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Citizen Connect (ARCHIVED VERSION) was a nonpartisan doorway to civic action. This site preserves content from over 600 organizations – right, left, and center – previously working to strengthen our democracy. All materials are provided for archival and informational purposes only and are no longer actively updated.

  • A Faith-Based Defense of the Freedom to Vote

    Emma Addams

    This official statement from MWEG outlines the connection between our faith-based belief in loving our neighbors and our advocacy efforts to protect and ensure the right of all citizens to vote. It also admonishes elected officials to enact legislation to protect those rights.

  • Congress At A Crossroads Report

    Pete Weichlein

    “Retiring Members of Congress Tell Us What’s Right, What’s Wrong–And How to Fix It”

  • Should We Even Have A Debt Limit?

    Pete Weichlein

    “From social media to cable news, all the American public sees from our leaders are partisan attacks and hyperbolic rhetoric, but that’s not the way it has to be. To prove it, Former Members of Congress (FMC) and the Fulcrum have joined forces to bring you Congress at a Crossroads. The new monthly video series…

  • Voting Rights, The Filibuster, And The State Of The Senate

    Pete Weichlein

    “From social media to cable news, all the American public sees from our leaders are partisan attacks and hyperbolic rhetoric, but that’s not the way it has to be. To prove it, Former Members of Congress (FMC) and the Fulcrum have joined forces to bring you Congress at a Crossroads. The monthly video series brings…

  • Village SquareCast presents “High Conflict” with Amanda Ripley

    Liz Joyner

    “New York Times bestselling author and award-winning investigative journalist Amanda Ripley joins Village SquareCast to offer up a brilliant and frame-shifting understanding of conflict — from the most distant political conflict to the most intimately personal conflict in our closest relationships — from her most recent book “High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How…

  • Village SquareCast hosts Jonathan Rauch in “A Defense of Truth”

    Liz Joyner

    “Online trolls and political disinformation. Cancel culture and Twitter pile-ons. We’re living in a time when truth itself is under perpetual assault. But according to Village SquareCast’s special guest, Brookings Institution’s Jonathan Rauch, we must understand “”The Constitution of Knowledge””—the fundamental conceptual revolution at the very core of this American experiment and the enlightenment that…