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EVENT RECORDING: Facilitating and Training in Cross-Sector Movements: Turbo-Charging Efforts for Coordination and Collaboration
On September 14, 2022, The Horizons Project hosted a webinar to bring together movement trainers, facilitators, and organizers to discuss the current state of movement-building support in the US and how training and convening spaces could be better coordinated and envisioned more creatively to build a broad-based pro-democracy movement to counter the rising authoritarian threat….
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Video Intervention to Reduce Political Violence, Partisan Animosity, and Anti-democratic Attitudes
Democrats and Republicans are increasingly growing apart from each other – from where they live to where they get their news. When our lives are siloed in this way, we end up relying on our perceptions of “the other” to guide how we think, how we act, and who we see as a friend or…
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Finding Common Ground on Guns
With mass shootings on the rise, a majority of Americans say gun policies are very important to their midterm vote. Yet despite Congress coming together to pass the first major gun safety legislation in 30 years, voters remain closely divided along party lines over whether it is more important to support gun control or gun…
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Unbreaking America: Divided We Fall
Our government is broken, and we have to fix it. In this short film, Michael Douglas and RepresentUs Co-Founder Joshua Graham Lynn break down how our political system has been hijacked, why it encourages division and vilifies bipartisan cooperation, and why it’s made Congress so dysfunctional that they can’t even pass the most basic laws…
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Promising Practices Webinar: Creating Social Connectedness in Rural America
August 25, 2022 Webinar Recording: Socially connected communities are essential to both individual well-being and a community’s collective capacity to thrive. In this webinar panelists discussed the importance of social connection, as well as the logistical and cultural challenges to creating this sense of belonging, particularly in rural settings.
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How Big Money Smothers Conservative Voices
“How Big Money Smothers Conservative Voices” hosted by New Jersey chapter of American Promise on September 15, 2022. Three conservative candidates who have been in discussion with the New Jersey chapter share their perspectives on the overwhelming power of money in politics and their experiences with trying to run their campaigns while facing the challenges…
