James,
The American people are confronting an authoritarian onslaught with no precedent in our nation’s history — and no guarantee that our democracy will survive in any meaningful form if we fail to meet this moment.
Donald Trump and the oligarchs backing him are prosecuting and threatening political opponents, unleashing ICE raids that tear families and communities apart, deploying militarized force to intimidate dissent, attacking the press and universities, and undermining the right to vote through gerrymandering and voter suppression. They are stripping healthcare, food assistance, and basic protections from working people — all to fund massive tax breaks for billionaires and corporations.
We are the ones paying the price. It’s our friends and neighbors being detained and disappeared by ICE. It’s our families losing healthcare as Medicaid and the ACA are gutted. It’s our communities watching public institutions hollowed out while corporate power tightens its grip.
This is not chaos. It’s a strategy — and it’s one we are organized to defeat. With over 1 million members and a 57,000+ person Citizen Action Team, we are deploying a coordinated, nationwide strategy to fight Trump and the oligarchs on every front.
Our Revolution is America’s leading independent, grassroots-funded political action organization. Founded by Bernie Sanders in 2016, we exist to build power from the bottom up — and that mission has never been more urgent.
A FEW HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR REVOLUTION’S WORK
We’ve been in close touch throughout this year so we won’t rehash everything. But we do want to highlight some of where our time, energy, and organizing power have been focused:
- Electing anti-oligarch champions — Our Revolution has now helped elect more than 1,000 progressives at every level of government, from Congress to city councils and school boards. In 2025 alone, our organizing helped propel a new generation of bold leaders — including victories like Zohran Mamdani in NYC — showing clearly where the energy of the party lives.
- Building progressive governing power — We are helping build and defend progressive majorities in cities like St. Louis, delivering wins on housing justice, worker power, universal basic income, and direct democracy.
- Mass mobilization and rapid response — Our volunteers have organized thousands of local actions, town halls, protests, and pressure campaigns targeting Trump and the oligarchs directly (at his golf clubs, outside their Hamptons homes, and more). We’re demanding an end to the cruelty and corruption, calling for immigrant rights and economic justice, and pushing back against Trump’s authoritarian agenda.
- Inside–outside party transformation — Our Revolution continues to be one of the only organizations working inside the Democratic Party to remove corporate influence, build progressive caucuses in 20 state parties, and elevate grassroots leaders into decision-making roles. We’ve moved party leaders to reject dark and corporate money in the 2028 presidential primary — now state and local leaders should ban it from primaries in the 2026 midterms as well.
- Medicare for All and economic justice organizing — We’ve mobilized millions of voters around universal healthcare, fighting back against Medicaid cuts and privatization while advancing a clear, popular alternative: healthcare as a human right. We’re also proud to stand with workers like Starbucks and Amazon on the picket lines and in the fight for a union.
All of this work adds up. Together, we are blocking some of the worst abuses, electing leaders who refuse to bow to oligarch power, and building the infrastructure needed to defeat Trumpism for good.
The truth is Trump’s cruelty is not abstract. It is lived every day by working families, immigrants, seniors, and young people wondering if democracy will survive. That’s why Our Revolution invests so heavily in organizing people where they live — door to door, campus to campus, union hall to union hall. Right now, our volunteers are organizing against ICE raids and deportations, mobilizing mass protests nationwide, fighting to Defund Oligarchs and Fund the People, and deploying our proven voter turnout operation to win the midterms.
But so much depends on what we achieve in this coming year, and we have a lot of work ahead of us.
OUR 2026 STRATEGY: FIGHTING ON EVERY FRONT
As we head into 2026, Our Revolution is focused on a targeted Three-Point Strategy:
- Fight Trump’s Oligarch Agenda — from Capitol Hill to City Halls. We are organizing sustained pressure campaigns to save healthcare and critical services, restore public media, and defund the oligarchs. Our tax dollars should fund the people, not subsidize billionaires cashing in on federal contracts while targeting working families and our immigrant neighbors.
- Elect Anti-Oligarch Champions Up and Down the Ballot. 2026 is a make-or-break election year — and our chance to deflate Trump’s power and take back control of the House and Senate. From Congress to statehouses to local offices, we are recruiting, endorsing, and electing candidates who refuse corporate PAC money and govern with courage.
- Get Oligarch Money Out of Politics and Uplift the Grassroots. We are transforming the Democratic Party from the inside out — rooting out corporate control and ensuring grassroots voices lead the way. Not only are we making headway in the fight to get dark and corporate money out of Democratic primaries, we’re building progressive power in party leadership.
Trump pretends to understand working-class pain while selling out working people to billionaires. We offer something real — and we’re not just playing defense. Because as we stand up to Trump every step of the way, we are also actively fighting for:
- Medicare for All
- Living wages and strong unions
- Climate action with good jobs
- Housing as a human right
- Immigrant justice
- A democracy free from corporate money
This agenda isn’t radical — it’s necessary. And it’s supported by majorities of Americans across race, age, and geography.
Our Revolution — that’s you, our staff, our volunteers, and more than a million grassroots supporters — is making a real difference. That’s why MAGA fears us and Fox News is labeling us “Bernie’s Gestapo.”
Because when people move together, politicians notice. History shows that sustained grassroots pressure is what forces change — and we are building exactly that. But we are only able to do this work because people like you choose to stand with us. If you can, please chip in today to support Our Revolution’s work fighting Trump and the oligarchs:
