Tonight: Join Us on Zoom for an Introduction to Together Across America
- Kal Inois
- 2 hours ago
- 4 min read
If you've been watching the news lately — the No Kings protests, the mail-in voting executive order, the war in Iran, the treason charges being debated in legal circles — you may be feeling what a lot of people are feeling right now: the urgency to do something, combined with the exhaustion of not knowing where to start.
Tonight is a place to start.
Together Across America will be having a Zoom meeting at 7:00 PM CST for anyone who wants to learn more about them — what it is, who is behind it, and how you can plug in.
Who Is Together Across America?
Together Across America is a national neighbor-to-neighbor network that has been quietly and steadily building since 2024. It is not a party organization. It is not a PAC. It is a coalition of everyday Americans — from New York to California and everywhere in between — committed to coordinated civic engagement rooted in hope, action, and a shared belief that democracy is worth fighting for.
The network was founded by longtime organizer Robin McGehee, who has spent decades on the front lines of social justice — from fighting to remove Confederate flags from schools in the South, to organizing for marriage equality across California, to marching on Washington with the National Equality March and GetEQUAL. Robin knows what it takes to build movements, and she knows what this moment is asking of us.
As Robin put it in her own words:
"The last year and a half has felt like pure madness. The chaos, the division, the exhaustion — every day there's more noise, more outrage, more pressure. Everyday life keeps getting harder and no one in power seems accountable. That's why it's time to rise up — together, across America."
Together Across America is already doing the work: building local chapters, connecting organizers, and creating a shared national narrative that links voter protection, civic engagement, and community action into one coherent movement.
Also on Tonight's Agenda: Hands Across America 2.0 — May 25, 2026
One of the things we will be discussing tonight is something that deserves your full attention: Hands Across America 2.0, scheduled for Memorial Day, May 25, 2026 — the 40th anniversary of the original 1986 event.
Forty years ago, between five and seven million Americans held hands in a human chain stretching 4,125 miles from Long Beach, California to Battery Park in Manhattan. President Reagan joined the line at the White House. Celebrities, farmers, prison inmates, homeless Americans, and children all stood together. For fifteen minutes, the country held hands and said: we see each other. We are not alone.
On May 25, 2026, Together Across America, in conjunction with BlackOut the System, is helping bring that spirit back — and this time, the stakes are even higher.
This is not nostalgia. This is necessity.
We are living through an assault on voting rights, an unconstitutional war, a weaponized immigration system, and a coordinated effort to gerrymander democracy out of existence before the 2026 midterms. The original Hands Across America was about hunger and homelessness — real, urgent crises that still exist. This version carries that same humanitarian heart, and adds something the 1986 version didn't need to carry: a direct, visible, embodied demand that democracy itself survive.
Imagine Americans standing hand in hand across this country on Memorial Day — a day we honor those who died defending our freedoms — saying loudly and visibly: we are still here. We still believe in this republic. And we are not letting go.
Tonight we will talk about what Together Across America's role in Hands Across America 2.0 looks like, how your community can participate, and what it takes to make something this ambitious actually happen.
May 25 is 54 days away. Tonight is when we start planning.
Why Tonight Matters
The timing of this meeting is not an accident. This week alone:
†rump signed an executive order restricting mail-in voting — an unconstitutional power grab that legal experts say will be struck down, but whose chilling effect on voters is real and intentional.
The No Kings protests on March 28 brought an estimated eight million Americans into the streets — the largest single day of political protest in American history.
The fight to protect the 2026 midterms is underway right now, with ICE deployed near airports, voter rolls being handed to immigration enforcement, and congressional maps being redrawn to lock in Republican advantages before you even vote.
None of this is happening in isolation. And none of it gets better without organized, sustained, coordinated people power.
That is what Together Across America is building.
Tonight's Meeting
When: Tonight, April 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM CST
Where: Zoom — TAA Zoom
Who should come: Anyone who is fed up and looking for a way to respond. Anyone who showed up at No Kings and wants to know what's next. Anyone who has been quietly worried and is ready to stop being quiet.
What to expect: An introduction to Together Across America, a preview of Hands Across America 2.0 on May 25, and a conversation about how you can plug in locally and nationally. This is a conversation, not a lecture. Come with your questions.
How to Get Involved Before Tonight
Sign up at Together Across America — togetheracrossamerica.org to learn more and get connected.
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Share this with someone who is fed up and looking for a place to channel it. The people who need to be in this room tonight are the ones who haven't found their people yet. Help them find us.
We are not going down without a fight. We hope you'll join us tonight.
See you at 7.