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Long-term organizing groups building power in this state. Groups marked priority are a great place to start.
Immigrants, low-wage workers, tenants, and Black and Latinx youth in Elizabeth and other New Jersey cities build power here through organizing plus legal, health, and education services, with campaigns for temp worker rights, rent stabilization, and Dreamers.
New Jersey Citizen Action is a statewide coalition and grassroots organization that fights for social, racial, and economic justice for all. A nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization founded in 1982, NJCA combines political advocacy, electoral campaigns, public outreach, and community empowerment programs to make a real difference in the lives of everyday New Jerseyans. With this comprehensive approach, the organization addresses systemic and institutional issues as well as the pressing needs and interests of low- and moderate-income individuals across the state.
The New Jersey Resource Project’s mission is to educate and connect community leaders to work together for solutions and take action toward an economically just and resilient future. We work with those directly impacted, people who have critical expertise. Founded by Superstorm Sandy survivors left out in the cold by state recovery programs, we’ve achieved real results and continue efforts to reform broken disaster recovery systems. Today, we have two additional areas of focus: protect our healthcare and tackle the overdose crisis, and community-led solutions to address climate change and impacts in New Jersey.
New Jersey's Working Families Party endorses and elects progressive candidates, from Jersey City Hall to Congress. It helped end the state's county line ballot system and keeps pushing for fair primaries and democracy reforms in Trenton.
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.
50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement. A volunteer-built, nonviolent movement defending democracy, with state and local groups organizing days of action and community.
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.
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.
Common Defense organizes veterans and engages the military community to transform our society by advocating for progressive policies that work for all of us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Organizes older Americans to protect climate and democracy, through volunteer-led working groups by location and by affinity.
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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