Micah Sifry ❌👑
@msifry.bsky.social
Writer, organizer, theconnector.substack.com
If you are watching Mamdani’s inauguration on one of cable channels instead of C-Span, you just missed Mandy Patinkin w the PS 22 Staten Island chorus singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Beautiful and inspiring.
January 1, 2026 at 6:56 PM
If you are watching Mamdani’s inauguration on one of cable channels instead of C-Span, you just missed Mandy Patinkin w the PS 22 Staten Island chorus singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Beautiful and inspiring.
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Dear Friends and Colleagues! Happy 2026! We're ready for the New Year. We just kicked out 2025 and shut the door. This is our year to make change, and we ain't kidding! Repost if you're with us!!
January 1, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Dear Friends and Colleagues! Happy 2026! We're ready for the New Year. We just kicked out 2025 and shut the door. This is our year to make change, and we ain't kidding! Repost if you're with us!!
Instead of sharing my "Best of 2025" list (enough of those already!) here's something I wrote exactly five years ago, in that moment between Biden's victory and the January 6th insurrection, that feels -- alas -- all too relevant still. Happy New Year! open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
[Blast from the Past] Use Your Superpower
Here's a time capsule: A post I wrote in December 2020 that, IMHO, still rings true today. Plus a few fresh links to welcome the New Year!
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December 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Instead of sharing my "Best of 2025" list (enough of those already!) here's something I wrote exactly five years ago, in that moment between Biden's victory and the January 6th insurrection, that feels -- alas -- all too relevant still. Happy New Year! open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
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A thoughtful piece about what the US is doing in Venezuela (and why it is starting to look a lot like Iraq) from @msifry.bsky.social theconnector.substack.com/p/war-with-v...
December 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A thoughtful piece about what the US is doing in Venezuela (and why it is starting to look a lot like Iraq) from @msifry.bsky.social theconnector.substack.com/p/war-with-v...
There are many parallels between the US attack on Iraq and the rising Trump attack on Venezuela. This week in The Connector, I use Jeremy Varon's excellent new book on the post 9/11 antiwar movement, Our Grief is Not a Cry for War, to tease out some lessons. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
War with Venezuela? What is it Good For?
Absolutely nothing, as the song goes. But a close look at the Iraq antiwar movement offers sobering lessons as the Trump regime slouches into a land war in South America.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
There are many parallels between the US attack on Iraq and the rising Trump attack on Venezuela. This week in The Connector, I use Jeremy Varon's excellent new book on the post 9/11 antiwar movement, Our Grief is Not a Cry for War, to tease out some lessons. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
This was fun! @jefftimmer.bsky.social does not mince words!
The wait is over — our newest #ThisOldDemocracy podcast episode is live! @msifry.bsky.social and @jefftimmer.bsky.social delve into the GOP. The cancer has metastasized, and it's spread to every cell of what was the Republican Party. centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-dem...
December 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This was fun! @jefftimmer.bsky.social does not mince words!
My latest post looks at the difference between Indivisible-style mobilizing and ISAIAH-style structured organizing. If you are frustrated because your activism isn’t achieving much, give it a look. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
What Margaret Mead Left Out
If your activism isn't building power in numbers and forms that you (and others) can count, maybe it's time to stop believing in the magic of small groups of thoughtful, committed citizens alone.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
My latest post looks at the difference between Indivisible-style mobilizing and ISAIAH-style structured organizing. If you are frustrated because your activism isn’t achieving much, give it a look. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
Re-upping this 2022 post on why the "gun safety" lobby keeps failing to convert public fury into effective action: theconnector.substack.com/p/and-we-are...
And We Are Not Saved
Everytown, Moms Demand Action, and the Bigfooting of March For Our Lives: How the Gun Safety Movement Became a Monoculture
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December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Re-upping this 2022 post on why the "gun safety" lobby keeps failing to convert public fury into effective action: theconnector.substack.com/p/and-we-are...
I don’t usually pick fights, but David Shor is a big boy with a lot of influence over Democratic strategy & his offhanded slam of the field organizing by Obama’s Organizing for America in 2008 is indicative of a much larger problem with how we think about politics. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
This Shor Smells Bad***
Why do so many Democratic politicians keep relying on bad advice on how to win elections and build power?
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December 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I don’t usually pick fights, but David Shor is a big boy with a lot of influence over Democratic strategy & his offhanded slam of the field organizing by Obama’s Organizing for America in 2008 is indicative of a much larger problem with how we think about politics. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
Some big picture thoughts on why the opposition to MAGA is struggling to connect. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
Searching For a New Politics of Meaning
As the political tide shifts in a more hopeful direction, a warning about ignoring MAGA's cultural sway.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Some big picture thoughts on why the opposition to MAGA is struggling to connect. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
Here's a pre-Thanksgiving potpourri focusing on a variety of creative organizing tactics bubbling up from the Defiance. Gobble, gobble! open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
Notes on Organizing During This Crazy Time
Visibility Brigades, ICE-Scraper Buy-Ins, Health Care Professionals in Revolt, Democracy Teams Trainings, Sierra Club Pushback and Cracks in the Orange Bully's Facade. A pre-Thanksgiving potpourri!
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November 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Here's a pre-Thanksgiving potpourri focusing on a variety of creative organizing tactics bubbling up from the Defiance. Gobble, gobble! open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
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"Well, yes, Mamdani and I have our differences. He's a socialist, they say he's a socialist, and I guess he says so too. A democratic socialist, but a socialist. Meanwhile, I'm busy seizing the means of production, forcing a cultural revolution, cracking down on the intelligentsia ...."
November 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"Well, yes, Mamdani and I have our differences. He's a socialist, they say he's a socialist, and I guess he says so too. A democratic socialist, but a socialist. Meanwhile, I'm busy seizing the means of production, forcing a cultural revolution, cracking down on the intelligentsia ...."
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
Charismatic politicians have built movements to win office in the past, but rarely if ever have they kept them going. Zohran Mamdani aspires to be different, and there’s plenty from *how* his grassroots campaign was built that others could apply in their own local contexts. (1/n)
November 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Charismatic politicians have built movements to win office in the past, but rarely if ever have they kept them going. Zohran Mamdani aspires to be different, and there’s plenty from *how* his grassroots campaign was built that others could apply in their own local contexts. (1/n)
Really enjoyed the chance to talk in depth with @daschloz.bsky.social, whose books on movements and political parties are seminal works.
🍳 We’ve been cooking up something good — and it’s finally live. New #ThisOldDemocracy podcast episode available now! Our usual host @msifry.bsky.social and your special guest @daschloz.bsky.social engage in how "hollow parties" can potentially be rejuvenated or revived to save American democracy?
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Really enjoyed the chance to talk in depth with @daschloz.bsky.social, whose books on movements and political parties are seminal works.
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Guess what just went live? Our latest #ThisOldDemocracy podcast episode — streaming on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. @msifry.bsky.social and @daschloz.bsky.social dive into the structural weaknesses plaguing American politics. centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-dem...
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Guess what just went live? Our latest #ThisOldDemocracy podcast episode — streaming on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. @msifry.bsky.social and @daschloz.bsky.social dive into the structural weaknesses plaguing American politics. centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-dem...
Setting aside fury and frustration for focus. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
How to Build a "Bigger We" - and Go From Isolated Actions to Cultural Change
Parsing the Freedom Together Foundation's critical new report. Plus, Vu Le's new book on nonprofits and philanthropy and lessons from the Defiance in Chicago.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Setting aside fury and frustration for focus. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
In the end, more than 104K volunteers made 4.4M calls and knocked on more than 3M doors. And as Tascha Van Auken, Mamdani’s field director said last night, “This is going to transform our city. It doesn’t stop tonight.” UPDATED POST: theconnector.substack.com/p/solidarity...
Solidarity Tech: The Platform Powering Zohran Mamdani's Movement
A conversation with Ivan Pardo, the founder of Solidarity Tech, on how a platform built for "deep organizing" of workers building unions is being used to take power in New York City.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In the end, more than 104K volunteers made 4.4M calls and knocked on more than 3M doors. And as Tascha Van Auken, Mamdani’s field director said last night, “This is going to transform our city. It doesn’t stop tonight.” UPDATED POST: theconnector.substack.com/p/solidarity...
Notably, Mamdani not promising that “this is the moment that the rise of oceans began to slow.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Notably, Mamdani not promising that “this is the moment that the rise of oceans began to slow.”
Does Mamdani write his own speeches? Great FDR reference at the end of his Forest Hills rally. Now Debs and Nehru.
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Does Mamdani write his own speeches? Great FDR reference at the end of his Forest Hills rally. Now Debs and Nehru.
Happy Andrew Cuomo retirement day, for all who celebrate.
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Happy Andrew Cuomo retirement day, for all who celebrate.
While we wait for the polls to close, check out my interview with Ivan Pardo, who built the technology that the Mamdani campaign has used to organize its way to City Hall. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
Solidarity Tech: The Platform Powering Zohran Mamdani's Movement
A conversation with Ivan Pardo, the founder of Solidarity Tech, on how a platform built for "deep organizing" of workers building unions is being used to take power in New York City.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
While we wait for the polls to close, check out my interview with Ivan Pardo, who built the technology that the Mamdani campaign has used to organize its way to City Hall. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
I said a while ago that anti-anti-semitism was broken by political bias in its application, the split screen view of the response to Mamdani vs the whole national socialist Republican right is quite telling.
October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I said a while ago that anti-anti-semitism was broken by political bias in its application, the split screen view of the response to Mamdani vs the whole national socialist Republican right is quite telling.
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Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?
October 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?