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[Blast from the Past] Use Your Superpower
Here's a time capsule: A post I wrote in December 2020 that, IMHO, still rings true today. Plus a few fresh links to welcome the New Year!
 • Micah L. Sifry
War with Venezuela? What is it Good For?
Absolutely nothing, as the song goes. But a close look at the Iraq antiwar movement offers sobering lessons as the Trump regime slouches into a land war…
 • Micah L. Sifry
What Margaret Mead Left Out
If your activism isn't building power in numbers and forms that you (and others) can count, maybe it's time to stop believing in the magic of small…
 • Micah L. Sifry
This Shor Smells Bad***
Why do so many Democratic politicians keep relying on bad advice on how to win elections and build power?
 • Micah L. Sifry
Searching For a New Politics of Meaning
As the political tide shifts in a more hopeful direction, a warning about ignoring MAGA's cultural sway.
 • Micah L. Sifry

November 2025

Notes on Organizing During This Crazy Time
Visibility Brigades, ICE-Scraper Buy-Ins, Health Care Professionals in Revolt, Democracy Teams Trainings, Sierra Club Pushback and Cracks in the Orange…
 • Micah L. Sifry
Will Mamdani's Movement Avoid "the Obama Trap"?
A deep dive conversation with Marshall Ganz, veteran organizer, trainer and strategist, on what he's learned from past experience down this road and…
 • Micah L. Sifry
How to Build a "Bigger We" - and Go From Isolated Actions to Cultural Change
Parsing the Freedom Together Foundation's critical new report. Plus, Vu Le's new book on nonprofits and philanthropy and lessons from the Defiance in…
 • Micah L. Sifry
Solidarity Tech: The Platform Powering Zohran Mamdani's Movement [Updated with latest data]
A conversation with Ivan Pardo, the founder of Solidarity Tech, on how a platform built for "deep organizing" of workers building unions is being used…
 • Micah L. Sifry

October 2025

How Zohran Mamdani's "Tremendous Force" is Remaking New York Politics
With NYC's mayoral election a week away, the upstart democratic socialist has built a movement that is already changing the status quo.
 • Micah L. Sifry
We Have More Friends Everywhere
Notes on how we are organizing ourselves nine months into Trump II. And why status quo Democrats can't win the moment or the future.
 • Micah L. Sifry
A Silver Lining in the Middle East?
The Trump-Witcoff-Kushner-Qatar-Turkey-Egypt peace deal is clearly flawed, but maybe now that the hot Gaza war is (hopefully) ending, peace-makers can…
 • Micah L. Sifry
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