Hungary answered whether it's possible. The question for us is different: whether we build something worth moving for. Full essay, including the 89 Million breakdown and the two problems we have to solve at once: medium.com/@ashleewooda...
Dark background card with four stacked lines of white text reading "We have the numbers. We have the grievance. We have the moral clarity. What we don't have is the container." Italic serif on the first three lines; heavy display on the final line.
The US answer isn't a better message. It's a container. We have the numbers. We have the grievance. We have the moral clarity. What we don't have is the thing that lets a person in Chattanooga and a person in rural Ohio recognize each other as part of the same fight.
Tisza didn't out-message authoritarianism. They out-organized it. 200+ local hubs. Tens of thousands of members. A two-round primary so people picked their own candidates. Hand-delivered papers to villages independent media couldn't reach. Groceries and corruption, not democratic norms.
Hungary's turnout hit 79.5% on April 12. The story isn't that Orbán lost after 16 years. It's the underlying math: a bloc everyone had written off became the majority when someone finally built the pipeline to reach them. That's the same math we're sitting on here. 89 million of them.
At least!
Six specials in a row, opposition candidates are over-performing 2024 by 18 points on average.
The base is not demobilized. The base is furious.
November 2026 is not abstract. Build now.
She’s not just some celebrity candidate. 13 years as a Dem county committeewoman. Head of the NJ Working Families Alliance. Bernie’s 2020 political director. Biden-era Labor Department. She paid her rent in the work. This is what structures, not heroes, looks like when the work actually pays off.
Here’s what she ran on. Abolish ICE. Tax billionaires. Universal childcare. Universal healthcare. She said that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. She did not run to the middle, she didn’t hide her politics. She won a wealthy suburban district the consultant class told us required moderation.
Analilia Mejia just won NJ-11. A Harris +9 suburban district. Against a Republican who called himself a commonsense moderate. AIPAC spent $2 million in the primary trying to kill her path. She won anyway.
TODAY: The House is expected to vote on reauthorizing a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens.
Tell your representative to vote NO and stop the regime from gobbling up mass surveillance data to punish Trump’s enemies and round up immigrants. 👇
The Trump administration is converting warehouses into mass detention facilities. Communities are fighting back.
Join us, spread the word, and get ready for April 25.
Register here: mobilize.us/indivisible/event/932124
Tonight 8pm ET.
Join me and our friends at Detention Watch Network, Indivisible, MoveOn, The Workers Circle, and Public Citizen for a movement call about the upcoming Communities Not Cages National Day of Action.
Register here: mobilize.us/indivisible/event/932124
Day wouldn’t be complete without a head nod and deep bow to greatest of all time, #TheMovementMama.
Remembering her birthday wish on 4/13/24:
“For everything to be perfect, with each of you.”
Asé and amen and same to you on the other side, Mama. ❤️🙏🏾
Tonight. 8 PM EDT.
Redistricting Mass Action Call with No Partisan Maps and Voices of Florida Fund. This is how you fight illegal mid-decade redistricting.
Here’s the link to register: bit.ly/redistricting413
I'm not telling you Hungary is America. I'm saying the math is similar everywhere. There are always more of us than them.
The question is never whether the people have the power. The question is whether we build something worth moving for.
Let's learn the lesson and apply the learning.
And some of the people who brought this government down were people who used to be part of it. People inside authoritarian systems are not all true believers. Some of them are waiting for a door.
Look at the turnout: the people who made this happen were the ones everyone had written off. Millions of Hungarians who had stopped believing the system could deliver for them. They moved. And when they moved, 16 years of authoritarian power folded.
They didn't just beat him. They're on track for a supermajority that can rewrite the constitution.
This man held power for 16 years. Rigged the media. Had Putin's intelligence services proposing a fake assassination attempt to boost his numbers. And today, 78% of the country showed up...the highest turnout in modern Hungarian history.
Viktor Orbán just conceded defeat in Hungary.
V i c t o r O r b á n j u s t c o n c e d e d d e f e a t.
LET’S GOOOOOO!!!! ❤️✊🏾❤️
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🚫👑’s3 is over~want to know what to do next?
Listen to the Mass Call below.(Pre recorded) Then check out the provided resources in the video as well as this important website for May Day
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maydaystrong.org
Link for recorded call:👇🏼
www.youtube.com/live/OEKiXNH...
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Thank you 🙏🏾
Neidi Dominguez: On No Kings, we, you, showed each other that we're not alone and that we're ready to fight. On May Day, we will continue to show each other that we have more collective power to flex.
Leah Greenberg: No Kings 3 was a historic day of defiance. And also, you are on this call because you know, as we do, that no one day of protest is going to fix things. No Kings is incredible. It's also a tactic in a strategy.
Sarah Parker: You guys are the heroes. The truth is immutable. You are the linchpin in our democracy and that's important, that's a privilege, that's an honor. No Kings wouldn't be what it is without each and every one of you.
Edwin Torres: When ICE agents showed up to our communities, we were ready…We have trained over 33,000 constitutional observers in every corner of the state of Minnesota.
Liz Shuler: So we keep this momentum moving? Well, for the labor movement, we have 2 days coming up…Workers' Memorial Day on April 28th, and of course, May Day, May 1st, International Workers' Day. This year, those two days aren't just days of reflection, they’re days of demand.
