Dear John,

The floor is tilting. The light is changing. Someone in Washington has been rewriting the rules in the dark. This is the world we find ourselves in as we head toward the 2026 midterms—an election that is less a contest and more about what our futures hold.

We’ll be writing to you with proof points: evidence of what is coming, and what must be done. Here is the first.

But first, here’s what we achieved in 2025—because victories matter, and they tell us what is possible:

Perfected a massive college campus voter mobilization program in Virginia and Pennsylvania that changed who turned out, who got heard, and who now holds power. Turnout on many college campuses, like Virginia Tech where our organizers campaigned for weeks, surpassed the 2024 presidential turnout and dwarfed turnout in the last election for governor.
Young women voters were critical in electing the first woman governor of Virginia. 82% of young women voted for Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger – 65% of all women.
We helped flip 13 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates in a state where winning such a large majority of the legislative chamber was written off as a long shot.
And in Pennsylvania, we helped re-elected three State Supreme Court justices — all pro-choice, all pro-ERA — from an onslaught of billionaire dark-money attacks.

These wins weren’t miracles. They were the product of early organizing—relentless, disciplined, and on time.

That's why we're asking directly and urgently, for your 2026 Feminist Majority Membership Renewal today.

The 2026 Midterms Are the Fault Line

If we fail to gain majority control for the Democrats in the House, the Senate, or both, Trump gets to continue his free hand. If we win them back, we block the machinery of punishment aimed at women Trump and his MAGA Republican Majorities in Congress are already assembling.

A glimpse of that ugly, misogynistic machinery:

Just before Thanksgiving, the Trump administration declared nursing—women’s work, women’s labor, women’s backbone—“unprofessional.”

With that single word, they cut off students in advanced nursing programs from Department of Education funding.

That means:

Young women shut out of a profession built on knowledge and care.
Women in midlife staring down $110,000-a-year nursing-home bills for aging parents with gutted Medicaid support.
Older women facing fewer nurses, fewer beds, fewer choices, fewer chances.

One policy. One scalpel. A quiet cutting off of women’s futures.

We Don’t Have the Luxury of Hope Without Action

We must retake one or both chambers of Congress. We must begin now.

Early organizing is oxygen. Early money is oxygen. Without it, our campus voter mobilization work falters.

So we’re asking—directly and urgently—for your 2026 Feminist Majority Membership Renewal today.

We need to know what strength we can count on as we deploy campus organizers.

If you believe women deserve safety, autonomy, and the right not to be legislated out of their own professions, then act now.

Renew Your Feminist Majority Membership for 2026:

RENEW NOW

Every early renewal is a signal that feminists are preparing to fight as never before. Please let us count you with us again.

With resolve,

Eleanor Smeal, President

Katherine Spillar, Executive Director

P.S. If you can stretch, stretch. Every dollar becomes leverage.

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