It will be workers who keep the lights on for democracy over the next four years.

Regardless of the outcome of this election, all roads lead to worker organizing. When we talked to our base of poor and working-class individuals, they were most concerned about their wages not keeping up with the cost of living, lowering energy costs, and making housing more affordable. The path to achieve real-life wins for working people has always been through uniting our voices and organizing within our workplace, our families, and our communities.

It will be the workers who take collective action in the workplace and who take on new industries that have never been unionized in our region who will model what true democracy looks like. It will be the millions of immigrant and Black workers who have been scapegoated and under attack who will remind us what it takes to keep us all safe in the workplace and in our communities by refusing to give up each other’s immigration status in the middle of an ICE raid. It will be the millions of working women who are figuring out how to put food on the table who will show us the way forward.

We need to be prepared to move together and quickly.

The best defense is a good offense: Join Organized Power in Numbers and commit to fighting for all workers in 2025 and beyond!