Hey good people. I love y’all.
I’ve been listening.
To the group chats, the emails, the “what can I do” texts, the DMs on every social media platform with folks wanting to act but not knowing where to start — or burning out because you started and couldn’t sustain it. I ran out of capacity to keep responding one at a time…
So I built something.
It’s called WeAct. And the idea is simple: resistance at its best is collective action in practice.
Here’s our habit loop:
→ Get a call to action from a source you trust
→ Take the action
→ Prove it, reflect on it
→ Recruit someone else to do it
→ Repeat
That’s it. That’s the whole thing. I’m beta testing a web app.
The problem is that right now this loop is scattered across a hundred orgs, a thousand Instagram stories, and your overflowing inbox. WeAct puts it in one place — curated, vetted actions you can take right now, with scripts, and a community doing it alongside you.
It’s live today with 18 actions. Some are urgent — there are Target sit-ins happening RIGHT NOW demanding the company stop enabling ICE operations. Others are ongoing campaigns you can plug into whenever you’re ready.
It’s not perfect. It’s not done. It’s just me behind the scenes. But the moment is too urgent and your asks to plentiful to keep sitting on it.
Sign up. Give feedback. Take actions. Suggest actions. Spread the word.
Let’s build this community together:
weactnow.com
#Experiments4Good
#WeAct
#WeActNow
Minority rule ain’t what the good Lorde wants for my life.
So let’s fight. See y’all in Montgomery.
#thesouthsgotsomethingtosay #Tennessee #Redistricting #moresoon
You ever met a person who makes every single person they come across feel seen, important, supported, believed, loved, cared for? Like being a good person was concentrated and contagious in their being in a way that invites every single person in their presence to be better?
That person is @tymcharris . She’s all these things and so much more.
That McHarris family, @thenjiwetameika and @philipvmcharris , is a gift to the whole wide world. I’m so grateful to love them.
@time got this right. Celebrate her when you see her ❤️
PS: so many loved ones on this list. I see and celebrate yall too! ❤️❤️❤️
It’s pretty easy to feel burned out these days, but that doesn’t mean we can’t step back and reassess and connect with people who are feeling the same way. Join SURJ’s Erin Heaney in conversation with strategist Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @_ashdashlee_ and political thinker Scot Nakagawa to talk about what it means to be in the fight for the long-haul and how we can do it together.
📅 Wed 5/20
⏰ 8pm ET/5pm PT
Comment “fight” below to get the link to the webinar sent directly to your DMs or click the link in our bio^
As goes the South, so goes the nation.
“Is authoritarianism new? No. Is it changing? Yes.”
We must exist AND organize. Voting (or not) can make all of that easier or harder.
Black women like @_ashdashlee_ in Chattanooga are doing THE WORK.
Start seeing and listening to the South notably Black women educating, agitating and organizing in the South.
They (the Klan aka MAGA legislators) are trying to undo 60 years of progress. The South is the highest population of Black folk and LGBTQ + folx … and we are struggling to survive.
Fascism is when a select few implement their agenda on the many. Voting isn’t the only way we heal our people and our land, but it is an important tool to defeat this evil while we the people usher in a liberated world for all of our people.
Get connected. Let’s get to work.
📸: @ariejamesshots Taken outside Tennessee State Capitol Special Session May 7, 2026
#protectthesouth #trustblackwomen #blackliberation #solidarity #tennessee
Tennessee, tomorrow.
Governor Bill Lee called a special legislative session to redraw congressional maps, with reporting pointing at the Memphis-based district as the target. This comes a week after the Court’s Callais decision weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and made it harder to challenge discriminatory maps.
This isn’t lines on a map. It’s who has power over schools, healthcare, jobs, infrastructure, and public safety. It’s whose voice counts.
If you’re in Tennessee or close to people who are: tennesseeishome.org has the petition, the email-your-rep tool, and the call scripts. Plug in tonight. The session is tomorrow. USE THE TOOLS TODAY. Spread the word.
TOMORROW: At 12pm CT, Tennesseans are meeting at the Capitol to demand fair maps.
TONIGHT: At 6pm CT, there’s a community info call on redistricting. Be there. Link to register in bio.
Hands off our vote.
SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act today.
We didn’t get the VRA because the Court was generous. We got it because communities with organizers built a movement that had the power to develop and win it. The Court has momentarily taken the law. They can’t ever stop the power that was built to get it in the first place, if we don’t let them.
Tomorrow night, 8pm ET, emergency mass call. Hold the time. Link to register and Medium essay with a few more thoughts (...what the Court actually did, why the "race-neutral" framing is a lie, and how we organized our way out the last time the Court told us our power didn't matter...) in bio. <3
On April 12, Hungary ended 16 years of Orbán. Nearly 80% turnout.
Not a miracle. Not a vibe. Years of hand-delivering newspapers to rural villages the independent press couldn't reach. Over 200 local organizing hubs. A two-round primary where the people picked their own candidates. Péter Magyar didn't run on ideology. He ran on groceries and corruption.
They didn't out-message authoritarianism. They out-organized it.
Here at home, 245 million people were eligible to vote in 2024. 89 million didn't. That's not apathy. That's a signal. The 89 Million breaks into three populations: Locked Out, Sick and Tired, and Checked Out. 48 million of them are people of color. 14 million are Black. These are our people. We have not built a container big enough to hold them.
Most of us who burned out didn't burn out because nothing worked. We burned out because everything worked for a minute, and then the next step wasn't there fast enough.
Good people, folks have to stop pretending the problem is the people. The problem is that we have the numbers, the grievance, the moral clarity, and no container. No pipeline from feeling to sustained action. No shared identity that lets someone in Chattanooga and someone in rural Ohio recognize each other as part of the same fight without joining the same org.
Structures outlast heroes. That's what we're building. Something you carry with you. Something that doesn't expire.
If you're one of the 89 million, or one of the tired ones still in it, I want to hear from you. Not later. Now. Tell me you've got three people who feel what you're feeling right now. I'll tell you what's coming.
Full essay is live on Medium today. Link in bio. Get on the Buttondown list at buttondown.com/readytobuild, and I'll write you directly.
I love you. Let's build.
#The89Million #Organizing #MovementBuilding #Hungary2026
Interested in being part of the massive day of action on May 1 but not sure where to start?
Tomorrow at 8 PM, join us for an organizing prep call on Zoom all about the day. Hear from @_ashdashlee_ , @neeneetay , Keya Chatterjee, Jacki Johnson from our Congress Working Group, Eduarda Serafim from @dcjwj , and student leaders of the DC high school and college walkouts. You'll get an inside look at what's in store for the day, get inspired, and tips to get ready and organized. Register to attend at bit.ly/may-day-dc (link in bio)
