A roundtable discussion about organizing and progressive politics from people long committed to successful progressive organizing. These include national leaders and local ones, as well as students of organizing.
Jandos Rothstein
The Movement, the Party, and the President
The Republicans are cracking up. Can Democratic unity hold? And will the Biden administration be an ally of long-term organizing? Read more
Resistance Disconnect
How Indivisible’s national advocates and grassroots volunteers have pulled apart—and what could happen instead Read more
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The Future of Organizing
Prospect co-founder Robert Kuttner introduces a roundtable discussion about organizing and progressive politics. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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Organizing the Multiracial Working Class
We must build organizational strength for the long haul, not just around election season. Read more
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Let’s Organize—and Not Scapegoat Leaders
Given their resources, the national Indivisible leadership has done well by its 2017 mission statement to ‘lift up a grassroots movement of local groups to defeat the Trump agenda, elect progressive leaders, and realize bold progressive policies.’ Read more
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The Importance of Local and National Collaboration
Neither the Indivisible Guide nor the organization’s brilliantly effective map built the 2017 resistance movement wave, but they were critical in allowing our group to conceive of ourselves as powerful political agents. Read more
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Focus on the Grassroots
Grassroots Democratic civic life is a desert that only gets watered for a few months every two or four years, and then only in battleground states or districts. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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Takeaways From Missed Opportunities
Leaders of national organizations and their funders need to share more resources and accept varied grassroots choices in different states and localities. Read more
