Whither DemSpring, MAYDAY, now?

Democracy Spring's civil disobedience action in Washington DC is completed.

The effect and publicity of the action seem middling to slight to me. (If you are interested in a more informed evaluation, you should contact Democracy Spring.)

In an April 19th email, Democracy Spring says the following for going forward in 2016: 

We have drawn a line in the sand. Every candidate for public office in our country, from President down to city council must choose: stand with the People on the side of democracy, or with Big Money on the side of corruption. From this day forward, there will be a growing political price to pay for anyone who defends our billionaire-dominated political system or the voter suppression policies that compromise our fundamental right to self-government.
We the People have found strength, we have found courage, and we have found each other. From the spark of this moment in Washington, a movement will catch fire across the country, as grassroots leaders from all 50 states return to their homes and organize others to take nonviolent action to defeat those who stand in the way of reform.
To the defenders of the corrupt status quo we declare this: from your offices to your press conferences, debates, and fundraisers, and in the hearts and minds of every voter, we will expose you, we will disrupt you, we will shut you down.
Across America, we will continue to escalate and force this issue into the headlines. We will make the 2016 election a referendum on whether we will live in a democracy for all or a plutocracy for the 1%.

Exactly what the grassroots leaders in the 50 states will be able to get going during the remainder of 2016 remains to be seen.

MAYDAY is in a similar grassroots vein, saying on its website The Plan page the following:

In 2016, we're going to the grassroots - where the real power is. We believe that when the people lead, the leaders will follow. In fact, we know it to be true.
By organizing on the ground, with a passionate and dedicated group of volunteers across the country, we can impact elections better than any big donor or Super PAC could dream of.

From my limited vantage point, grassroots activity is extraordinarily difficult to "catch fire" and keep going.

In very rare cases, the catching fire of the grassroots can be mindblowingly spectacular, such as with the Sanders and Trump Presidential campaigns.

I think most grassroots activity is fizzle, and fizzling out. (On fizzle and fizzling out of reform efforts, you might find The fate of GOOOH interesting.)

Only time will tell whether Democracy Spring and MAYDAY will achieve meaningful progress in 2016.

I think that the social media of MAYDAY has reported very little grassroots activity for the past year and a half. Possibly lots of grassroots activity has happened and will happen, which does not and will not show up on MAYDAY's social media. My assumption is that a group such as MAYDAY would want to do maximum reporting on its social media about grassroots activities that are happening, in order to encourage other grassroots activities to spring up. My conclusion would tend to be that, if an organization's social media is not reporting much grassroots activity, not much worthwhile is in fact going on.

Judged by this, MAYDAY's prospects for grassroots activities for the remainder of 2016 seem minimal.

It is probably too soon to judge about Democracy Spring. I will stay tuned to what gets reported in their social media about grassroots activities as 2016 progresses.

I have been making my own efforts to get grassroots activity going, as laid out in great detail in this blog. I have not been able to get anything worthwhile going.

I would say that my own lack of success is a factor in my having low expectations of success for Democracy Spring and MAYDAY during the remainder of 2016.

More power to Democracy Spring and MAYDAY if they show my expectations to be wrong.

Comments of others on what I say above are solicited.