Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Senate floor by the proslavery congressman Preston Brooks in 1856. This violent episode has obscured Sumner's status as the most passionate champion of equal rights and multiracial democracy of his time. A friend of Alexis de Tocqueville, an ally […]

Join Activate America as we call voters and ask them to hold their republican representatives accountable! No experience needed, training provided. Republicans in congress are sitting idly by as Trump implements record-breaking tariffs leading to skyrocketing costs. We are calling voters and asking them to make their voices heard by calling their elected officials! Help us […]

Join Activate America as we call voters and ask them to hold their republican representatives accountable! No experience needed, training provided. Republicans in congress are sitting idly by as Trump implements record-breaking tariffs leading to skyrocketing costs. We are calling voters and asking them to make their voices heard by calling their elected officials! Help us […]

Few people beyond South Carolina's Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston--Mother Emanuel--before the night of June 17, 2015, when a twenty-one-year-old white supremacist walked into Bible study and slaughtered the church's charismatic pastor and eight worshippers. Although the shooter had targeted the first AME church in the South in order to […]

Published in 2011, A Queer History of the United States is extremely comprehensive – beginning in 1492 all the way up to the modern era. It has been banned and challenged for covering LGBTQ+ topics. The author, Michael Bronski, is a professor in the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality department at Harvard University and […]

We will gather again to demonstrate against the Trump administration at the south end of the Klingle Valley Bridge (Connecticut Avenue and Devonshire Place) every Thursday from 5 to 6:30. Please come - and bring a sign to carry!

In And Housing for All, founder of the National Homelessness Law Center Maria Foscarinis reveals the human impact of the housing crisis by sharing personal stories and examining the flawed policies that have perpetuated it. As millions face rising housing costs and encampments spread nationwide, she uncovers why past efforts have failed and what must change […]

After you've set up your group in TroubleNation, this session will help you determine your next steps. We'll also walk through the features of TroubleNation so you can begin using the tools and resources to strengthen your group. If you're not yet a part of TroubleNation but think you might be interested, we invite you […]

The ultrarich hold more of America's wealth than they did in the heyday of the Carnegies and Rockefellers. Here, Evan Osnos's incisive reportage yields an unforgettable portrait of the tactics and obsessions driving this new Gilded Age, in which superyachts, luxury bunkers, elite tax dodges, and a torrent of political donations bespeak staggering disparities of […]

Every Saturday with golfable weather, we demonstrate in front of the Trump National Washington, DC golf course in Loudoun County, Virginia. Please check our Bluesky @golfofmexico.bsky.social  for more information about the event. Perseverando!!

We'll have Mirriam Edelman share with us her extensive knowledge of which Congressmen are DC's friends & which are their foes. We'll also have a representative from our Chevy Chase neighbors NOPE, 31st St. Swing Left, and the DC Dems Vote Blue chair, Anne Cauman speak about their efforts to swing tight races. We'll discuss […]

Elon Musk is destroying democracy around the world, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it. We are taking action at Tesla to stop Musk's illegal coup. ⚡ Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. ⚡ We're tanking Tesla's stock price to stop Musk. ⚡ Stopping Musk will […]

In August 2017, over a thousand neo-Nazis, fascists, Klan members, and neo-Confederates descended on a small southern city to protest the pending removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Within an hour of their arrival, the city's historic downtown was a scene of bedlam as armored far right cadres battled activists in the streets. […]