UUSJ 2024 Democracy Campaign Resources

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Potential Partner Organizations

• UUSJ Democracy Action Team
• Side With Love – Democracy / UU the Vote
• Coalition of UU State Action Networks (CUUSAN)
• Brennan Center for Justice
• Center for Common Ground / Reclaim Our Vote – postcards
• Common Cause
• Environmental Voter Project – phone banking, postcards
• Indivisible
• League of Women Voters
• MomsRising – postcards
• Movement Voter Project – invest in selected local voter organizations
• NextGen America – text and phone banking, social media
• Poor People’s Campaign
• Power the Polls – poll working
• The Civics Center – letters
• The Workers Circle – Democracy Circles
• Vote Forward – letters

Videos

• Democracy TED Talks – various lengths, perfect for watching followed by discussion
• Ava King, a 17-year-old, and John Trezise, a 101-year-old reflect on the right to vote and what might be at stake this coming election. Filmed and produced by Rev. Alex Jensen, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse
• David Pepper – Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual for Every American
• Steve Phillips – How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy
• Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt – Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
• Rev. Cecilia Kingman – Recognizing and Resisting Fascism as People of Faith
• Dale Anderson from UUSJ Democracy Action Team – Your Personal Plan to Help Save Our Democracy – Part i

Books

• David Pepper – Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual for Every American
• Steve Phillips – How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good
• Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt – Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
• Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt – How Democracies Die
• Timothy Snyder – On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century
• Jason Stanley – How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
• Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen – Daring Democracy:  Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want 
• Nancy MacLean – Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America 

Substack Daily Newsletters

• Heather Cox Richardson – Letters from an American
• Robert Hubbell – Today’s Edition Newsletter
• Robert Reich – daily newsletter