📢 Resist & Rising Together Weekly: Good News and Progress from the Resistance

Resist & Rising Together Weekly shares uplifting stories of resistance, resilience, and real progress in the fight for democracy. Each week, we highlight victories for justice, freedom, and equality.

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Resist & Rising Together Weekly: Good News and Progress from the Resistance

Each week, Resist & Rising Together Weekly by People Power United delivers stories of courage, creativity, and collective power from people pushing back against fascism and building a better future. While authoritarians try to divide and silence us, we’re rising—community by community, action by action—to defend democracy and demand justice.

This is where we celebrate progress: victories in the courts, wins for workers, breakthroughs in climate action, and moments when people everywhere stand up for freedom and fairness.

Because resistance isn’t just about fighting back—it’s about moving forward. Together, we are writing the story of progress, one act of people power at a time.

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Today, we honor the strength, resilience, and courage of the American people—those rising together to reject tyranny and defend our democracy. Across the nation, millions are standing up to fascism, reminding the world that power in this country belongs to the people, not to kings, billionaires, or authoritarians. This movement is a declaration of unity, freedom, and defiance — proof that when we stand together, we can stop the march of tyranny and build a nation rooted in justice and equality for all.

✊ Rallies & Protests Highlights

• USA - Analysis shows the sustained energy of the “No Kings” movement, mass mobilizations expanding non-violently across the U.S., reinforcing that civic resistance isn’t fading — it’s scaling up. - Center for American Progress

• USA — “No Kings Day Was a Joyous Carnival for Democracy” Millions of people across the U.S. peacefully took to the streets on Oct 18 under the “No Kings” banner to assert that power belongs to the people — a massive display of civic resistance and democratic culture. - The Nation

⚖️ State Resistance to Federal Overreach

• Portland, Oregon - “Portland police testified that President Donald Trump‘s order to deploy National Guard troops in their city inflamed protests and increased violence.” - Reuters

📜 Government Oversight

• The U.S. Senate voted to repeal broad tariffs imposed by Donald Trump on over 100 countries — a win for global trade norms and a check on extreme economic unilateralism. - The Guardian

💵 Federal Dollars and Equity for All

• The United States Senate Democratic Caucus introduced the “Keep SNAP and WIC Funded Act of 2025” to protect food assistance for millions during the shutdown — a concrete legislative move by the resistance rather than just rhetoric. -KHQ

✊ Civic Engagement

• Protest networks are increasingly penetrating areas once thought impenetrable for progressive organizing, building local power in “Trump country” through sustained civic work. - Harvard Ash Center

• Activists helped recruit a candidate for all 100 House districts in Virginia this year — a full-throated challenge to the GOP and a sign of organized resistance scaling up at the state level. - The Nation

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Thanks for joining us for Rising Together Weekly: Good News and Progress from the Resistance. See you next week!

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Today’s Calls to Action

• Click here to Tell Congress: Investigate Trump’s Revenge Committee

• Click here to Denounce the Companies Bribing Trump with Ballroom Funding

• Click here to Tell Speaker Johnson: Stop Lying About No Kings Protests

• Click here to Tell Congress: Pass the Federal Employee Civil Relief Act and protect federal workers from eviction during the shutdown!

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Together, we can protect and empower those we love, champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

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Laurie joining other activists and organizations to drop thousands of petitions off to Congress for reforms to the Supreme Court

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