Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

I visited a group of folks in Indiana who had recently put on a Fix-it-Fair. Not only did their neighbors get broken items repaired, but the organizers of the event got to reach out to a bunch of new people to help them put it on. Community organizing at its best. open.substack.com/pub/workingc...

The Ohio Organizing Collective, which does political and voter engagement activities, was raided by the FBI yesterday. They built this website to explain what is happening: www.handsoffohio.org

A story for all the working class women out there. open.substack.com/pub/workingc...

Local election officials fully expect ICE to show up to intimidate liberal voters.

In a year, The Dorothea Project has grown from 12 women meeting on a Zoom call to over 1000 taking action across 47 states. Even more impressively, they are women across generations, regions, and political ideology.  open.substack.com/pub/workingc...

For my latest in The Nation, I talk about how when the rich rob the poor, it's just shrugged away as business as usual. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

I've always owned my houses and the men I've dated haven't. Can you imagine dating a dude who didn't think you owning a house was awesome?

“No one gives a sh*t about housing.” “If [gas prices] rise, they rise.” "I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation." Millions are struggling with the cost of food, housing, and other basic necessities. 70% of U.S. adults say the American Dream is dead. And this is how Trump responds?

In Idaho, a group of moms is carving out time to help each other with chores, to free up time to "do politics" together, too. open.substack.com/pub/workingc...

Happy Mothers' Day to all mothers everywhere… wagingnonviolence.org/2026/05/moth...

As West Virginia advocate and researcher Cathy Cunkel told me, the data center issue “isn’t about Left vs. Right, it’s about Up vs. Down.”

“Women are a secret weapon against authoritarianism. They always have been.” @wagingnonviolence.org wagingnonviolence.org/aei/2026/04/...

Every organizing meeting I go to, every protest, every public comment period; On the frontlines and behind the scenes, moms are showing up regardless of how busy they might be. Here it is published in the Nevadian: thenevadannews.com/local/the-bu...

“Most of the businesses offered to low-income and working-class neighborhoods—and increasingly small, rural towns—are predatory, scammy, and trap us in terrible cycles.” @gwenfulton.bsky.social workingclassstories.substack.com/p/everything...

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

My piece on using research to expose your opponent's weaknesses: “…power is more like a web than a monolith, & while your opponent may seem powerful, their power is not intrinsic, but rather derives from other people & institutions they cannot fully control.” wagingnonviolence.org/2026/04/powe...

Thousands of teachers, parents and students marched yesterday in Raleigh to demand the state spend more money on education. North Carolina ranks dead last in school funding, while politicians dole out billions in tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy. @wearencae.bsky.social @surj.org

I have passkeys for my authenticator and authenticators for my passkeys, and all I ever wanted to do was go live in the woods.

A story about the time my neighbor pawned my saw and why working class folks aren't nearly as shocked at the grift at the top of government as you are. open.substack.com/pub/workingc...

Excited to share my new column for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.

Amazon warehouse worker died on the job at Oregon facility - the worker collapsed on the floor at the PDX9 warehouse and lay dead as employees continued to work around his body.

58% of your income tax money — $3.5 trillion — will go to the War Machine. Meanwhile, social programs get slashed even more… @resistwar.bsky.social Download this leaflet here - www.warresisters.org/store/where-...

Working class people across the country are reaching out to their neighbors to learn from them, not lecture them. iowastartingline.com/2026/04/10/f...

Nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz: • paid himself $5M as a “ghost employee” • diverted tens of millions owed to taxpayers & employees • failed to pay at least 3 multimillion-dollar judgments awarded to grieving families He also received a Trump pardon.

Yesterday, I traveled through three smalls towns across Southern VA to No Kings protests. Heck yeah! Would love to hear what people all over the country are planning on getting involved with/building next! Drop your location and ideas in comments!

No secret here: I think working class folks should be elected to every seat of government. It's doable, but will take work. My latest on Working Class Stories here. open.substack.com/pub/workingc...

"Residents packed a Sunbury planning meeting, voicing their opposition to a planned $2-billion Amazon Data Service data center campus that is looking to locate inside the city's newly formed technology park." www.dispatch.com/story/busine...

Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.

Three teenagers in Tennessee have sued Elon Musk's xAI, claiming the company's image-generation tools were used to morph real photos of them into explicitly sexual images.

Statistically, more people teleport to Waffle Houses than out of Waffle Houses because usually you leave at 5 AM knowing full well what you have done.

“I don’t think the American public has a sense that the food on our table is being produced by immigrant workers under conditions that would make Upton Sinclair turn over in his grave.” @genoways.bsky.social reports from the JBS strike in Greeley, Colorado.

Good morning, North Carolina. Since none of us can afford to turn on the heat anymore, what tricks have you learned to stay warm?

Why is the NC news media reporting in advance on a Mark Robinson interview organized by a conman with a gazillion judgements against him for fraud and the 2 media entities behind the interview have less than 450 followers? Morbid curiosity isnt news. Don't get me wrong, I'm gonna watch for sure.

“From 2001 to 2024, renter incomes rose by 9 percent in real terms while rents rose by 30 percent.” Via: @harvard-jchs.bsky.social

Working class doesn't just mean blue collar or trades work, but also the millions stringing together a living through the gig economy open.substack.com/pub/workingc... open.substack.com/pub/workingc...

Let's face it—things were not great for many people BEFORE Trump. While the oligarchs & billionaires burn the whole thing down, we need to be putting forth a vision of how we intend to rebuild the system so it provides for the needs of working families—not just the wealthy.

A billion-dollar company poisoned their town, then moved on. Now people are dying. New from me @therealnews.com therealnews.com/a-billion-do...

NEW, from me: I talked to people who shut down Patriot Front's rally in D.C. last month. Counter-demonstrators made it impossible for PF to produce propaganda and recruit at the March for Life rally. The clown music set the tone. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Poor and working-class people have the finger on the pulse of our nation, know the state of our union, in ways that the wealthy few can't. open.substack.com/pub/workingc...

It was fun to chat w/ Preston Blakely and Dalton George on their podcast, Do You Even Live Here? I'm ridiculous in this interview, but they are great: both are both small-town mayors here in NC and real youngins. They make me excited and hopeful for our state. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

We all know that money in politics is bad but a bit of basic math tells us that the rich and corporations have not even scratched the surface of what they could spend. Imagine... one hundred times worse. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-haven...

Imagine sending a hospital ship to Greenland, which has free Healthcare for all its citizens, when a US veteran with no legs lives in his car in front of my neighbors house and the mom up the road is running a Go-Fund-Me for her little brothers recovery from a car accident.

My one true love will always be the folks with dirt under their nails and a sore lower back; those who work make an honest living waiting on payday. Happy Valentine's to most of us; ditch the billionaires cause they never cared about you anyway. open.substack.com/pub/workingc...

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

The administration at NCSU should be protecting its staff and more concerned that a far-right provocateur group is conducting undercover operations on campus. This doesn't bode well for academic freedom, nor does it make the campus sound very safe. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

There's a lot to critique about anyone's actions since nothing alone will meet this moment, but hyperlocal actions that create presence and invite people in should never be shamed.