Action Plan 2025

With a second Trump administration, we need a powerful line of defense in our state legislatures to safeguard elections, advance voting rights, protect abortion access, and more. In 2025, we are working on key state legislative races in Virginia. As a very active chapter, we usually support 3-6 diverse and dynamic candidates per election cycle.

To start, we will be fundraising, writing postcards, and calling and maybe even canvassing voters for our Virginia state legislative candidate: Lily Franklin. State legislatures matter because the laws and policies they adopt directly impact our daily lives, such as wage laws, land use policy, healthcare, election management, voting laws, redistricting, education, and infrastructure investments. By helping progressive candidates win state elections, we aim to protect voting rights, end gerrymandering, protect vulnerable or marginalized communities, enact climate actions and environmental justice, racial and gender equity, reform the criminal justice system, end the school-to-prison pipeline, protect reproductive rights, help workers and farmers benefit from the economy, and so much more. Lily's critical race in November 2025 is key to these priorities.

We are also part of the Sister District's State Bridges, a program to support grassroots groups that are leading year-round community-based organizing. Laying such a critical foundation of civic engagement all year long will enable us to build progressive power in state legislatures come Election Day.

Join our ongoing events to support these efforts!

Please read about the political strategy for 2025 and beyond in more detail on the National Sister District website.