We are a diverse coalition of more than 80 respected established organizations committed to revitalizing democratic practice in America.
Since it’s often difficult for any one group to fully capture public attention or broadly popularize solutions, we are banding together to create great impact across three broad areas: civic engagement, governance and policymaking, and campaign and election processes.
June 22, 2018
As a conservative, I understand Americans who are tired of our immigration laws being violated with impunity. As a parent, I also share the visceral reaction to a child being torn from the arms of her parent. We need levelheaded immigration solutions from Congress – far more than we need the moral outrage and political blame-games we’ve seen from our elected officials so far. President Barack Obama might not have found the answer on immigration policy, but he wasn’t a pushover, either. From 2008 to 2016, the United States formally removed almost 3.5 million deportable or inadmissible aliens. Other presidents may have seen more inadmissible immigrants leave on their watch, but none used the legal process to remove more aliens than Obama.
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June 14, 2018
Today is Flag Day, a holiday which celebrates the day we adopted the stars and stripes as our national flag. On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress resolved to represent the nascent union with a flag of thirteen stripes and thirteen stars, sewn by Betsy Ross. While our flag has changed in design over the years – we’ve waved 27 different versions since that first resolution – as a country, we have held tight to the story that Ross, a Colonial-era flagmaker, singlehandedly crafted the Old Glory in all its, well, glory. But the truth is a little more complicated – and a little more reflective of the iterative process and “many-hands” approach that is core to American life.
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June 08, 2018
How can public engagement evolve in order to meet the challenges and conditions of 2017? In my first post of this multi-blog series, I shared a list of promising directions for innovation in the field. Now, in Part 2 of the series, we'll explore in more detail the first item on that list: making engagement more social and versatile, so that it is more common, convenient and fun.
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June 22, 2018
As a conservative, I understand Americans who are tired of our immigration laws being violated with impunity. As a parent, I also share the visceral reaction to a child being torn from the arms of her parent. We need levelheaded immigration solutions from Congress – far more than we need the moral outrage and political blame-games we’ve seen from our elected officials so far. President Barack Obama might not have found the answer on immigration policy, but he wasn’t a pushover, either. From 2008 to 2016, the United States formally removed almost 3.5 million deportable or inadmissible aliens. Other presidents may have seen more inadmissible immigrants leave on their watch, but none used the legal process to remove more aliens than Obama.
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June 14, 2018
Today is Flag Day, a holiday which celebrates the day we adopted the stars and stripes as our national flag. On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress resolved to represent the nascent union with a flag of thirteen stripes and thirteen stars, sewn by Betsy Ross. While our flag has changed in design over the years – we’ve waved 27 different versions since that first resolution – as a country, we have held tight to the story that Ross, a Colonial-era flagmaker, singlehandedly crafted the Old Glory in all its, well, glory. But the truth is a little more complicated – and a little more reflective of the iterative process and “many-hands” approach that is core to American life.
Read More
June 08, 2018
How can public engagement evolve in order to meet the challenges and conditions of 2017? In my first post of this multi-blog series, I shared a list of promising directions for innovation in the field. Now, in Part 2 of the series, we'll explore in more detail the first item on that list: making engagement more social and versatile, so that it is more common, convenient and fun.
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