As the year winds down, we’re taking time to reflect on everything we built, faced, and moved through together in 2025. Whether we were training up our people in the face of new threats, honoring ten years of building a political home alongside each other, or strategizing for the work ahead in 2026 and beyond, this year grounded us in what it means to hold each other through it all.
Here are a few key efforts we led, joined and amplified in 2025.
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Education:
Fuera Fachos
This summer, as state repression intensified and far-right tactics became more visible across the U.S. and Latin America, we launched Fuera Fachos—a four-part virtual political education series on understanding and resisting fascism. Grounded in our collective memory and resistance both at home and across the diaspora, our course traced the roots of fascism, looked at how it’s been adapting in the digital age, and uplifted antifascist strategies from the Global South.
With guest speakers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and beyond, we explored what authoritarianism looks like today and how people are organizing to fight back— from feminist coalitions to land defense movements. Hundreds of members joined us each week to sharpen our analysis, connect across borders, and prepare to meet this moment with clarity, courage, and collective power.
Ojo: You can create an account and complete our Fuera Fachos course on our El Instituto education platform here.
Taller de Campanas Organizativas
This summer, we launched our first-ever De Aquí No Nos Vamos: Campaign Organizing Fellowship in Puerto Rico. We brought together emerging organizers from across the archipelago who are leading fights for land, climate justice, education, and migrant rights. Over multiple sessions, participants joined trusted campaign and movement leaders and sharpened their skills in base-building, campaign strategy, and political analysis— rooted in Puerto Rican context and community power. Everyone who completed the program received a $1,000 stipend to support their continued local, on-the-ground work.
Sur Global/8M
This year, we kept building on the momentum of our Conversaciones con Latinoamérica y el Caribe series, creating space both online and in-person for collective learning and solidarity across borders in the face of rising authoritarianism and right-wing power.
In March, we kicked things off with our 8M livestream, Futuros Feministas Ante el Ascenso de la Derecha, featuring feminist organizers from Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, and the U.S. In April, we turned to El Salvador, where Francisco Parada Rodríguez from Bloque RP spoke on organizing under Bukele and called for the diaspora to remain plugged in to the political moment back home. In June, we connected with Argentina, where Julián Ferrero of Ciudad Futura broke down resistance to Milei’s far-right agenda.
And in October, we closed the year with a powerful in-person conversation in LA’s Council District 1 (CD 1) on urban transformation and local power, La Ciudad como Lugar de Resistencia y Transformación, featuring Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez (Los Angeles), Marcos Fernández (Chile, creator of Farmacias Populares), and Jesica Pellegrini (Argentina, Ciudad Futura). Together, they explored how cities can be sites of resistance, care, and real political change.
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Cultural:
De Aquí Nadie Nos Saca
This summer, while thousands flocked to Puerto Rico for Bad Bunny’s residency, we opened a different kind of celebration: De Aquí Nadie Nos Saca – La Exposición. In partnership with AgitArte and over 35 local artists and organizations, we transformed La Quince in Santurce into a space where art met resistance, uplifting the long history of struggle, creativity, and community power that defines Boricua life.
DANNS Booklet by conmijenteOver three months, more than a thousand people visited the exhibit and took part in 10 additional events led by students, organizers, authors, and artists shaping Puerto Rico’s future. The exhibit caught attention locally and internationally, even featured in press coverage and “must-see” lists during the cultural surge around Bad Bunny’s shows.
Whether you came through in-person or want to visit it virtually for the first time, you can check out our video walkthrough here.
Immigration:
Community Defense Trainings
This year, we rolled deep with Community Defense Trainings across the country, connecting with almost 300 compas to support local safety practices. We showed up alongside grassroots groups doing the work every day, including: Colectivo Latinx Gainesville, Chispa UF, and the Rural Women’s Health Project in Florida; Familias Unidas en Acción in New Orleans; GLAHR in Tifton and Spartanburg; Hijas del Campo in Brentwood and Stockton; Comunidades Sin Fronteras in Norwalk; Proyecto TransLatinas in San Diego; the Immigrant Alliance for Justice & Equity in Jackson; The Remix Way in Nashville; and Alderwoman Daniela Velázquez’s office in St. Louis.
Together, we walked through family preparedness plans, identified ways to keep our compas safe, and mapped out how to resist Trump’s deportation machine– building power block by block.
And we didn’t stop there. We also deepened our relationship with Councilmember Eunisses Hernández. Over the last few months, we’ve continued to work closely together in providing on-the-ground support in her district. We recently joined forces for a Community Defense Training + Canvass in Los Angeles during Día de los Muertos weekend. Together, we hit the streets of CD1 to share know-your-rights materials, train neighbors on how to protect themselves, and build collective defense in the face of growing enforcement.
Content Creators Cohort
And because we know defense doesn’t stop at the streets, we brought in a cohort of content creators to keep our gente informed online too, making sure the tools, resources, and urgency reached our communities in real time. Back in March, our Latinx Content Creators for Immigrant Rights cohort had a meet-up in Los Angeles at NATIVO, where folks exchanged stories, tips, and best practices for using their platforms powerfully. Our compas then organized a community defense training alongside the Independent Hospitality Coalition and Organized Power in Numbers focused on protecting local businesses and restaurants, helping them set plans to resist as workplaces.
Amplifying Siembra NC’s Defend and Recruit Campaign
Through it all, we also amplified the ongoing organizing of Siembra NC through their Defend and Recruit campaign, calling out Avelo Airlines for signing a deportation contract with ICE, and mobilizing people across the country to take action. From mass calls and peer organizing spaces to on-the-ground protests and digital pressure, we stood alongside Siembra and a growing coalition to make it clear: there’s no profit in kidnapping our gente. No company should be allowed to quietly profit off the disappearance of our people.
Ojo: If you’re interested in learning more about Siembra’s Defend and Recruit campaign, you can check it out here.
#NiUnDatoMás
In the face of a rising anti-immigrant administration willing to use every tool, especially technology, against our people, we launched #NiUnDatoMás with our compas at Just Futures Law (JFL): a digital security campaign made for our communities, by our communities. The series broke down critical topics like encryption, location tracking, and how to protect your phone and data during international travel— all designed with our gente in mind.
To close the campaign strong, we hosted a Spanish-language virtual workshop on July 30 focused on digital safety for communities under ICE surveillance. Dozens joined to learn how to protect themselves online and offline, and we kept the momentum going by dropping bite-sized tutorials across Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, making sure the tools reached our families where they’re already at.
Ojo: If you want to learn more about how JFL transforms how litigation and legal support serves communities and builds movement power, check them out here.
Apaga el Odio
This year, we launched the Apaga el Odio campaign to push back against deportation propaganda being aired on Univision and Telemundo. These ads, produced and funded by ICE and DHS, were designed to create fear, isolate our people, and pressure families to self-deport — all while playing on the most trusted Spanish-language networks in the country. We mobilized quickly. In just a couple of weeks, we hit our goal of hitting over 5,000 signatures. Additionally, we almost tripled our social media goal, with close to 5,000 individual posts and comments being made calling on the networks to pull the ads.
Our people used digital tools to speak out, share the truth, and demand accountability. And when the networks claimed these fear-based ads “met their advertising standards,” we doubled down— launching a second wave of content and turning up the pressure. We just wrapped up our National Week of Action, with compas joining us across the country calling on Univision and Telemundo to drop the ads now.
Honoring 10 Years of la Lucha:
Sazonblea + 10 Year Gala
This fall, we returned to where it all began, Chicago, for Sazonblea 2025, marking ten years since Mijente first launched. But this gathering wasn’t just a celebration. In the face of Trump’s renewed attacks, violent ICE raids, and repression in the streets, we knew this convening required deeper care, stronger protection, and a fierce commitment to each other.
Nearly 300 compas from 96 cities across the U.S. and Puerto Rico came together for a powerful weekend of strategy, reflection, and connection. We held space for those who couldn’t join us due to safety concerns, and we made sure the spirit of Sazonblea reached across every trench. Together, we built tools, shared lessons, and grounded ourselves in the work ahead.
From Chicago to San Juan, Atlanta to Phoenix— we left Sazonblea more united in our fight, more clear in our purpose, and more committed than ever to building our political casita, together.
Each campaign, training, gathering, and moment of resistance this year was made possible because our gente showed up: for each other, for our communities, and for el Buenvivir that we’re all fighting for, juntes.
As we close out 2025, we’re carrying with us everything we’ve built together, and we can’t wait to have you join us for the work that’s ahead in 2026.