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Energize An Ally Tuesday
Call me crazy, but I've never been a fan of the day-after-Thanksgiving shopping event known as Trample Your Neighbors At The Mall Friday. Now that I'm finally out of the coveted 25-54 demo, I can kick back at home and let the young 'uns do the trampling instead. (I’m told it wasn’t as bad as last year, but still...no thanks.)
I much prefer Giving Tuesday, started in 2011 as "an international day of charitable giving at the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season." It's a good time to stop and appreciate the many fearless, well-run organizations that go out every day and defend the country from the internal orc army known as the MAGA cult. Plus there tends to be less trampling.
Here are some groups on which we've cast our Tuesday Energize An Ally spotlight over the years. If you feel like tossing a few bucks their way, they'd appreciate it. And if you have a group that you'd like folks to know about, let us know in the comments.
The ACLU The civil liberties titan preventing the GOP from treating the Constitution as a glorified snot rag
League of Conservation Voters Working to make life hell for the polluters and the fossil fuel addicts (but I repeat myself).
Democracy Docket Marc Elias runs the leading progressive source for information, analysis and opinion about voting rights, elections and democracy, and he spends a lot of time in courtrooms around the country winning cases against the election deniers.
Run for Something Extremely effective at recruiting and training thousands of young progressives to run for office since the day Trump took office the first time...and a lot of ‘em have been winning.
Indivisible Former Obama staffers who literally wrote the how-to manual on "cultivating a grassroots movement of thousands of local groups to elect progressive leaders, realize bold progressive policies, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the MAGA agenda"
Leaders We Deserve Founded by David Hogg and Kevin Lata, this is a newly-hatched grassroots organization dedicated to electing young progressives to Congress and State Legislatures across the country to help defeat the far-right agenda and advance a progressive vision for the future.
To all the organizations fighting the good fight, and the dedicated advocates who staff them, Thank You for doing what you do. It is most excellent.
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