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Notes on Organizing During This Crazy Time
Visibility Brigades, ICE-Scraper Buy-Ins, Health Care Professionals in Revolt, Democracy Teams Trainings, Sierra Club Pushback and Cracks in the Orange…
Nov 25
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Micah L. Sifry
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Will Mamdani's Movement Avoid "the Obama Trap"?
A deep dive conversation with Marshall Ganz, veteran organizer, trainer and strategist, on what he's learned from past experience down this road and…
Nov 18
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Micah L. Sifry
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How to Build a "Bigger We" - and Go From Isolated Actions to Cultural Change
Parsing the Freedom Together Foundation's critical new report. Plus, Vu Le's new book on nonprofits and philanthropy and lessons from the Defiance in…
Nov 11
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Micah L. Sifry
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Solidarity Tech: The Platform Powering Zohran Mamdani's Movement [Updated with latest data]
A conversation with Ivan Pardo, the founder of Solidarity Tech, on how a platform built for "deep organizing" of workers building unions is being used…
Nov 4
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Micah L. Sifry
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October 2025
How Zohran Mamdani's "Tremendous Force" is Remaking New York Politics
With NYC's mayoral election a week away, the upstart democratic socialist has built a movement that is already changing the status quo.
Oct 27
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Micah L. Sifry
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We Have More Friends Everywhere
Notes on how we are organizing ourselves nine months into Trump II. And why status quo Democrats can't win the moment or the future.
Oct 21
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Micah L. Sifry
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A Silver Lining in the Middle East?
The Trump-Witcoff-Kushner-Qatar-Turkey-Egypt peace deal is clearly flawed, but maybe now that the hot Gaza war is (hopefully) ending, peace-makers can…
Oct 15
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Micah L. Sifry
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Announcing My New Book: When Doves Try
Brave people can change history: A lesson from Israel’s Peace Now movement for today’s world.
Oct 7
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Micah L. Sifry
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September 2025
We are Not "Good Germans"
While echoes with the 1930s abound, a closer look at how Germans failed to stop Hitler suggests that America's antibodies are much stronger.
Sep 30
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Micah L. Sifry
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How Radical Love Could Depolarize America
Why pro-democracy folks should avoid strategies that deepen the political divide and increase the chances of defections from Trump's base.
Sep 25
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Micah L. Sifry
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Blessed Are the Bridge-Builders?
As the Trump regime moves to "dismantle" the "radical left," leaders of the civic renewal movement are struggling to build common ground. Maybe their…
Sep 18
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Micah L. Sifry
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Whose Lives Matter?
A meditation on 9/11, war and political assassinations.
Sep 11
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Micah L. Sifry
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