Use #GivingTuesday to Help Save Democracy
At Citizen Action we understand that the threat to democracy is twofold: not only the assault on its basic mechanisms but also the democracy’s failure to deliver what everyday Americans need from their government.
Citizen Action is building the grassroots power across the state to protect democracy from an authoritarian onslaught and to enact cutting-edge reforms on pressing issues like affordable health care, energy costs, the climate crisis, and raising wages for working people. To do this we are building the power to defeat entrenched corporate interests that dominate state government.
On #GivingTuesday, a national day of giving back, please support our tax deductible arm, Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund!
Citizen Action is the leading grassroots group building deep membership across urban, rural, and suburban Wisconsin!
2026 will be a critical time to defend and renew democracy. One of the greatest threats to democracy is the inability of our elected leaders to stand up to powerful corporate interests and enact the reforms needed to build a prosperous, sustainable, and equitable society.
Here are some of the bold progressive issues Citizen Action is fighting for:
- Health Care: We are the leading grassroots organization in Wisconsin fighting to make affordable universal healthcare a human right, not a commodity to be managed in the interest of profit-crazed health insurance corporations, Pharma giants, and hospital conglomerates. We are leading a bold policy agenda at the State Capitol which will lower health care costs and shift power from the health care industry back to average Wisconsinites.
- Energy Prices: Due to the power of big utilities, electricity and heat have become unaffordable for many Wisconsinites, especially working people in urban centers and rural areas. The data center building boom will only make the situation worse. Working with legislative allies, Citizen Action unveiled a Utility Rate Cap bill in November which guarantees that heat and electricity prices are affordable.
- Climate & Economic Equity: We are the leading social justice group in Wisconsin focused on the climate crisis. Early this year Citizen Action worked with legislative allies to introduce the Climate Accountability Act, the first bill in Wisconsin history to require the state government to meet the international greenhouse gas reduction targets and create good green jobs for people locked out of the economic opportunity across urban and rural Wisconsin.
- Raising the Minimum Wage: Citizen Action is working with labor leaders to give Wisconsin a pay raise.The affordability crisis is caused by a double whammy of artificially depressed wages and skyrocketing cost of essentials. The simplest and most effective solution that makes work pay is to raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour. This is what a $15 minimum wage is worth now, after inflation, since the idea was first proposed ten years ago.
- Fair Taxes: We are working to stop the endless tax giveaways for the wealthy and well connected, and fighting to make billionaires and self-dealing corporations pay their fair share.
- Focus on Breaking the Grip of Structural Racism: Our multi-year investment in deep organizing in Milwaukee’s hard pressed African American neighborhoods is bearing fruit with the emergence of a powerful new group of members organizing for climate justice, clean renewable energy, utility rates, and to close the outrageous disparities in health outcomes between Black and white people.
- Statewide Reach: We are one of the only grassroots organizing groups building deep bases of members across the state. We have substantial membership in 5 major regions of the state, spanning urban, rural, and suburban Wisconsin.
