Hi there! Welcome to Easy A–Your go-to source for quick and easy actions you can take in five minutes or less about the issues you care about.
Are you a busy mom? Or maybe your work is so hectic you can’t think about anything else during the day? A lot of us are also taking care of parents or other loved ones too, leaving little time for anything else.
The good news is that these are things you can do while you’re waiting in the school pick up line, on your lunch break, or even at your kid’s soccer practice – anywhere you happen to be! And you can easily share Easy A with your friends so they can be in the know, too! We’ll send you a new action to take every week–just one, we promise –and it will always be something you can do in five minutes or less. Ready to get started? Let’s go!
Do This: Unite Against Soft Censorship
The only way to end censorship, whether it’s the quiet removal of books from library collections or in-your-face book bans, is to fight it head on.
We saw a huge example of this – and a big win for free speech – this week when ABC and Disney returned Jimmy Kimmel and his late-night show to the airwaves after they received massive public pushback to his recent suspension.
It’s hard to believe we have to say this out loud, but no political censorship of any kind should ever happen in America. We can’t let anyone in power try to normalize it. That’s why advocating for our freedom to read is one of Red Wine & Blue’s top priorities. And that’s why we have ongoing programming through our Book Ban Busters campaign, including our partnership with Unite Against Book Bans.
Unite Against Book Bans is hosting Banned Books Week from October 5-11, including Let Freedom Read Day on October 11. Our next Banned Book Club meeting is just after that on October 15.
You can stay informed about news and other events like these by signing up for updates from our Book Ban Busters campaign. Click here to be taken straight to the signup form on our Book Ban Busters webpage. You’ll be the first to know about any news or special events we have about book bans and censorship, but no spam!
Let’s work together to make sure that we can all keep reading whatever we want, whenever we want, for generations to come.
We want to hear from you!
Happy New Year! Or, maybe you’re feeling something other than happy about 2025?
We get it. We’re all still feeling and thinking a lot of things about what lies ahead this year, so we really want to hear from you. It’s time for our annual Community Survey!
Everything we do is in service to building, supporting, and strengthening our community so that together, we can fight extremism and protect our democracy. You are our North Star, so we need your input to make sure that what we’re doing — and the way we’re doing it — is valuable to you.
Your Easy A assignment this week is to take our quick 2024 Community Survey. Help us reflect on the work we did in 2024 so that we can be sure our energy and resources are focused on the right things in 2025. We promise to dig deep into your responses and use them to map our path forward. Just click on the link here or the image below to get started.
We’re grateful you’re here and are honored to take on 2025 together!
Do This: We Got This! Because We’ve Got Each Other.
Historians like Heather Cox Richardson and Timothy Snyder agree, one of the ways we protect democracy is to maintain a strong community of people that stand up to the threats of extremism together. That’s exactly what Red Wine & Blue does.
We help suburban women across the country find their people and organize against book bans, attacks on public education, threats to our reproductive rights, and hate in all its forms. We are so proud of our community. And we’re lifting it up with our year-end celebration, We Got This!
We shared about our We Got This! campaign before, but we’re excited to add that:
- One lucky donor will receive an awesome gift basket filled with exclusive RWB goodies!
- All donations are currently being matched dollar for dollar by a generous RWB member, doubling their impact!
So our final Easy A action of the year is simple — please give to Red Wine & Blue today. You can use the form below. Everything we raise in this annual campaign will support our fight against extremism in 2025. Help us confidently say, “We Got This!” because we have your support. Thank you!
Watch This: We Got This! Because We’ve Got Each Other
We wish you could see the messages we get every day from our community members. We hear from so many of you — literally daily — either by email, DMs on social media, or in direct conversations with our regional organizers, about how important the Red Wine & Blue community is to you. Watch this short video to see what we’re talking about:
We wanted you to see for yourself that you are not alone! Our community is 600,000+ women strong and still growing, and that’s something to celebrate! So we’re lifting up our community with our year-end celebration, We Got This!
You give us the hope and the motivation to keep going in our work to fight extremism. We hope this video has done the same for you!
Read This: We Got This! Because We’ve Got Each Other.
As we reflect on 2024, a year filled with emotional highs and lows, one thing stands out to us the most — the passion and the commitment of the women of Red Wine & Blue.
Our community came together — and grew — with a level of energy and a desire to take action like we’ve never seen before. We worked hard, and we had fun, too! The joy we found in our connection and shared purpose was undeniable, and while we didn’t get every victory we wanted, what we’ve built together can’t be taken away.
It’s a beautiful thing to know that we’re not going away and that no matter what we face in 2025, we’re not facing it alone. We got this, because we’ve got each other.
That’s why we are holding our annual, year-end celebration of community and giving campaign! We’re:
- Celebrating friendships that have been created through Red Wine & Blue.
- Highlighting successful advocacy efforts in your communities.
- Holding a friendly We’ve Got This: Coast-to-Coast state contest and a raffle for Red Wine & Blue swag.
- Hosting a Friend-a-Thon: RWB Girls Night Out event for you to meet other community members in your area.
- Giving you a carefully curated digital care package to treat yourself and your besties this holiday season.
- Asking for your support to power our work in 2025.
Our community is more than 600,000 women strong with more than 500 local groups across the country. In 2025 we plan on fighting harder than ever against extremism. Whether it’s more book bans, attacks on trans kids, bans on our reproductive rights, or any other threats to our freedoms that extremists cook up, we got this.
We got this because we’ve got the support of our community. Everything we do is possible because your donations give us the funding we need. That’s why it’s so important that our community knows about our year-end giving campaign.
While we take the end of the year to celebrate our community, rest, recover, and prepare for 2025, we hope you will join us with your support! Thank you!
Do This: Immigration, The American Fabric
Immigration was a deciding issue for a lot of voters in the 2024 election. We saw politicians use misinformation and partisan talking points to dehumanize immigrants and scare voters, but we know the facts.
We can stand up to these extremists and counter their harmful misinformation by having conversations about immigration with people who know and trust us, and by sharing the truth on social media. We’re making it easy for you!
Use our tool below to share this ready-made post on your favorite social media platform(s). The post includes the text and image you need, and a link to our shareable pdf with facts about immigration. We also have real stories about immigrants who are a vital part of the American fabric. All you have to do is a few clicks to share! Earn your Easy A by sharing today.
Watch This: Immigration, The American Fabric
The incoming Trump administration is doubling down on their campaign promises to curb immigration and conduct mass deportations, possibly even targeting naturalized citizens.
Amidst the hateful rhetoric, it’s important to remember that, while Americans disagree on how to improve our increasingly stressed immigration system, the majority of us support humane immigration policies and legal pathways to citizenship.
Watch this quick video as a reminder of how extremists are using immigration as a topic to scare and divide us, and how we can — and must — rise to this challenge and reject their hate and division.
We’ll be taking a break from our >Easy A next week to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, but we’ll be back the following week to talk about what we can do to support immigrants and immigration in the face of oncoming threats.
Read This: Immigration, The American Fabric
Many extremists made immigration and the fear of immigrants a central issue in their 2024 election campaigns, and it worked. A lot of them got elected, including Donald Trump with his promise to conduct mass deportations. So let’s talk about immigration.
Who Are Immigrants?
The United States is largely a nation of immigrants from all over the world. We are each diverse threads that weave together to create the beautiful American fabric.
Immigrants are not a monolith. They come from many different countries for many different reasons. Everyone is an individual with their own unique story. Whether they are fleeing war, violence, corruption, economic instability, climate disasters, or looking for opportunity, they share a desire for safety and a future for themselves and their families.
Immigrants come to the U.S. through work, student, or family visas, as asylum-seeking refugees, or meet the legal requirements for naturalization. They contribute to our communities and economy by starting businesses, serving in the military, or working in areas like healthcare, childcare, agriculture, construction, government, and service, to name a few.
Truths About Immigrants
Extremists want us to fear immigrants, so they spread dangerous myths and disinformation. But immigrants are not the problem. The problem is the partisan politicians who are dehumanizing and othering immigrants to divide us and gain political power. The scarier and more negative the lies are, the more quickly they spread and take hold. Let’s look at some facts instead.
- TRUTH: Immigrants are less likely to be criminals. US Census data shows that immigrants have never committed more crimes than native-born citizens.
- TRUTH: Most fentanyl is brought into our country by American citizens, not by immigrants.
- TRUTH: According to economists, as immigration goes up, more jobs are created — including jobs for native-born citizens. Many of the industries listed in the section above rely heavily on immigrants for their workforce.
- TRUTH: The health and stability of our economy depends on immigrants. They reduce labor shortages and contribute billions of dollars a year — yes, billions — to Social Security, Medicare, and state and local services.
- TRUTH: Only citizens can vote and have their vote counted in federal and state-wide elections.
It’s also true that our current immigration system is not equipped to handle the increase in people seeking citizenship. We can debate how to fix it, but most Americans agree, we want to solve our immigration challenges with humane policies and legal pathways to citizenship. We want our politicians to find solutions, not scapegoats.
Keeping the American Fabric Strong
So what can we do? It may feel difficult in light of the recent election results, but we don’t have to lose our values or our hope for the future.
We can have conversations with the people we know. We can stand up to partisan talking points and myth-bust their disinformation by sharing facts and real immigrant stories — starting with our own family histories. We can reject the othering of immigrants and seek to find similarities and honor our differences. We can support immigrant-owned businesses in our communities and immigrant families in our local schools. And it’s never too soon to look for like-minded politicians to support in the next election cycle.
The strength of our American fabric comes from the tight weave of our diverse threads. Let’s not let hateful politicians tear that fabric apart.
Take care of yourself through community
It’s only been about 24 hours since we woke up to the bad news. Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election and Republicans took control of the Senate. It hurts.
We’re feeling all the feelings, from shock to sadness to fear to rage. It’s important that we take the time to allow ourselves to feel these feelings and grieve the loss of the future we worked and hoped for.
But you don’t have to cope with any of this alone. Your Easy A this week is simple — take care of yourself and find support from the Red Wine & Blue community however you need it.
We have each other in this moment and we’re not going anywhere. There are over 600,000 women and 500 local groups in our community, and we’re leaning on each other right now for comfort and strength.
If you aren’t already connected with a Red Wine & Blue group on Facebook or locally through TroubleNation, we invite you to join one here:
Facebook Groups:
Red Wine & Blue: North Carolina
SWEEP by Red Wine & Blue (national)
Local Groups Nationwide:
Right now, our women are connecting and supporting each other in all of these spaces. We have seen how these connections can make a difference in so many ways. Today, we need them to help us process this loss.
You are not alone. We can grieve together in this moment and then heal, because we are not giving up. Women have found their power in our community and we won’t stop going, no matter who is in office.
Do This: It’s time to get out the vote!
The scariest thing to us this Halloween isn’t a movie or a costume, it’s the reality we face on November 6 if extremists get elected. So let’s make some time over the next five days to make sure that doesn’t happen!
Take 5 minutes to visit our website and sign up for Rally.
Rally is our organizational tool that helps you have conversations with friends and family about the importance of voting. Signing up only takes a few minutes. Then, you can come back to it and spend a few minutes every day picking from a list of quick actions to help inspire your people to vote.
We’ve proven that relational organizing with Rally works. Red Wine & Blue Ralliers increased voter turnout by more than 10% last election! That’s a big deal, because we know that this election is going to be close and that every vote matters.
If everyone who reads this blog uses Rally to help turn out other voters, we can mobilize tens of thousands of people to help secure big wins on November 5.
Look, we’re all feeling some election anxiety. It’s totally fine if you want to stress-eat Halloween candy for the next five days — we know we will! — but don’t let that be all that you do!
Sign up for Rally today, and take just a few minutes every day through November 5 to take simple actions. We promise it will help you feel better, and together, we’ll defeat extremism!
Watch This: It’s time to get out the vote!
How are you feeling about the upcoming election?
We’re hearing from some Red Wine and Blue members who are filled with joy and hope, and others who are filled with anxiety. Either way, you are not alone!
It’s natural to feel some anxiety, especially if you’re prone to doomscrolling, but there are many reasons to be excited about the importance of this election. Just think of what we can accomplish if we get our common sense candidates elected!
Our favorite piece of advice for how to overcome election anxiety is to take action! You’ve already taken the first step by reading this post, now watch this quick video about how Red Wine & Blue can help you take action and overcome election anxiety between now and November 5.
Feeling inspired? Stay tuned and we’ll talk more next week about how our Rally relational organizing tool can help you channel your anxiety and hope into action!