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Hello 2026! Looking forward to a strong year for each of us! www.americansofconscience.com
@civileats.com calls out the critical connection between race, food, poverty, and equity by sharing stories that highlight these issues. Learn more about food justice⤵
As we enter 2026, take a look back at how farmers and advocates across the country are still finding ways to feed their communities, support the next generation of producers, and teach sustainable agriculture to urban farmers.
Our Biggest Food Justice Stories of 2025
This year, we doubled our reporting on the systemic obstacles to food security, including poverty, inequality, and structural racism.
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January 4, 2026 at 4:53 PM
@civileats.com calls out the critical connection between race, food, poverty, and equity by sharing stories that highlight these issues. Learn more about food justice⤵
We all deserve policies which:
⚕️ensure access to health care
💲support a living wage for those who provide care
🎓protect the programs that support children’s futures
⚕️ensure access to health care
💲support a living wage for those who provide care
🎓protect the programs that support children’s futures
"By making huge cuts to health care, undermining protections for care workers, and attacking early education programs, the Trump administration is pushing forward a series of regressive policies that, one by one, fulfill its true agenda."
Four Ways the Trump Administration Took a Page From the Project 2025 Playbook and Made It Harder for Women to Care for Their Families in 2025
Ultimately, these four attacks reveal the Trump administration’s hypocrisy. It claims to be supporting women having and raising children, but these policy decisions have all made it harder for women with families to survive.
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January 3, 2026 at 10:08 PM
We all deserve policies which:
⚕️ensure access to health care
💲support a living wage for those who provide care
🎓protect the programs that support children’s futures
⚕️ensure access to health care
💲support a living wage for those who provide care
🎓protect the programs that support children’s futures
Here's to a year filled with words of welcome 📝💌❤️
Let’s ring in the new year with more words of welcome! 💌✨
As part of our 2025 Hope for the Holidays campaign, we asked you to submit virtual messages for our refugee and other immigrant neighbors.
We received hundreds of messages—here’s what you said… ⬇️
#workofwelcome #hopefortheholidays
As part of our 2025 Hope for the Holidays campaign, we asked you to submit virtual messages for our refugee and other immigrant neighbors.
We received hundreds of messages—here’s what you said… ⬇️
#workofwelcome #hopefortheholidays
![-Jill in New Harbor, ME:
We love you and are doing all we can to try to make the new year a better one for you! Blessings on you and your family.
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![My family and I are very happy you have come to the US. Our grandparents immigrated from another country years ago. Please do not be discouraged. We welcome you! -Susan in Castro Valley, CA
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![We love you, we welcome you, we want to protect you and your families. Please know that our hearts are wrapped around you especially during this time! -Lynn in Lakewood, CO
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January 3, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Here's to a year filled with words of welcome 📝💌❤️
Empower yourself. Make sure you (and your friends and famiily) have the tools you need!
We’re 305 days away from the 2026 midterm elections.
It’s never too early to check your voter registration and encourage your friends and fam to check theirs too. https://www.commoncause.org/research-and-resources/voting-tools/
It’s never too early to check your voter registration and encourage your friends and fam to check theirs too. https://www.commoncause.org/research-and-resources/voting-tools/
Voting Tools
Empower yourself with our voting tools. Register to vote, check your status, request an absentee ballot, and more.
www.commoncause.org
January 2, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Empower yourself. Make sure you (and your friends and famiily) have the tools you need!
VISIBILITY. But what’s up with that 30%?
Our visibility matters.
As anti-equality forces wish to cast our community aside, recent data reports that more than 9 in 10 LGBTQ people are out to at least one person in their lives.
For those who can, we must continue to be out, proudly and defiantly. https://pewrsr.ch/3L4HcAh
As anti-equality forces wish to cast our community aside, recent data reports that more than 9 in 10 LGBTQ people are out to at least one person in their lives.
For those who can, we must continue to be out, proudly and defiantly. https://pewrsr.ch/3L4HcAh
January 2, 2026 at 6:20 PM
VISIBILITY. But what’s up with that 30%?
We ❤️ a plan to save free and fair elections. And we are all in.
It's vital that we have free and fair elections in 2026, even amid the federal government's unprecedented campaign to undermine them. That's where the Brennan Center comes in. Donald Trump has his plan; so do we.
bit.ly/3Y72AYH
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A Year of Challenge and Hope for American Democracy
As our Constitution is tested, citizens respond.
www.brennancenter.org
January 2, 2026 at 6:18 PM
We ❤️ a plan to save free and fair elections. And we are all in.
Inclusive education is the bedrock of democracy.
Since the launch of the Second Chance Pell Experimental Sites Initiative (SCP) in 2016, more than 45,000 incarcerated students have enrolled in SCP programs. Today, there are more than 750,000 people in prison eligible to enroll in a postsecondary program.
January 2, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Inclusive education is the bedrock of democracy.
Drinking water, watersheds, and national monuments are linked.
Drinking water for more than 13 million Americans is directly supplied by watersheds within or downstream of national monuments—monuments that are now under attack by the Trump administration.
January 2, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Drinking water, watersheds, and national monuments are linked.
Learning more about the immigration system so we can do more to advocate for change ⤵
A former senior immigration policy official explains how the immigration system works, what has changed under the Trump administration, and what needs to be fixed most urgently. bit.ly/3LSrLet
An Insider’s View of the Immigration System
A former senior immigration policy official offers insight into how the system works and highlights urgent problems that must be addressed.
www.brennancenter.org
January 1, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Learning more about the immigration system so we can do more to advocate for change ⤵
#AoCChecklist is in the house! ❤️💜💚🧡💛 In the words of team Can-Do-Ologist Marissa Bracke, we’re back to help people feel less alone or unsure in their urge to do something, to remind people that hope is alive and our actions are its breath, and to offer direction where fear has muddled the path.
January 1, 2026 at 6:17 PM
#AoCChecklist is in the house! ❤️💜💚🧡💛 In the words of team Can-Do-Ologist Marissa Bracke, we’re back to help people feel less alone or unsure in their urge to do something, to remind people that hope is alive and our actions are its breath, and to offer direction where fear has muddled the path.
We ❤️ this list. Which of these have you done or will do this month?
Happy 2026 🎆 New year, same goals!
Start 2026 strong by helping your peers get ready to vote 🗳️
Let’s make youth voter registration (and pre-registration!) a resolution we keep every year.
Want to get started? Check out this linkto sign up for a workshop ⭐ buff.ly/kHlNwkX
#edusky
Start 2026 strong by helping your peers get ready to vote 🗳️
Let’s make youth voter registration (and pre-registration!) a resolution we keep every year.
Want to get started? Check out this linkto sign up for a workshop ⭐ buff.ly/kHlNwkX
#edusky
January 1, 2026 at 5:11 PM
We ❤️ this list. Which of these have you done or will do this month?
First up: being in the work for equality.
Cheers to 2026! May this year bring renewed energy, unity, and momentum toward true equality. GLAD Law is proud to keep advancing justice – and grateful to you for being with us in this work.
January 1, 2026 at 4:20 PM
First up: being in the work for equality.
Hello 2026! Looking forward to a strong year for each of us! www.americansofconscience.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Hello 2026! Looking forward to a strong year for each of us! www.americansofconscience.com
We're taking a break until Jan 1st! Growing 10% this year, with you taking more than 52,000 actions for democracy and equality. Every shared moment of hope exists because of our supporters. Consider joining us as a supporter in growing what’s good in 2026! https://americansofconscience.com/support/
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We're taking a break until Jan 1st! Growing 10% this year, with you taking more than 52,000 actions for democracy and equality. Every shared moment of hope exists because of our supporters. Consider joining us as a supporter in growing what’s good in 2026! https://americansofconscience.com/support/
Join us in saying "Thank You" to Rep. Robert Garcia, ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for launching a dashboard to track incidents of abuse and misconduct committed by federal immigration personnel. #gratitudegratitude" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://americansofconscience.com/12-05-2025/#gratitude
December 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Join us in saying "Thank You" to Rep. Robert Garcia, ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for launching a dashboard to track incidents of abuse and misconduct committed by federal immigration personnel. #gratitudegratitude" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://americansofconscience.com/12-05-2025/#gratitude
Our local libraries welcome us all 💯📚❤️
December 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Our local libraries welcome us all 💯📚❤️
The Right to Read Act expands federal investment in literacy, strengthens school library staffing and collections, supports family literacy programs, and protects students' freedom to access diverse materials in their schools 👏📚⤵️
A Federal Right to Read Act has been reintroduced by Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and U.S. Rep Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ).
We’re thankful for this legislation.
Our freedom to read and learn should not be a state’s rights issue!
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We’re thankful for this legislation.
Our freedom to read and learn should not be a state’s rights issue!
www.everylibrary.org/applaud_rein...
EveryLibrary Applauds Reintroduction of the Federal Right to Read Act of 2025
www.everylibrary.org
December 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The Right to Read Act expands federal investment in literacy, strengthens school library staffing and collections, supports family literacy programs, and protects students' freedom to access diverse materials in their schools 👏📚⤵️
Let’s change the system AND help youth become engaged in democracy.
FACT: under 30% of 18-year-olds are registered to vote in midterm cycles, vs 75% of those age 45+
FACT: 70% of US teens live in states where they can PRE-register at 16 or 17
So why isn't it happening? It's not apathy, it's systems that aren't designed for them.
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FACT: 70% of US teens live in states where they can PRE-register at 16 or 17
So why isn't it happening? It's not apathy, it's systems that aren't designed for them.
ssir.org/articles/ent... @ssir.org
Getting Youth Engaged in Democracy (SSIR)
Young people do turn out for elections—when they are registered. By getting all youth enrolled in high school, we can help achieve universal participation. Here's how to get it done. | ...
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December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Let’s change the system AND help youth become engaged in democracy.
☃️H-E-B donated $6M to TX food banks and Meals on Wheels while SNAP benefits held during gov't shutdown
☃️Bipartisan Congressional support for investigations of unfounded military strikes on boats
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☃️Bipartisan Congressional support for investigations of unfounded military strikes on boats
For more good news!: #goodnews#goodnews" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://americansofconscience.com/12-05-2025/#goodnews
December 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
☃️H-E-B donated $6M to TX food banks and Meals on Wheels while SNAP benefits held during gov't shutdown
☃️Bipartisan Congressional support for investigations of unfounded military strikes on boats
For more good news!: #goodnews#goodnews" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://americansofconscience.com/12-05-2025/#goodnews
☃️Bipartisan Congressional support for investigations of unfounded military strikes on boats
For more good news!: #goodnews#goodnews" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://americansofconscience.com/12-05-2025/#goodnews
Help Americans get the ID they need to vote. Take #AoCChecklist Action 10.
Requiring voter ID is a discriminatory barrier to voting. More than 21 million U.S. citizens don’t have photo ID. Let’s be part of changing that. americansofconscience.com/12-05-2025/#...
Requiring voter ID is a discriminatory barrier to voting. More than 21 million U.S. citizens don’t have photo ID. Let’s be part of changing that. americansofconscience.com/12-05-2025/#...
To hear the full conversation our Executive Director recently had with @qasimrashid.com, visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFjd....
You can support our work getting #IDsForLife at spreadthevote.org/donate.
You can support our work getting #IDsForLife at spreadthevote.org/donate.
December 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Help Americans get the ID they need to vote. Take #AoCChecklist Action 10.
Requiring voter ID is a discriminatory barrier to voting. More than 21 million U.S. citizens don’t have photo ID. Let’s be part of changing that. americansofconscience.com/12-05-2025/#...
Requiring voter ID is a discriminatory barrier to voting. More than 21 million U.S. citizens don’t have photo ID. Let’s be part of changing that. americansofconscience.com/12-05-2025/#...
✅ off #AoCChecklist Action 6 today: Ensure access to housing for vulnerable Americans. Funding cuts and administrative uncertainty will endanger seniors and disabled people who’ve found stability with permanent housing. americansofconscience.com/12-05-2025/#...
Americans of Conscience Checklist: December 5, 2025 - Americans of Conscience
Your civic engagement matters. These 13 actions help you speak up for equality, democracy, and decency.
americansofconscience.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
✅ off #AoCChecklist Action 6 today: Ensure access to housing for vulnerable Americans. Funding cuts and administrative uncertainty will endanger seniors and disabled people who’ve found stability with permanent housing. americansofconscience.com/12-05-2025/#...
Your voice matters! Speak out against USCIS policy changes that harm refugees. Take #AoCChecklist Action 5. Script and contact info here: americansofconscience.com/12-05-2025/#...
Congress plays a critical role in funding and overseeing this bipartisan program. Urge your representatives to speak out and advocate for changes to the USCIS policy memo that keep refugee status intact and ensure refugees can reach permanency.
🚨 TAKE ACTION: bit.ly/3Mp2M2w
#RefugeesWelcome
🚨 TAKE ACTION: bit.ly/3Mp2M2w
#RefugeesWelcome
Contact Congress on harmful USCIS refugee memo
USCIS is pausing green card processing, planning reinterviews for refugees already here
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December 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Your voice matters! Speak out against USCIS policy changes that harm refugees. Take #AoCChecklist Action 5. Script and contact info here: americansofconscience.com/12-05-2025/#...
What did you ✅ on this list?
5 stages of climate advocacy:
1. realizing it’s getting real
2. recycling like it’s your side hustle
3. realizing half of it is greenwashing, and what we really need is accountability + systemic change
4. realizing your voice is your superpower
5. jumping into advocacy like it’s a whole personality
1. realizing it’s getting real
2. recycling like it’s your side hustle
3. realizing half of it is greenwashing, and what we really need is accountability + systemic change
4. realizing your voice is your superpower
5. jumping into advocacy like it’s a whole personality
December 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
What did you ✅ on this list?
Those who advocate for the people will always be celebrated for doing so 👏⤵️
Read our full statement here: www.commoncause.org/indiana/pres...
Indiana Senate Holds Strong on Mid-Decade Redistricting
Our state senators have been harassed, bullied, and intimidated, and yet they stood tall to support a majority of Hoosier voices that said no mid-decade redistricting
www.commoncause.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Those who advocate for the people will always be celebrated for doing so 👏⤵️
📚⬇️💯 Terrific article. The freedom to read is a cornerstone of democracy!
Do you care about critical thinking, empathy, and the future of our democracy?
Access to diverse books strengthens civic engagement and resists censorship that threatens democratic values.
Restricting what we can read actually weakens our society.
www.freedomtoreadproject.org/why_the_free...
Access to diverse books strengthens civic engagement and resists censorship that threatens democratic values.
Restricting what we can read actually weakens our society.
www.freedomtoreadproject.org/why_the_free...
Why the Freedom to Read Is Essential for a Healthy Democracy
Access to diverse books builds critical thinking, empathy, and civic engagement; censorship harms democracy, weakens inquiry, and silences essential voices, especially marginalized ones.
www.freedomtoreadproject.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📚⬇️💯 Terrific article. The freedom to read is a cornerstone of democracy!