For a lot of, it’s been a yr of hope and heartbreak. We all know how deeply each MoveOn member values democracy, freedom, and justice. Tens of millions of MoveOn members took motion, supported inventive efforts with companions on this motion, and arranged in our personal communities. Simply know that thousands and thousands of individuals nonetheless share our imaginative and prescient for a greater future. A future rooted in group care, the place our households can’t simply scrape by however thrive, the place we take care of our planet and create a sustainable and joyful path ahead for generations to come back.
Whether or not it was including your identify to a petition or beginning your personal, we hope you might be impressed by the facility of our collective motion and all the pieces we have been in a position to accomplish in 2024. And it’s clear: We’d like you—and one another—now as a lot as ever as we put together for what lies forward.
In 2024, MoveOn members and progressive companions launched greater than 10,000 petitions this yr on the MoveOn petition platform, and we had greater than 5.2 million petition signatures throughout petition campaigns. That’s unimaginable! Take a look at a couple of of our petition highlights from this yr and what your signatures achieved under. Then, in the event you’re feeling fired up, begin your personal petition as we speak.
2024 HIGHLIGHTS
MoveOn’s focus in 2024 was mobilizing member vitality across the election. On the petition platform particularly, we amplified inventive campaigns to drive enthusiasm, engagement, and help for Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz—in addition to expose the menace that Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans pose to our freedoms and rights.
We launched a “pledge to vote” that surpassed 75K signatures shortly after Kamala Harris’s announcement. We labored to have interaction influential celebrities who may attain broad audiences, together with our petition urging Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and different touring celebrities to endorse and a member-started petition that even bought protection in The New York Instances!
We additionally centered on the problems voters care deeply about—comparable to abortion, advocating for it to take heart stage throughout the presidential debates. Greater than 45K members signed a petition urging for ABC moderators to ask about abortion throughout what ended up being the one presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. We labored with influencer Busy Philipps, in addition to Amanda Zurawski and Kaitlyn Joshua, to share their reproductive well being tales and amplified the petition over e-mail and on social media. The controversy moderators, whereas they didn’t ask our precise questions on abortion, did confront Trump about his monitor document on abortion, corrected disinformation in actual time, and requested each candidates about why Individuals ought to belief them relating to abortion. Learn extra about this highly effective marketing campaign right here.
And throughout the vice presidential debates, we labored with our companions at Rural Organizing to amplify their petition calling for JD Vance to launch his tax returns. Almost 70K MoveOn members signed the petition calling on Vance to point out the sources of his wealth, getting the eye of main publications like Newsweek. We launched a cellular billboard the day of the vice presidential debates to circle round CBS Information, calling out Vance’s hypocrisy and demanding he launch his tax returns. And we created downloadable indicators for members to print and show. Rural Organizing’s marketing campaign pushing for accountability and transparency from Senator Vance continues. Learn extra about it right here.
Publish-election, we took a pause to acknowledge and honor Kamala Harris and the Black girls and different girls of coloration who labored tirelessly to launch and execute this historic marketing campaign with lower than 100 days earlier than Election Day. Greater than 140,000 members signed the general public petition and shared lots of of feedback. One MoveOn member, Firerunner, wrote, “I signed this petition as a result of, as a younger lady, I actually needed Vice President Harris to be our president, and make our nation a significantly better place … That didn’t occur, however I do know she’ll nonetheless make historical past every time she does.”
We additionally started to put the vital groundwork we’re going to want in preparation for a second Donald Trump presidency. Within the weeks following the election, MoveOn members took collective motion, signing petitions urging Congress to withstand Venture 2025 each step of the best way and calling on President Biden to do all the pieces he can to guard democracy earlier than Trump takes workplace. We additionally launched a petition urging the Senate to block Trump’s loyalist Cupboard appointments, signed by greater than 103,000 MoveOn members and counting. And our companions at Demand Justice urged President Biden and Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer to verify as many Biden nominated judges as doable. And so they did! The Senate is on monitor to verify 22 of President Biden’s appointments within the lame duck and 235 general—probably exceeding Trump’s four-year complete of 234—and making historical past and growing the variety of the judicial department.
However whereas the election was a precedence, there have been different vital efforts (and wins!) MoveOn members mobilized round all year long. Listed here are some further highlights and ongoing campaigns that we’ll proceed to struggle for in 2025:
With COVID surging in a number of states throughout the nation, MoveOn members continued to push for COVID help. From petitions urging leaders to convey again free COVID vaccines and testing to calls for without spending a dime PCR and at-home exams, MoveOn members have been clear of their calls for for accessible and complete COVID protections. And people efforts have been partially profitable when, in September, President Biden introduced residents may as soon as once more request free at-home COVID exams from the federal government.
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHTS
MoveOn members and progressive companions launched 1000’s of petitions to spark native, state, and federal modifications. We have been impressed by the unimaginable actions that individuals such as you sparked. Listed here are a couple of of the highlights:
Final yr, members of UFCW Native 152 began a petition demanding an equitable contract for the hard-working households at Johanna Meals. They gathered greater than 300 signatures and this yr, in June 2024, lastly received a simply and truthful contract.
Over the summer time, a newly launched group, Qommittee for Drag, launched a petition on the MoveOn platform calling for federal regulation enforcement to observe and take significantly all threats in opposition to drag and Delight occasions. The petition gained greater than 25,000 signatures and was featured in shops like Newsweek and HuffPost.
In August, environmentalist and MoveOn member Zan Dubin began a petition demanding that the Los Angeles Dodgers drop their sponsorship take care of fossil gas big Phillips 66. After greater than 20,000 MoveOn members signed the petition and it was coated many occasions by the Los Angeles Instances, Zan delivered the petition with the Sierra Membership at Dodger Stadium, and fellow activists, MoveOn members, and representatives from the Los Angeles Instances, Spectrum, and Fox 11 attended the occasion.
Union energy continued sturdy, with Solar Nation flight attendants launching their very own petition of their efforts to safe an industry-standard contract. Solar Nation flight attendants have been in contract negotiations since 2019. After 5 years, they began a petition calling for his or her union to authorize a strike vote for the flight attendant group. And in August, a vote was introduced forth and 99% of eligible voting members approved a strike—giving union leaders the flexibility to swiftly name for one if contract talks proceed to interrupt down.
In November, a Purdue Fort Wayne pupil began a petition to push again in opposition to their college’s implementing a brand new payment to remain on campus over winter break. The petition acquired practically 2,000 signatures. One pupil signed the petition, stating, “The fee for staying throughout the winter break ought to’ve been included within the Housing Value prefer it was final yr. Now I’ve to emphasize about scraping collectively funds so I don’t lose my job.” Rapidly, the college reversed the choice, saying it might not be charging college students a nightly payment.
MoveOn member and former educator Pam Alexandroff began a petition calling on the Senate to vote on the Social Safety Equity Act earlier than the top of the yr. The petition shortly climbed to greater than 60,000 signatures, with different members sharing how flaws within the execution of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Authorities Pension Offset (GPO) withholdings negatively affected them and their households. We additionally had greater than 12,000 messages despatched by MoveOn members to their senators, urging them to advance and vote sure on the invoice.
We’re not going to sugarcoat it: The subsequent 4 years will likely be difficult. Donald Trump and the far-right extremists backing him are banking on our complacency, silence, and hopelessness. They’re exploiting folks’s worst fears, sowing division at each probability they get. They need us to surrender. We won’t sit quietly as they threaten our democracy, cheat the American folks, and revenue off our ache. We’re able to struggle again. And we hope you might be too.
MoveOn—powered by members such as you—has existed for many years. We’ve seen presidents come and go. And thru all of it, we’ve centered on constructing the folks energy we have to not solely win campaigns however make extra doable in order that we are able to really remodel our society.
However that transformation doesn’t occur in a single day. And it doesn’t occur with out backlash or setbacks. Transformation occurs by continued, sustained motion. By way of disciplined hope. And, most significantly, it occurs collectively, with every certainly one of us dedicated to doing what we are able to to construct a greater future for all of us.
We won’t solely get by the following 4 years, however we are going to proceed to construct, resist, and win the one means we are able to—collectively.
In case you’re feeling impressed and able to take motion, click on right here to begin your petition on MoveOn’s free petition platform now. And know that we’re able to struggle alongside you for the long run all of us deserve.
As all the time, thanks for all you do.
