It’s easy to think that the fight to end corporate rule only happens in Washington. But the truth is, the strongest pressure doesn’t start inside the Capitol—it starts outside of it, in communities where people decide they’re done watching corporations write the rules.

Affiliate & Advocate Spotlight: Building Power Everywhere

Movements are not built in a single place, nor do they advance through a single tactic. They grow because people, in communities large and small, decide to show up—again and again—and connect what’s happening where they live to a larger structural problem.

Across the country, Move to Amend affiliates are doing exactly that: organizing locally while keeping their eyes on the constitutional crisis at the root of corporate power.

Recent actions in Ohio, Alabama, and Minnesota — now at the center of national attention in the fight to reclaim self-government — reveal what it looks like when communities organize for systemic change.

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In times that feel heavy and uncertain, how do we keep showing up without burning out? How do we cope with the emotional and psychological toll of living day-to-day life within a polycrisis of urgent, overlapping, and simultaneous tipping points in all realms: environmental, economic, political, and social?”

This work is long, demanding, and deeply human. As we change the system, we also need to care for ourselves and one another.

Join Move to Amend’s 6-part series,
The Way Through: Building Resilient, Sustainable Activists —
a space to meet overwhelm, anger, and despair with compassion, and to transform them into grounded, collective action for a healthier, safer world.

• Mondays | 7:30pm ET/ 6:30 pm CT/ 5:30 pm MT/ 4:30pm PT/ 2:30 PM HAW (check your time zone)
• Every 3 weeks: 1/26–5/11
• 75-minutes each, focused and supportive
• Attend the full series or any individual sessions (see session schedule below)
• Open to activists and anyone who is struggling and wondering, “But what can I do?”

Each session focuses on one section of The Way Through, the newest module from our Movement Education Program (MEP), offering tools to sustain ourselves — and our movements — for the long haul.

Because movements don’t survive on strategy alone — they survive on cultures of care.

NEXT UP on March 9 - Depression, despair, anxiety, fear, frustration, grief, and anger are common and appropriate emotional responses to societal injustices. When we learn the skills to engage uncomfortable emotions, this empowers us to act more effectively on behalf of our world and ourselves.
In this section, we explore ways to lean into the emotion of anger to propel you forward with the right aligned action and how grief can serve as a potent force for activism. And we are encouraged to take our care and pain out of individual isolation into networks of community who can take bold actions.

Session Schedule: You only need to register one time
Jan 26 - Grief, Anger & Emotional Resilience
Feb 16 - What You Love, Your Core Values, and Personal Strengths
Mar 9 - Transforming Emotions into Action: Grief, Anger, Despair & Motivation
Mar 30 - Socialization & Liberation: Breaking Free from Oppressive Societal Norms
April 20 - Protecting Joy & Taking Collective Action for a Compelling Future (Part 1)
May 11 - Protecting Joy & Taking Collective Action for a Compelling Future (Part 2)
Download an outline of the course here

Affiliate Spotlight: Miami County, Ohio

As the year came to a close, Move to Amend Miami County, Ohio offered a powerful reminder of what sustained, relational organizing looks like.

From D.C. Streets to Local Power-Building

Even in a year of furloughs, political chaos, and constant “polycrisis” headlines, our affiliates and advocates have kept the We the People Amendment moving forward — in Congress, in city halls, and out in the streets. This month’s spotlight ties together a powerful moment in Washington, D.C. with the steady, gritty work happening across the country.

It is Celebration Time! 

15th Anniversary of the Monahan Walk Across the US

October was a month of grit, creativity, and people-powered progress across the Move to Amend network. From the Midwest to the Deep South, our affiliates and advocates are proving once again that when the message is clear and the mission is just, people are eager to join the fight to end corporate rule.

🏛️ Congressional update:

{{recipient.first_name_or_friend}}, another government shutdown is upon us. Once again, working families are forced to go without paychecks, small businesses lose customers, and communities lose vital services. Meanwhile, corporate interests continue to collect their subsidies, tax breaks, and special access.

This dysfunction isn’t an accident—it’s a strategy. Manufactured crises are used to justify privatization of public goods, funneling our tax dollars into corporate profits while leaving us with higher costs and fewer services. It’s corporate rule at work.

That’s why we need the We the People Amendment (H.J.R. 54) —to end corporate power and put human needs first.

Even in the middle of this chaos, our movement is gaining traction!

This month we’re thrilled to shine a light on two inspiring Affiliates who are carrying the Move to Amend mission forward in their communities.

Your voice matters more than ever! Rejoin the movement!