How We Win Energizing Strategies, Voters, and Agendas

Introduction

1. At the Crossroads, Again: Embracing Organizing, Social Movements, and Transformational Change

Charles Derber, Suren Moodliar, Matt Nelson and Nancy Treviño

Part I: Voices & Visions, Communities & Key Issues

2. To Save Organized Human Society

Noam Chomsky

3. Mobilizing in Times of Emergency

Angela Lang

4. How We Win for Women

Rachel O’Leary Carmona

5. The Fascist Threat and the Progressive Agenda

Charles Derber

6. Political Violence – Old and New, Neither Acceptable

Suren Moodliar

7. The Dystopian Vision of Project 2025

Joe Guinan

8. Billionaires vs. Your Vote

Chuck Collins

9. The Human Right to Housing

Mary Traynor and Rebecca Garrard

10. Holding the Fort, Birthing a New World – or Why Labor Unions Matter

Ben Manski

11. A Union for All Workers

Mike Miller

12. Flow of Resistance: The Power of Border Communities Shaping America's Future

Matt Nelson and Nancy Treviño

13. Saving the Dead, Making the Future: Public History Against Fascism

Mark Soderstrom

Intermission (Take Action!)

14. Values, Villain, Vision: Messaging to Mobilize Our Base and Persuade the Conflicted

Anat Shenker-Osario

15. Letter to College Students

Mia McLaughlin, Erin Miller and Kyoungnak Minn

16. Nuts and Bolts: Registering, Voting, Mobilizing Your Community

Charles Derber, Suren Moodliar, Matt Nelson, and Nancy Treviño

Part II: The Power of the Electorate – Working with Voters

17. Turning Out Young Voters of Color by Focusing on Their Priority Issue: The Rising Cost of Living

Saru Jayaraman

18. Turning Out Our Peers

Maria Teresa Kumar

19. 1964’s Freedom Summer Offers a Model for the Voting Rights Work We Need to Do

Charles Derber

20. Mobilizing with Elder Voters

Akaya Windwood and Bill McKibben

21. Restoring Democracy through Our Public Schools

Helen Gym

22. Working with Labor Movement Voters

Mark Spadafore

23. All Politics is Local: Reflections from the Frontlines of a Progressive Electoral Movement

Maurice Mitchell

24. Protecting Voter Rights

Jeff Merkley

Biography

Charles Derber is professor of sociology at Boston College, USA. A lifelong social justice activist, his work focuses on the crises of capitalism, globalization, corporate power, militarism, the culture of hegemony, the climate crisis, and peace and global justice movements. His recent books include Turnout!: Mobilizing Voters in an Emergency (Routledge, 2020), Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can About It (Routledge, 2023), and Who Owns Democracy?: The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America (Routledge, 2024)

Suren Moodliar is an organizer, writer and journal editor. He co-leads encuentro5, a Boston-based movement-building center. His most recent book is Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It (Routledge, 2023).

Matt Nelson is executive director of Presente.org, an advocacy group which advances Latinx power and amplifies Latinx voices. Before his work at Presente.org, he was the Organizing Director at Color of Change. Matt is a seasoned campaign strategist who has won dozens of local and national campaigns, and a skilled community organizer who has trained thousands of activists. He is the co-editor of Turnout!: Mobilizing Voters in an Emergency (Routledge, 2020) and was featured in Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion (2015).

Nancy Treviño is director of power at Presente.org., a community organizer, trainer, and campaign strategist. Previously, Nancy worked alongside dozens of grassroots community organizations across the U.S., collaborated with national and international human rights organizations, and continues to provide strategic organizing, digital, and communications support to advance social justice movements.