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Individual action matters. Collective action compounds. A group of five to twelve people, meeting regularly and rotating roles, creates more durable and sustained pressure than any individual effort — and far less burnout. This section has everything needed to find legislators, start a group, share the library, and track what gets done.
Why Organizing in Small Groups Works
Large networks are hard to sustain. Massive protests require constant mobilization. But a small group — five to twelve people meeting regularly with a simple agenda and rotating roles — is one of the most durable structures in civic organizing.
The reason is simple: no single person carries the whole load. When roles rotate and participation is shared, the group survives when individual life gets in the way. And the cumulative record of what the group has done becomes visible over time — motivating, and useful.
This is a long game. The right funded the Federalist Society for decades before it delivered a conservative Supreme Court majority. Sustained, unglamorous action is how institutional change actually works. Not one big moment. Consistent small ones.
Autocratic movements depend on two things: exhausting the opposition and isolating them. A small, consistent, connected group is the direct counter to both.
A Simple Group Structure That Works
No elaborate infrastructure needed. A recurring meeting — monthly or biweekly — with a simple agenda is enough:
15 minutes — what matters this week, what's happening, what needs attention
20 minutes — take an action together: send letters, make calls, file a request
10 minutes — log what was done, plan next steps, assign the next rotation
Thirty to sixty minutes total. That is a democracy night. It works because it is predictable, low-pressure, and produces something tangible every time.
Rotating Roles
In a group of five to twelve, responsibilities can rotate so no one person becomes the bottleneck:
Researcher — identifies the issue, the target, and the relevant template
Caller — coordinates call campaigns and calling days
Writer — drafts or customizes letters, emails, and public comments
Log-keeper — maintains the Actions Log and tracks responses
Public commenter — attends or submits comments at local meetings
No one needs to do the same role every time. No one needs to do every role ever. The group covers the ground together.
What's in This Section
🗺️ Find Legislators — Look up your federal, state, and local representatives. Know who represents you before you contact them.
👥 Start a Group — How to form a small, durable organizing group. The agenda template, role structure, and getting started guide.
📚 Share the Library — Copy and distribute the full toolkit. Everything in this library is free to share, adapt, and use.
📊 Track Actions — The Actions Log and guidance on how to use it. Every action logged is a data point. Patterns matter.
This Library Is Meant to Be Shared
Every document, template, script, and guide in this library is free to copy, share, adapt, and distribute — to friends, family, neighbors, coworkers, faith communities, local organizations, and anyone else who wants to act but doesn't know where to start.
The more people who have access to these tools, the more pressure compounds across more targets, more tactics, and more communities. Share it freely.
You are not powerless. You are not invisible. You are not alone.
History is not made only by the loud or the fearless. It is made by people who kept showing up in manageable ways.
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