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LPNC State Download ⛱️| Call for Leadership for LPNC, 2025 National Convening Update, and more! | Summer 2025
Check out what’s happening in NC this summer!
- Economic Justice, Home Rule, Immigrant Justice, Leveraging Federal Resources
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📎 Federal Resource Round-Up
Important updates and opportunities to take action.
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LPTX State Download 🌟 | Special Session update, National Convening highlights and more! | Summer 2025
Find out what our Texas Chapter has been up to lately and what we are looking forward to this fall & winter!
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📬 LP Network Download | Ten cities ban rental price fixing, local leaders holding the line on immigration, what the billionaire tax scam means for us, & more. | July 2025
Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network this month.
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LP School Board Download 📚 | LP National’s Convening and federal developments | July 2025
Check out what happened at our National Convening and new ways you can plug into the school board network.
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Local Progress Colorado Organizes To Protect Colorado’s Public Lands
Local leaders call on their federal representatives to ensure public lands remain accessible in the face of serious cuts.
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Greg Casar Is Organizing to Win
A must-read feature of former LP Co-Chair and now Congressman Greg Casar.
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Multiple Cities Across the Country Are Resisting Rent Algorithms
Hoboken and Jersey city are two of the latest localities to join the nationwide movement to tackle corporate greed in the rental market and ban algorithmic rental price fixing.
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2025 National Convening: We Organize Together to Govern for All!
Over 500 local elected officials, partners, and staff came together to strategize, connect with each other, and renew the fight for our communities.
- Immigrant Justice, Leveraging Federal Resources
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What the Billionaire Tax Scam Means For Our Communities
Learn more and fight back.
- Economic Justice, Immigrant Justice, Leveraging Federal Resources
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📎 Federal Resource Round-Up – Urgent Billionaire Tax Scam Update
Important updates and opportunities to take action.
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📬 LP Network Download | Put families over billionaires, remembering Melissa, and how we show up for LGBTQ+ folks | Jun 2025
Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network this month.
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In The News
At Local Progress, we seek to make the aspirational pragmatic by showing how government can be a tool to create just and equitable outcomes and reshaping peoples’ understanding of governing from an institution to a collective responsibility. Here are some highlights of our media coverage:
- Economic Justice, Housing, Immigrant Justice
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The World Cup Is Coming. Our Cities Must Protect Their People.
Op-ed: As elected officials from U.S. host cities, we know that local governments are the last line of defense against human rights abuses during the FIFA World Cup.
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Greg Casar Is Organizing to Win
A must-read feature of former LP Co-Chair and now Congressman Greg Casar.
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Multiple Cities Across the Country Are Resisting Rent Algorithms
Hoboken and Jersey city are two of the latest localities to join the nationwide movement to tackle corporate greed in the rental market and ban algorithmic rental price fixing.
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This Organization Proved There Was an Alternative to the Police. Now It’s Being Defunded.
Portland, OR proved what we all know to be true: we keep us safe. LP's Reynold Graham talks to The Nation about Portland's program.
press Releases
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Statement: Local Leaders Applaud Decision to Affirm Birthright Citizenship in the United States
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Statement: Local Progress responds to Department of Justice Charges Against Southern Poverty Law Center
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LP Members & Union Leaders Call To Overturn WPA Veto
Municipal Officials join labor leaders to call out the Governor for rejecting this Common-Sense legislation