Citizen Action Weekend 2025 Newsletter, Friday, August 1st
Friday, August 1st
Join Citizen Action Today!
Get involved today in our healthcare and climate organizing:
- Eau Claire/Menomonee/Chippewa Falls area, contact: Jeremy.Gragert@citizenactionwi.org
- Wausau/Stevens Point area, contact: Joel.Lewis@citizenactionwi.org
- La Crosse/Driftless area, contact: Kristie.Tweed@citizenactionwi.org
- Milwaukee area, contact: Maletha.Jones@citizenactionwi.org
- Green Bay/Fox Valley, contact: g.degrave@citizenactionwi.org
If you live outside these areas and want to get involved in:
- healthcare organizing, contact: Kristie.Tweed@citizenactionwi.org
- organizing fighting climate change, contact: Kat.Klawes@citizenactionwi.org
Citizen Action Southeast Organizing Co-op Weekly Update
🚪 Summer Canvassing
We’re gaining new members every week out on the doors! Join us for just one canvass a week—great convos, real impact, and good energy.
🍗 BBQ – Sunday at 4 PM @ Kern Park
Come kick back, eat good food, and connect with community. Bring a friend—everyone’s welcome!
🌿 Climate & 🏥 Medicaid Teams
Both teams are growing strong! Want to plug in and help shape the work? Contact, Ruben.Aquino@citizenactionwi.org
Join Citizen Action Healthcare State Action Team
If you want to join with fellow Citizen Action leaders from around the state who volunteer to help lead Citizen Action’s healthcare organizing, contact: Kristie.Tweed@citizenactionwi.org
Join Citizen Action Climate Equity State Action Team
If you want to join with fellow Citizen Action leaders from around the state who volunteer to help lead Citizen Action’s climate and equity organizing, contact: Kat.Klawes@citizenactionwi.org
Attend virtual The ‘Fundamentals of Organizing’ training, August 25th & 26th, 4:30pm – 8:00pm
People’s Action Institute and Citizen Action of Wisconsin want to engage hundreds of thousands of people in our movement. We are making a deep investment training our leaders in the fundamentals of organizing.
The ‘Fundamentals of Organizing’ training is a two-part training that is held quarterly and has an emphasis on building relationships grounded in mutual self-interest that balances an expansive sense of how a multiracial democracy should operate and a long-term vision for the world with the realities of building power in the world as it is today.
FOCUS: Fundamentals of Organizing with a focus on power, self-interest, one-to-one relational meetings; and the foundation of power organizations.
Introduction to Deep Canvassing: The Proven Method to Change Hearts and Minds, Tuesday, August 26th, 5 – 6pm
This is an information session, not a training. This session will help you understand if you want to attend our three-session 101: Foundational Skills of Deep Canvassing training.
Are you an organizer, community leader, or activist looking to engage with your community around deeply polarizing issues? Are you an individual hoping to understand how to have compassionate, non-judgmental conversations across lines of difference? Or, are you someone who’s heard about this thing called “deep canvassing” and you’re curious to learn more?
This is an info session, not a training.
This information session will be followed by a full Deep Canvass Institute: Foundational Skills of Deep Canvassing, Tuesday, September 9 – Wednesday, September 10
5 – 8pm CDT.
Listen to “The Road to the Governor’s Office Starts” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast
In the aftermath of Tony Evers’ announcement that he will not seek re-election, we discuss the wide-open primary for the Democratic nomination. Who are the likely candidates and what should they run on? Is this an opportunity for progressives and everyone who craves a Democratic Party willing to fight? Robert tells us about an early attempt by Senator Chris Larson and our allies to lay out a 2026 agenda for candidates for Governor and state legislature. We talk about how the new report from the Center for Working-Class Politics shows there is a pathway to win in 2026 on an clear agenda that excites working people, including many who defected to Trump in 2024, and brings them back into the pro-democracy fold.
We start to tackle the state fiscal elephant in the room. The tax cuts in the just completed state budget, on top of years of tax giveaways to the wealthy and corporations, have set the state up for a fiscal deficit to start the next session. No candidate can promise full funding for public education, child care, and for the expansion of health care who is not serious about generating more revenue by rolling back past tax giveaways to the rich and most profitable corporations.
Finally, we also look at gerrymandering in Texas which threatens to rig the 2026 midterms in favor of Trump’s allies. From and pragmatic and ethical point of view, must the Democrats must respond in kind?
Listen to the show.
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