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Recommended Books & Articles

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

Our Mission

Reclaim Our Democracy is an inclusive, collaborative, multi-partisan movement. Our goal is to reclaim our democratic rights as citizens of the United States of America to have a government that truly represents and supports the needs and desires of all people.

Commentary

  • It is Time for Democracy to Strike Back Jan. 25, 2023
  • Two Takeaways from the Recent Midterm Elections that Every American Should Understand Nov. 22, 2022
  • A Real And Very Dangerous Conspiracy Oct. 14, 2022
  • It's Time to Fix the Senate Sep. 8, 2021
  • Back to Basics - #1 Priority for Congress and President Jan. 23, 2021
  • The Mitch McConnell Problem Dec. 18, 2020
  • Dear Mr. Trump: Your Contract Will Not Be Renewed Nov. 21, 2020
  • Today's Civil War Feb 16, 2020

Events

Democracy Festival at First Parish in Concord, Friday, May 19, 7:30pm and Saturday, May 20, 11:00am - 2:00pm

Meeting the Moment: Taking Action to Keep Our Democracy, January 6 and 7, 2023

Partnering for Democracy in Massachusetts and Beyond with Danielle Allen. Video now available.

Democracy as a Spiritual Practice, March 31 and April 14 videos now available

The Democracy Movement: Where it Stands Today and Where it Needs to Go, with Adam Eichen, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022 video now available.

Democracy in Chains, with Duke Professor Nancy MacLean, video of presentation

How Democracies Die, with Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky, video of presentation

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