Building Your Community

Building Your Community:
Welcome to the Red Wine & Blue Network!

Connection is at the heart of organizing. Extremists want us to feel isolated and alone — but when we come together, we’re unstoppable. The antidote to division is community building.

This is why Red Wine & Blue launched the RWB Network — our national grassroots organizing program — to supercharge your power to build community locally.

Whether you’re forming a new group or growing an existing one, the RWB Network will help you find other Red Wine & Blue members who live near you and share your frustration with the rise of extremism in their communities.

Good Trouble Tulsa

Oklahoma group, Good Trouble Tulsa

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With new members and groups joining every day, our movement is unstoppable. Even if you feel alone where you live, we guarantee you are not!

map of USA with TroubleNation group locations marked

Why Community Matters

In these chaotic times, group members need a safe gathering space that they can depend on. In the community groups we form, people want to:

  • Make friends
  • Feel less isolation
  • Vent frustrations
  • Share ideas
  • Learn new things
  • Take action in their community
  • Build collective power

Take a quick look at what our experts — like Heather Cox Richardson — have to say about why community matters so much!

Blue Macomb, Michigan

Michigan group, Blue Macomb

Remember that many people are surrounded by individuals who don’t share their values or perspectives. They might even be living with them! Finding your group can give them a support network that provides hope and encouragement.

How to Build Community

Think about building a community in three stages: starting community, sustaining community, and growing community, keeping in mind that your group will constantly be flowing back and forth between these stages, and can even be in multiple stages at one time.

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