Washington, D.C.
June 28 – July 4, 2026
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From June 28 through July 4, organizers from across the country will gather in the nation's capital for Seven Days in D.C. — a weeklong series of civic engagement activities, public demonstrations, and cultural events designed to encourage direct participation in the democratic process during the lead-up to Independence Day.
The event will bring together activists, organizers, artists, comedians, musicians, and citizens for a coordinated week of lobbying, voter outreach, protest education, conversations with congressional candidates, and nightly performances across Washington D.C.
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You can help support SEVEN DAYS IN D.C. by grabbing some merchandise, participating in the auction, or perhaps even purchasing an ANTIFA Gold Card.
Due to popular demand, the ANTIFA Silver Card is now available as well.
Get full-access to all of our paid events for the entire week with the All Week Antifa Gold Card All Access Pass.
ANTIFA Gold Card Benefits Include:
1. Daily access to the Antifa Gold Card lounge at the Black Cat
2. ANTIFA Gold Card early access and/or special seating when available for all night time events at the Black Cat
3. Two complimentary drink tickets for each day from the Black Cat
4. Limited edition Antifa Gold Card
5. Knowing that you helped to support this event with money and fun
Direct meetings with congressional offices, coordinated through FLARE — For Liberation And Resistance Everywhere.
On-the-ground voter outreach and registration drives across Washington throughout the week.
Workshops on organizing strategy, Know Your Rights, and civic action — skills that outlast the week.
Nightly performances — comedy, live music, guest speakers. Free and ticketed events all week.
Sustained visibility actions throughout the city during one of Washington's most watched weeks.
Conversations with candidates and fellow organizers — strengthening the networks that make change possible.
Doors open at 7:30PM for the official launch of Seven Days in DC at the legendary Black Cat on 14th Street. The week starts here.
Come as you are. Meet your fellow travelers: organizers, activists, journalists, veterans, voters, and troublemakers from across all 50 states who came here to make noise and make history. Live music sets the tone for the week ahead. This is the gathering before the storm — come early, stay late, and introduce yourself to the person next to you.
Featuring music from HUE
Day one of civic action. Morning workshops, civic education, and Know Your Rights — then the evening finds its voice on the Black Cat stage.
Pastries, coffee, and conversations with organizers on the frontlines of voting rights, immigration justice, reproductive freedom, environmental defense, civil liberties, and more. Bring questions. Leave with a stack of literature and three new contacts you didn't have when you walked in.
Your first day in Washington and you're already going inside. FLARE has been running congressional lobbying operations blocks from the Capitol since day one - coordinated, relentless, and effective. They know the offices, the staff, the pressure points, and exactly how to make a constituent meeting count. You show up. They handle the rest. Coordinated groups. Real offices. Real conversations. This is democracy with your shoes on the marble.
Join local nonprofits, mutual aid groups, advocates, organizers, and community members for an afternoon of connection, resources, and community building. Learn about volunteer opportunities, discover ways to get involved, and meet organizations making a difference across the DC region.
Attendees can also participate in a community banner project before joining our optional Pet Parade to Anacostia Park for Pawlitics in the Park, a casual gathering focused on community, conversation, and collective action.
All well-behaved anti-fascist pets are welcome.
Because mutual aid matters—and community starts with connection.
Live music and an interactive art experience showcasing young creatives who use art as a force for resistance and joy, while introducing you to some of the most talented emerging artists in the DC area. Freedom Futures Collective, Zenith Sound Series, and ARTIVISM are combining forces to build a night rooted in good live music, live band chemistry, and collective art making, inviting everyone to co-create the experience in real time. People will leave feeling seen, energized, and more connected to each other, with new language, new sounds, and new relationships to carry into the liberated world we are building together.
Powered by Freedom Futures Collective, Zenith Sound Series and ARTIVISM.
Candidate accountability and a night of music that belongs entirely to this moment.
Pastries, coffee, and conversations with organizers on the frontlines of voting rights, immigration justice, reproductive freedom, environmental defense, civil liberties, and more. Bring questions. Leave with a stack of literature and three new contacts you didn't have when you walked in.
Your first day in Washington and you're already going inside. FLARE has been running congressional lobbying operations blocks from the Capitol since day one - coordinated, relentless, and effective. They know the offices, the staff, the pressure points, and exactly how to make a constituent meeting count. You show up. They handle the rest. Coordinated groups. Real offices. Real conversations. This is democracy with your shoes on the marble.
Tuesday night belongs to the music. No agenda, no speeches — just the Black Cat doing what it has done for over thirty years: putting the right artists on the right stage in front of the right crowd. A full evening of live performances spanning the spectrum of resistance, joy, grief, and defiance. This is the night you'll remember when someone asks you years from now what it felt like to be alive in this moment.
Featuring: BAD STATIC, ALLSTRIKE, RESISTANCE CO, THE MAKA STICKS, and PETRICHOR
As more visitors arrive in Washington for the holiday weekend, the week builds toward larger public gatherings and performances. Details to be announced.
Pastries, coffee, and conversations with organizers on the frontlines of voting rights, immigration justice, reproductive freedom, environmental defense, civil liberties, and more. Bring questions. Leave with a stack of literature and three new contacts you didn't have when you walked in.
Your first day in Washington and you're already going inside. FLARE has been running congressional lobbying operations blocks from the Capitol since day one - coordinated, relentless, and effective. They know the offices, the staff, the pressure points, and exactly how to make a constituent meeting count. You show up. They handle the rest. Coordinated groups. Real offices. Real conversations. This is democracy with your shoes on the marble.
with Ben Manski , Nairuti Shastry and Nadine Bloch
Ask the hard questions. Demand real answers. Confirmed speakers: Joseph Perez Caputo, Victoria Broderick, Randi White, Ashley Bell.
Representation matters, but understanding the barriers to representation is just as important. Join Black candidates, elected officials, community leaders, organizers, advocates, and community members for an honest conversation about civic engagement, leadership, representation, and the realities Black communities continue to face.
Together, we'll explore what it means to seek leadership, build grassroots power, navigate political systems, and create meaningful change. Panelists will share their experiences, discuss the challenges facing Black communities, and offer their perspectives on where we go from here.
This conversation will make space for difficult truths, diverse viewpoints, and candid discussions about the gap between promises and progress. Attendees will also have opportunities to connect with organizations focused on civic engagement, leadership development, voter empowerment, and community advocacy.
Whether you're looking to learn, listen, connect, or take action, this event is an opportunity to elevate Black voices, strengthen community connections, and build collective power for the future.
Cliff Cash got his comedy start in Wilmington, NC at Nutt St. Comedy, now Dead Crow Comedy Room. In the years since he’s gone on to win Port City's Top Comic, Comedy Zone's Almost Famous, and Best of the Fest at SLO Comedy Festival, and he's been a finalist in Comedy Central's UpNext and Standup NBC. He's played iconic rooms from The Comedy Store in LA to the Comedy Cellar in New York City. He's also headlined festivals like Altercation Comedy Festival in Austin and Tree Fort Festival in Boise. Cliff has been featured on Sirius XM Comedy Central, Rawdog, Laughs TV, Rooftop Comedy, and has a half-hour special from Dry Bar. His 2021 debut album Halfway There (released through StandUp! Records ) spent a week at number one on iTunes.
In between touring, Cash is on a mission to see all the national parks in the United States. So far he's seen 45 out of 62 while traveling in a sprinter van he converted to live in. Being a full time nomad makes being a full time comedian a little more "do-able." SNL’s Kevin Nealon called him “a mix between Rory Scovel and Bill Hicks,” promised to help him get on Conan, and then never talked to him again.
Cash’s comedy has been called “the comedic voice of the new south” as he challenges old paradigms and stereotypes from his deeply religious and conservative roots. Cliff tackles everything from racism to homophobia, from greed and war to death and divorce saying, “I believe it is our duty as comics to shine the light of levity into the dark corners of the human experience, and by doing so we can take power away from the things that sadden or scare us. Maybe that old saying about laughter being the best medicine really is true. I hope so because I don’t have health insurance.”
Morning goes deep on immigration. Afternoon hands the mic to the crowd. Thursday night is the show. Do not miss this show.
Pastries, coffee, and conversations with organizers on the frontlines of voting rights, immigration justice, reproductive freedom, environmental defense, civil liberties, and more. Bring questions. Leave with a stack of literature and three new contacts you didn't have when you walked in.
Speakers include:
Kenzie Jacobsen - Her focus is on empathy and bridge building with other communities through mutual plight, anxieties, etc. She also has puts a heavy, heavy focus on the genocide against trans people and has songs about youth genocide from 2023.
Lelanie Faye
Kelsey Rae
Chelsea Gods
We understand that right now, everything feels like a Whole Hecking Lot. Between the push notifications from this administration to the lingering sense of anxiety all the time, joy in and of itself feels hard to come by.
Today, we’re going to take a moment to balance our rage and all of the actions we’ve taken so far and have yet to take with our whimsy, and celebrate Joy as an act of resistance in and of itself! Join us live online or in person at We Act Radio for an exclusive Dungeons and Dragons one-shot led by our fearless game master, Matt Gordon (USMCAngryVeteran), as he leads our cast of activists through a fantastical maze set in truly the Most Beautiful Ballroom Of All Times And Universes.
Together, our adventurers are facing some of their toughest challenges – and you can change their fate! We’ll be fundraising for INSERT DECIDED ON CAUSE HERE, and as we play, you can donate to ensure your favorite cast member can roll with advantage – or disadvantage, depending on your mood!
CAST
Matt Gordon (Dungeon Master)
Trevonn Caesar (Cast Member)
Lindsey Cole (Cast Member)
Dave the Viking (Cast Member)
Madinah Wilson-Anton (Cast Member)
Kap N America (Cast Member)
Robby Roadsteamer (Special Guest)
The kind of event that doesn't have a clean genre and doesn't need one. Featuring Robby Roadsteamer, Jolly Good Ginger, Chelsea Gods, Dawoke Farmer, and more. Part wrestling event. Part civic hallucination. Part performance art fever spike. Do not miss this show.
Friday centers the people who put their bodies where the flag is — and then came home to a country that mostly moved on. Ends with comedy, because power hates being laughed at.
July 3 marks the inflection point of the week. As the city swells with visitors, Seven Days in D.C. scales up its public presence. Gather at FLARE to hear from our lineup of twelve veterans. Nothing held back.
MC'd by Drill Sgt. Doug w/ Sol / Political Drain, the rally features voices from across the veteran community including BigSarge (Sons of Liberty), Liz Lotterhos (Common Defense / Black Veterans Deported of America), Lelaina Faye (Remember Your Oath), Thomas Sidle (FAFO / March for Democracy), Aiden Swallow (20-year veteran / Congressional candidate, Arizona), Gunny Speaks Out (Remember Your Oath), Matt Gordon (Remember Your Oath), Mike Ferner (Veterans for Peace), and Naveed Shah (Common Defense), with additional speakers to be announced.
A night of live music featuring:
BROCK BUTLER BAND
https://brockbutlermusic.com/
ALLSTRIKE
Washington, DC
https://allstrike.bandcamp.com/
No scheduled entertainment. Just a sustained, visible civic presence throughout Washington — encouraging participation and reflection on Independence Day.
July 4 is not a concert. It's not a rally. It's a reminder — visible, sustained, and impossible to ignore — that democracy is not a spectator sport. Organizers will maintain a civic presence throughout the city, creating opportunities for public participation and reflection during one of the most watched days of the year in the nation's capital.
We The People 250 is convening a March on Washington on July 4, 2026 to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence. Bringing together movements and organizations from across the country, the march is a peaceful, people-powered stand against authoritarianism and political violence, and a demand that leaders in every party stop accommodating it. The coalition takes its name from the first three words of the Constitution: We the People.
Together, we will mobilize a 700 foot We the People banner, a symbol of our common purpose. This image, created by Backbone Campaign, has toured the country collecting tens of thousands of signatures, appeared in multiple marches and actions, and has become an icon of our collective resistance and resilience.
We the People includes you.
We cannot do this without people like you, standing up and stepping up to join this mass action.
The event is free and open to the public. Organizers note that while the march is peaceful, it is geared toward adults given the government’s violent posture. They encourage participants to bring friends and fellow community members rather than young children. Attendees are advised to prepare for a July afternoon in Washington—water, sunscreen, a hat, and comfortable walking shoes—and to arrive at the meeting point by noon. Signs, banners, and flags are welcome; organizers ask everyone to keep the march peaceful and to speak their minds. Donations from supporters help cover the costs of staging the march; no contribution is required to take part.
As fireworks light up the sky above the Capitol, the organizers, activists, and citizens who spent the week making democracy legible will be there — in the crowd, on the Mall, visible and present. The week ends where the country began: in public, together, insisting on a more perfect union.
"This is about showing up. Not just watching politics from a distance, but participating in it — meeting representatives, getting involved in voter outreach efforts, learning how organizing works, and being part of a larger civic community."
One of Washington's most storied independent venues — thirty years of music, culture, and nights that don't get forgotten.
We Act Radio is an independent, progressive radio station and media production studio based in the historic Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 2011 by local activist and playwright Kymone Freeman, it serves as a grassroots platform to amplify voices, stories, and political perspectives that are frequently ignored or marginalized by corporate media.
Seven Days in D.C. aims to increase voter engagement, strengthen organizing networks, and bring national attention to civic participation during a historic moment. If you are an organizer, artist, or group who would like to participate, reach out.