Activist-Attorney Gary Lucks Releases Urgent Midterms Success Playbook Today, We Are the Power Gives Concerned Americans a Roadmap to Flip Congress in 2026

Oakland, CA – With the 2026 midterm elections looming and democracy on the line, progressive attorney, activist, and author Gary Lucks releases We Are the Power today. The book is a fiercely practical, street-level guide for Americans who want to engage beyond posting or protesting and actually help flip the House and Senate this November.

The book is a follow-up to Lucks' widely praised You Are Not Alone: Your Roadmap to Effective Political Action, and it arrives at a moment of unusual Democratic momentum. Drawing on postmortem data from Activate America, Lucks shows that grassroots volunteers shifted outcomes by 2-4% in battleground districts in 2024 and that Democrats need to flip just three seats in the House and four in the Senate to restore a legislative firewall against the current administration's agenda. Unlike many tomes that have exhaustively analyzed the current political situation, We Are the Power is the only book that tells readers exactly how to engage and close that gap.

Structured around three strategic geographies: blue, purple, and red regions of the country, the book delivers season-by-season action plans spanning Spring 2026 through the November midterms and beyond. Chapters cover uniting community power, protecting and turning out the vote, combating disinformation, supporting legal guardrails against executive overreach, and building the long-game infrastructure needed to hold gains in 2027 and 2028. Additionally, a curated resource chart and QR codes take readers directly to organizations doing the work on the ground.

"There is no cavalry, and no one is going to step forward to save us but ourselves," says Lucks. "We are in a genuine cycle of opportunity, but complacency is the enemy. This book is about turning grief into resolve and resolve into action."

Lucks brings four decades of front-line credibility to the fight. A JD- and CPEA- credentialed environmental attorney and professor, he founded Progressive Action East Bay in 2004, helping Democrats retake Congress in 2006, and later launched Resistance Action East Bay, an Indivisible chapter that has grown to more than 1,200 members and provided the first seed funding to Activate America. The group raised $450,000 in just six months to support Democrats in swing districts in 2020. He has also written policy briefings for Governor Gavin Newsom, Senator Dianne Feinstein, and other senior California officials.

We Are the Power has already drawn praise from a notable roster of civic leaders. Former California State Senate Majority Leader and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg calls it "a calm, rigorous strategy for turning anxiety into action, a durable manual for sustaining a democratic movement over the long haul." Eleanor LeCain, JD, Chairwoman of Electing Women at the Woman’s National Democratic Club, adds that it "answers the question 'What can I do?' and should be in the hands of every citizen and organizer." Doug Linney, Founder of Activate America, sums it up simply: "This is an indispensable resource for every citizen who refuses to sit on the sidelines."

We Are the Power is available now at https://www.garylucks.com/book and on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZGT5FK1/. The book will also be available at Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, and local book stores across the US soon.

About Gary Lucks

Gary Lucks, JD, CPEA, is a progressive author, activist, and environmental attorney who has spent four decades at the intersection of law, policy, and sustainability. He is the founder of Progressive Action East Bay and Resistance Action East Bay Indivisible, the latter of which is one of California's most active grassroots political networks. Lucks is also the author of You Are Not Alone: Your Roadmap to Effective Political Action and coauthor ofCalifornia Environmental Law and Policy, an Environmental Law textbook used in law schools and universities (published by Solano Press and also available on Amazon). More at garylucks.com.