We are excited to announce that we met the $30,000 fundraising goal for the National Campaign to Get @BobAvakianOfficial Everywhere. Thank you to everyone who donated, and helped to raise funds!

The funds were raised to get the voice of the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian (BA) impacting society at this urgent time through online advertising, a high-impact postering campaign, and on-the-ground grassroots efforts.

We are just beginning to learn about all the different kinds of fundraising that was done over these last weeks, but we can say that a significant number of donors were people who had never contributed before. These include people who are being driven by the extreme fascism rapidly escalating before our eyes, to ask the big questions about what this fascism arose out of and whether a different world is possible. People who engaged some of BA's work, were challenged and provoked by it, and could see the difference it would make for others to encounter this. 

In the words of one donor:

... I was so impressed by what Bob Avakian was saying, as it resonated with me and I recognized the truth of what he was talking about. It was exciting to hear about real issues and humanity and how we don’t have to live this way—impoverished, under threat of nuclear war and with a deteriorating environment, more refugees and a broken legal system... I willingly contributed to the fund to help raise $30,000 for a media campaign to help get the word out. Time is of the essence and I remain hopeful that we can have a better and more equitable world—we need Peace, Justice and Care of Earth!... I encourage all of us to give what you can financially and keep talking with our neighbors and friends. We are all in this together but we need the truth, not more propaganda and lies. Where is the moral outrage between right and wrong?

Over the next few days, we would like to hear from you: Were you part of fundraising efforts? What did you learn in doing this? Who contributed and why? Who did not contribute and why not? Did you learn any more about how people's thinking is changing—in response to the times, and in response to digging into BA's work? 

Please write to us by Thursday, July 24! Engaging in this kind of systematic summation is key to the scientific process of understanding and changing reality. Send your reports to info@BobAvakianOfficialEverywhere.org or revolution.reports@yahoo.com.

All this week, grab a friend, go to art events, farmers markets, crowded train stations—wherever people are gathered, and broadly distribute the new pamphlet from The Bob Avakian Institute, Volume 2 of TRUMP/MAGA FASCISM: What We're Really Facing, Why and What Must Be Done to Defeat It Before It's Too Late. There is no place you can go right now where people aren't thinking about what is happening with Trump/MAGA fascism—nowhere where people aren't agonized and angry. 

Take a minute and look through what's in this pamphlet: the understanding of what we are facing with Trump/MAGA fascism, why this is happening, what it arises out of—and what the fuck we need to be doing. Millions of people are casting about—seriously agonized but also a bit shocked and stunned and not sure of the way forward. In the social media messages compiled in this pamphlet, Bob Avakian is providing answers—and a scientific method that you can take up and apply yourself to the rapidly changing world. He is doing all this while digging into why and how a radically different—and far better—world is possible. Not just laying out all of what we urgently need to be fighting against, but also what kind of fundamental liberating change we should be fighting for.

The Bob Avakian Institute has been working to raise funds so that these pamphlets can be distributed in a mass way. Almost 35,000 copies of volume 1 were distributed across the country. And funds were raised to cover the basic printing costs. We've now printed over 30,000 of volume 2. This and many, many more need to reach all those actively looking for analysis and vision. And while you're distributing these, let people know they can donate so that this same understanding can reach many others.

The fact is: we don't have much time to actually defeat Trump/MAGA fascism. This regime is moving quickly, and as much as people hate what is happening, even this level of insanity and cruelty can get normalized. This underscores the urgency to be sounding the alarm and raising people's sights.

Finally, when you're out—get a way to reach those who are interested in digging more into the questions. We want to learn from those who've dug into Bob Avakian's work, and involve them in spreading it to others. And make sure everyone who is interested follows @BobAvakianOfficial on Substack or on other social media. This way, they can get consistently, and in real time, the very real guidance BA is providing for how to understand—and act on—this complex and rapidly changing situation, in the interests of humanity.