The End of the Beginning: Year One in the Trump 2.0 All-out Assault on Immigrants. (January, 2026) This three-page essay identifies key dynamics in the fight to defend immigrants against Trump 2.0’s Year One all-out assault. The essay also spotlights adaptations and opportunities for pressing
By Larry Kleinman October 14, 2025 How we hold it. How we hold it together. How we hold it, together. These five words encapsulate three overlapping challenges that figure centrally in our collective condition, nine months into the chaos, cruelty and corruption of an administration
By Larry Kleinman May 5, 2025 “How can I think more strategically and teach strategic thinking to others?” It’s a question I’ve been asked countless times but never found a satisfying response. Until recently. Some months ago, it crystallized: three principles that are each expressed
By Larry Kleinman June 21, 2025 Trump’s second presidency has elicited comparisons to every imaginable kind of disaster: floods, hurricane (think Katrina), storm (as in “trooper”), tornado. The one I find most salient is “earthquake.” Such analogies might seem trivial, but we reflexively invoke them
In May, 2021, our movement’s candidates swept the elections for four seats on the Salem-Keizer School District board, a governing majority, including the first—second and third—Latinx board members ever elected! How do we adjust our expectations and strategies to sustain power and change?
Incredibly, a one-word change in current immigration law on “adjustment of status” would open an immediate pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants DACA and TPS holders. No new regulations or forms required! Will we persuade Congress enact the one-word change via “budget reconciliation”?
The arc from the Trump’s defeat through 2022 will have four phases, including post vaccine re-engagement surge and the Biden Administration’s bold recovery initiatives. 2022 mid-terms gains depend on them amid the Coronavirus and Trump pandemics’ lingering effects on our mindset, routines, energy, and resilience.
This third essay in the series about organizing in a time of pandemic, looks at the likely trajectory for economic and health recovery and describes two key strategies—“Lived Relief” and “Vote at Home”—that social change organizations can pursue to meet the moment.”
Building on the Organizing in an Era of Approaching Pandemic, this essay offers ideas on how we should think about the likely length and depth of the Coronavirus pandemic and navigate the health and unprecedented economic crises it’s spawned.
The threat of a coronavirus pandemic is scrambling our already turbulent reality. The impacts on public health, on the economy and, in turn, on our campaigns and activities could be profound and swift. This essay lays out ideas for how to shift gears quickly and respond appropriately, including contingency planning.
The threat of a coronavirus pandemic is scrambling our already turbulent reality. The impacts on public health, the economy and our campaigns and activities could be profound and swift. This essay lays out ideas for shifting gears quickly and responding appropriately, including contingency planning.
January 21, 2021 will be the next administration’s first day. How do we need to show up on that day ready to begin years of “restoring, repairing and re-building”? The path in 2019 and 2020 will be harrowing, especially Trump’s final weeks in office.