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Washington

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

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★ Priority group
Aberdeen / rural Washington

Firelands Workers Building Community Power

Organizing in English and Spanish across Washington's timber country, this membership group brings together working-class and immigrant families and youth. It runs a Timber Country Organizing School and door-to-door canvasses in Pacific County, and pushes for state wins like immigrant health coverage.

★ Priority group
Seattle

Fuse Washington

Washington State's largest progressive organization mobilizes activists online and off, builds coalitions, and educates voters from its Seattle base. It also lobbies lawmakers for good bills and calls out officials who let voters down.

★ Priority group
Seattle

OneAmerica

Founded in Seattle after 9/11 as Hate Free Zone, OneAmerica organizes immigrant and refugee communities across Washington State on immigration, education and early learning, workforce training, voting access, and developing candidates from their own communities.

★ Priority group
Seattle / statewide

Washington CAN

WashingtonCAN stands to achieve racial, gender, economic, and social equity to establish a democratic society characterized by justice and fairness, respect for diversity, and a decent quality of life for all who reside in Washington. We are creating and maintaining a significant, strong, diverse statewide community presence of grassroots leaders, community members, friends, and allies to fight alongside our members for these goals.

★ Priority group
Seattle

Working Washington

Fast food workers, app-based delivery drivers, domestic workers, and restaurant workers join this free membership group across Washington. They helped start Seattle's $15 minimum wage push and won pay standards for delivery drivers and a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.

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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