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LPTX State Download🌟 | Opportunities to engage, 2025 priorities, and more! | February 2025
Check out what our LPTX Chapter has been up to in the new year and learn how you can activate your leadership in 2025!
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LPNC State Download 📣| Progressive Governance Academy, toolkit, and more! | February 2025
Check out what our LPNC Chapter has been up to in the new year and learn how you can activate your leadership in 2025!
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Introducing 🌟LP’s Communications Tools & Guides 🌟
Check out your new one-stop shop for all things comms!
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📬 LP Network Download | Local leadership under Trump admin, social housing, wildfire response, & more. | Jan 2025
Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network this month.
- Immigrant Justice, Leveraging Federal Resources
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Fighting for Our Communities Under Trump
The actions the Trump Administration has taken in its first few days come from a place of utter cruelty, racism, and greed. These executive actions are intended to shock and awe – but we are resisting and we will govern for all our people.
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Social Housing Emerging in Cities Needs Local Govt Support
Local Progress founding board chair Nick Licata makes the case for local governments to support social housing.
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Meet our new LP Board Co-Chair and Members! 🎉
As our network has grown and transformed, so too has our Board. Today, we’re excited to introduce our new board co-chair and four new board members.
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LP School Board Download 📚 | Responding to disasters & keeping our communities safe | January 2025
Welcome to the LP School Board Download, our regular newsletter about all things school board! Today, we’re sharing updates on school funding resources, the school board perspective on LP’s National Convening and the latest news out of local school districts.
- Immigrant Justice
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Local Electeds Call for Solidarity in the Fight Against Trump’s Divisive and Hateful Agenda
In response to the Trump-Vance Administration’s slew of executive actions attacking immigrants, trans people, and other vulnerable communities, Local Progress released the following statement.
- Housing
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New Report Shows How Local Governments Can Build Social Housing Solutions for Public Good
In a new report from the Local Progress Impact Lab, Power Switch Action & PolicyLiny outlines how building and managing housing in the public interest can guide us out of our housing crisis.
Have a Media Inquiry?
Local Progress is a movement of local elected officials advancing a racial and economic justice agenda through all levels of local government. We are elected leaders who build power with underrepresented communities and fight to reshape what is possible in our localities all across the country.
Want to get in touch with us for a story? Reach us at press@localprogress.org.
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:
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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.
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Ivan Luevanos-Elms and Sarah Johnson: This Is What Authoritarian Intimidation Looks Like
In this op-ed, LP ED Ivan Luevanos-Elms and former LP ED Sarah Johnson make the case that Trump's attempts to bully and intimidate local leaders is yet another sign of growing authoritarianism.
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Report: How local governments can prioritize responsible AI adoption
Earlier this month, OpenAI & Microsoft lobbyists called for a shutdown on AI regulation. Our new report details the harmful impacts of unrestricted AI on our communities and what local governments can do.
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State and local Dems form a firewall against Trump DOJ’s intimidation tactics
Across the country, the Trump administration is targeting local officials to bulldoze opposition to their agenda. Today, 190+ local officials stand in solidarity against this intimidation.
press Releases
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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
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Statement: National Network of Local Officials Denounce Unjustified Arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka
In response to the reported arrest and subsequent release of Newark Mayor and Local Progress member Ras Baraka, Essex County Commissioner and Local Progress Board Member A’Dorian Murray-Thomas released the following statement.
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Statement: Amid Federal Threats, Local Leaders Stand Strong for True Civil Rights
In response to the Trump Administration’s so-called “civil rights” investigation into Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty’s Office, Local Progress released this statement.
- Housing
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Road To Good Cause Campaign Scores 11 Victories Across Upstate New York
The coordinated campaign of local officials expand critical renter protections to thousands of tenants, setting their sights on Rochester next.
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NEW REPORT: How Local Government Can Stand Up for Workers When States Try to Stand in Their Way
This new report for Labor Day 2024 highlights ways local elected officials can advance workers rights even when facing both hostile state preemption and federal labor law preemption.
