Dear John,
She followed the rules.
A college student, sexually assaulted on her campus, filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Education. She documented everything. She waited for investigators to contact her.
No one ever called.
She's suing her university now. As a last resort. Because the federal government abandoned her.
"They have all the power," she said about her university, “because there is no large organization holding them accountable. It's just me. Just this one individual filing this simple suit."
But, here's what you need to know: She's not alone.
Before Trump dismantled it, the Department of Education opened dozens of sexual violence investigations every year. Today? Fewer than 10 nationwide. Half the civil rights investigators have been fired. There's a backlog of 25,000 cases.
Schools that once feared federal enforcement now know no one is watching. This is not an accident. This is deliberate.
But something else is happening on campuses right now. And you can be part of it.
In Virginia and Pennsylvania last fall, Feminist Majority student organizers mobilized voters on 30 college campuses. We reached voters in libraries and student unions. We held strategy sessions. We drove students to the polls.
The result?
Virginia elected its first woman governor—Abigail Spanberger, a fierce ERA champion, and flipped 13 seats in the House of Delegates to secure a 64-36 Democratic majority. Pennsylvania retained three Supreme Court justices who support reproductive rights and the state ERA.
Young voter turnout hit record levels and was key to these victories. An extraordinary 82% of young women voted for Spanberger. This was democracy, built by young women who refused to accept that "it's just me, just this one individual." Your support made that possible. Thank you.
Now we need to do it again. At a far larger scale for the 2026 Congressional Mid-Term Elections.
The Cook Political Report just shifted 18 House races toward Democrats. We need just three seats to flip the House. Control will be decided in swing districts—many of them home to campuses where young women are ready to organize.
But here's the truth: Campus organizing requires early money. Not October money. January money.
We need to know NOW that we can recruit, train and hire organizers for the fall campaigns. We must secure campus partnerships before spring semester ends and build relationships with student leaders who'll return and hit the ground running in the fall. Create infrastructure for massive voter registration drives.
Your annual renewal today gives us that certainty.
Without it, we'll be improvising in September when it's too late to build what we need for November. Will you renew your support today with a gift of $50, $100, $250, or whatever amount is meaningful to you?
Your renewal does three things:
FIRST, it secures the campus organizing infrastructure we need to mobilize young women voters—the voters who can flip the House and restore federal protection for survivors.
SECOND, it tells us we can move forward with confidence, recruiting and training student organizers, building field operations that win.
THIRD, it sends a message to every young woman on campuses: You are not alone. You are not just one individual. You are part of a movement with resources, strategy, and power.
The woman who said "It's just me"—that's what defeat sounds like. Your renewal today is what victory sounds like: "We're organized. We're mobilized. We're taking power.”
If we don't organize these campuses in the coming months, we won't have infrastructure in place when students return in September. If we don't recruit and train student organizers now and through this spring, we won't have the base we need this fall.
If we don't flip the House in 2026, the attacks on Title IX, reproductive rights, and the ERA will continue unchecked. But if we DO this work—if we organize strategically and mobilize effectively—we can help stop Trump and his MAGA Republican axis of misogyny.
We can help flip the House. We can restore enforcement. We can protect the next generation of students who should never have to say "It's just me."
Your annual renewal today makes that possible. Please renew your support now.
Thank you for everything you've already done. Thank you for standing with survivors. Thank you for believing in the power of young women and women of all ages to change this country.
And thank you for renewing today so we can organize before it's too late.
