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It’s 2025, y’all. Our fossil-fueled climate crisis is front and center, with wildfires in the West and blizzards in the East. And we’re less than a week from Inauguration Day, with authoritarians eager to seize control in Washington, so they can take the guardrails off our democracy and fill the pockets of the wealthy few. This would be an easy time to despair.

Yet I feel hope, because of you. You are the bold, beautiful and diverse members of the People’s Action family. You are who inspires me to know that whatever comes, we will get through this together.

In December, I spent time with many of you at our Movement Builders Conference in North Carolina. You shared inspiring stories about victories – yes, victories – all across the country, like in Missouri, where Jobs with Justice built an incredible coalition to win a higher minimum wage and protect workers. And Washington State, where Firelands Workers United, OneAmerica and Washington Community Action Network joined forces to defeat a billionaire’s bid to take $2.2 billion away from schools, climate defense and health care. There’s  more to celebrate – in Maryland, Maine and more.

We don’t want to either congratulate ourselves or cry in our beers. As we gathered in Durham, we looked to the future, and to the challenges we must face together. In small-group sessions, we dug in to strategize and build networks to support each other if the new administration comes after immigrants, LGBTQ+ communities and political rivals. 

There was broad agreement that we need an Organizing Revival now more than ever, so we can build each other up as organizers and create a stronger movement for social justice. By the end of our three days together, nearly a thousand of you had committed to attend the People’s Action convention this October – thank you!

You all are the reasons I have no doubt that we will rise to meet and overcome every challenge we must face.

Bottom line, the other side offers no solutions for everyday people, like you and me – only deeper divisions as the rich get richer. Our shared message of “blue collar, not billionaires” cuts across political divides, and will resonate even more with the growing number of people affected in coming years by our crises of housing, health care and climate. 

Our crises are not going away, and they do not discriminate, as the tragic loss of life and homes from the wildfires in California makes painfully clear. Thank you to GroundGameLA and all those who are working in LA County to help those in need – please support them so they can recover! 

As People’s Action, we will tirelessly focus on the root causes of these crises: corporate greed and the structural inequities that put all of our lives at risk. The new administration, which gave away more than $3 trillion to corporations and the super-rich the last time they held power, are now back for more. We will not let them write themselves a blank check at our expense. 

We have power. New York State just passed a bill to make fossil-fuel polluters pay $75 billion to mitigate the consequences of extreme climate. Thank you, Citizen Action of New York and PUSH Buffalo for consistently demanding this solution, which offers an example other states and groups can now follow. 

And we are growing – we congratulate the Northwest Bronx Clergy and Community Coalition for both their 50th anniversary, and also their bold plan to expand borough-wide! 

Check out this article Kellon Patey and I cowrote for Convergence Magazine on how Rural Cohort victories show how coalitions can overcome divisions, and by Hoosier Action’s Kate Hess Pace on the power of mutual aid. Sulma Arias has thoughts in the American Prospect on why it’s time for a Homes Guarantee, and Bill Kopsky from the Arkansas Public Policy panel wrote this thoughtful reflection about why we need an Organizing Revival in The Forge.

Legendary organizer Heather Booth joined us for some conversations a few days after the election. She reminded us that as a movement, we’ve been here before: not long ago, there weren’t voting or civil rights in this country, or reproductive freedom. Organizers and organizing won and have defended all of these things. Now we will do it again.

“What happens now depends on what we do,” Heather told us. “If we continue, we can turn it around. We’ve been in hard places before, and we have turned it around.”

We will turn it around, no matter what others say. So thank you for staying strong and united.

Let’s do this!

Amanda Weaver
People’s Action

Lead Story

Charting our Way Forward Together as Movement Builders


More than 160 organizers from 30 organizations across the People’s Action network gathered in Durham, North Carolina from December 3rd to 6th for three days of workshops, frank conversation and plans for our shared road ahead. Read more

Organizing Stories

Missouri Jobs with Justice Celebrates Minimum Wage, Sick Leave Victories

Missouri Jobs with Justice (MOJwJ) is celebrating a tremendous win with the passage this this November Proposition A, a ballot measure initiative which increases the minimum wage in the state to $15 from $12.30 and extends sick leave protections to hourly workers and those employed by small businesses. Read more

Firelands, OneAmerica and Washington CAN Defend Funding for Schools and Climate

Firelands Workers United, OneAmerica and the Washington Community Action Network are celebrating the defeat of a ballot initiative to roll back Washington State’s capital gains tax, which would have stripped away $2.2 billion in funding from schools, climate defense and health care to line the pockets of the ultra-rich. Read more

Progressive Maryland Celebrates Alsobrooks, Baltimore City Victories!

Progressive Maryland scored two landmark victories this election cycle: they elected Angela Alsobrooks as the first Black woman to represent the state in the U.S. Senate, and defeated right-wing media tycoon David Smith’s bid to gut the Baltimore City Council. Read more

Tipping Wins Second Term as Maine State Senator

Mike Tipping, a longtime organizer with the Maine People’s Alliance, won reelection to Maine’s State Senate, one of the many ways Pine Tree State voters bucked the national shift rightwards to set an example for rural states nationwide. Read more

Citizen Action of New York, PUSH Buffalo Celebrate $75b “Make Polluters Pay” Victory, EPA Grant

Citizen Action of New York (CANY) and PUSH Buffalo are celebrating the creation of a $75 billion “Climate Change Superfund” in New York State, which will force fossil fuel producers to pay about $3 billion each year for 25 years to offset the extreme weather conditions caused by climate change, and an EPA grant for implementation of climate solutions.  Read more

NWBCCC Celebrates 50 Years by Going Bronx-wide!

The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) is celebrating their golden anniversary with a big announcement: they’re going borough-wide with a bold vision for economic empowerment! Read more

Recent Media

READ: “Blue Collar, Not Billionaires: How We Build Coalitions that Win”

Long-term organizing, deep canvassing, and broad coalitions fueled wins for working families from Maine to Missouri, Washington State to North Carolina. “The red maps we see on network TV obscure the fact that ​​rural America isn’t MAGA country. Our nation’s intertwined crises – of housing, health, climate, affordability and despair – hurt people in small towns and big cities alike.”

READ: “We Care For Each Other, We Fight For Each Other”

Movement scholar Erica Chenoweth moderates an exchange among Kate Hess Pace of Hoosier Action, Ginny Goldman of Organizing Resilience, and Anna Duncan of the National Domestic Workers Alliance on the role, promise, and challenges of mutual aid in their varied organizing projects.

READ: Why We Need a Homes Guarantee

Our housing crisis is not going away, and it demands a comprehensive solution with one goal in mind: safe and affordable homes for all.

READ: Resisting Authoritarianism – Lessons from Arkansas

“We need an Organizing Revival, especially in communities that have been the most marginalized and forgotten. Growing income inequality is leaving people and whole communities behind. Urban centers and rural communities have both been exploited and forgotten by the same global economic forces. It’s unstrategic and privileged for us not to be deeply investing in long-term organizing in these communities.”

WATCH: Cover Our Care Livestream

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