Celebrating our Collective Effort
Last month, AoCC subscribers completed over 6,800 actions—that’s nearly 300 more than in January 2025! From get-out-the-vote and democracy actions to advocating for the rights of all Americans and residents, thank you for your commitment to speaking up!
All good news
Here’s this week’s list of good news, progress, and accountability. Join us in taking a breath and pausing to absorb what is going right lately.
- Multiple court orders ensure that five offshore wind projects can resume construction after the current administration’s attempt to halt them.
- CT launches an online and billboard campaign to promote the state’s free abortion legal hotline.
- HI updates parentage laws to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ parents, families formed through IVF, sperm or egg donation, surrogacy, and other diverse family structures.
- MA and MN require most major utility suppliers to offer discounted electricity rates for households using heat pumps this winter.
- OR: A federal court dismisses a Dept. of Justice lawsuit seeking the state’s unredacted voter rolls.
- Two Minnesota school districts and the state’s largest teachers union sue to ban federal immigration agents from school property.
- San Francisco will offer free childcare to families earning less than $230,000 per year and a 50% childcare subsidy to those earning up to $310,000.
- Tolarian Community College’s annual Magic: The Gathering fundraiser raises over $624,000 for Trans Lifeline, a peer support hotline for transgender people in crisis.
- The Immigrant Defense Network expands their constitutional observer training to 30 cities across the midwest, facilitating more community documentation of federal immigration activity.
- About 700 more guests than expected attend a workshop at Pasadena’s All Saints Episcopal Church on how to support their neighbors when federal immigration agents appear in local communities.
- More than 5,000 acres of forestland surrounding Shenandoah National Park will be protected under a series of conservation easements.
- Over 170 countries, including the U.S., will phase out the use of hydrofluorocarbons, a group of gasses used in cooling systems that heat the atmosphere more than almost any other pollutant.
What’s going on at AoCC
- It’s not too late to join author Omkari Williams and Jen Hofmann in a two-part class, Ritual, Creativity, & Commitment. The second live session for activists is next week, and this week’s recording is now available!
- Uplifting message from Jen Hofmann: From Outrage to Accountability: Choosing Love in Divided Times
- Take action with our most recent Checklist of clear, no-drama actions to lift our voices for a kind and thriving nation.
Support the good news list
Are we doing a good job keeping you informed and engaged in this overwhelming time? A small monthly donation would help us reach our goal to empower more Americans to speak up. Want to help? Become an AoCC patron.
In solidarity,
— Jen Hofmann and the AoCC team
P.S. Know someone who could use a lift? Send them encouragement with our Checklist full of positive actions that support democracy, people, and planet. Sign up here.