in the United States

Knowledgeable, cross-partisan citizens teaming up to save Democracy.

i

Our mission is to educate citizens on how democratic systems have been exploited. We provide specific, actionable, cross-partisan ways to help repair them. That work rests on three things: knowledge you can verify, strength in numbers, and clarity about what each of our teams is for.

The whole shelf.

If you’d rather see everything than be handed one thing, this is everything. Nothing here is ranked and nothing is in best-first order — they are grouped by how much time they ask for, and that is all.

Or answer five questions and we’ll pick one →

The one test

Does this teach you something you keep? That is the whole rule. Knowing how to check a claim is yours afterwards. Signing a pledge, joining a campaign or backing a particular bill may all be worth doing — they are just not what this shelf is for, and we leave them off whoever they come from, ourselves included.

It is a rule you can use on anything anyone hands you, which is rather the point of telling you what it is.

i
  • The guides aren’t ours. They come from Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times. We didn’t write them and we don’t host them.
  • The sorting is our opinion, and it is written down in public so you can disagree with it specifically rather than vaguely.
  • One collection, so far. A shelf built from a single publisher inherits that publisher’s view of things. Widening it is the next real job.
  • Nothing here tracks you. No account, no analytics on what you open.
Where these come from