The lies started pouring out of Donald Trump’s mouth pretty much the minute he took the podium beneath the Capitol rotunda at this morning’s inauguration. While the Democratic party continues to retool a strategy so unpopular that it led to the re-election of a convicted felon with a professed admiration for dictators, some political organizations offer a constructive place for anyone with that resistance energy inside of them.

In the weeks after the election, Alec Wilcosky, an organizer for the Pinellas County Democratic Socialists of America told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that the number of his chapter’s dues paying members grew by 13% in a month and that DSA had added nearly 5,000 new members nationwide since Nov. 5.

DSA’s Tampa chapter is hard at work, too, and hosts a Saturday evening organizing fair that seeks to shine a light on how politics can make change beyond the ballot box. More than a dozen organizations—like Tampa Bay Abortion Fund, Food & Water Watch, La Voz de Tapa Bay and local tenants unions—will table in the courtyard of Deviant Libation, which is also hosting a ticketed two-year anniversary concert the same night.

Anyone interested in mutual aid, anti-capitalistic organizations, or rights for workers and renters is encouraged to stop by.

There’s no cover for the organizing fair happening outside Tampa’s Deviant Libation on Saturday, Jan. 25. Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.

This article appears in Jan 16-22, 2025.