Los Angeles, CA - Scripps Presents: Vanessa Priya Daniel (Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning) in conversation with Myriam J. A. Chancy, followed by a book signing. Books available for purchase. 📍February 24 @ 7pm Balch Auditorium 🎟️ Get your free tickets:

SOTU is Tuesday. The real state of our union isn’t coming from that podium — it’s coming from us. I’ve been building something called WeAct. 559 people are already taking verified actions together. New SOTU response actions just dropped. 🧵 Here’s what’s live for the State of the Union:

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Use our email and call tools to tell Congress: Not a penny more for ICE brutality! Email: - nokings.org/aclu-stopice Call: - nokings.org/iceout-senate - nokings.org/iceout-house #NoKings #IceOut

My friend and colleague Letetia Daniels Jackson is running for elected office in Alabama. Please join me in contributing to her campaign: secure.actblue.com/donate/letet... Letetia is a lifelong champion for the rights of working people, women and Black folks in the South.

A judge has ordered the U.S. to release a father and 5-year-old son who were taken into custody during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota. A judge previously ruled that they could not be removed from the U.S. for now. n.pr/4qVBJLV

Please join me in taking the following three actions to stand in solidarity with Minneapolis and with ourselves because if we don’t respond here, other cities will be next. Three things you can do right now: 1️⃣ Nationwide Shutdown January 30 - No work, school, shopping.

One thing I love about my friend Edgar Villanueva is that he is not timid about scale. There’s nothing wrong with small & scrappy efforts and they can even win some things but i appreciate when people and orgs on the left play big and set audacious goals. We need more of this!

I’ve been reeling all day from the shock of hearing that the wonderful Helen Kim has joined the realm of the ancestors. It doesn’t feel real. I thought we’d have so much more time with her.

In 2025, my office answered thousands of letters and phone calls, saved millions of dollars, and completed important casework requests for constituents. We are always here to help you!

Hyperlocal organizing, which can also link to more established organizations for greater durability, is one key answer to the shock and awe tactics of everywhere, everything, all at once. We are everywhere too. And there are more of us. Subscribe to read: www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/newsletter

My Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act establishes real standards for immigrant detention and phases out for-profit facilities. This corrupt administration shouldn’t be allowed to funnel billions of dollars to private prisons companies who donated millions to Trump’s campaign.

SEATTLE! Today, Dec 4. There’s still time to grab your tickets. “Reimagine to Win. Vanessa Priya Daniel joins Social Venture Partners Seattle to talk about how philanthropy can “unrig the game” by centering women of color leaders and resourcing community power.” svpseattle.org/event/reimag...

A reminder that strategy is essential, tactics are key, but authentic connections and relationships that brim with kindness and heart are how we keep our candles lit. From my latest newsletter, subscribe for free to read it in full: www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/newsletter

Our tribal ID’s validity depends entirely on the person we’re presenting it to. My attempting to use it has failed many times because of the lack of knowledge people in government have about it. After this, I expect the feds to try to further delegitimize it.

Five Things Funders and Donors Can Do Right Now Tips from my last newsletter: 1• Flank the most vulnerable and those who stand with them. 2• Move as much money as you can NOW. 3• Remove the red tape. 4• Plan all the contingencies for a tighter regulatory environment. 5• Use your full power.

“Want to support trans people? Watch HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY, a critically important documentary that follows ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio as he battles at the steps of the Supreme Court for trans rights.” Available to watch at home for one week only: bit.ly/watch-hs

This is beautiful. Thank you Makani Themba and Rukia Lumumba. 💜🙏🏽 www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Progressive on the edge of a win in Seattle mayor race

Unrig the Game by @vanessapriyadaniel.bsky.social may be the most consequential book about nonprofits and I haven’t even read it yet. So many people telling me how accurately it describes past and current experiences of leaders of color, I have a copy but am hesitant to read about the shared trauma.

Whatever would we do without the strategic brilliance of Democrats stepping in between Republicans and the consequences of their actions?

The majority of the country, across the political spectrum, knows that the status quo has been failing them miserably and is willing to shake things up, throw open the windows and the doors, and even walk outside into the sunlight of freedom. Subscribe to read: www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/newsletter

New Haven, Connecticut: See you next week! “Vanessa Priya Daniel is the keynote speaker for the Community Fund for Women & Girls 30th Anniversary Celebration” Get your tickets: manyvoicesonevision.org/vision-in-ac...

My next newsletter will be out soon, subscribe for free: www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/newsletter How we KEEP GOING with courage despite fear and exhaustion; ways to out-organize authoritarians and those in our own ranks who would have us capitulate to them; what funders and donors can do, and more!

The game isn’t fair AND we can play differently. @vanessapriyadaniel.bsky.social gave us THE playbook in Unrig the Game. This book is for anyone ready to shift our power structures by enhancing their own leadership skills. ☕ Grab a cup and read on @nwprogressive.org 🔗 tinyurl.com/unrigthegame

My copy of Free the People to Free the Money to Free the People: An Organize the Rich Anthology just arrived. Have you ordered yours? itascabooks.com/products/fre... I can’t wait to dig in on this book edited by movement colleagues Michael Gast, Marian Moore & Alex T. Tom.

Support the western Alaska relief effort: alaskacf.org/western-alas...

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Get your copy of Reimagining Nonprofits and Philanthropy: Unlocking the Full Potential of a Vital and Complex Sector! A book packed with helpful insights from the wonderful Vu Le @nonprofitaf.bsky.social

Demanding an end to Italy’s complicity in the Gaza genocide, half a million people abandoned their workplaces, schools, and universities. Niccolò Barca writes that they were inspired by a slogan: “Blocchiamo tutto.” (“Let’s block everything.”) www.thenation.com/article/worl...

This’s a long one. TLDR: What needs to be done requires us to get more comfortable w/contradictions & complexity, but doing the right thing, loving your neighbor through your actions, taking collective action to build & sustain our power, & reveal & make evil uncomfortable, is pretty damn simple.

Y’all seen it yet?… 🚨 SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 18 Millions of our people took to the streets in June. As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on October 18 for a nationwide day of resistance. Let’s. Go. #NoKings #NoKingsDay #nokingsinamerica #nokingsprotest

Today's column for @seattletimes.com: "But for many others, Katrina affirmed what they already knew: The color of your skin and the size of your bank account determined whether you could flee or were left to die, or whether you could rebuild or were displaced." #katrina

Repost from @joyannreid.bsky.social: On this #laborday ... a note on whose labor #maga and #trump have made clear is unwanted: #blackwomen ….. because they know that the vast majority of us will never take the knee or kiss the ring. Repost from @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

Campaigning for president, Donald Trump assured workers he would fight for them, write Robert L. Borosage and Sara Steffens. But ahead of Labor Day weekend, it is worth summarizing how extensive his assault on labor has been in his first months in office.

Read this for a breath of fresh air from my friend Gloria Walton. We have everything we need if we would only lean into it. www.commondreams.org/opinion/clim...

‘We need vigilance’: Marking the 60th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act Remembering the fight that changed the face of democracy in Texas. Dr. Ashley D. Farmer interviewed www.texasstandard.org/stories/voti...

Democrats say Trump’s attempt to fire Fed governor is illegal.

Yesterday 200 FEMA employees wrote a letter expressing their grave concerns about disaster preparedness & response. Grateful for their courage and truth telling. I’m reading it from New Orleans, where I’m attending Taproot’s Monarch Forum honoring the 20th anniversary of Katrina. More soon!

This three part series is giving me LIFE and inspiration in these times. I'm lifting it up in case it can do the same for you. I really love the approach of organizing neighborhood meetings. youtube.com/@onemillionr...

Today's column: “You feel like you’re living in a parallel universe, where this can’t be reality, where the bombs are being dropped on people that share the same name as me, or people that could have been me,” Sabrene Odeh said. #gaza

@vanessapriyadaniel.bsky.social wrote an entire book about this issue - Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning Take a listen - legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/sid...

Proud of my sister Jessica Horn. Anyone who is committed to global, transnational feminism should read this profile, and her book “African Feminist Praxis: Cartographies of Liberatory Worldmaking” leadingladiesafrica.org/2025/07/15/j...

“Your writing is vulnerable, beautiful, challenging, and such a gift to movement.” “How transformative this book is in my work.” I receive messages like this every week. This is why I wrote Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning (Random House)

Thank you @naomiishisaka.bsky.social for including me in this great piece on the importance of protests like the “No Kings” mobilization for the Seattle Times. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

A reminder to stay clear on one point: There is zero evidence that Iran has nuclear weapons - a fact confirmed by more than 20 years of investigation by various international bodies which have found their nuclear program to be in compliance with international law.

I appreciate so much of this piece. Protest is key but insufficient, as are the courts. “Disrupt. De-legitimize. And draw defectors.” Thank you Deepak Bhargava.

“Facism is a test of how we walk with our fear.” @vanessapriyadaniel.bsky.social, author of Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Cam Teach Us About Winning, drops some serious truth in this podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Honored to be featured in Go Magazine’s Pride 2025 issue as one of the “100 Women We Love”alongside so many sisters I respect: gomag.com/women-we-lov...

Now, more than ever, as we celebrate Pride, we must also commit to fighting every day so that LGBTQIA communities have the rights, resources, safety, and protections they need to be truly free. #genderjusticephilly