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Missouri

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

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Missouri Jobs with Justice

We envision a Missouri where: The economy and public infrastructure are strong and good jobs are plentiful The right of all workers to organize and collectively bargain is protected Opportunity exists for all regardless of race, identity, or immigration status All are assured economic security and a safe, healthy life from the cradle to the grave White supremacy is understood, challenged, and dismantled

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MOVE MO

Working behind the scenes, MOVE gives Missouri grassroots and movement groups strategic and technical support to plan and run integrated voter engagement, coordinating a volunteer-led nonpartisan program that helps ordinary Missourians take part in democracy.

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MOVE MO

Working behind the scenes, MOVE gives Missouri grassroots and movement groups strategic and technical support to plan and run integrated voter engagement, coordinating a volunteer-led nonpartisan program that helps ordinary Missourians take part in democracy.

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MO Worker Center

Low-wage workers of many races, from Missouri's cities and rural towns, make up this organization fighting racism and pushing for economic justice. Working out of Kansas City and St. Louis, it organizes door to door and online, including among Amazon workers and immigrants.

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St. Louis

Action St. Louis

Focused on Black communities in the St. Louis region, Action St. Louis uses organizing, communications, advocacy, and direct action to reduce harm, contest for political power, and shift resources away from jails and policing toward community solutions.

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St. Louis

Organization for Black Struggle

A Black-led St. Louis organization since 1980, OBS educates and organizes the Black working class around police accountability, workers' rights, youth and women, guided by its Black Freedom Agenda for political empowerment, economic justice and cultural dignity.

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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