Where things stand
An honest calendar starts empty
Plenty of organizations pad their events page with stock photos of rallies that never happened. Ours starts with the truth: the first events are being organized now, for after national launch.
What exists today is the plan — the formats below, the hosting playbook, and the standing rules that every event will follow. What doesn't exist yet is a date you can put on your refrigerator. When it does, members hear first, by the alert list at the bottom of this page.
Why events at all, in an online age? Because the working majority is not an audience — it's neighbors. More than 150 million Americans received wages in 2023 (SSA), and the distance between them shrinks fastest across a real table.
The formats
Six kinds of gathering
Different rooms do different work. These are the formats chapters will run, each with a published playbook so a meetup in Maine runs on the same rules as one in New Mexico.
Town halls
The flagship format: an open room, a moderator, and one issue members chose by poll — healthcare costs, housing, wages. Local officials and experts may be invited to listen and answer; nobody campaigns from our stage. Every town hall ends with a concrete next step.
Kitchen-table meetups
Small and human: a handful of members around an actual table — a kitchen, a diner booth, a break room — comparing notes on the month's bills and the state's bills. This is the format that builds chapters, one table at a time. No slideshow, no stage.
Voter-registration drives
Tables at markets, fairs, and campuses helping neighbors register, check their status, and learn their deadlines and polling places. Purely logistical and rigorously nonpartisan: we help people vote — we never tell them how. Vote is Power, in its plainest form.
Candidate forums
When elections come, chapters may host forums under a strict nonpartisan format: every candidate for the office invited on equal terms, identical time, questions drawn from member submissions, a published rulebook, and no endorsement before, during, or after. Members hear everyone and decide for themselves.
Chapter launch nights
The founding event in each state: the night a forming chapter's members meet face to face, seat their first elected leadership, and put their charter to work. Likely the first events on this calendar — see how a chapter launches.
Annual national convention
Once a year, the whole organization in one place: delegates from every chapter, open reporting of budget and finances, platform debate, and board elections — one member, one vote. The convention is where members govern, not where they spectate.
Host one
The first event in your town needs a host. That could be you.
Every format above starts with one member who books a room, puts out chairs, and welcomes people at the door.
Hosts aren't left to improvise: every format comes with a written playbook, a training session under two hours, materials, and a named organizer to call when the projector dies. You bring the town; we bring the rest. Working Americans Deserve More — including more places to meet each other.
What every host gets
A format playbook and run-of-show · sign-in sheets and welcome materials · the nonpartisan rulebook, in writing · a named organizer on call · and the follow-up checklist that turns a good evening into a working chapter.
Host training opens at national launch, through the volunteer program.
The standing rules
How every event runs, everywhere
Published before the first event, applied at all of them. A format is a promise about how a room will treat you.
- Free to attend, always
- No ticket, no suggested donation at the door, no pitch from the stage. Events are a member benefit and a public welcome mat — never a fundraiser in disguise.
- Strictly nonpartisan
- No party literature, no campaign signs, no endorsements. Officials and candidates may be invited under published equal-terms rules; our stage belongs to issues.
- Open doors, plain language
- You don't need to be a member to walk in, and you'll never need a glossary. Jargon is checked at the door along with the party labels.
- Accessible by default
- Step-free venues wherever available, seating for those who need it, and a listed contact for accommodation requests at every event.
- Someone's name on it
- Every event lists its host and a way to reach them. Rooms run by nobody are how trust dies; ours have a person attached.
The one on the national calendar
The convention, in numbers
Dates and location for the first annual convention will be announced after national launch — on this page, and to the alert list below first.
Be in the first room
Event alerts for your area
When the first events are scheduled, this list hears before anyone. Tell us where you are and we'll tell you what's happening near it.
Before the first event
The room is being built. Get your name on the door.
Join free and you're invited to everything your chapter ever runs — starting with its launch night. Your Work. Your Voice. Your Future.
Vote is Power.