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Indivisible Groups take community action, build collective purpose, and create change.
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Organizations to donate your time and money to save Democracy in the USA
Garden of Peace
Celebrates and elevates the lived experiences of trans and queer folx, parents (caretakers), and families – centering Black/ Indigenous/ People of Color- through spacemaking, art and leadership development.
MiJente
Builds power by organizing their impact around campaigns that amplify their collective voice. The voice that represents over 60 million Latinx (and growing). Persistencia amplifies our resistencia.
Detention Watch Network
Is a national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States.
Immigrant Families Together
Is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to reuniting and supporting immigrant families separated at the US/Mexico border.
Southern Poverty Law Center
Employs a three-pronged strategy to battle racial and social injustice: Empowering Black Communities, Rooted in the South, A Vision for Change
ACLU
Their mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees. They defend the rights of all people nationwide.
Public Citizen
Is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest in the halls of power. We defend democracy, resist corporate power, and fight to ensure that government works for the people – not big corporations. Founded in 1971, we now have 500,000 members and supporters throughout the country.
Brennan Center
Inspired by Justice William J. Brennan Jr.’s devotion to core democratic freedoms, the Brennan Center for Justice works to strengthen democracy, end mass incarceration, and protect liberty and security.
United Farm Workers
Begun in the early 1960s by Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other organizers, the United Farm Workers of America is the nation’s first enduring and largest farm workers’ union. The UFW continues its activism in major agricultural sectors, chiefly in California.
Protect Democracy
A cross-ideological nonprofit group dedicated to defeating the authoritarian threat, building more resilient democratic institutions, and protecting our freedom and liberal democracy.
Vote Rider
Voter ID laws silence millions of Americans. VoteRiders provides voter ID assistance so that every American can cast a ballot that counts. Join us as a volunteer to make sure eligible voters have the ID and information they need to cast a ballot that counts.
Democrats
The DNC is dedicated to building on the wins from 2020 and 2022. They are working hard to elect Democrats up and down the ballot by empowering grassroots activists, mobilizing voters, and organizing in every ZIP code.
Indivisible
A grassroots movement of thousands of local Indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda.
Movement
Voter Project
A one-stop shop for strategically investing in local organizations that win elections and transform policy. MVP maximizes your impact by investing in the best local voter engagement organizations.
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Voter Project
Black-Led Organizing Fund
MVP is committed to funding Black-led organizing groups to not just win policies, but to defend those wins in the face of systemic oppression and anti-Black racism.
Swing Left
Building a lasting culture of grassroots participation in winning elections for Democrats by making it as easy as possible for anyone to have maximum impact on the elections that determine the balance of power in our country.
Fair Fight
As our democracy faces unprecedented challenges, Fair Fight is proud to launch the LFG (Volunteer) campaign. We’re empowering everyday Americans to support voters and protect our democratic process from election deniers and conspiracy theorists trying to tear our country apart.
Red Wine
& Blue
A sisterhood working to change the world together, one suburb at a time providing everything women need to successfully organize in their communities and beyond.
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Heather Cox Richardson
Is a professor of American history. Her daily letters are a chronicle of today’s political landscape, but because you can’t get a grip on today’s politics without an outline of America’s Constitution, and laws, and the economy, and social customs.
Joyce Vance
Is a former United States Attorney, currently a law professor, a legal analyst for MSNBC and NBC, and she co-hosts #SistersInLaw and Cafe’s Insider podcasts. Being a citizen is the most important work any of us can do and a key part of our role is to educate ourselves and stay informed.
Meidas+
Meidas News doesn’t just cover the news; they provide context, clarity, and commentary on the stories shaping the future of democracy. They don’t fall into the traps of the “both-sides” media and are always 100% unapologetically pro-democracy. Meidas News is the fastest growing pro-democracy news network. Led by Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas, with exclusive articles by Ron Filipkowski.
Robert B. Hubbell
Provides hope and perspective to his family after the unexpected results of the 2016 election. Over time, his family email was shared among friends and became of community of like-minded citizens devoted to preserving American democracy.
Dean Obeidallah
Hosts SiriusXM radio’s The Dean Obeidallah show. He is a writer, lawyer and comedian, saving America one fact and punchline at a time–not necessarily in that order! His free weekly newsletter that doesn’t serve up the corporate media’s “both sides” BS.
Steven Beschloss
Is a writer, journalist, editor, filmmaker, and professor. America, America is a plea and an ode, a collection of at least twice-weekly dispatches that observe and reflect on unfolding stories and issues that define our country and social-political life.
Sharon McMahon
Is a lifelong teacher who is profoundly disinterested in telling you what to think. Instead, she gives you the history and context about an issue and help you understand how to think critically about it, so you can make educated choices for yourself.
Thom Hartmann
Is is a New York Times bestselling, and four-times Project Censored Award-winning author. His Report provides his latest views and opinions from US politics, plus other fascinating subjects, including cutting-edge science reports.
Dan Rather
Is a journalist, storyteller, and lifelong reader, a Texan, by birth and by choice. He offers his steady take on a complex and chaotic world, to facilitate conversation about this nation, and broader world. Steady is an aspirational goal, a place for contemplation, empathy, learning, and yes a little humor when warranted.
Robert Reich
The reason he writes this daily newsletter is not just to inform (and occasionally amuse) you, but also to arm you with the truth — about how the system works and doesn’t, where power is located and where it’s lacking, and the myths and lies used by those who are blocking positive social change — so you can fight more effectively for the common good.
Jay Kuo
Takes a deep dive each weekday into important political and legal topics, broken down in plain English and easily digestible morsels. He created a community of folks committed to protecting the rule of law, our civil institutions, and the future of our democracy.
Scott Dworkin
Is a journalist with a long history of standing up to corrupt leaders. Co-founder of The Democratic Coalition. Host of The Dworkin Report and The Dworkin Weekly podcasts. At the Dworkin Report, they don’t just produce daily, hard-hitting articles, exclusive interviews, member-only chats and more—you also get real actions, delivering measurable results.