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The 2025 legislative session is starting, and Action Circles is excited to be back in the State House. Amy Shollenberger, Meg Fuerst, Matthew DeGroot and Carlin Molander return as registered lobbyists, with Legislative Assistants Katherine Regan and Nicholas Adams joining them for the 2025 session. Read about the full staff here. This year, Action Circles […]
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February 3, 2023: The budget process has begun in the State House. The House passed the Budget Adjustment Bill today. Gov. Phil Scott outlined his $8.37B budget last month. Lawmakers will soon present their version. But will either budget meet people’s needs? And what happened to “The People’s Budget”? Amy Shollenberger of the political strategy
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[This post was written by Falko Schilling in 2018 when he was an associate with Action Circles. To learn more about Action Circles’ theory of organizing, read about our model here, and take a look at our educational offerings in the Action Circles Academy] The first thing to say about movement building is that it
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