#grassroots-activism

#grassroots-activism

Democratic leaders love to talk about unity-until a progressive wins. Every cycle, we're told to fall in line for the good of the party. Zohran Mamdani is the nominee-and yet the establishment's silence is deafening.

Black, brown and Indigenous communities have always seen the gap between the ideals of American democracy and the lived reality of exclusion. The contradiction is far from new.

Today's earnings report sends a very clear message. The Tesla Takedown grassroots pressure is beginning to hit Tesla where it hurts - the company's bottom line.

Waskow emphasized that she felt empowered meeting with lawmakers, stating, 'You felt like you were really doing something, that you were able to potentially influence people and get things to change by showing that you cared enough to show up.'

Amid the din of lefty pundits still focused primarily on why Democratic members of Congress aren't doing more, these town halls demonstrate the efficacy of speaking to Republicans.