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Colorado

Long-term organizing groups building power in this state. Groups marked priority are a great place to start.

groups here

★ Priority group

Western Colorado Alliance for Community Action

Headquartered in Grand Junction and formerly called Western Colorado Congress, the Alliance brings Western Slope residents together around family farms and local food, clean energy, affordable housing and public transit, and grassroots democracy.

★ Priority group
Denver

Cobalt

Cobalt advances abortion access and reproductive rights in Colorado through advocacy, organizing, political work, and direct financial assistance.

★ Priority group
Statewide

Colorado People’s Alliance

Colorado People’s Alliance is a racial justice and member-led organization dedicated to advancing and winning progressive social change locally, statewide, and nationally. We are a power-building organization, working with those directly impacted by our issues to win on climate, economic, & immigrant justice.

★ Priority group
Statewide

New Era Colorado

New Era is the leading voice for young people in Colorado politics and one of the most effective youth civic engagement organizations in the country. We work alongside our peers to grow our generation’s power. We fight for a better Colorado for everyone, not just for a privileged few. Since day one, we set out to bring our progressive and diverse generation into the political world — not to get in line and stick with the status quo, but to take charge and reshape our democracy to work better for everyone.

★ Priority group
Denver

Together Colorado

A multi-faith, multiracial network of congregations, schools, and faith leaders across Colorado, based in Denver. Volunteer leaders from these member institutions organize together on public issues, with human dignity as the guiding value.

★ Priority group
Denver

United for a New Economy

Formerly known as FRESC, this Denver-area group brings together workers, immigrants, refugees, youth, seniors, unions, and faith leaders. Members push for local and state policies that give working families economic security and freedom from racism.

★ Priority group
Glenwood Springs / mountain towns

Voces Unidas

Voces Unidas is the go-to, multi-entity regional organization building Latino power and influence to make Colorado’s Western Slope more equitable and just.

national groups with chapters near you

These national organizations have local chapters, hubs, or groups in most states. Click through to find the one closest to you, or to start one.

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50501

50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement. A volunteer-built, nonviolent movement defending democracy, with state and local groups organizing days of action and community.

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Authors Against Book Bans

A national network of writers, illustrators, and other creators fighting book bans and challenges. Members back local grassroots groups, speak at school board meetings, meet with legislators, and stand with librarians, educators, parents, and students defending the freedom to read.

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Black Voters Matter

Co-founded by LaTosha Brown and Cliff Albright, Black Voters Matter boosts voter registration and turnout in Black communities, mostly across the South, funds and trains local partner groups, and tours on its "Blackest Bus in America" to highlight voter suppression.

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Common Defense

Common Defense organizes veterans and engages the military community to transform our society by advocating for progressive policies that work for all of us.

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Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

The largest socialist organization in the U.S. Local chapters organize tenants, workers, and neighbors to build an economy run for human need, not profit. Look up your chapter by zip code.

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Dream Defenders

Dream Defenders is a Black-led, feminist, socialist, abolitionist, and internationalist political formation fighting for a world without prisons, police, capitalism, and imperialism. We envision communities where safety is built through solidarity, care, and self-determination rather than through punishment and surveillance. Founded in 2012 in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin, the Dream Defenders has grown into a powerful force advocating for liberation, justice, and dignity for Black and marginalized people across the United States and beyond.

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Indivisible

A network of thousands of local groups that hold elected officials accountable and defend democracy. Use the group map to find one near you, including groups marked newcomer-friendly.

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NDN Collective

Rapid City-based and Indigenous-led, this collective backs Native communities through organizing, grants, and loans to Indigenous groups and entrepreneurs. Its campaigns include LANDBACK, which seeks the return of Lakota lands in the Black Hills, along with climate justice and education equity.

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Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

A national network organizing white people to fight racism and economic injustice as part of multiracial movements. Find a local chapter or join a regular online orientation.

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Sunrise Movement

A youth-led movement of local hubs working to stop the climate crisis and win a Green New Deal. No hub near you? Sunrise will help you start one.

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Third Act

Organizes older Americans to protect climate and democracy, through volunteer-led working groups by location and by affinity.

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Working Families Party

Building a multiracial party of working people. WFP recruits and elects progressive candidates and organizes between elections, with state parties in 18 states and volunteer actions everywhere.

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