Join us for a strategy conversation and planning session about opportunities to call on our state and local elected officials to be the champions we need at this frightening, historic moment.

If we don’t fight back, the oligarchs' historic wealth and power grab through the Trump Administration could be deadly for our people and deeply harmful for our planet. But the good news is: We can fight back in Illinois! If we can move our state and local elected officials to rise to the occasion, we can protect our families and our neighbors from some of the worst of the oligarchy’s destructive plans.

Our state has a super-majority of Democrats, elected leaders who can and should be our champions in this historic moment. Illinois Democrats can choose -- this legislative session -- to protect the people of Illinois by standing up in real ways to the oligarchy: closing billions in corporate tax loopholes to protect health care for millions, to save public transportation from a fiscal cliff, and to keep or increase investments in education and community services that are vital to our well-being and our future.

Through the Trump Administration, the oligarchs plan to destroy the New Deal and related gains by stealing health care and retirement security from tens of millions of Americans to get a $4 trillion in tax break! They are deliberately attacking more recent gains against structural racism and sexism, hoping to divide and conquer America’s diverse and multiracial working classes: some examples include firing federal workers in mass, kneecapping federal agencies like the EEOC and the EPA, and attacking efforts by working people to get their bosses and our public institutions to address structural racism, sexism and homophobia. Their attacks on trans people and immigrants not only distract their MAGA base from the wealth and power grab, but are a direct attack on many of the partial wins working people have over the last several decades and as recently as the uprisings following the murder of George Floyd.