Celebrating our Collective Effort
In October, you and our community took 4,081 actions together. Better still, we set a goal to reach 50,000 actions in 2025, and we’ve already exceeded it! To date, our subscribers have completed 52,168 actions for democracy, equality, and justice in our country. One action at a time, we’re making a real difference together!
Good news boost!
- After a U.S. court ruled that ICE unlawfully detained Ruben Torres Maldonado, he is released and reunites with his family and daughter undergoing cancer treatments.
- NM becomes the first state to offer free universal childcare.
- ME launches an ICE Watch Hotline to keep communities informed and protected from unjust immigration enforcement.
- OR becomes the first state to be determined Accessibility Verified by Wheel the World, a nonprofit dedicated to making travel accessible for disabled people.
- VA: Abigail Spanberger is elected governor, becoming the first woman elected to the governorship in state history.
- VA: State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi is elected lieutenant governor, becoming the first Muslim woman in U.S. history to be voted into statewide office.
- Mayor Brandon Johnson takes concrete actions to reaffirm Chicago’s commitment to protecting immigrant communities.
- Chicagoans support their immigrant neighbors and mobilize against ICE.
- Erica Deuso is elected mayor of Downington, PA, becoming the first openly transgender mayor in state history.
- Dorcey Applyrs is elected mayor of Albany, becoming the first Black woman mayor in the city’s history.
- Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor of New York City, becoming the first Muslim and first person of South Asian descent to hold the position.
- The Moms Rising organization shares resources families can use to find the care they need during the government shutdown and withholding of SNAP funds.
- Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin resumes offering abortions after a nearly monthlong pause due to funding cuts.
- Native American Heritage Month celebrates and honors the histories, cultures, and contributions of Native nations.
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! creates a food bank to serve community members facing the loss or reduction of SNAP resources.
- On National Voter Registration Day (September 16), an estimated 300,000 voters registered for the first time or updated their registration.
- Following reports of immigration officials unlawfully using combative force against protestors, a U.S. district court rules that the Customs and Border Patrol chief must report daily to a federal court for oversight.
- A federal district court orders the White House to reinstate American Sign Language interpreters for all press briefings held by the president or White House press secretary, finding that removing the interpretation unlawfully excluded deaf and hard of hearing Americans from receiving updates on critical matters.
- CO voters approve additional funding for the state’s Healthy School Meals for All program.
- IL passes the Equality for Every Family Act, which will ensure that all families, including LGBTQ+ families and those expanded through assisted reproduction and surrogacy, will be legally recognized.
- NJ: Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill becomes the second woman elected to the position in state history.
- TX: Solar and wind power meet nearly 40 percent of the state’s electricity demand in 2025.
- For the fourth time, the Sumner County, TN Library Board again fails to pass a policy that would censor library materials related to diverse gender identities.
- Cuyahoga County, OH passes the CROWN Act, which bans racial discrimination based on natural hairstyles.
- Eagle County, CO voters approve tax changes that will fund childcare and public safety enhancements.
- Sharon Owens is elected mayor of Syracuse, becoming the city’s first Black mayor and the second woman elected to the role.
- City Council President Mary Sheffield is elected mayor of Detroit, becoming the first woman to hold the position.
- The University of Utah, Smith College, Bryn Mawr College, and the Stevens Institute of Technology each launch free tuition programs for undergraduates who meet certain income, residence, or academic requirements.
- In support of their students and their families, the Washington, DC Teachers’ Union joins a federal lawsuit brought against immigration authorities for racially motivated mass arrests made during workplace and neighborhood raids.
- Amidst the administration’s deletion of data and shuttering of climate monitoring resources, the nonprofit Climate Central revives the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s disaster database.
- DACA recipient Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago is released from immigration detention 60 days after Border Patrol unlawfully detained her.
- Houston neighbors create a network of solar-powered “hub homes” to support each other with resources and shelter during extreme weather and power outages.
- Thanks to conservation efforts, Green sea turtles are no longer endangered.
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