by Sulma Arias | Aug 18, 2024 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
JOIN OUR TEAM SPANISH “Power concedes nothing without a demand.” These words of Frederick Douglass are among the first lessons I learned as a young organizer, and I find them always to be true. This insight - that the vision for a better future starts with us, and if...
by Sulma Arias | Jun 23, 2024 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
SUPPORT OUR WORK ESPAÑOL To perfect our democracy, we must defend it. It all begins with our votes. This week, I watched my daughter, Genesis Mercado-Arias, address more than a hundred immigrants who had just become United States citizens in Kansas City. She had been...
by Sulma Arias | May 19, 2024 | Blog, Election, Featured
SUPPORT OUR WORK ESPAÑOL This week, I was proud to stand with our allies in the Congressional Progressive Caucus to introduce their Progressive Proposition Agenda, a roadmap to expand and defend rights and freedoms for all, especially poor and working people. The...
by Sulma Arias | Feb 19, 2024 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Democracy dies when we give up freedoms, thinking they are a small price to pay. That's why we need to defend our right to vote and defeat authoritarian leaders everywhere. SUPPORT OUR WORK SPANISH I recently returned to El Salvador for the first time in many years. I...
by Sulma Arias | Jan 14, 2024 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
SUPPORT OUR WORK ESPANOL The holidays are a joyous time at our house in Wichita. My husband Reuben and I share a big, blended family of five kids, now in their twenties and early thirties. One of my daughters lives in a small town with her husband, and through her...
by Sulma Arias and Marta Popadiak | Nov 10, 2022 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
"Together, we will create new ways that people can engage in all parts of public life so that we can equally get to imagine and shape the structures in which we live." - People's Action Long-Term Agenda The 2022 midterm elections are historic not only because they...