together, we have everything we need.
No matter who wins in November, what happens next will depend on who keeps showing up. Learn from Minnesota organizers: Don't just vote, find your people and join an organization that will still be building people power after the election.
minneapolis, winter 2026
When agents came for a neighbor, the whole block poured outside, blowing whistles and honking car horns within minutes. Coffee shops turned tip jars into whistle jars. As one neighbor put it: "Minnesota is a beehive, and when the bees are under threat, the hive swarms."
Parents from one elementary school PTA started delivering food to families too afraid to leave home. Within weeks they were feeding five times as many families. "My neighbors are hungry, and I can't help all of them," one parent said. So more parents joined.
When a family's breadwinner was taken, the rent was still due. So neighbors adopted each other's rent and established community-run rent funds. Together, neighbors paid $20 million in rent and helped avoid an eviction bubble that experts had predicted.
When friends were pepper sprayed while filming ICE agents, people they had never met stopped to care for them. People drove neighbors to work and home again, watched kids, even worked the door at restaurants to keep agents out.
Hopelessness is exactly what the fascists in power are counting on. People in Minneapolis didn't wait for a plan or a title. They just started working. Pick one door and start this week.
Elections come every two years. Organizing happens every week. Find a group that meets regularly, trains new leaders, and is building power for the long haul.
Find your org →door 2When things get hard, the people next door get there first. Learn their names now. Share a meal. Make a plan together before you need one.
Start with your block →door 3Help people facing injustice right now. When a community is under attack, we point you to the local groups on the ground and the fastest way to get them what they need.
Where to help right now →Most people in Minnesota had never organized before. What they had was each other: neighbors whose names they knew, group chats already set up, and local groups that already had lists and trainings. The neighborhoods that moved fastest were the ones that already knew each other.
That's a village. Every town can build one.
Our grandparents' grandparents knew their neighbors. They shared tools, watched each other's kids, and showed up when someone was sick. That was taken from us on purpose, because people who need each other are bad for profit. Rebuilding it is how we take care of each other, and how we get strong enough to win.
Read the ideaVoting is defense. Organizing is offense. Don't wait for the next crisis to find your people. Our directory lists long-term organizing groups in every state we can find, with priority groups that are a great place to start.
Browse the directory“hope is a discipline.”
— Mariame Kaba