Making Sense; Maximizing Impact
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Making Sense & Maximizing Impact - #1
January, 2026
This is our new version of the “Making a Difference” emails that we’ve (Tom & Julia) been sending since 2016.
We, and everyone we know, are searching for how to make sense of this horrific moment in our country's history, and to find our own path to impact and our own solutions. Our plan is to send these out every 3-5 weeks, give or take.
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We’re integrating these emails into our work to share more broadly how we are Making Sense and Maximizing Impact in this critical moment for communities we care about, our democracy and our planet.
Included in this email:
- How can we all cope in these unprecedented times?
- How are we shifting our work?
- What’s our recipe for sanity and impact?
- What can people do today to support Minneapolis & Maine?
- We all need to do what we can, and need support to do so. (This is a battle of our lifetimes.)
- We all need to play some part in the resistance. (The last thing we can do is give the haters what they want - us to disengage and give up).
- We all need it: to stay sane, to stay engaged, and to be able to believe in a better future. (This is one key way we are doing so.)
- Stay engaged: make our own sense of the seemingly senseless.
- Stay connected: to loved ones and fellow travelers who believe in resistance and making change.
- Invest time: to support the communities that continue to bear (and have always borne) the brunt of injustice, and play our own role in the resistance.
- Invest wealth: to support the best groups and networks that are actively and effectively defending communities, elections and the law, and organizing for a better future.
- TakeAction Minnesota Education Fund (c3, tax-deductible donation): Coordinating its own work and the Minnesota Democracy Defense Table.
- Unidos MN (c3, tax-deductible donation): Coordinating a comprehensive immigrant-defense hotline (Monarca) critical to statewide response.
- Maine People's Alliance (c4, not tax-deductible): State’s largest community action organization.
- Community Organizing Alliance (c3, tax-deductible donation): Based in Lewiston and centered around the Somali community.
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