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Massachusetts

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

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★ Priority group
Statewide

Community Labor United

Community Labor United (CLU) is a coalition-building organization BY the people and FOR the people. Founded in 2005 to unite labor unions and community groups in advancing social, environmental, and economic justice, we’ve worked for more than two decades organizing and campaigning for the well-being of the working-class people of Massachusetts.

★ Priority group
Boston / statewide

Massachusetts Communities Action Network

Faith-based community organizations in Brockton, Lynn, New Bedford, Fall River, Springfield, and Worcester form this statewide network. Members use storytelling and large public meetings to win commitments on economic and racial justice, mass incarceration, and immigrant rights.

★ Priority group
Statewide

Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts

At Neighbor to Neighbor, we make democracy work for us. That means all of us, whether you’re Black, white, or brown, immigrant or lifelong local, and no matter how much money you have. Together, we build power for our collective wellbeing. From the streets to the State House, we fight for a new way of doing things and put democracy into practice along the way.

★ Priority group
Boston / statewide

Working Families Party Massachusetts

The Massachusetts chapter of the Working Families Party endorses and campaigns for working-class candidates, from Worcester City Council to the state legislature, around lower housing costs, taxing the wealthy to fund schools, and health care access.

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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