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What do elections have to do with racial justice?
This year’s midterm elections are an important opportunity on many fronts: election years are tipping points for authoritarian regimes. Working-class champions have historic support across the country. And we can use this momentum to strengthen our movements for the long haul, especially by flanking Black political power. And white people
How you can help stop MAGA in the midterms
We’re shifting from primaries into general election mode, and that means we’re engaging multiple parts of our strategy. Across our movements, since Trump took office the first time, we’ve been describing the dual nature of our collective work as block and build. This means stopping the MAGA movement from gaining
Why we need Black political power in the South to beat MAGA
61 years ago today, on August 6, 1965, the Voting Rights Act was passed, one of the most significant civil rights achievements in our country’s history, protecting Black voters’ rights and a core part of protecting democracy for all of us. The gutting of the VRA this year was not
SURJ in the News
As big donors line up against Zohran Mamdani, a new PAC aims to lure white voters to his side
SURJ spokesman Chris Kutalik said he couldn’t immediately share a fundraising goal, but affirmed the PAC aims to have phone bankers make 500,000 calls to “white working-class voters” before November to hype up Mamdani while also “moving our members to knock doors in support of this victory to come.” “Mamdani’s
A Risky Bet: Louisville’s Democratic Mayor Accommodates ICE
Carla Wallace, the co-coordinator of the support group Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice, said the organization had 200 trained volunteers who could alert others if they see signs of federal raids and could help provide services to people who are afraid they will be apprehended on the streets. The
Group looks for ‘tons of white guys’ to support social justice
By Naomi Ishisaka in the Seattle Times Much has been written in the past few months about the gender gap in this year’s election. Polling shows a majority of men support former President Donald Trump and a majority of women support Vice President Kamala Harris. . . In one election outreach session that included