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You Can’t Lecture Authoritarians Into Defeat; You Have to Out-Organize Them.

Mass organizing is how a generation of students will turn outrage into power and rebuild democracy from the ground up. From classrooms to campuses…

Oct 31, 2025 • Dakota Hall

Learning the Hard Way: The Discipline It Takes to Scale Youth Power

Lessons from the sleepless nights that inspired the Youth Civic Accelerator.

Oct 6, 2025 • Dakota Hall

Generation Hope

$1.5M to build durable youth-led infrastructure, win the narrative battle, and defend democratic terrain.

Sep 29, 2025 • Dakota Hall

The Illusion of Progress

A movement that learns to live beside its enemy has already lost its soul.

Sep 9, 2025 • Dakota Hall

No Purity in Politics

The Path To Higher Ground Runs Through Swamps We Would Never Choose To Walk.

Aug 29, 2025 • Dakota Hall

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Boom-and-Bust vs. Brick-and-Mortar

May 2, 2025 • Dakota Hall

Organizing in the World as It Is: A Call for Discipline, Joy, and Rigor

Feb 28, 2025 • Dakota Hall

The ABC’s of Organizing

Aug 6, 2025 • Dakota Hall

The Podcast Pipeline: How the Right Recruits Young Men Where They Are

Mar 14, 2025 • Dakota Hall

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