Social movement ecology can help groups with different organizing traditions work together to pursue change in a time of hostile government.
Dramatic protests pushed New York's Climate Change Superfund Act across the finish line last month, showing how to hold polluters accountable.
With Trump and Musk wanting to cut spending, fossil fuel subsidies are a ripe target. But nothing about this political moment is straight forward.
With civil society under attack from a dehumanizing far-right government, it bears remembering: In crisis there is also opportunity.