grassroots
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Dias said that backers of noncitizen voting need to build a broad coalition — grassroots organizations, election officials, lawyers for the city — before taking the proposal to voters.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2026
"Record numbers of adults and children are active, and cost should never be a barrier," says Simon Hayes, chief executive of Sport England, which is responsible for growing participation in grassroots sport.
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026
That’s why grassroots short squeezes happen to companies like GameStop or AMC and not Amalgamated Widget Inc.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026
With high inflation ravaging the economy, Greenspan recoiled when he learned Ford’s advisers planned a grassroots movement to encourage personal savings by passing out buttons that proclaimed, “Whip Inflation Now.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
Major grassroots organizing efforts would be under way in nearly every state and city nationwide.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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