Recommended Books & Articles

Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual for Every American by David Pepper

Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know by Erica Chenoweth

Pro-democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendation by Erica Chenoweth & Zoe Marks

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum

Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America by Lee Drutman

On Tyranny: Twenty lessons from the twentieth century by Timothy Snyder

How Democracies Die by Stephen Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

Why competition in the politics industry is failing America, A strategy for reinvigorating our democracy by Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean

Daring Democracy:  Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want by Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen

Resistance Guide:  How to Sustain the Movement to Win by Paul Engler & Sophie Lasoff in collaboration with Momentum

This is an Uprising:  How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty-First Century by Mark Engler and Paul Engler

Breaking Big Money’s Grip on America:  Working Together to Revive Our Democracy by Bruce Berlin

Corporations Are Not People  by Jeff Clements

99 to 1:  How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It by Chuck Collins

Hyper-Capitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them by Larry Gonick & Tim Kasser

Blueprint for Revolution:  How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World by Srdja Popovic

Taxation Only With Representation:  The Conservative Conscience and Campaign Finance Reform by Richard W. Painter

The Third Reconstruction:  How a Moral Movement is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear by The Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove