When you consider End-of-Year donations, we hope you will decide to donate to the PSARA Education Fund, a 501c3 organization. Your financial support will assist the Education Fund with our work in 2026.

The Retiree Advocate, a publication of the Education Fund, has continued to provide information and the type of analysis that would be difficult to find elsewhere. Although we are a regional organization and address issues impacting residents of Washington, increasingly the information we are providing is used by organizations in other parts of the country.

In 2025, many of us suffered varying levels of shock at the attacks by the Trump administration on democracy, immigrants, the environment, health care, and on programs won by mass activism like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Republican members of Congress and a few Democrats have collaborated or stood by. While a number of the lower courts are resisting the attack on the rule of law, a majority of the Supreme Court appears to be in the pocket of the autocrats.

Fortunately, the resistance to autocracy and fascism is growing. Unfortunately, we can anticipate willful attacks on the resisters by the fascists and their allies. It will take more determination, hope, and bravery to build the movement we need to stop this march to eliminate our democratic rights and the programs we hold dear. The PSARA Education Fund intends to help build our knowledge and spirit to resist, with good information and analysis and even some levity. (Remember the articles about Jello?)

Besides the Retiree Advocate, the Education Fund finances presentations, meetings, and webinars, all designed to give our members and the broader community the information they need. We utilize the knowledge of national and state experts. We draw attention to the attacks and what we can do. Besides the fight to preserve and expand Social Security and Medicare in which we play a leading role, we stand with allies in the fight for democracy. We stand with working people in their fights for the right to organize and to be treated with respect and dignity. We join with allies to fight for racial justice and climate justice. We also focus on what we want to build after we defeat this attack on our lives, our families, our neighbors, and our communities.

Remember, things were not so great before the MAGAs gained power. We will discuss what we and our allies can build that is better as we resist the horror that is being unleashed. We will, with many others, develop a vision of how things should be. We do not want to go back to the old ways of the wealthy and corporations deciding what is best for all the rest of us.

There is so much to do and so much we can do, and your donations help to pave the way for the work this time in history demands of us. We keep plugging away, and your support financially and morally is the wind behind our organization’s sails. Please make a donation to the PSARA Education Fund of any size prior to the end of the year by either writing a check and mailing it to the PSARA office or going to www.psara.org and making an online donation. Together we will resist and carry on.