The next 250 starts with us. As America approaches its 250th anniversary, we have a choice about what story we tell.
We can let strongman politics and corruption define the moment. Or we can make the story of America about people coming together — across race, background, identity, belief, and community — to defend our rights and build a future rooted in people power.
On June 14, we rise up, we sing out, and we keep organizing.
While the Committee for the First Amendment leads and hosts this powerful concert, Indivisible and No Kings are proud to partner with them to build the durable, hyper-local infrastructure our movement needs to win and counter the president's spectacle. On June 14, the national concert event celebrates the freedoms that belong to all of us: speech, assembly, protest, religion, press, and expression.
Across the country, communities will gather for local watch parties to sing along, make art, share food, connect with neighbors, and take meaningful action together.
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No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.
On October 18, millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.
As President Trump escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS movement continues to rise stronger. We, the majority of millions, are united to remind the world: America has No Kings.
As America approaches its 250th anniversary, we have a choice about what story we tell.
We can let strongman politics and corruption define the moment. Or we can make the story of America about people coming together — across race, background, identity, belief, and community — to defend our rights and build a future rooted in people power.
On June 14, we rise up, we sing out, and we keep organizing.
June 14: Rise Up, Sing Out
A Concert for the First Amendment. An Evening to Build Community.
While the Committee for the First Amendment leads and hosts this powerful concert, Indivisible and No Kings are proud to partner with them to build the durable, hyper-local infrastructure our movement needs to win and counter the president's spectacle. On June 14, the national concert event celebrates the freedoms that belong to all of us: speech, assembly, protest, religion, press, and expression.
Across the country, communities will gather for local watch parties to sing along, make art, share food, connect with neighbors, and take meaningful action together.
Join a Rise Up, Sing Out event near you — or host one in your community.
America has a long history, rooted in white supremacy, of suppressing the rights of people of color. But our history also clearly shows that people-powered movements are how we end authoritarianism.
Throughout 2026, in the face of unprecedented attacks, millions of us joined together in our communities and held the largest single day of morally grounded, nonviolent direct actions by any movement in US history. Each time we show up, we disrupt President Trump’s attempts to rule through repression and remind the country, and the world, that people power is our path to a truly free America.
Authoritarians want fear, silence, and isolation. We choose joy. We choose community. We choose people power.
Rise Up, Sing Out is about reclaiming patriotism as something inclusive, participatory, and rooted in care for one another — not power, pageantry, or one person’s spotlight.
Attribution: APDanielle
Brown, national field co-director of Black Voters Matter, speaks about
redistricting at the South Carolina Statehouse on May 8.
GOP-controlled states in the South are rushing to redraw their congressional maps after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act, paving the way for Republicans to draw new lines that eliminate seats held by Black Democrats.
The gerrymandering efforts have led to disgusting images of Republicans gloating in the faces of the Black lawmakers, whose power they are purposely erasing—proving why the VRA is so necessary.
But while Republicans may have a short-term high, their racist gerrymandering
appears to be having the unintended and politically damaging
consequence of boosting Black voter turnout in the midterms, erasing any gains the GOP made with the voting bloc in 2024.
In Louisiana—where Republicans went as far as to throw out already
cast ballots and delay the House primaries to redraw a new map more
favorable to their party—Black voter turnout is skyrocketing.
Attribution: APGeorgia
Gov. Brian Kemp is desperately trying to push through gerrymandering, a
sign that he’s worried he won’t win reelection this fall.
According to data
compiled by Louisiana pollster John Couvillon, Democrats are turning
out in higher numbers than Republicans for the May 16 primaries for
Senate, state Supreme Court, the Public Service Commission, and some
ballot measures—which he described as “atypical” for the state.
Not just that, but Black voters make up a larger percentage of the
primary electorate than previous cycles. Couvillon said the current
makeup of the primary electorate is 62% white and 35% Black—a major
shift from 2023, when turnout was 71% white and 26% Black.
That doesn’t bode well for Republicans in a set of GOP-pushed ballot measures.
“There are 5 amendments on the ballot, some of which are important to
the Governor/his team. So the amendments (as well as the GOP Senate
contest) are the races to watch tomorrow night,” Couvillon wrote on X.
A similar situation is playing out in Georgia, where GOP Gov. Brian Kemp is pushing
Republicans to redraw congressional maps for the 2028 elections—a sign
that he’s nervous he’ll lose this fall and won’t be able to redraw the
maps at that point.
As Georgia’s early voting comes to an end ahead of the May 19 primaries, Democrats are heavily outvoting Republicans, with Black voters in particular making up roughly 34% of the electorate, according to data from Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. And those voters are choosing Democratic ballots by a margin of 96.8% to Republicans’ 2%.
By comparison, Black voters made up 26% of the electorate in the 2022 midterms.
The massive surge in Black voters in Georgia bodes well for Democrats’ chances at flipping two of the state’s Supreme Court seats—which are on the May 19 primary ballot.
Indeed, liberal Supreme Court candidate Jen Jordan is highlighting the VRA ruling in the final days of the race.
“We need justices who will defend the right to vote, not enable its
erosion. Justices who see the law as a shield for the people, not a
weapon for politicians,” Jordan wrote in a fundraising email.
Attribution: David Horsey/Tribune Content AgencyA cartoon by David Horsey.
Republicans may be patting themselves on the back for their corrupt
efforts to rig congressional maps, but the unintended consequences could
end up costing them in places like Georgia and eroding any gains they
made with Black voters in 2024.
“Given Trump’s unpopularity, the price at the pump and the precedent
of most every modern midterm, this was already shaping up to be a
forbidding election year for Republicans,” Politico columnist Jonathan
Martin wrote.
“To pick at the rawest of American wounds as the country marks 250
years would only turbocharge Democratic enthusiasm and turnout.”
While trying to cater to President Donald Trump’s demands, ultimately the GOP is just shooting itself in the foot.
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Black
Americans are every bit as much Americans as anyone in this country. To
try to strip them of their citizen obligation to engage in democratic
representation is an absolute affront to the spirit of our founding
documents espousing fundamental human inalienable rights.
Comment by Miles Estrelle.
See,
it's precisely what I predicted. All these attacks against voting
rights, fair maps, and free elections are only going to make people even
more ticked off and more motivated to vote. The Pedophile-in-Chief and
his cronies in Congress and on the bench need to be extremely careful
what they wish for.
Comment by Ralphdog.
Sort
of the electoral equivalent of the Streisand effect. Block African
Americans from voting, and they'll crawl over broken glass to do so.
Comment by Astronut.
I'm
"glad" in a way. The regime is showing itself and what it wants, which
is illegal, unconstitutional and intolerable. They're rubbing our
noses in the shit, and I think we're getting tired of it.
Comment by ElimuNzuri.
Since I donate regularly to the SPLC, I am elated.
Reply by Astronut.
OMG! And I'm a card-carrying ACLU member. We're both evil! 🤣
Reply by MontanaDancer.
What!
I missed that. I donate a small amount to both the ACLU and Southern
Poverty Law Center monthly, along with Ukraine and World Central
Kitchen. Did someone say we were evil??
Comment by bmljr.
The news is exhilarating for Black voter coming out; keep coming out, it works.
Comment by Enoch Ro0t.
Piss people off, and they'll be motivated to vote against those who pissed them off..
Reply by Astronut.
Let's hope.
Comment by alikatz.
I
hope that black, white , and all voters in every state will turn their
anger into victory for Democracy. Vote blue and kick as many fascists
out as possible. We need a blue tsunami.
Comment by sgkos.
Won't they just send thugs to the polls?
Reply by alikatz.
All
states have laws against that. They need to enforce these laws. Also,
the voters who hate the spineless congress need to show they can;t be
intimidated the way congress is so cowardly.
Reply by Astronut.
I'll
carry a camera with a 42X lens in case the thugs show up. If they do
I'll carry a phone as I challenge them -- and I'm too fucking old to NOT
challenge them.
Reply by Leftleaner.
I am sure the governors of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama will get right on that.
Reply by David Krupp.
As Minneapolis showed, we know how to fight back.
Reply by AnotherOklahoman.
When
Lincoln was running for the presidency Democrats - the pro slavery
party at that time - routinely sent thugs to break up Republican
rallies. Young men who supported anti-slavery Republicans joined the
‘Wide Awakes’ at scale. Fascist thugs, in that time, became out
numbered and tamed.
Comment by RedlandsCalif.
Congressional
representation should be based on vote count. Suppose California allows
25 million of its 39 million citizens to vote while Texas only allows 5
million of its 32 million citizens to vote due to voter suppression.
California should have 5 times the number of House representatives.
Reply by Joe Btfsplk.
That would be fair, but you know how right-wingers behave. It would just encourage them to engage in ballot-box stuffing.
Comment by FDRDemocrat.
I suspect the headline for election night this November will be the number of GOP dummymanders.edited
Comment by Sulla.
There is a misconception that this is about 2026 or even 2028.
It's
not. This is the long-term game, one the GOP has expertly played while
we have largely been reactive to. Even now we are reacting to the latest
GOP move.
Republicans
are engaging in this game concluding that Blue States will not be able
to gerrymander as much. We'll see about that.
Republicans
are also engaging in gerrymandering presuming that they will not always
be operating in a highly negative environment. The American people have
shown the GOP that they can screw up a LOT, but just 2 years later they
will skip back into the Republicans' loving arms. See 2010. See 2022.
The gerrymandering makes that easier.
That is the game, not 2026 and a temporary backfire.
Comment by CyberMindGrrl.
Shooting
themselves in the foot while cutting off their own noses in spite of
their faces. And patting themselves on the back while they do it.
I'm
hoping this racist gerrymandering effort turns out Democratic voters
like nothing has in the past. Because it should be VERY obvious to all
that the GOP is fully intending on turning the USA into a one party
state and locking Democrats out of power forever. We CANNOT allow this
to happen.
Reply by Bring the Lions.
Yeah, we need a response from the Blacks For Trump brigade, or for them to fess up that they were never real to begin with.
Reply by BadgerBlue.
Brigade? Heck there might not have been enough "Blacks for Trump" to even make up a single squad LOL!
OK
maybe a select group of men who loved Trump's embrace of any kind of
patriarchy. Beyond that it's tough to see many black voters rushing to
support Trump.
Reply by AnotherOklahoman.
Their
leader, Herman Cain, died of loyalty. Unmasked in Trump’s Tulsa rally
at the height of Covid - and at his age … so many died.
Comment by A Noah Count.
This is great, providing the votes are counted....accurately counted....
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Reply by Secular John.
These are conspiratorial claims with no evidence cited. Intentional misinformation. Reporting.
Comment by mohistory2.
The
percentage of Blacks blatantly intentionally refusing to participate in
these comments, combined with the consistently minimal amount of
overall comments in diaries about race, period, secretly tells them a
huge amount about where a great deal of folks on the left actually
stand, in their eyes.
"Bueller?"
Reply by MurielVieuxThePoet.
I just don't know what to say at this point in time.
Reply by Enoch Ro0t.
How do you know this?
Reply by mohistory2.
Because
for the last 407 years (and counting) the lives of virtually every
Black person in America have depended on knowing the difference...in
microscopic detail....or else. And because the last 350 years of fully
institutionalizing white supremacy have fundamentally been rooted in
dehumanization, exploitation and sadistic violence.
Comment by Slideman.
Let's hope these levels STAY high, and all of the assholes involved in this gerrymandering get well deserved karmic payback!
Reply by RNmakingsense.
I'm
from South Carolina. I'm a 64 old white gay man. I moved to
Philadelphia in 94 to escape the conservatism and the humidity. I moved
to New York City in 2014. I have never looked back.
I
still visit my parents and can take the maximum 3-4 days. The people
are nice but Fox News is everywhere. I hate going down there, except
getting a few of my Southern food fixes. When mom had her timeshare at
Myrtle Beach I could take that. But I would only go in February and at
the empty gym I had to cut off Fox News from all the TV sets first.
SC
is not a ruby red stated, but outside the cities I doubt its any less
racist now than it was in the '90s. Now they're going to redistrict all
white. Mostly psychologically, I could never retire in a red state and I
know there are good places inside there.
My
dear friend loves his Dallas, but I say you still live in Texas and you
have had Texas red state politics for 30 years rotting your brain; he
says, yeah.
Comment by tmseattle.
"... ultimately the GOP is just shooting itself in the foot."
We certainly *hope* so.
Reply by troublemaker.
Well, with DonOLD and his clown car of misfits, what else could happen? (Oh, let's take over Mongolia!)
Reply by Tom Soper.
Maybe Taiwan for the 51st state?
Comment by BenBanks82.
Eh.
we'll see. In the first place, Dems are the low-turnout party. Why
wouldn't they have the primary turnout advantage. Despite how some view
it going by the special elections of 2024 wouldn't have given the
Republicans a chance that year either.
Secondly,
while the Republicans have lost Latino support* as a blue wave has been
gradually built, cross tabs of election polls have if anything showed
them getting more black supporters on top of their generationally large
amount (if still numerically pathetic) from '24.
Maybe
this is the straw that broke the camel's back, but after all the racist
things Trump has said and done, not to mention how sure Daily Kos was
that Dobbs would change the game, it is past time to accept that
absolute faith in solidarity has been the ultimate miscalculation of the
left.
*And not
as much as some, including the above blogger, have made it look. That's
overlooking that the "not sure" and "say I won't vote but ultimately
do" categories never break heavily towards one side or the other.
Reply by BenBanks82.
No.
It was a poll of unlikely voters. You know, people who didn't vote.
Trump crushed Biden among them despite the general presumption of this
comment section.
Reply by BenBanks82.
If
you're blaming inflation for 2024, you're conceding more ground than
you bargained for. Surely you remember the insistence that abortion
would trump inflation, right? Despite a 6.6-point average lead in the
generic ballot average, Dems are incapable of registering 60% of women's
vote in the crosstabs. It just doesn't get any better than this and
still the solidarity you insist is there isn't being shown to us.
Reply by Bring the Lions.
Inflation
not seen in 4-5 decades does not trump abortion, even if it is tamed in
the final 2 years of Biden's term. But again, you're not being
serious. A bunch of non-voters can't see past long running systemic
issues that aren't being resolved in one or two election cycles. If
there were a Fox News for people like this it would be a different
story: there isn't.
I
don't know what metric you're referring to, but it's been clear for a
while that educated and single women go OVERWHELMINGLY for the Dems.
The problem is with less educated and married white women. Guess who
there is more of in a bunch of districts? Less educated and married
white women. Guess how the Dems do in the districts where there are
more educated and single women? They tend to win.
You're just doomcasting at this point.
Reply by BenBanks82.
No. You're cherry-picking. Women who are married or without college degrees also count.
Yes.
Inflation re-elected Trump. Some of us warned that would be a problem.
We were accused of doomcasting like you're doing to me now. For the
record, I expect victory in November. Trump has made the cost of living
worse.
Reply by Bring the Lions.
I'm not cherry-picking: I'm providing the context and detailed info so we don't get sweeping dismissals.
I
don't know of anyone who's informed that downplayed the consequences of
Trump getting re-elected. If they were so uninformed that they did,
that doesn't count.
Reply by BenBanks82.
Let
me put it this way. According to the exit polls, 43% of voters were
college-educated. You can't just ignore the remaining fifty-something
percent of women not into that category because you want to believe in
solidarity.
And
I'll tell you something else. We'll never see polls indicating that a
majority of voters know who their Representative and senators are.
Uninformed yet important voters will always be with us.
Reply by Bring the Lions.
No
one is "ignoring" them. I pointed out the FACT that women are not
monolithic. I pointed out the fact that Dem support has gone from
strong to stronger with the 2 demographics I picked out. Dobbs has
absolutely engaged the women I mentioned at a higher level. No one ever
really said that "all women" are going to be riled up over Dobbs. We
did say, accurately, that there would be a backlash from the significant
amount of women who were pissed off over it, and that is going to be
felt for some time.
Reply by Asak.
How
is any of this a miscalculation of the left? If running an absolutely
racist government caused Republicans to gain Black support as you're
suggesting, then what can anyone do about that? If being racist gains
both White and minority votes then this country's goose is cooked.
Reply by k00kla.
And
I think far too many Democrats have unconsciously believed the lie that
the mainstream media has a liberal bias. Why else have they not
directed more resources to countering the right wing propaganda howitzer
for a the past 30+ years? If the confederates are able to hypnotize
Americans and cause them to once again forget the horrors they inflict
and go back to sleep again, it will be because of their control of the
media.
Reply by BenBanks82.
Because
a party that can't accept what has happened emotionally by definition
isn't serious getting these people back and the Republicans will forever
have the superior outreach operation.
I
don't think Trump's racism is actually what's causing this. Our
tightening racial voting gaps is the current stage of polarization.
There were always a lot of social conservatives in the black, Asian, and
Latino communities. For examples, during the 28 years that no
Republican other than Arnold Schwarzenegger won in California, the right
won ballot measure victories on gay marriage, unions, affirmative
action, marijuana, and probably some other stuff I am unaware of.
Comment by giovannigiorgio.
Well,
it's not just going to be African American folks. There's over 100
million folks that didn't vote in 2024. Just sayin'. Gerrymander all
you want, if we show up, you're fucked.
Reply by BenBanks82.
Every statistical indication I've seen says that MAGA is the side that turns out less.
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