Local Groups
Lit & Ready
Let’s keep each other sane and keep going! Let's be the driving force for change in our neighborhoods and nation. We’ll be coming together monthly at our "Lit & Ready" meetings to share our ideas, collaborate, and keep building momentum. We’ll spend the first hour reflecting on what’s happened over the last month, share insights, thoughts, and laughs, and then close with a quick dive into action. You’ll leave feeling inspired and like we’re making real progress on the issues that matter most to you. Can't wait to see you all. And hey, don't hesitate to shoot me an email directly at [email protected] to share your awesome journey. Together, let's shape the world we dream of for ourselves and our little ones! Let's get after it, y'all, the world we want to wake up to is waiting.
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Triad Actioneers - Greater Triad Area NC
Our local group will connect people ready for action in our community who want to work with others to protect democracy on the local, state, and national levels. This Team will meet monthly to discuss relevant topics, share actions needed immediately, and rally our troops to take action. We welcome people to champion an issue, inform the group on it, and plan action for it. As interest grows in the Triad, we will host even larger gatherings to share information and most importantly, share ACTIONS needed to protect our local, state, and national democracy. With numerous battles being fought regarding topics important to human rights throughout the state of NC, Triad Actioneers formed in the Spring of 2023 to offer a central location for information sharing. Our members found it difficult to keep up with all of the information on each of the important topics. We now team up with other community groups to know how and when to take action for greater impact regarding a hot topic. To alleviate frustration and develop action that will make a positive change, a champion will bring current information and specific needed actions to each meeting regarding the following topics: Education School Budget School Vouchers BOE Updates Freedom to Parent Trans Initiatives Reproductive Health ...any other relevant topic that is key to defending democracy. Thank you for being a badass by wanting to take action to defend our democracy! We look forward to meeting you soon.
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Portlanders Passionate for Progress
Let’s tackle—discuss, brainstorm, resolve—issues that are deterring all things progress. It may take determination & grit, but there’s always a solution!
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Downtown Nasty Women Social Group
We are a grassroots activist group, established in NYC in the aftermath of the 2016 election, dedicated to increasing voter participation, electing Democrats nationwide, and shifting the balance of power to improve lives. Our activist efforts include GOTV initiatives, fundraising, hosting elected officials, partnering with activist groups on weekly zoom calls, postcard writing, canvassing, phone banking, and other electoral and issue-based organizing. We send out a weekly newsletter to over 1400 people nationwide, featuring facts, actions, meeting alerts and information about national and NY policy/politics. Please check out resource and sign up to receive our weekly email to get apprised of our activities, events, and fundraisers.
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Elections Matter Now
This is a non partisan group focused on uniting with millions of other pro-democracy Americans for nonviolent noncooperation with the authoritarian regime ruling our country at this moment in history. According to historian Heather Cox Richardson, our country has been here before and survived. This time let's do better than survive and work together to build a democracy that works for everyone, not just the white oligarchs of our country and the world. Republicans, independents and democrats that want to participate in fighting for democracy, are welcome here! Bring your ideas and your energy. Together we'll brainstorm opportunities for each one of us, that'll fit our individual styles to work on crumbling the pillars that are supporting the authoritarians! 1. We have to continually stand up and sound the alarm as the Trump Administration and authors of Project 2025 press on rolling out the Project 2025 agenda and ending democracy. 2. There are many ways to be part of the democracy defending movement: a. call congresspeople in our state and all across the country b. rallies c. postcarding/letters d. community networking e. I'd love to hear your ideas too 3. Do all we can to help get democrats elected in 2026, sending them to congress so they can impeach the wanna be king. 4. Get democrats/independents elected down ballot in 2026 to prevent Project 2025 from being carried out at the state level. 5. Dark money will be pouring into elections. We need to educate and encourage voters to consider who is paying for the media messages & how they're trying to manipulate our votes. 6. Work with our swing state democratic parties in any way we can to help turn out voters sending a loud, clear message to MAGA extremists that WE ARE NOT GOING BACK, WE ARE MOVING FORWARD.
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GOOD Trouble LFK!
Our local group connects like-minded people in our community who want to work with others who share their values to protect democracy on the local, state and national levels.
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Anchor Richmond
Our local group will connect badass women in our community who want to work with others who share their values to protect democracy on the local, state and national levels.
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WW
Kitsap Peninsula - Stand Up!
Join our Facebook Group page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/749072017603770 We are a group of concerned individuals who are interested in preserving our democratic way of life for our children, grandchildren and beyond. We intend to find like-minded people who can join us, brainstorm and take action! Are you looking for a place to talk over your concerns about the status of this country? Are you a person who is concerned about the rule of law & our constitution? Join us, you have found your place.
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Team Trouble USA
We are Team Trouble USA! We are looking for member to sign up, make friends and work with each other to make a difference. Be apart of something that millions of Americans are doing, standing up for what we believe in! Red, Blue, we are all American's and we are all people. The media, and the powers that be are trying to divide us. We can only be strong if we stand together, fight for our rights and make a difference. Our group will gather virtually and physically, brainstorm and rally to tackle many injustices together. Partnering with other nationwide groups to help spread awareness, give people hope, lend a hand, and over all, be there for one another. Together we stand, divided we fall! As this group grows, we will be creating different divisions for the matters that are concerning our members. so each member will be working towards goals that mean the most to them.
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NJ Voters Want More Say
We are nonpartisan group of citizens focused on reforms to make the political process more responsive to New Jersey voters for better government. Members are from Camden, Burlington, and Gloucester counties primarily. New Jersey voters are dissatisfied and disengaged with politics in our state. We successfully fought with the statewide coalition Fair Ballot Alliance for Fair Ballots for 2024 US Senate primary elections to lay groundwork for the successful federal lawsuit that ended the 'county line'. There's more to be done in NJ and nationally with the new onset of political turmoil. We are launching anew on the Trouble Nation platform now in January 2025, initially on Zoom then hybrid with in person meetings. We'll decide what our primary focus points will be in our initial meeting date TBA. Options: 1) Here in New Jersey, the 2025 primary elections will actually be determined more by candidates connecting with voters, instead of pleasing unelected county party chairpersons. That poses a great opportunity to educate NJ voters on our new power to determine who wins primary elections. 2) There has been a disappointing capitulation of long respected news outlets to a much more biased coverage of news. We can collect & share resources of balanced, truthful news coverage to counter misinformation and disinformation. 3) There are several new entities formed in order to defend democracy from a cross-partisan standpoint. We can use their resources to plan our efforts and actions. One of these reports is linked in op-ed "American democracy is in crisis. We have a playbook to defend it" written by two scholars from the Brookings Institute, source of the original Marshall plan to rebuild democracy for Europe after WW II, Norm Eisen and Jonathan Katz use the experiences of Brazil and Poland to fend off the backsliding in their democracies. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-democracy-crisis-brazil-poland-rcna188134
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