Hi everybody! It’s Varsha!

Do you ever find yourself thinking “there’s no point, things are just going to get worse”?

Who do you think benefits from you feeling that way?

The architects of our misfortune want you to believe there’s no point in trying, because they know that the only thing that can beat them is if we all fight back.

I know there’s been a lot of horrible headlines the last twelve months, but there’s also been a lot of good organizing worth celebrating, and that organizing might just be what saves us in 2026.

So before I share our take on 2025, can you donate $50 and help us start 2026 off strong?

Now let’s talk about 2025. It was a bad year for climate.

Hard-won climate protections were gutted. The IRA’s hard-earned climate investments were slashed and even clawed back from projects that had already started. Environmental devastation struck every community from Gaza to the Gulf, and thousands were left to weather historic storms, floods, and deadly heat with too little support.

But let’s not ignore what we’ve done as a movement in response.

We refused to back down from Big Oil and its political allies. After Donald Trump’s second inauguration (ugh), his administration almost immediately began rolling back environmental regulations and threatening climate organizers. In response, Sunrise hubs across the country showed up at campuses, city halls, and statehouses to make one thing clear: fossil fuel CEOs cannot and will not be the ones writing our future.

Also, young people began to build power where they live. At universities across the country, Sunrise hubs joined in on national “Make Polluters Pay” campaigns, advocating for fossil fuel companies to fund the climate disaster cleanups and resilience our communities desperately need, and their greed caused in the first place.

In communities around the country, Sunrise chapters showed up to serve as climate resilience partners, helping design local plans to protect their neighborhoods from extreme heat, storms, and disasters fueled by the climate crisis. 

After the fires in Los Angeles and the floods in Texas, Sunrise hubs showed up to help their communities recover, and call out fossil fuel companies for the destruction they’ve wrought.

We have big plans for 2026, can we count on you to donate $50 to sustain the fight for climate justice and against authoritarianism?

They want us exhausted. They want us scared. They want us to think we’re alone. They want us to believe nothing we do matters. But this year proved the opposite.

Next year, we’re planning on going even bigger to make sure young people have the futures we deserve, families aren’t torn apart by inhumane policy, and workers get the dignified and good-paying jobs we deserve.

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In Solidarity, 
Varsha