylvania and Nevada directors learned.
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Courtesy of Jay Malone View from the Grassroots: Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Jay Malone from the Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation learned.
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Courtesy of Katey Lauer View from the Grassroots: WV Can’t Wait
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Katey Lauer from WV Can't Wait learned.
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Courtesy of Christine Neumann-Ortiz View from the Grassroots: Voces de la Frontera Action
We asked grassroots organizers from across the country what they learned during the 2022 elections. Here's what Christine Neumann-Ortiz from Voces de la Frontera Action learned.
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Courtesy of the Working Families Party Building Resilient Organizations
Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis
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Photo from Rising Voices via Facebook. Multi-Ethnic Coalition Wins in Michigan
Statewide alignment among organizations representing communities of color flipped Michigan. “We did get our people to see the power within themselves and unlock that power,” Jungsoon Ahn of Rising Voices told Eddie Wong.
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Jermaine Amado Building Local Power
Sarah Johnson talks about the growing leadership of women and people of color across the country, her approach to organizing in suburban and rural areas, and why relationships are so important to building power.
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Courtesy of Training for Change Building a Citywide Tenant Union in Kansas City
KC Tenants's Tara Raghuveer is "ruthless" about base building.
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Courtesy of Training for Change Keeping a Hard No
Campaign lessons from the battle to stop Amazon’s HQ2 in Queens
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Courtesy of UTST “Disrupting the Power Structure”
Building in red states and communities with United Today, Stronger Tomorrow
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Courtesy of UTST “Contesting for Power Is So important”
Building in red states and communities with United Today, Stronger Tomorrow
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Courtesy of Ravi Mangla “We have to tell larger stories”
New York Working Families Party communications director Ravi Mangla talks about his new novel, The Observant, and how he thinks about writing fiction and doing politics.
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Lessons from the Campaign to Win DACA
Neidi Dominguez on how youung undocumented organizers won by not listening to DC, embracing disagreement, and using multiple strategies.
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Courtesy of New America Winning Paid Family Leave in Delaware
Liz Richards on how she planted the seeds for the Delaware family leave bill, formed a coalition from the ground up, and elevated people power along the way.
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Photo by Kandukuru Nagarjun. Licensed CC BY 2.0 Organizing Against Autocracy in the US: Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks
Authoritarian takeover is not inevitable—but preventing it will require imagination, commitment, and a united democratic alliance like we haven’t experienced before.
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Clockwise from top: UNITE HERE, Faith In Minnesota, Pennsylvania Stands Up. MAGA Stymied But Stalemate Remains
Effective organizing helped block the “Red Wave.” This buys our movements a bit more time to build to the scale and unity we need to defeat the authoritarian right.