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  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
July 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM

The Texas floods are becoming the new normal

The fossil fuel industry has blood on their hands. Hey there John, it's Aru. I’m devastated. Over the weekend, nearly 100 people died in Texas from absolutely unprecedented flooding. These are exactly the sort of climate disasters we’ve been organizing so hard to stop. On days like this, it’s…
  Kidus, Sunrise · [email protected]
July 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM

The GOP must be destroyed

Hey John, it's Kidus. I’m furious. Congress just passed Trump’s Big Ugly Bill. It’s one of the cruelest pieces of legislation we’ve seen in our lifetimes. It is the largest cut to Medicaid ever. Leaves hundreds of thousands of kids hungry. It guts clean energy so fossil fuel billionaires can…
  Kidus, Sunrise · [email protected]
July 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM

The GOP must be destroyed

Hey John, it's Kidus. I’m furious. Congress just passed Trump’s Big Ugly Bill. It’s a giant middle finger to young people. They’re taking away our healthcare, leaving millions of kids hungry, and destroying the planet.  This bill is violent, it’s sadistic, and every Republican who voted for …
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
June 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM

Zohran Mamdani is just the beginning

I'm still thinking about last week John, I’ve spent all week thinking about last week’s NYC mayoral primary. I think we’re going to look back on this moment as one of the turning points for our movement. There’s so many lessons we can draw from this election, but here are three that have rea…
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
June 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM

Zohran Mamdani is just the beginning

I'm still thinking about last week John, I’ve spent all week thinking about last week’s NYC mayoral primary. I think we’re going to look back on this moment as one of the turning points for our movement. There’s so many lessons we can draw from this election, but here are three that have rea…
  Yeishka, Sunrise · [email protected]
June 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM

Our Black, Latine, and Indigenous Caucus Gathering

John, it's Yeishka. I'm the chapter organizer with Sunrise Movement. I just got back from one of the most transformative experiences I’ve had in this movement. Last week, over 50 young Black, Latine, and Indigenous organizers came together for our first-ever Sunrise caucus gathering—a space …
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
June 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM

It's time to make polluters feel this heat

We know who's to blame for these broiling summers John, You might have noticed that it’s CRAZY HOT. Like, record breaking, gross, sweaty heat. But it’s not just uncomfortable. People are going to die. But we know that this isn’t a one-off. Thanks to the greed of fossil fuel executives, this …
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
June 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM

Let’s put fossil fuels where they belong: in the past.

Hey John, Big news in The Guardian today: We’re launching our new campaign — End the Oligarchy, Save Our Futures — and you’re invited to the launch call TONIGHT. Big Oil has blood on its hands: millions every year who die from polluted air, water, and soil, and millions more to come if we d…
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
June 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM

Let’s put fossil fuels where they belong: in the past.

Hey John, Big news in The Guardian today: We’re launching our new campaign: End the Oligarchy, Save Our Futures. Big Oil has blood on its hands: millions every year who die from polluted air, water, and soil, and millions more to come if we don’t turn back the clock on the climate crisis. B…
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
June 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM

What to expect Wednesday

Hey John, On Wednesday, I’m joining leaders from around the country (including Rep. Ro Khanna) to launch our new campaign: “End the Oligarchy, Save our Futures.”  First, let’s just sum it up. We’re going to do to Big Oil what organizers did to Big Tobacco: make them so unpopular and distrust…
  Nico, Sunrise · [email protected]
June 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM

My thoughts on this week

Hey John, it's Nico from Sunrise LA. It’s been an intense week here, but also a moving, inspirational, and clarifying one. I'll be helping launch our national campaign next week, and in a moment, I'm going to ask you to join our launch call. But first, I wanted to share a few of my takeaways…
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
June 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM

Trump is letting corporations poison our air and water

People will die so they can cut corners for a quick buck Hey John, This email was hard to write. This afternoon, the Trump administration took what experts say is their most destructive environmental move to date, gutting regulations on power plants that keep people healthy and slow climate c…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
June 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM

This email is about Los Angeles and authoritarianism

Across the world, right-wing authoritarians are turning even against their own people Hey John, This weekend, authoritarians around the world showed us what they fear most: people.  In Los Angeles, ICE agents arrested SEIU CA Union President David Huerta. He was just one of many targets as pa…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
June 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Make it personal. Tell your senator: vote NO on billionaire tax cuts.

Hey John,  Trump’s budget bill has already passed the House, but just barely. It squeaked by with only ONE vote. And now that the bill is headed to the Senate, some Republican senators are publicly hesitating. They know this bill is wildly unpopular, even with their own voters.  These Repub…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
June 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM

In two weeks, our next campaign begins

These young organizers need you Hey John, How is it possible that in a democracy, our representatives could pass a budget that slashes healthcare benefits to pay for tax cuts for corporations and billionaires? The answer is simple: we barely have a democracy left anymore. A few corporate inte…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
June 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM

What are you doing in two weeks?

We're unveiling our plan to win Hey John, How is it possible that in a democracy, our representatives could pass a budget that slashes healthcare benefits to pay for tax cuts for corporations and billionaires? The answer is simple: we barely have a democracy left anymore. A few corporate inte…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
May 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM

The secret to our organizing work

We meet people where they are Hey John, Sunrise Principle 6 reads “We ask for help and we give what we can”. Building a movement takes so many things: time, energy, sacrifice. For so many people, this is simply too much on top of everything else they have going on in their lives. As part of o…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
May 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM

The GOP budget bill is unacceptable

Can you show up in DC? Hey John, Right now, Trump and Republicans are trying to ram through a budget bill that gives huge tax cuts and handouts to the wealthiest people on the planet, sells our public lands to Big Oil for mining and drilling, and builds more detention centers. How do they pla…
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
May 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM

ICYMI: we’re launching our next campaign

Can you sign up to watch the launch on June 18th? Hey John, Our new campaign, End the Oligarchy, Save Our Futures, launches on June 18th.  We’re hoping to have 100 people signed up to host launch parties (which just means showing up to watch and getting at least one friend to watch with you).…
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
May 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM

It's going to take us to save us

Hey John, Earlier this week, we announced our new campaign: End the Oligarchy, Save Our Future. We launch on June 18th, and in a moment I’m going to ask you to chip in $20 to support that campaign. But first, let me share a story. I first learned about climate change in school. I learned tha…
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
May 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM

It's going to take us to save us

Get involved today by hosting a watch party! Hey John, Earlier this week, we announced our new campaign: End the Oligarchy, Save Our Future. We launch on June 18th, and in a moment I’m going to ask you to sign up to host a watch party (which could be as simple as you and your friend hopping o…
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
May 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM

Our new campaign to end oligarchy and win a Green New Deal

Get involved today by hosting a watch party! Hey John, Trump thinks he can do whatever he and his billionaire donors want. He’s turbocharging the climate crisis for Big Oil, targeting immigrant families and cementing oligarchy. He’s been able to get away with it because our democracy is broke…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
May 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM

The fossil fuel lobby has gone mask off

It’s their business model vs democracy. We’re fighting on the side of democracy. Hey John, This year has made it crystal clear. Big Oil runs the government. Trump put a fracking CEO as his Energy Secretary and his EPA administrator has called climate change “a religion”. The silver lining is…
  Alex, Sunrise · [email protected]
May 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM

Students save the world. Know any?? App due tomorrow!

Hey John, My name is Alex and I’m a Sunrise student organizer. I’m asking you to send any high school or college students you know to Sunrise’s program so that we can spark a student organizing revival this summer and take back power in our society.  When I was in high school, rats fell out …
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
May 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM

It turns out Yoda was wrong

Sometimes, it's important to just try Hey John, You might not expect our movement to quote Star Wars — but honestly, we can’t stop thinking about this monologue from Andor, by Karis Nemik. It starts: You know that feeling. We know that feeling. We’ve all had moments lately where we felt hope…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
May 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM

It turns out Yoda was wrong

Sometimes, it's important to just try Hey John, You might not expect our movement to quote Star Wars — but honestly, we can’t stop thinking about this monologue from Andor, by Karis Nemik. It starts: You know that feeling. We know that feeling. We’ve all had moments lately where we felt hope…
  Paul, Sunrise · [email protected]
May 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM

Support Pittsburgh in the wake of devastating storms

Every life-destroying climate disaster is just another reason we need a GND Hey John, it's Paul with Sunrise. Last week, historic storms struck the Pittsburgh area, bringing down power lines and leaving nearly half the city without power. Even today, thousands of people are without power, and…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
April 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM

Let's remind billionaires why they fear May Day.

Tomorrow, you can show up for a Green New Deal Hey John, Most Americans have heard of Labor Day, but not May Day (International Workers Day) - this is by design. (check out our whole educational May Day graphic series) May Day originated in America as a radical mass strike that ground the Am…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
April 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM

📢 Big news: Our First Mayoral Endorsement

A climate champion for NYC. Hey John, THIS IS BIG. For the first time ever, Sunrise Movement is endorsing a candidate for mayor — and we couldn’t be more proud to endorse Zohran Mamdani for Mayor of NYC! His climate platform is grounded in improving the lives of working people through clima…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
April 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM

800 May Day Events and Counting

Everyday workers are the vanguard against fascism Hey John, Thursday, May 1st is International Workers Day - commonly called May Day. Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies think the world belongs to them. They think every natural resource belongs to them. They think that our lives are disp…
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
April 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM

Earth Day is a Legacy of Resistance

Hey John, it's Aru with Sunrise. Earth Day began as a generation flooded the streets demanding that the government finally stand up to powerful corporations and tell them they could not poison the future for profit. And they won. Today, that progress is under full attack as Donald Trump, bac…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
April 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM

They’re burning our Earth - and they’re betting we’ll let them

Earth Day was never meant to be just a hashtag Hey John, Earth Day was never meant to be just a hashtag. It began as a revolt—a generation taking to the streets in the 1970s to say, "You cannot poison our futures for profit." And it worked. We won legislation and regulations that kept our air…
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
April 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM

Tax Day is rigged

Here’s how we fight back. Hey John, it’s Aru with Sunrise Movement. Today is Tax Day — and chances are, you just paid more in taxes than a billionaire oil CEO. And let’s be real: definitely more than Donald Trump. For over 100 years, fossil fuel companies have used corrupt politicians to do…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
April 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM

Become Ungovernable (and a little bit adorable)

Last chance to get our limited edition sticker. Hey John,  Our limited-edition "Ungovernable" sticker has been a huge hit. We're placing our order on Friday, so now's your last chance to get yours. Donate $5 or more by Friday, and we’ll send you our special edition sticker so you can help get…
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
April 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM

Three executive orders. One goal: protect polluters.

Trump can’t be allowed to get away with this Hey John, it’s Aru with Sunrise Movement. Last night, Donald Trump signed not one, not two, but three executive orders designed to prop up the fossil fuel industry and shield Big Oil from any accountability for the harm they inflict on our communi…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
April 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM

Protest works. This one is important

It's time to take to the streets Hey John, Trump and Elon Musk are pillaging our government to fund more tax cuts for billionaires like themselves. It’s time to get in the streets and show their administration that the American people will not stand by while they do. Tomorrow, April 5th, is t…
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
April 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM

Trump has sent the FBI after climate programs

He wants to drain the government to fund more billionaire tax breaks Hey John, it's Aru, with Sunrise. In 2022, we helped pass the biggest climate investment in US history, which helped fund countless local climate projects. We’re talking solar panels, electric wiring, affordable housing, tox…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
April 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM

Elon Musk just took a huge L

This one's a big win for democracy Hey John. In the past few weeks, Elon Musk made a big bet in Wisconsin. He poured $25 million in the state Supreme Court race, including two million dollars given directly to two people for voting. He made it a referendum on he and Trump’s billionaire agenda…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
March 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM

The conspiracy theories about us are getting unhinged

This is why we need public education 🤣 Hey John. Last week, we held a two-day "Study-in" outside the Department of Education, to protest Trump's attacks on of public education. He's pulling federal funding, closing affordable student loan repayment plans, and ultimately trying to shut down th…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
March 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM

The fossil fuel industry is getting desperate

They’re betting on us giving up Hey John. The fossil fuel industry is accelerating its attacks on climate action, acting through its bought and paid for politicians. Now, they're trying to remove the regulations that prevent them from polluting our air and water and worsening the climate cris…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
March 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM

Become ungovernable

Get our latest sticker. Hey John,  Trump and his billionaire donors want you to feel scared. Since entering the Oval Office, they’ve sent a clear message: “we run the government, so we’re going to do exactly what we want, and you’re going take it.” Most of us were raised to respect authority.…
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
March 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM

Chuck Schumer doesn’t want to face us

He just cancelled his entire book tour Hey John, it's Aru with Sunrise. After Chuck Schumer caved and backed Trump’s disastrous budget on Friday, Sunrisers around the country got to work making banners and recruiting for protests at Schumer’s book tour this week.  Then, this morning, he got w…
  Aru with Sunrise · [email protected]
March 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM

Corporate Democrats are failing us

It's time for new leadership. Chuck Schumer has got to go Hey John, it's Aru with Sunrise. Earlier today, young people went to Chuck Schumer’s office to remind him that millions of people voted for him to fight back against Donald Trump. He chose to arrest them rather than look them in the ey…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
March 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM

Don’t let them take away the future of education

They’ve been trying to re-segregate schools for decades Hey John, it's Team Sunrise. Trump has stated that his goal is to run the Department of Education out of existence, and his Education Secretary has backed that up. This is ridiculous. All young people deserve an education, regardless of …
  Kidus with Sunrise Movement · [email protected]
March 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Trump's criminal EPA

They're throwing out the rules because they're desperate Hey John, it's Kidus with Sunrise. This is a longer email than we normally write, but I hope you’ll stick with it. Trump’s Energy Secretary just cancelled twenty billion dollars in funding for clean energy and walked back 31 environment…
  Kidus with Sunrise Movement · [email protected]
March 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Trump's criminal EPA

They're throwing out the rules because they're desperate Hey John, it's Kidus with Sunrise. This is a longer email than we normally write, but I hope you’ll stick with it. Trump’s Energy Secretary just cancelled twenty billion dollars in funding for clean energy and walked back 31 environment…
  Aru, Sunrise · [email protected]
March 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM

Trump’s billionaire agenda was on full display

It’s everyday Americans vs the billionaires of the world; and our future is on the line Hey John, it's Aru with Sunrise Movement. Last night, I watched Donald Trump’s presidential address and… wow. It was a rambling, chaotic mess, but at every turn, there was one real point coming across. Und…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
March 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM

We can’t let them dismantle our schools

We’re organizing students and teachers to fight back Hey John, Team Sunrise here. Yesterday, the Senate confirmed Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon. She is grossly unqualified - a former WWE executive with zero educational experience. What “qualifications” does…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
February 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM

Donald Trump is defunding our futures

Our movement is running trainings on how to respond Hey John, Team Sunrise here. In just 30 days, Trump has doubled down on his anti-climate agenda. He has handed more power to polluters by gutting the EPA, tried to end renewable energy subsidies, and left the Paris Climate Accords. He’s even…
  Team Sunrise · [email protected]
February 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Donald Trump is defunding our futures

Our movement is running trainings on how to respond Hey John, Team Sunrise here. In just 30 days, Trump has doubled down on his anti-climate agenda. He has handed more power to polluters by gutting the EPA, tried to end renewable energy subsidies, and left the Paris Climate Accords. He’s even…