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Are you actively looking for information about protests?
The media doesn't generally cover them, particularly small protests and/or those opposed to the media ownership's political persuasion. This applies not only to traditional media platforms, but modern ones as well. You won't find much on them if you're only looking here on Lemmy. For one, the user base is so small and not US-centric, so you'll find very little organizing / advertising going on here for that sort of thing. Additionally, a huge portion of the Lemmy user base is actively hostile to any methodology that doesn't involve murder.
Currently, the opposition/democrats are a minority party at the federal level, as Republicans control all 3 branches of the federal government. That certainly limits what they can achieve from a legislative, executive, or judicial standpoint.
However, there's also a midterm election coming up, and being so close to the election, nearly all of these folks are investing a lot of time, effort, money, energy, etc towards getting more Democrats elected, fundraising, get out the vote, etc to help restore some power to the party. Without solid majorities in congress, I'm not sure what anybody thinks they can do.
At the state level, things are much more complicated. All of the states that have federal congressional elections coming up, the federal and state Democrat parties are going hard on getting out on the streets to canvass, phone bank, and motivate people to vote.
Local & county levels, it's much the same story. Though things like healthcare access (at the level and scope we're talking about) are usually not controlled at the county / local level. It's still important to get Democrats involved at this level and to support them, because you're essentially building the next generation of state and federal level politicians here.
As for social media, platforms like Meta and X are very biased and the big players are all pay-to-play. Democrats and left-leaning organizations generally receive only a fraction of the donations that conservative and right-leaning organizations receive, so the pay-to-play nature naturally drowns out the progressive / left-leaning outreach efforts there. Then there are places like Lemmy and Bluesky, but almost nobody uses those, so you don't see as much time or effort put into outreach on those platforms as it's often a waste of time.