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Making sense of the new hell

Local organizing groups get ready for upcoming campaigns and elections: "We need know that we all deserve better.” 

We must lay up our supplies – of love, care, trust, community and resolve – so we may resist the storm. No one can deal with every issue at once, and choosing which part of the problem to commit to is part of the work of resistance.

The diverse Latine experience, shaped by factors like immigration status, race, and class, is too often oversimplified—both by outsiders and within our own communities

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Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.

I will say this,” one House Democrat said. “The Democratic Party has a major working-class voter issue. It started a decade ago as a working-class White issue. It’s now gotten even worse and spread across racial lines.” —The Washington Post, 11/6/24

Our cup runneth over

We are at the brink

The country is evenly divided when it comes to party preference. Trump did not win a landslide like FDR in 1936, Johnson in 1964, Nixon in 1972, Reagan in 1980, or Obama in 2008. He won by a small margin in the Electoral College and popular vote.