📢 Progress for All — Not Just the Wealthy or Powerful

🗽A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny. Throughout history, Americans have faced corruption, injustice, and authoritarian overreach. And every time, we fought back.

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Happy Saturday to all my rowdy friends!

I’m still deep in the trenches working on our big project—one I believe will supercharge everything we’re doing here. When it’s ready, I’ll share every detail. For now, know this: it’s being built to amplify your voice, action, and impact. And when a grassroots organization like ours—with zero fundraising, zero big funders, and members in every state—finds new ways to strengthen its reach, that’s not just a win for us, it’s a march toward real progress.

But today, I want to talk about something that seems obvious but too often gets misunderstood: progress itself.

Everyone says they want it. They want better leaders, fairer policies, a safer planet, and a stronger democracy. But wanting progress is not the same as making progress. Words without action are just noise—noise won’t save us from what’s happening.

Look at the state of our nation: an out-of-control government led by a 34-time convicted felon who calls himself president but governs like a despot. Donald Trump, propped up by a cult of complicit Republicans, is selling off our rights, our freedoms, our rule of law, and our democracy to the highest bidder. They hand billionaires massive tax breaks while shredding every regulation meant to protect us—because apparently, safety, clean air, and safe water are too much to ask.

And yet, even in the face of this reality, too many people who say they want something better take no action. They don’t call their representatives. They don’t email. They don’t show up at town halls or organize with their neighbors. They don’t volunteer for candidates who will fight for them. They sit back, scroll headlines, and tell themselves they care. But that’s not progress. That’s surrender.

If you want affordable healthcare, you have to fight for it. If you wish for housing that doesn’t bankrupt families, you have to demand it. If you want an economy where every person—not just the wealthy—can thrive, you must get off the sidelines. Staying silent in your home, workplace, and community doesn’t just fail to create progress—it actively gives power to those trying to destroy it.

And make no mistake, that destruction is happening in real time. Project 2025 is not a distant threat; it is already being implemented, step by step, to drag America from a democracy into a theocratic autocracy.

“Now, over six months into Trump’s second term, Project 2025’s roadmap for dismantling American government is 47 percent complete.” (The Hill, 2025)

The people pushing Project 2025 are dismantling democratic institutions, criminalizing dissent, erasing reproductive and LGBTQIA+ rights, banning books and our history, gutting public healthcare and education, destroying labor and environmental protections, raising taxes on working families, and stripping away civil rights and the separation of church and state.

This is what happens when we let our voices go silent. This is what happens when we confuse wanting change with fighting for it. Progress is not passive but the product of relentless organizing, fearless resistance, and unwavering commitment to protect our communities from dangerous, authoritarian power.

We don’t have the luxury of sitting this out. We don’t have time to wait for someone else to fix it. The truth is, we are the only ones who can. Every call, every email, every conversation, every rally, every vote—it all matters. We must show up, speak out, and build power. And if we commit to this fight together, we can still turn the tide.

Progress for all—not just the wealthy or powerful—is still within our reach. But only if we demand it. Only if we fight for it.

And only if we never, ever mistake silence for safety.

Today’s Calls to Action

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FYI

Please note that when People Power United uses the word “fight” in writing, online, or in speech, we mean to advocate fiercely, never to incite or support violence. We do not condone violence in any form, nor do we promote breaking the law.

Our work is rooted in peaceful advocacy through exercising our constitutional rights: voting, free speech, peaceful assembly, rallies, protests, and acts of civil disobedience. We use these tools to defend our rights, freedoms, the rule of law, and our democracy. And together, we will win.

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We are a group of people who believe in the possibility of change—and work every day to make it happen. Join us by taking action and speaking out to champion progress and power to the people!

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Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)

Laurie joining other activists and organizations to drop thousands of petitions off to Congress for reforms to the Supreme Court

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