All the experts I follow and trust have been warning about this for a while: when trump starts to feel the walls caving in is when he will be at his most dangerous.
My friends, that is where we are right now. These next few months are likely to have challenges.
The unhinged and terrifying and awful behavior is terrifying and awful, but it is very, very importantthat you don’t lose sight of why this is happening.
It is happening because Trump is running scared
He understands that Democrats can take control of the House (and possibly the Senate) in November. Trump fears another series of impeachments that will confirm and cement his status as the most corrupt president in our nation’s history by a wide margin.
Trump also knows his window of opportunity to shape his imaginary legacy is closing in 2026. Whatever delusional plans he has for being remembered as a “war president,” a president who expanded the territory of the US, or the president who toppled “Castro’s Cuba,” he must act before he loses control of Congress and faces accountability for his actions.
So, Trump is working with frenetic urgency to do his worst in the shortest time possible. He is doing so because he fears us and knows that his unlawful reign depends on a corrupt, complicit, cowardly GOP that has control of Congress. Once that advantage disappears, he will be diminished and weakened.
It is happening because we are sticking together and fighting back. We aren’t stepping down. We aren’t weakening. We aren’t giving up.
As Aaron Parnas said last night:
Right now, there is a strategy coming from the White House. Here is how that strategy works. You witness so much wrongdoing that your ability to be shocked begins to erode. You are hit with so many scandals that the details blur together. Eventually, the effort required to stay informed becomes so draining that tuning out feels like the only option left. That is not a failure on your part. That is the goal. They do not need your agreement. They only need your fatigue.
I will be honest with you. That can feel frightening.
But here is what I know. They can flood the zone. They can try to exhaust the public. They can attempt to bury the truth under endless waves of distraction. We will still be here.
and how does he know?
I spoke with Ezra Levin from Indivisible today about how communities are organizing and responding here at home after the horrific shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis
He told me about a broad national coalition of groups including Indivisible, MoveOn CivicAction, the American Civil Liberties Union, Voto Latino, United We Dream,50501, the Disappeared in America Campaign, and partner organizations across the country has called for a coordinated “ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action” on Saturday, January 10, and Sunday, January 11.
In less than 24 hours after the announcement there are already more than 1,000 events anticipated nationwide. These gatherings are planned to be nonviolent, lawful, and led by local communities to honor the life lost, demand accountability, and make visible the human cost of immigration enforcement actions.
and this:
The weekend's mobilization came together in less than 24 hours, said Sarah Parker, Voices of Florida executive director and 50501 national partner.
- "You can only put so much water in a cup before it starts to overflow," Parker told Axios. "And I think it's overflowing right now."
- "Within a matter of a week — Venezuela, Minnesota, Portland — enough is enough," she added. "And I think the people are going to make that very clear in the next few weeks."
Look at how much we doing! People have had enough. People are fighting back.
The awful is awful but don’t lose sight of why we are being bombarded by it. We are in this different stretch because he knows we can win and his is panicking.
Want some evidence? I brought receipts:
Pushback is working — They are turning on him
We saw incredible signs of life from Congress this week in a way that is terrifying trump
House votes to revive Affordable Care Act subsidies
A Democrat bill to revive enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years passed in the House Thursday with the help of 17 Republicans.
Why it matters: The dramatic 230-196 vote marked a rare rebuke by some Republicans of their own leadership, driven by concerns about spiking health care costs in an election year dominated by affordability concerns.
- The effort, led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), came to a vote after four House Republicans in December signed a Democratic discharge petition to force the matter, going around Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).
- Between the lines: President Trump has not been heavily engaged in the congressional discussions, leaving Republicans on the hill to try to work out their differences without much guidance from the White House.
The Senate on Thursday voted 52-47 to block President Donald Trump from further military action in Venezuela.
The move came less than a week after Trump authorized a strike that captured the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro.
The measure, known as a War Powers Resolution, only needed a simple majority to pass in the Republican-controlled Senate and would require Trump to seek the approval of Congress before using the U.S. military again in Venezuela. The measure was brought by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.
The vote in the Senate was procedural, but it indicates that the measure has the votes to pass when it comes to a final vote in the Senate. It would then go to the House, where Republicans have a razor-thin majority.
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"The dam has broken." Afghanistan War Veteran Max Rose applauds the Senate’s bipartisan vote advancing the War Powers Resolution. He calls it a stunning rebuke of Trump’s unilateral wars, reminding the President that the military belongs to America, not him.
— VoteVets (@votevets.org) 2026-01-08T17:05:01.629Z
Trump suffers day of significant Republican defections on House and Senate votes
Lawmakers voting against their party’s president is common in midterm election years, particularly for vulnerable lawmakers who represent swing districts. Yet the repeated rebukes of the president, and the number of lawmakers defecting, are unusual. And they represent a continued challenge for GOP leaders with limited majorities, who are struggling to corral their colleagues behind the president’s agenda.
and he got mad and that got him MORE pushback
Senate Republicans miffed over Trump’s angry rant targeting Collins, others
Senate Republicans on Thursday lamented President Trump’s call for the ouster of five GOP members who voted with Democrats and dealt him a blow on the Venezuela war powers resolution, indicating the president’s angry rant was a mistake as the party enters an election year.
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Commentators have to stop describing these rebukes of Trump as rare. The Senate voted to roll back his tariffs. Both chambers delivered a historic rebuke on the Epstein files. The House is voting this week to undo part of his health care agenda and override two vetoes. His coalition is fraying.
— Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) 2026-01-08T17:26:46.288Z
and those aren’t the only pushbacks:
Republicans push back on White House military threat toward Greenland
some GOP lawmakers denounce what they say would be a senseless attack on a longtime U.S. partner that could splinter the NATO alliance.
In a statement, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), the GOP chair of the Senate panel on defense spending, called the administration’s comments “unseemly” and “counterproductive,” warning that any military action would be “an especially catastrophic act of strategic self-harm to America and its global influence.”
“I’m sick of stupid,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), who co-chairs a Senate panel on NATO, said in a restive floor speech Wednesday. “The amateurs who said it was a good idea should lose their jobs,” he continued, referencing Miller’s comments Monday.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who co-chairs the Senate Arctic Caucus, said in a statement that she hoped the administration’s “rhetoric on Greenland is nothing more than posturing for a new era of cooperation.” Forcibly annexing the territory, she warned, would “degrade both our national security and our international relationships.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) said he was unaware of a single Senate Republican who supports taking military action against the territory.
and:
Republicans on Capitol Hill are expressing skepticism over Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s handling of the Trump administration’s response to an Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shooting a woman Noem has said was committing an “act of domestic terrorism.”
Noem’s hasty characterization of the shooting as an entirely justified use of federal force against a woman who “weaponized” her vehicle has raised questions on Capitol Hill and differed in tone from other senior administration officials.
“It was very unusual to have a senior law enforcement official to draw a conclusion about an event where the scene was still being processed,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said of Noem’s conclusion that the shooting was in response to a domestic terrorism incident.
Some Republicans are challenging Noem’s claims that Minnesota state investigators “don’t have any jurisdiction” over the shooting, something that state officials also dispute.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said she’s concerned about reports that the Department of Homeland Security is shutting the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension out from the investigation.
and:
Congress rejects President Trump's deep NASA budget cuts, proposes $24.4 billion for the agency
Congress is not on board with President Donald Trump's deep NASA budget cuts.
The White House allocated just $18.8 billion to the space agency — a 24% decrease from the previous year's funding — in its 2026 federal budget request, which was released last spring. The cuts were particularly harsh toward NASA's science portfolio, which was given just $3.9 billion — a drop of about 75%.
However, the federal budget request is just that: a request. Congress controls the nation's purse strings, and lawmakers just threw NASA a lifeline.
and:
A plaque honoring law enforcement personnel who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack will go on display inside the building, senators decided Thursday.
The Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution directing the Architect of the Capitol to “prominently display” the memorial in a “publicly accessible” part of the Senate wing until it can be permanently installed on the Capitol building’s western side, as required by a 2022 law.
House GOP leaders have refused to hang the plaque, with the office of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) saying this week that it does not comply with the law in its current construction, according to The Associated Press. The resolution does not require House approval.
and
This is part of a larger pattern
I want to remind folks that this day of rebukes and repudiation follows the Senate voting to roll back Trump’s tariffs; the House voting to overturn Trump’s executive order on worker’s compensation; his failure to keep the government funded and open; the entire Congress voting to force him to end his rancid cover up and release the Epstein files; MTG’s very public, ongoing rebuke of Trump and her resignation; the courts, including the Supreme Court, continually ruling against him and constraining his ambition
And he is losing the dude bros
Manospheres of Influence
The disaffected young men who helped elect Trump are fed up with high prices, worried about A.I., and frustrated by the president’s neocon turn. And, according to exclusive new polling data, they’re souring on Trump just as they turned on Joe Biden.
In many ways, the drift of young men away from Trump this year tells the story of why his presidency has hit the skids. Simply put, Trump continues to do things he wasn’t elected to do—and young male voters have noticed. This week, I received exclusive new data from a fresh, large-scale report conducted by Speaking With American Men (SAM), a multimillion-dollar research project, created by Democrats in the aftermath of 2024, that studies why young men shifted so dramatically to the G.O.P. The project is helmed by longtime youth polling expert John Della Volpe, who surveyed 4,211 young people between the ages of 16-29 from October 28 to November 6 for the second installation of The SAM Project’s ongoing study. It found that young men simply don’t trust the president anymore—a rupture that began with Trump’s Liberation Day tariff announcement last spring.
Even this asshole:
Tucker Carlson Asks Why Conservatives Can’t View Renee Good Shooting Through ‘Human Lens’: ‘A Woman Got Shot in the Face’
Tucker Carlson argued reactions from conservatives to the ICE shooting of a 37-year-old mother in Minneapolis are showing just how “desensitized” Americans really are.
“How come so few conservatives are viewing this story through a human lens?” Carlson asked in a newsletter for his network subscribers this week.
“The 37-year-old was an American citizen and reportedly the mother of a kindergarten-aged child. Did we disagree with her views on immigration? Probably. But that shouldn’t matter,” Carlson’s newsletter reads. “Her death is a tragedy, regardless of her partisan affiliations, ideological beliefs, or who pulled the trigger. A woman was shot in the face.”
And they may seem loud — the sure seem to want to fill every comments section online (with their bot and troll farm friends) but the actual data suggests that they aren’t a growing force. Not at all.
MAGA media sites fizzle as infighting splinters messaging
Most major conservative news apps have seen little to no growth in monthly traffic or app downloads over the past one to two years, according to data from Apptopia and Similarweb.
Why it matters: The splintering of the MAGA media movement — combined with broader media market challenges — has impacted the ability of many outlets within the once-unified coalition to grow.
Zoom in: Over the past two years, monthly app downloads to several of the most popular conservative media apps, including Truth Social and Newsmax, have declined, per Apptopia.
And after the tragedy this week and their abhorrent lying about it, they sent Vance in to lie for them, since that seems to be his best skil.
but that shows weakness too….
And his recklessness is increasing the likelihood of the end of his reign. Like the Venezuela situation. Here are some headlines about that:
By attacking Venezuela, Trump now has both “inside” and “outside” problems with no easy solutions
Trump might have his hubris checked in Venezuela
Trump's Venezuela adventure is already a propaganda disaster
and this:
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When **Trump voters** were asked who should decide the future leadership of Venezuela, only 9% said the United States and 91% said the people of Venezuela.
This is very far from a blank check for Trump, even among MAGA.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
— Ben Ross (@benrosstransit.bsky.social) 2026-01-06T13:25:42.812Z
If you ask it another way, 80% of MAGA supports him. That may seem high but...
and….
Meanwhile Democratic leaders have found new energy and action
Democrats are doing great things
Look at this rockstar:
and this:
It would end qualified immunity for civil enforcement officers like ICE agents, making it easier for victims of their abuses to sue them or pursue criminal charges against them in court.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) will propose sweeping reforms to DHS, including requiring a warrant for arrests, banning masks during enforcement operations and requiring Border Patrol to remain at the border after an ICE officer killed a woman in Minneapolis this week, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: It's one of the biggest anti-ICE pushes by elected Democrats since the days of "Abolish ICE" — and less than two years after an election where Democrats feel like they got beaten badly on the immigration issue.
- But the polling has shifted, with a majority of Americans saying last year that President Trump is doing "too much" on deportations, according to Pew.
and this ACTION: Democrats threaten to withhold funding after ICE killing in Minneapolis
“Democrats cannot vote for a [Department of Homeland Security] budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency,” Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator of Connecticut, wrote on X, sharing a video of the shooting.
According to the Pew Research Center, 53% of Americans now say the Trump administration is doing “too much” when it comes to deporting immigrants living in the US without authorization, up from 44% in March.
and Minnesota Dems not taking the FBI snub lying down:
The FBI can delay access to evidence, but it cannot block a state homicide probe. Minnesota can proceed independently and use courts or subpoenas to compel evidence. Claims by J.D. Vance that ICE agents have “absolute immunity” are false—federal agents have no immunity from state criminal law. Justice for Renee Good will come.
The next move is to present the Grand Jury, with the abundance of Videos which is why it's always important to record confrontations especially with ICE.
State Charges are Forever, especially in a Murder Case.
Minnesota officials ask public to submit ICE shooting evidence after FBI cuts ties
Minnesota officials on Friday asked the public to turn over any evidence that may be relevant to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)-involved shooting of a local woman this week, after the FBI iced out state investigators.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty emphasized that the state has jurisdiction to investigate and decide whether to bring charges, despite the Trump administration’s move to revoke its access to case materials.
She said her office would provide a link to submit videos of the fatal shooting to preserve evidence, expressing concerns that the FBI might not share its findings.
“We do not yet know if there will be sufficient evidence without the FBI case file to even make a charging decision,” Moriarty said.
And check out Hochul in NYS!
Hochul unveils child care expansion plan alongside Mamdani
Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled a sweeping plan Thursday to provide free child care for children under five throughout New York state — a significant step toward enacting a key campaign pledge for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Hochul announced a partnership with Mamdani to provide free child care for 2-year-olds in New York City, with the state covering the full cost of the first two years of the initiative without raising any new taxes. The announcement comes after Mamdani made universal child care a focal point of his affordability-focused campaign.
and this guy had a WEEK!!!!
Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
Credit should go in large part to Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) who kept the focus on healthcare, maintained his nerve during the shutdown, and continued to make the case to voters even after Senate Democrats caved. Had he not done so, the issue would not now be front and center, causing Republicans fits. Jeffries has shown that the minority certainly has cards to play.
and Walz has been great:
An Unleashed Tim Walz Goes SCORCHED EARTH On “Fraudster” In The White Hous
An unleashed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz delivered a fiery speech yesterday, slamming the GOP for doing everything they can to “tear this state down” and act as a “parrot for Donald Trump.”
Walz said “shame on you” to the Republicans who “shed crocodile tears” at the funeral for the Hortmans, but now refuse to condemn Trump’s violent rhetoric.
Walz said the GOP is hiding behind a “veil of innuendo” in order to protect “the biggest fraudster in the White House.” And when asked if he would resign, Walz said: “Over my dead body will that happen. I will fight this thing to the very end … the question I think they need to decide is when will the guy in the White House resign?”
And Kelly has been a rockstar
Mark Kelly's legal team hits back at Pentagon with stern threat
An attorney representing Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) fired off a warning letter to the Department of Defense on Monday, saying the senator is prepared to take whatever legal action is necessary to stop what they regard as an illegal and politically motivated investigation into him.
And those are just a few of their moves from just this week!
and there are...
More victories
this one from just last night...
Judge Says Trump Administration Can’t Block Child Care, Other Program Money for 5 States for Now
A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's administration cannot block federal money for child care subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting needy children and their families from flowing to five Democratic-led states for now.
The states of California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York argued that a policy announced Tuesday to freeze funds for three grant programs is having an immediate impact on them and creating “operational chaos.” In court filings and a hearing Friday, the states contended that the government did not have a legal reason for holding back the money from those states.
Kansas Republicans don’t have the votes for congressional redistricting, House speaker says
Speaker of the House Dan Hawkins, a Wichita Republican, said he is about 20 votes short of overriding a veto.
Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform
“There are currently no ICE ads running on Spotify,” a Spotify spokesperson tells Variety. “The advertisements mentioned were part of a U.S. government recruitment campaign that ran across all major media and platforms.”
In late October, the non-profit Indivisible Project called for a boycott of the streaming service in response to the ICE ads, encouraging the company to stop supporting the campaign. Last month, Indivisible Project joined with Working Families and 50501 Movement to launch a “Spotify Unwrapped” boycott in response to its annual “Wrapped” campaign, urging users to cancel their subscriptions.
Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated
Darren Michael, associate professor at Austin Peay State University, has reportedly been reinstated and given $500,000 after being fired over posts about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Words that gave me comfort this week
Again, it was a tough week. I turned to wise people for comfort and energy and I found it. Here are my favorites in case they help you
My heart goes out to the family of the woman ICE executed yesterday, Renee Good—especially the children she left behind, the youngest of whom was six.
And my heart goes out to every person who has been persecuted by ICE and DHS. This must stop. Now.
So, what can we do to stop it?
The work ahead of us takes a number of forms. Most importantly, we must sweep out the Republicans in the midterms.
Please do not type, “There won’t be any midterms because Trump will cancel them.” That’s a right-wing talking point designed to make you feel hopeless. Don’t fall for it, and don’t spread it.
The fact is, Trump and Mike Johnson are terrified of the midterms. They’ve seen the polls. And they’ve seen the results of last year’s elections in states like New Jersey, Virginia, and even Georgia, where they got trounced.
They know that Democratic victory means impeachment, conviction, and justice.
What other work should we be doing?
Boycotts. General strikes. Economic shutdowns.
The only thing oligarchs understand is money. Look how quickly ABC reversed its decision on Jimmy Kimmel when it was clear that it hurt their bottom line.
They’re cowards. They’re weak. And we’re strong.
On a day like today, it’s natural to feel hopeless. But that’s how they want us to feel. And hopelessness isn’t a plan.
At these dark hours I think of Jane Goodall, who never gave up fighting to save the planet.
Saving democracy is our fight. We can’t give up. And we will prevail.
by Make Madrid — She Was Good Let us rise up and be worthy of this moment
We’ve been here before.
And because we’ve been here before, we know what comes next. The question isn’t whether darkness will try to consume us—it’s whether we will allow the fatigue of the fight to continue on. Yet people gathered in the frigid snow to hold vigil for a persons life lost and what feels like the nations soul with it.
The machinery of authoritarianism depends on our exhaustion. It counts on our despair. It needs us to believe that this time is different, that this time the arc won’t bend, that this time the darkness wins. It seeks to beat us down but by bit. Tweet by tweet.
But our history tells a different story—not one of inevitable progress, but one of deliberate resilience forged in moments far bleaker than this.
Washington at Valley Forge watched his army freeze and starve. The revolution was just days from being lost. The republic appeared stillborn. Yet he chose to endure not because victory was certain, but because surrender was unthinkable.
Harriet Tubman returned again and again into the belly of slavery’s beast, risking her life nineteen times to guide others to freedom. She could have stayed safe. She was certainly tired and scared and worn. She could have saved only herself. Instead, she chose to be good.
Lincoln watched the nation tear itself apart, brother killing brother, the grand experiment in self-government collapsing into fratricidal war. All appeared lost with defeats at Fredricksburg and Chancellorsville. But in his second inaugural, with victory finally in sight, he spoke not of vengeance but of “malice toward none” and “charity for all.” He chose to bend the arc.
Martin Luther King sat in a Birmingham jail cell, criticized by allies, hunted by enemies, watching Black men and women beaten in the streets. From that cell, he wrote words that still echo: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” He chose hope over hatred.
These weren’t superhumans. They were ordinary people confronting extraordinary darkness with the same tools available to us now: hope, faith, and love.
And yes, the propaganda will intensify. The gaslighting will continue. They will tell us she deserved it, or it didn’t happen, or it wasn’t what it seemed. They will smear her reputation in death. They will try to make us doubt what we saw, what we know, what we are. This too is an old tactic. This too we have survived before.
A human being died violently at the hands of her own government - our government - yesterday. The light of life snuffed out in darkness.
But that life will only be lost in vain if we allow it to be.
Remember her name.
Say it out loud.
She was Good.
Renee Good.
Let us never lose sight of the fact that our history and our future demand that we be the same.
Jess Craven
if you are hurting, feeling gut-punched, angry, in despair, or can’t stop crying—that does not make you broken. That makes you human, and whole, and healthy. This is an absolutely awful moment in history and what we’re witnessing—including the dishonest and cruel responses from many GOP lawmakers—is really hard to take. It’s horrific.
You’re not crazy. They are.
So give yourself space for self care. Take breaks. Embrace community like you never have before. Lean in to love, and shared meals, and long walks, and pet cuddles, and family, and friends, and art. Celebrate the fact that you can feel, and care, and mourn, and create. It’s what makes you one of the “good guys.” Really.
It is also what makes you a strong and capable fighter. Never forget it: love, art, and community are our superpowers. So by leaning into them we are not only helping to sustain ourselves during this brutal fight, but we’re super-charging our batteries with a power that the right can never, ever access, because it is based in something they have no ability to experience.
What can you do to save democracy?
First, continue to find joy in your life! Don’t let that fuckface live rent free in your mind! This is your life!!!!!
Second, If you want to start out the year on a “good luck” note you can donate to our House efforts.
It splits our donations among the 15 seats held by Republicans in swing districts. These are seats that were either won by a margin of 4% or less or were won by Harris in 2024. In other words, these are seats we can win in 2026. None of them are in CA or TX (and thus likely to be redistricted). Any money you donate will go directly to whomever our candidate will be in 2026. We only need to flip three of these!
Here is the link:
WE CAN WIN THESE ELECTIONS!
Will elections be unfair? Will they try to get people to not vote through some kind of intimidation or other means? Is he trying to rig elections? 100% he is and 100% they won’t be fair.
But to be clear: our elections have never been fair. Why do you have to wait 8 hours to vote in a bright blue inner city and 30 seconds in a rural area? Is that fair? No. It isn’t.
Will they lie? Will they try to cheat? Sure. Why should this election be any different. Bomb threats were called into Black voting areas in 2024. Absentee ballots were never sent out in Erie, PA in 2024. They will pull that shit again.
But we will fight it. And we have shown in the past that we can win DESPITE their shenanigans. And we will show it again
Some other ways to get involved
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If you can, I strongly recommend going to an in person meeting in your area. One way to find a local group is through indivisible: indivisibleproject.formstack.com/…
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Election Response Center is a project hosted by Working Families Party, MoveOn Civic Action, Indivisible, and Public Citizen. They are organizing lots of events to get people fighting. Join one at this link
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The ACLU plays a key role in filing lawsuits that often stop voter suppression. Get involved with them at this link.
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Get involved with the Democratic party. We aren’t perfect, but they are fucking evil.
- Get involved with the States Project They are working on turning state legislatures blue
- Get involved with Swing Left. They are working on races right now!
- People For the American Way is a national progressive advocacy organization that inspires and mobilizes Americans to defend freedom, justice, and democracy from those who threaten to take them away. Get involved with them here
- Center for American Progress Action Fund is an independent, nonpartisan policy institute and advocacy organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. Get involved with them here
Looking for something more specific?
Want to focus on the ENVIRONMENT:
Want to focus on CIVIL RIGHTS:
HUMAN RIGHTS - GENERALLY:
LGBTQ+:
WOMEN:
Huge thanks to DKos user dabug for help with this list.
Don’t let the options overwhelm you! Try to pick one thing and see if it calls to you. If it doesn’t find something else.
There are so many ways to get involved and help!
Some inspiration before I say goodbye
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Lee: As a Black woman, there’s no way I don’t have hope. I’ve seen a lot in my life, and we have these moments of backward steps. But we have hope. I see hope. I see our young people—they have hope. I see them fighting hard for our democracy and for a better life.
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-01-02T21:24:10.262Z
“Whatever happens, stay alive.
Don't die before you're dead.
Don't lose yourself, don't lose hope, don't lose direction.
Stay alive, with yourself, with every cell of your body, with every fiber of your skin.
Stay alive, learn, study, think, read, build, invent, create, speak, write, dream, design.
Stay alive, stay alive inside you, stay alive also outside, fill yourself with colors of the world, fill yourself with peace, fill yourself with hope.
Stay alive with joy.
There is only one thing you should not waste in life,
and that's life itself..."
by Virginia Woolf
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At Albany Bulb with Elaine
By Alison Luterman
Side by side on a log by the bay.
Sunlight. Unleashed dogs,
prancing through surf, almost exploding
out of their skins with perfect happiness.
Dogs who don't know about fired park rangers,
or canceled health research, or tariff wars,
or the suicide hotline for veterans getting defunded,
or or or. We've listed horror upon horror
to each other for weeks now, and it does no good,
so instead I tell her how I held a two-day old baby
in my arms, inhaling him like a fresh-baked loaf of bread,
then watched as a sneeze erupted through his body
like a tiny volcano. It was the look of pure
astonishment on his face, as if he were Adam
in the garden of Eden making his debut achoo,
as if it were the first sneeze that ever blew,
that got me. She tells me how her dog
once farted so loudly he startled himself
and fell off the bed where he'd been lolling,
and then the two of us start to laugh so hard
we almost fall off our own log. And this
is our resistance for today; remembering
original innocence. And they can't
take it away from us, though they ban
our very existence, though they slash
our rights to ribbons, we will have
our mirth and our birthright gladness.
Long after every unsold Tesla
has vaporized, and earth has closed over
even the names of these temporary tyrants,
somewhere some women like us
will be sitting side by side, facing the water,
telling human stories and laughing still.
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please, keep this in mind when you despair:
I am so proud and so lucky to be in this with all of you. ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 💙❤️💛💚✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
