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The largest progressive gathering in the US. #NN26 is in Philly June 4-6. https://www.netrootsnation.org
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Ready to go from #NN25 attendee to changemaker? New Politics Academy @newpoliticsacad.bsky.social offers free training programs to help future candidates, staffers, and community leaders transform inspiration into action. Nominate a service-driven leader: www.newpoliticsacademy.org/nominate
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August 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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📢 Big ideas don’t end after #NN25. Join Run for Something’s new online community to stay plugged in with other Gen Z & millennial leaders running for office.
Let’s build the future together 🏛🏃🏾♀️
@runforsomethingnow | bit.ly/RFSSquad
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August 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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A note from sponsor Mobile Commons: It was great to reconnect with the #NN25 community in NOLA! We’re energized by everything we experienced, and excited to keep helping NPOs connect with people in the moments that matter. Keep in touch on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/mobi...
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August 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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New Netroots Nation ED Anthony Robinson leads us in a second line to the #NN25 closing party at Howling Wolf Club! TY sponsors WHIV-FM whivfm.org & DC Vote! www.dcvote.org
August 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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"If we’re not hearing what our future is saying, who are we?"
Randi Weingarten, AFT
@rweingarten.bsky.social @aft.org

#NN25 Closing Keynote
August 9 | 4:30PM CT | New Orleans
A woman, Randi Weingarten, sits in a chair, speaking
August 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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"Sometimes it’s not the message, it’s the messenger. Our party cannot afford to be comfortable. We all have to meet this moment more."
David Hogg, Leaders We Deserve
@davidhogg.bsky.social

#NN25 Closing Keynote
August 9 | 4:30PM CT | New Orleans
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August 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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"All too often, media is wielded as a weapon of war–which is why we have to take the media back."
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now
@democracynow.org

#NN25 Closing Keynote
August 9 | 4:30PM CT | New Orleans
A woman in a baseball cap and red jacket, Amy Goodman stands speaking, at a podium with Netroots Nation on the front
August 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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"I chose that name David, beloved by God. And no one can take that from me."
David Breña, @motustheater.bsky.social

#NN25 Closing Keynote
August 9 | 4:30PM CT | New Orleans
A Latinx young adult, David Breña, stands at a podium against a purple background, speaking
August 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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"What we can agree on is that climate change is an existential crisis we must fight together right now."
Gregory Manning, candidate--NOLA City Council
@manning4change.bsky.social

#NN25 Closing Keynote
August 9 | 4:30PM CT | New Orleans
A Black Man, Gregory Manning, stands speaking at a podium with Netroots Nation on the front
August 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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"Climate is not another issue, it's the new context in which you are doing your work."
Colette Pichon Battle,
@taprootearth.bsky.social #WeAreTheStorm

#NN25 Closing Keynote
August 9 | 4:30PM CT | New Orleans
A Black woman, Colette Pichon Battle, stands speaking at a podium with Netroots Nation on the front
August 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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"Take the time to dream, the kind of dreaming the people who were enslaved had to dream."
FreeQuency
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#NN25 Opening Keynote
August 9 | 4:30PM CT | New Orleans
A Black storyteller, FreeQuency, stands at a podium with Netroots Nation on the front, speaking
August 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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"Turnout will happen if we make the effort to figure out how to be creative and meet the people we are serving."
Cisco Aguilar NV SoS

Closing The Participation Gap
#NN25 Featured Panel | August 9, 2025 | New Orleans
A man, Cisco Aguilar, sits at a table and speaks
August 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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"You can’t force people to vote. You have to inspire them."
Stephanie Thomas, CT SoS

Closing The Participation Gap
#NN25 Featured Panel | August 9, 2025 | New Orleans
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August 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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"Mis- and disinformation will take hold in a population that doesn’t have a strong sense of how the levers of power work."
Sarah Copeland Hanzas, VT SoS
@vtsecretaryofstate.bsky.social

Closing The Participation Gap
#NN25 Featured Panel | August 9, 2025 | New Orleans
A woman, Sarah Copeland Hanzas, sits on a panel at a mic and speaks
August 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Joining our #NN25 Closing Keynote: @melissaryan.bksy.social; @freequencyspeaks.bsky.social; Colette Pichon Battle, @taprootearth.bsky.social; @manning4change.bsky.social; David Breña, @motustheater.bsky.social; Amy Goodman, @democracynow.org; @davidhogg.bsky.social; @rweingarten.bsky.social, aft.org
August 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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And so soon we arrive at THEE 👏 last👏 session.
Join the #NN25 Closing Keynote to end our time together in a big, ONLY in New Orleans way w/stories of resilience as we gather one last time to find the renewed inspiration to take on the critical organizing work ahead at home & across the country.
#NN25 August 9 Closing Keynote August 9 | 4:30PM CT featuring Melissa Ryan FreeQUENCY Colette Pichon Battle Rev. Gregory Manning David Breña Amy GoodmaN David Hogg Randi Weingarten
August 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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🎥 #NN25 Screening & Discussion 🎥
8/9 | 2:00 PM CT
"Bootstraps": Is UBI the Power to the People we need?
UBI is often-overlooked, so let's talk about it. Better yet, let's experience it.
w/Conrad Shaw, ITSA & Corine Olarte VanderVoort @corineolarte.bsky.social @bootstrapstv.bsky.social
Bootstraps Movie Poster customized for Screening & Discussion Sessions on Saturday, August 9, 2025 at Netroots Nation New Orleans Convention Center
August 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Today, our final #NN25 Virtual Sessions present two trainings: fighting antisemitism to build collective safety and how to understand the power of fandoms as sources of support for your work.

Remember! Panels tagged with VIRT can MUST be viewed on the app!
#NN25 Virtual Sessions August 9 1PM CT Messaging Training: How to Fight Antisemitism in Solidarity Organizing In Pop Culture Communities
August 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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We hope today's final #NN25 caucus brings folks together in community to connect, organize, and find inspiration in each other for the work ahead.

And may that have been the experience of all who attended a caucus this year.

Thank YOU all for making our caucuses happen.
#NN25 The Caucuses 12:30PM CT Queer Caucus August 9
August 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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🎥 #NN25 Screening & Discussion 🎥
8/8 11:15 AM CT
"There Is A Field": Building Black-Palestinian Solidarity Through Art/Storytelling

Using "There Is A Field", this session includes discussion, clips, exercises, & small break-out discussions to explore joint visions of resistance and liberation.
Movie Poster for There is a Field a film by Jen Marlowe Image is photo of empty folding chairs in a semi circle, facing viewer. Caption below reads: Resisting oppression, building solidarity
August 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Join @theactionnetwork.bsky.social @ the #NN25 New Tools Showcase on the Town Square Stage at 12:30PM CT.

Check out how their newest ‘Action Builder Events’ Feature can support your organizing program grow your RSVPs into trusted leaders! #NN25
Join us at NETROOTS New Orleans 2025 Visit us at Booths 402/404 Action Network Action Builder
August 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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If you've been at Netroots before you may be wondering, "Where is..."

Wonder no more! Two of our most anticipated & well attended special events happen TODAY as we close out #NN25 in New Orleans:

The New Tools Showcase & Operation Save Abortion!
#NN25 Special Events August 9 New Tools Showcase HOsted by Higher Ground Labs & Netroots Nation 12:30PM CT Operation Save Abortion Hosted by Aborton AccesS FroNt & Feminist Buzzkills 1PM CT
August 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Closing the Participation Gap: Mobilizing Young and Diverse Voters
August 9, 11:15AM CT, #nn25

Ariel Hayes ✨ @vtsecretaryofstate.bsky.social ✨ CT Sec State Stephanie Thomas
✨ NV Sec State Cisco Aguilar
#NN25 Closing the Participation Gap: Mobilizing Young and Diverse Voters August 9 | 11:15AM CT As Democrats look to future elections, one challenge looms large: ensuring young and diverse voters turn out. Despite their electoral power, these voters face barriers, misinformation, and a lack of outreach. With Gen Z, communities of color, LGBTQ voters, and people with disabilities shaping the electorate, winning requires more than registration drives—it demands year-round engagement, culturally competent outreach, and policies that remove barriers and build trust. This panel features Democratic Secretaries of State sharing their efforts to expand access, combat disinformation, and implement policies that increase participation. Attendees will learn tested strategies to mobilize these voters and strengthen democracy in 2026 and beyond.
August 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Among the many issues facing future elections, one looms large: ensuring young & diverse voters turn out. Join Democratic Secretaries of State at this #NN25 Featured Panel to learn about their efforts to increase young voter participation + tested strategies to mobilize these voters 2026 & beyond.
#NN25 Featured Panels Closing the Participation Gap: Mobilizing Young & Diverse Voters August 9 |11:15AM CT Ariel HayeS VT Sec StatE Copeland Hanzas CT Sec State Stephanie Thomas NV Sec State Cisco Aguilar
August 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Organizing Lessons From Hurricane Katrina
August 9, 11:15AM CT, #NN25

Adan Murad ✨ Ashana Bigard of Amplify Justice ✨ Brandan "BMIKE" Odums ✨ Deon Haywood of @womenwithavision.bsky.social ✨ Jordan Flaherty ✨ Norris Henderson of Voice of the Experienced (VOTE)
#NN25 Organizing Lessons From Hurricane Katrina August 9 | 11:15AM CT As Netroots comes to New Orleans on the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we will hear from New Orleans' grassroots organizers who were part of the organized resistance in the days, weeks, months, and years after the storm. From criminal justice and housing to education and arts and culture, New Orleans organizers fought for basic human rights and against corporate profiteering and dismantling of government, in ways that have lessons for organizing in today's political context. Hear about victories and losses from some of New Orleans' most important leaders from twenty years ago and today.
August 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM