This Week in Action | May 4–10, 2026
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Thank you to everyone who participated on May 1! Thank you for raising your voices and continuing to show up.
Monday, May 4
Thank your organizers for May Day! :)
Search your city or county plus terms like “Indivisible,” “No Kings,” “50501,” “May Day Strong,” “labor council,” “mutual aid,” “immigrant rights,” or “pro-democracy.” Pick a local group to follow today.
The best action today:
Find a new local organizing page near you. Follow it, save, & share it!
Tuesday, May 5 | Join the May Day Strong follow-up call
May Day Strong is holding a national “What’s Next” call on Tuesday, May 5. The event is listed on Mobilize as “May Day: What’s Next!” and May Day Strong’s site is also directing people to join its May 5 mass call.
Tuesday, May 5 | Election Day in several places
This week is also an election week.
Ballotpedia lists May 5 election activity, including primary elections in Indiana and Ohio and a special general election for Michigan State Senate District 35.
Check your ballot. Check your polling place. Check whether your state has a primary this month. Check whether your friends know there is an election happening.
For Pennsylvania voters, TODAY is the last day to register to vote for the May 19 primary, and May 12 is the deadline to request a mail-in or absentee ballot.
For Oregon voters, the May 19 primary is underway. Oregon’s Secretary of State lists Election Day as May 19, and Multnomah County says ballots began mailing April 29; voters there who do not receive a ballot by Thursday, May 7 should contact the elections office.
Check your state’s official election website today. If you have a ballot, make a plan to return it. If someone near you has an election this month, send them a reminder.
All week | Adopt a Day Labor Corner
NDLON’s Adopt a Day Labor Corner campaign asks people to show up where immigrant workers are most exposed: day-labor corners, Home Depots, car washes, delis, hiring sites, and schools serving immigrant families. The campaign includes an interest form, toolkit, Adopt a School pathway, events calendar, and Mobilize options to register or host local groups and trainings.
Use NDLON’s Adopt a Day Labor Corner page to find the interest form, toolkit, and upcoming events. If your area does not have a listed group yet, use the host option or start by gathering a few trusted people who can learn the basics together.
All week | Use No Kings trainings before the next action
The No Kings training page remains a useful resource for anyone who attended May Day, helped host an event, or wants to be better prepared for the next one. It includes recordings on immigrants’ rights, protest rights and safety, safety marshal training, de-escalation, digital content, messaging, media, and organizing beyond a single event.
This is a good week to train.
If your local group had a strong turnout, don’t wait until the next major action to figure out safety, de-escalation, media, accessibility, or volunteer roles.
Pick a No Kings training recording and watch it.. Decide on something your local group can improve before the next public action.
All week | Protect medication abortion and miscarriage care
A federal appeals court has ordered nationwide restrictions on mifepristone, a medication used for abortion and miscarriage care. The ACLU says the ruling could disrupt care even in states where abortion is legally protected. ACLU’s case update says a mifepristone manufacturer filed an emergency motion at the Supreme Court asking it to block the Fifth Circuit’s May 1 decision.
People need clear public education right now about this.
This is about whether patients can access timely care through telehealth, mail, or pharmacy systems. It’s about miscarriage care and rural patients, disabled patients, low-income patients, and people who can’t safely or realistically travel for time-sensitive care.
Share a factual resource about mifepristone this week. Use the ACLU’s medication abortion action page, share a trusted explainer, or post a simple reminder that miscarriage care is part of this fight too.
Do not let people think this only affects someone else, somewhere else.
All week | Find a local action near you
Mobilize has many local 50501, ICE, democracy, and weekly visibility events around the country for this week and next weekend. Search results currently show examples including “Trump Regime Takedown Saturdays,” “Disappeared in America - ICE Protest,” “No Wars No Kings No Ice,” and local No Kings/ICE actions.
Because local event pages can change quickly, use the event finders rather than relying on one screenshot or one forwarded post.
Search Mobilize, Indivisible’s event finder, 50501, No Kings, and your local groups by ZIP code. If there is an event near you, register or share it. If not, consider whether your town needs a weekly visibility action, sign wave, courthouse gathering, postcard table, or community meeting.
Not every action needs to be massive.
Some of the most useful actions are small, steady, and repeatable.
If there is no big action near you
Use the No Kings trainings. Search Mobilize. Check Indivisible’s event finder. Look up NDLON’s Adopt a Day Labor Corner campaign. Check your ballot. Share your state’s election deadlines. Ask a local group what they need help with. Invite some people into the next call.
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