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Organizing Education
10 Commandments of Organizing

Inspired by a post by social justice communications strategist Kathryn LeBlanc, I compiled 10 C...

August 1, 2025
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Organizing Strategy
Are We Building Power?

From protesting against fascism to building reproductive justice in Texas to facilitating workshops ...

June 30, 2025
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Organizing Education  ·  Organizing Strategy
The Come-to-Jesus Talk about Organizing

Have you noticed that sometimes there’s a disconnect between organizing and fundraising I̵...

June 3, 2025
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Organizing Strategy
What is an “Investment?”

This month at the America Votes State Summit, I attended a panel about the 2026 Midterms, where ther...

April 30, 2025
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Movement Reflections
Can we Trust our Social Justice Vision to AI?

(Spoiler Alert: It depends.) Are posts, emails and articles about AI flooding your devices Me too. I...

April 1, 2025
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Organizing Strategy
Why People Take Action

Being in New Orleans last week reminded me that people take action because of values and emotion, no...

March 3, 2025
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Movement Reflections
What if We’re Wrong?

When I posted this essay to LinkedIn, it generated more discussion than anything I’ve ever posted ...

February 3, 2025
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OTW Updates
2024 at Organizing to Win

2024 had its ups and downs for all of us right While we probably have some of the same downs, I want...

December 20, 2024
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Movement Reflections
Hope is Alive and Well

Note: I wrote this post about a week before election day 2024. It hasn’t aged very well. IR...

November 18, 2024
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Campaign Tools & Tactics  ·  Organizing Education
So. Many. Details.

I forgot how complicated this is! The first time I managed a field campaign was 1990, on a hopeless ...

September 30, 2024
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Organizing Strategy
Agitation in Action

A while back, I was the organizing director for an organizing campaign with state employees in Color...

August 31, 2024
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Campaign Tools & Tactics
Safe Canvassing or Someone Always Calls the Cops Part II

As canvassing season heats up again, I’ve been thinking about how to keep canvassers safe. From tr...

July 1, 2024
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