Dear John,
As the year closes, we find ourselves thinking about just how much a year can hold. 2025 was that kind of year. It demanded a lot from feminists, a lot from everyone who cares about equality, safety, and truth.
And you answered.
The work you’ve helped make possible is not one thing; it’s three things working as one, each strengthening the other, like a braided cord.
The Feminist Majority has been extraordinarily active, doing what advocacy must do: showing up where decisions are made, refusing to let extremism pass as normal, insisting that women’s rights are not an optional accessory to democracy. Our work helped result in enormous victories in the November elections in Virginia and Pennsylvania.
The Feminist Majority Foundation has been doing the practical, essential work where the stakes are human and immediate: our Feminist Campus organizing at colleges and universities, building leadership, registering and educating young voters in key places where elections are decided not by sweeping gestures but by slim margins...standing up for abortion access when extremists try to make intimidation and harassment outside women’s clinics routine...and refusing to look away from Afghanistan, where women are being erased by decree and silence is a form of complicity.
And Ms. Magazine and the Ms. Community—ad-free, independent, and unbought—has kept its steady, truth-speaking voice. In a year when so much public language felt managed, packaged, and sold, Ms. did what fearless feminist journalism is supposed to do: it told the story straight. It named dangerous actions and policies, and kept a record. It treated women’s lives not as a sidebar, but as the central fact they have always been.
If those three efforts matter, it’s because they meet at the same point: the place where a person decides not to step back and remain silent.
We saw that decision again and again this year—in student organizers at folding tables on college campuses…in community volunteers outside clinics who kept their eyes on clinic doors and staff and their defense at the ready...in writers and editors who chose accuracy over comfort…and in activists, supporters, donors and readers like you who made room in your life for this work even when the world felt noisy and fast and determined to distract and dishonor.
There are accomplishments that can be tallied—wins, blocks, improvements, protections reinforced—and there is something harder to measure but just as real: the sense that we are not alone in this, that the line holds because so many hands are on it.
So this message is not a request. It is, simply, a thank you.
Thank you for helping create a movement that can advocate in the public square, build power where the future is being decided, defend healthcare where it is most vulnerable, tell the truth when truth is under pressure, and speak out for women beyond our borders when the world would rather change the subject.
As we look toward 2026, we don’t pretend the path will be easy. But we do know this: working together changes what’s possible. It changes the math. It changes the political winds.
We look forward to working with you in 2026—side by side, clear-eyed, grateful, and determined.
With deep appreciation and our best wishes for a Happy New Year,
