Jan 16, 2025
We discuss the long history of organizing as a tool for fortifying American democracy, making it more equitable and just. Americans live from the benefits of organizing every day, whether that’s women’s suffrage or disability rights. Organizing is the tool for everyday people who are not in positions of power to...
Jan 9, 2025
We discuss the role of political parties in representing your interests and turning those interests into public policies that meaningfully make a difference in your life. Since the 1980s, both major political parties have adopted neoliberal policies, marked by declining responsiveness to major policy areas, and instead...
Jan 2, 2025
We discuss why now is the time for a third political party to really take center stage in American democracy.
Maurice’s civic action toolkit recommendations are:
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Organize! Join an organization.
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Create conditions where people can govern and decide the direction of their country and their democracy
Maurice...
Dec 26, 2024
We’re sharing an episode from our friends at Latino USA! In this episode, producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. travels to southern Arizona where one of the first major concentrations of surveillance towers on the southern border were built, and he looks at what these towers mean today, and for the future of those crossing,...
Dec 19, 2024
We discuss how ungoverning is the equivalent of a bull in a china shop. Many institutions will be destroyed, but we don't know which ones and to what extent!
Nancy’s civic action toolkit recommendations are:
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Don’t let unpredictability strip you of your agency
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Vote in local, county, and state elections