Unite & Rise Power Playbook

from LWVUS

Power Playbook 1 is a guide that includes timely activities for Leagues to participate in Unite & Rise 8.5. These are focused on current or emerging events and what Leagues can do to respond from May through July of 2025.

This guide is for League use only and should not be shared publicly. 

Find a pdf of Power Playbook 1 here.

Find the public Unite & Rise 8.5 page here.

Find the master initiative toolkit here.

Find nonpartisanship messaging guidance here.

Legal & Policy Advocacy 

SAVE Act 

Join us and take 3 SAVE Act actions to protect democracy.

• Share the SAVE Act action alert with 3 friends.
• SAVE Act action alert
• Share a SAVE Act social media post with 5 friends.
• LWVUS SAVE Act social media post
• Write 2 letters to the editor (LTE) or 1 op-ed on the SAVE Act per month in state or local media outlets or publications.
• LTE template
• Op-ed template
• Uplift stories of individuals who will be impacted negatively via social media.
• Canva Template | Use this Canva template to create social media graphics and share stories in your community. For guidance on how to use Canva templates, click here.

Public Mobilization & Coalition Building 

Due Process Violations on Immigration 

Raise your voice about illegal deportations without due process.

• Organize a rally and join mobilizations around immigration. Consider doing protests or rallies in front of federal or state courthouses hearing the case. Leagues are encouraged to invite media to these events.
• Protest Safety Guidance
• Organizing to Build Grassroots Power
• How to Organize a Rally in Eight Steps
• Write an LTE and try to time placement on day of protest/rally or immediately after. It is important to raise visibility of these situations.
• LTE Template: Due Process
• Post on social media rally photos or LTEs on LWV channels. Identify people willing to share why they attended a rally.
• Host community conversations about the impact of immigration in your community
• Community Conversation Guide

LWV Declares United States in a “Constitutional Crisis,”
Announces New Initiative to Mobilize Voters

Washington, DC — Today, Celina Stewart, CEO of the League of Women Voters, and Dianna Wynn, president of the League of Women Voters, released the following statement:  

“It has now been 87 days since the start of the Trump administration. From the flagrant disregard for congressional authority and governmental checks and balances to defying Supreme Court orders to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back home, one thing is abundantly clear: our country is in a constitutional crisis. 
 

"We the people must fight back. That is why the League of Women Voters is launching a powerful new initiative, Unite and Rise 8.5. 

"Unite and Rise 8.5 will engage and mobilize 8.5 million voters between now and November 2026 to protect and preserve our democratic institutions. 

"The foundational principles that have sustained our democracy — checks and balances, the rule of law, free and fair elections — are under direct and sustained threat. In this extraordinary moment, we cannot proceed with business as usual. All Americans — no matter who you voted for in 2024 — need to come together, stand united, and fight back to save our democracy. We cannot afford to fail the generations to come.” 

For more information, go to the national LWV site.

Unnecessary and Disastrous:
LWV Responds to Signing of Budget Reconciliation Package

Washington, DC — Today, President Trump signed into law a budget reconciliation package, officially titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” that will drastically cut health care for millions of Americans. In response, the League of Women Voters of the United States issued the following statement:  

“On the day we should be celebrating America, instead, President Trump and his allies are attempting to systematically dismantle the very reason for this holiday and put our country in harm's way by ripping away health care from millions of Americans. 
 

“The budget reconciliation bill signed today will kick millions of people off Medicaid — the single largest source of health coverage in our country — a completely unnecessary and disastrous choice that does nothing to improve Americans’ lives.  

“Congress faced a choice: health care for millions of Americans, or tax cuts for the rich. It chose the latter. Now, all Americans — particularly seniors, Americans with disabilities, low-wage workers, pregnant people, veterans, and children — will suffer. 

“The American people deserve better. Join us in calling on Congress to restore funding to Medicaid and rolling back the draconian policies enacted in this terrible law.” 

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