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Brave of Us Roundup: Immigrant Justice at the Local Level
In the face of relentless federal attacks, localities nationwide are fighting back and publicly affirming their commitment to protecting immigrants.
Issue Spotlights
All across the country, local governments are advancing the most innovative solutions to our biggest problems and creating new models of governance. At Local Progress, we work on a broad intersectional progressive agenda driven by a vision of racial and economic justice.
Here we spotlight some of our biggest and rapidly growing bodies of work:
ECONOMIC JUSTICE
Everyone deserves safe jobs and family sustaining wages. At the local level, we can win safer workplaces, higher wages, and better benefits for all.
Home Rule
Local governments need home rule authority to address the pressing problems facing their communities. New abusive state preemption suppresses local organizing for our agenda for racial & economic justice.
HOUSING
Housing is an essential need. Across the country, localities are working to advance renter protections, increase affordable housing, and build thriving neighborhoods.
IMMIGRANT JUSTICE
We’re fighting for a country that honors, protects, and supports all of us – whether we’re born here or moved to make America our home.
FEDERAL RESPONSE AND ADVOCACY
Local governments play a key role in protecting their communities, responding to federal funding cuts, and fighting for democracy.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Everyone deserves to feel and be safe. Across the country, localities can build real safety by investing in communities and addressing the root causes of instability.
SCHOOL BOARDS
Thriving public schools are the bedrock of a just, multiracial society. With roughly 15,000 school districts in the US, the opportunity & necessity to organize behind a common agenda is clear.
Progressive Governance Academy
Are you newly elected to office? Looking to expand your leadership ?
The Progressive Governance Academy (PGA) is a program designed to help progressive state and local elected officials develop the leadership and governance skills they need to be powerful and effective leaders.
Trainings cover a range of topics including: developing a policy agenda, tools for accomplishing their goals, and navigating complex challenges of governing as an elected official.
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LPNY State Download 🌷 | Budget Fights & Statewide Momentum | Spring 2026
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State Organizing
We organize and build the infrastructure in key states to impact policy and governance outcomes at the state level. Working together across cities, towns, counties and school boards, Local Progress members engage in strategic campaigns to win pivotal legislative victories at the local level and build state power.
We currently have fully certified chapters in New York, Texas, North Carolina and Minnesota, and we are organizing across the state in Florida.
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Start Organizing In Your State!
Interested in working with local elected across your state to win progressive change at all levels of local government and impact policy outcomes at the state level?
Get in touch with the LP team to see how!
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📬 LP Network Download | Stepping up to protect immigrant families | March 2026
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