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Dear John,
From birddogging in the
halls of Congress, to demonstrating in the streets, to
disrupting dinners in swanky restaurants, CODEPINK
spent 2025 confronting power and inspiring the masses. Just days into
the new year, Trump has already bombed Venezuela and kidnapped
its president and is continuing warmongering against
Iran; 2026 is shaping up to be critically important for the
anti-war movement.
I’ll let you in on a
secret: We don’t just disrupt warmongers to remind them of
all the harm they’ve caused and the people they’ve killed. While
that’s certainly a big part of it, we do it primarily to show
people all over the world — in Gaza, Cuba, inside of the belly of the
beast, and beyond — that the ruling class’s crimes aren’t going
unnoticed and unchallenged. Thanks to the platform you’ve
given us over the years, we’ve been able to inspire people who see us
online to take real action and join the movement for
a better world. Although the polls show that a vast
majority of people don’t support war, that alone won’t stop the war
machine. Our work is to mobilize this majority and turn these people
into peace activists. Most
people who sign up to organize with CODEPINK come to us
because they saw one of our disruptions and were
inspired to take the next step.
Thanks to your support, we
had a number of powerful disruptions last year. We need your
help to keep going. The people in power aren’t happy with us and are
pulling out all the stops to try and intimidate us. We need
you now more than ever.
Here are CODEPINK’s most viral
moments, which brought more people into the anti-war movement in
2025:
1. Disrupting Kristi Noem while
dressed as the priest from The Exorcist: We
disrupted Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi
Noem, the woman who is overseeing Trump’s mass
deportation regime. CODEPINKers disrupted her hearing,
calling for an end to the separation of families and ICE terror. Both
activists were arrested, but their creative, courageous disruption got
a whopping eight MILLION impressions, touching
people’s hearts all over the world.
2. Disrupting Trump and his
cabinet at dinner: When Trump’s cabinet strolled in for
dinner at a DC restaurant, CODEPINKers were ready to remind them of
the holocaust they are supporting in Gaza. As they sat down to eat,
children were starving to death and bombs were raining down on already
destroyed cities in Gaza. Why should the men who fund that horror be
allowed to eat an extravagant meal without being confronted?
This got millions of impressions and over 8,000 supportive
comments.
3. Disrupting Kash Patel and Tom
Cotton’s lies: In a Senate intelligence hearing with FBI
Director Kash Patel, where he was testifying about the world’s
greatest “threats,” CODEPINK’s Tighe Barry got up and told the
senators that the world’s biggest threat is Israel! After Tighe was
taken out of the room, Senator Tom Cotton started spewing hateful lies
about CODEPINK. Our very own Colonel Ann Wright got up and set the
record straight.
4. Disrupting genocide denier and
new CBS Editor-In-Chief Bari Weiss in Chicago: The people who
hold power aren’t just in the White House or in Congress, they’re in
newsrooms, deciding which stories get to be told and which ones don’t.
This became even more apparent when Bari Weiss, fresh off of accepting
the position of editor-in-chief at CBS, spiked a 60 Minutes story
about CECOT, the torture camp in El Salvador that the Trump
administration has been sending people to. We anticipated Bari being a
barrier for truth, since she has repeatedly denied the genocide in
Gaza. We attended her event in Chicago to make it clear to Bari and
all those in attendance that she isn’t a real journalist; she’s an
apologist for warmongers all over the world, from Netanyahu to
Trump!
5. We gave a “toast” to US
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: We sure run into Trump
administration officials at dinner quite often! Secretary Scott
Bessent, who is waging economic wars on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran,
among others, was enjoying his dinner when CODEPINKers saw him and did
a “toast” to him in front of the whole restaurant. We let everyone
know that it’s Secretary Bessent who imposes the sanctions that kill
600,000 people annually. Blood is on his hands — and everyone who eats
around war criminals ought to know it!
These were just five of our disruptions in 2025, made
possible by your support. They moved countless people from
merely being against war to actually taking action for peace.
That’s precisely why CODEPINK exists. Thanks to you, we’re
able to inspire millions of people each and every year.
We don’t plan on slowing down in 2026. We have a
lot in the works to continue disrupting the war machine, holding war
criminals accountable, and turning ordinary people into rockstar peace
activists.
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With deep
gratitude,
Danaka, Tim, Michelle, Nuvpreet and the entire
CODEPINK team
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