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Prager U, despite its name, is not a university. It is a conservative media organization that produces slick, ideology-driven videos designed to attract young people to the right, and it’s now in American classrooms. The Guardian reported in April that as teachers adopt its free lesson plans and the White House actively boosts its content, Prager U has become one of the most effective platforms…

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At the end of December 2025, a right-wing influencer posted a YouTube video claiming to show Somali-American-run daycares in Minneapolis defrauding the federal government. The video offered no verified evidence. It got millions of views anyway. Within days, the Trump administration froze childcare funding in Minnesota. A week later it froze over $10 billion in funding across five states…

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Last fall, Managing Editor Akin Olla began piloting a concept for how Convergence can grow as a space which can develop the voice of organizers trying to communicate big strategic ideas. The result was the Max Elbaum Resident Writers Program (named after our longtime board chair). We received an amazing batch of applications from over 60 organizers from all over the country and chose two to join…

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In this booklet which collects “If Solidarity Is Possible, So Is a Pro-Trans Majority” and “The Yeses That Surprise You: Organizing Across the Lines of Cis and Trans,” Jess St. Louis offers insight into how our movements can build a liberated future for trans people through strategic organizing. The booklet also includes worksheets for reflection and questions for discussion with your organizing…

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Opening a conversation with community leaders in La Parguera, a small town in southwestern Puerto Rico, Juan Rosario warns that 2017’s Hurricane Maria was “a sign of things to come. These events are going to become more frequent, and the impacts more permanent. And the next time, there may not be any federal funds. We will need to depend on ourselves.” More than eight years after Hurricane…

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This is our 100th episode of Block & Build! We wanted to do something unique to mark this milestone. We jokingly discussed doing a musical episode. While we don’t have the time or the money to write 55 minutes of original songs about the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act once and for all and what we’re going to do about it, we thought we’d take some time to share some of our favorite…

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dear fellow trans girl/woman/femme, say yes and join. no, really. do it. you might be one of the few like us in the room, but building power is an alchemy like no other that fashions solidarity out of fragile unions. and also, it is the only way to freedom. Sometimes, the things you say yes to surprise you. The flicker of something that feels like hope and desire that dances from your stomach…

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The rise of authoritarianism and the deployment of its many tools have incited calls to action and resistance across the United States. Authoritarianism’s actors must employ many tactics to gain and maintain control. Resistance movements in turn explore and engage multiple tactics to combat authoritarianism. As a movement and liberation researcher with an organizing background…

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The most important question on the 2025 Pennsylvania general election ballot, retention of State Supreme Court judges, was buried halfway down the back page. But thanks to a strategic, multipronged coalition effort, voters in this battleground state retained three Democratic justices and kept the Democrats’ five-to-two majority on the court. This win will be critical for protecting reproductive…

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In the fall of 2023 a woman entered a bar and asked if they could put on the final regular season game of the WNBA’s New York Liberty. The bartender told her “I don’t think anyone here wants to see that.” She used that frustration to start organizing. Three years later, it feels like women’s sports are everywhere, especially (but certainly not exclusively) women’s basketball. The WNBA has grown by…

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