John,

Tonight, President Biden will deliver the FIRST State of the Union of his presidency, which means we must reflect on this past year honestly and fairly.

We must be the voice of reason – we have less than one more year of a guaranteed Democratic trifecta, and if we spend it the same way we spent the last (slow and spineless), we will all suffer the consequences of inaction on climate.

John, we know it’s easy to feel defeated — but we need to dig in and fight for our climate and ourselves. Can you help keep us in the fight for our future by donating $10 or any amount to Sunrise today?

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We want to be clear: we want Biden to succeed.

We wanted Biden to be the best President on climate when young people elected him in 2020. We need him to be because it’s our generation and our lives at risk. And look, we still think he can be this President, but there is a massive course correction this administration must take to get there

It makes sense that our movement feels disillusioned. We’ve gone through a year of working our asses off, just for our government to disappoint. It’s hard. We had really high hopes for what would happen, and we did a lot to fight to make it happen.

But we want to leave you with a few takeaways from our state of the union:

One, we are strong. We are building power and each fight, win or lose, gets us closer to our vision where all life is possible. Don’t forget that.

Two, this isn’t a huge surprise to us because we’ve been right all along – we knew Biden wouldn’t be enough, we knew his strategy of moderatism and “relationships” wouldn’t work, and now we know for sure that the “adults in the room” should be listening to us, not their glass door consultants.

And the last thing I want us to hold is that we still believe in the vision we’re fighting for. And it’s worth fighting for.

If you believe that our vision is STILL worth fighting for, will you donate $10 or any amount to Sunrise today?

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Our shot at collective liberation and even just a livable planet relies on us acting, even if our government does not. It relies on our faith in the movement and the work we’re doing, even if at times it can get really hard. And it relies on us leaning on our community when things get hard and bringing them into the fold as we still charge ahead.

In solidarity,

Varshini, Sunrise