U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin defended Dem efforts to push back against President Donald Trump, telling activists it’s a challenge with Republicans controlling both houses of Congress.

But she touted what she saw as successes with the few tools Baldwin said Dems have.

“We are fighting back against Trump,” Baldwin assured the crowd while speaking on stage with state Chair Devin Remiker.

Polls have regularly shown the Dem Party underwater with the public. That includes a March Marquette University Law School Poll of Wisconsin voters that found 35% had a favorable impression of the Dem Party, while 58% had an unfavorable one. The split for the Republican Party was 42-52.

In an interview with WisPolitics earlier this month, Remiker chalked that up to self-identified Dems being unhappy with how the party has countered Trump in the early months of his second term.

That March Marquette Poll found 73% of Dems had a favorable view of their party. By comparison, 85% of Republicans had a positive view of the GOP.

Baldwin told the crowd she successfully pressured the Department of Health & Human Services to hire back staff that help communities facing issues with lead in their water supply after issues arose in Milwaukee. Baldwin also said she’s hopeful after she pressured HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that his agency will restore an option on a mental health hotline that caters specifically to LGBTQ+ callers.

And she touted the Dems’ ability to stop Trump supporters in the Senate, which requires 60 votes to pass most bills.

Baldwin said Dems are using their numbers to stop Trump’s No. 1 priority, a proposed national voter ID requirement that would also demand new citizenship documentation to register to vote.

Baldwin called it a cynical attempt to restrict ballot access for voters.

“We are not going to let that pass the United States Senate. There it will die,” she said.

Baldwin encouraged party activists to continue going to rallies to peacefully protest and to keep calling their elected officials.

The senator said before the Trump presidency, her office would get 50 to 100 calls a day. Lately, it’s been 500 to 1,000, and she said elected officials take notice of what their constituents are calling about.

“If there’s one thing that I’ve learned about political change, it does not start in Washington, D.C. It starts with all of you,” Baldwin said.