Leaders of national organizations and their funders need to share more resources and accept varied grassroots choices in different states and localities.
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Altercation: When the Right Cancels It, It Ain’t Cancel Culture
How’s a bigoted loon to know what’s good and what’s not these days?
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The Role of Leadership in Cultivating Collective Democratic Voice
The future of our democracy depends on finding ways in which ‘power to the people’ can become real.
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Organizing the Multiracial Working Class
We must build organizational strength for the long haul, not just around election season.
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Organizing New People by Listening
We need to engage the tens of millions of low-income and working-class people who are not animated by today’s social movements.
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Organizing Going Forward
Invest for the long term in grassroots organizations that prove they can successfully communicate with and mobilize communities of color, young voters, and union members and supporters.
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The Other Infrastructure Program: Progressive Organizing
One legacy of Trump’s 2016 election and the reaction it spawned has been a geographic broadening and demographic diversification of the movement-network array.
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Acting Officials Can Govern for Years. They Deserve Scrutiny.
President Biden has total authority to select replacements for top-level government positions. He should choose wisely.
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Altercation: Limbaugh, and Associated Outrages
Among which, those in mainstream media who’ve kowtowed to him
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Notes From the Front Lines
Indivisible Kansas City came to join many causes, especially voting rights and Medicaid expansion, where newly engaged, civically minded people could find a toehold for their energy.
