Profiles of ordinary people doing remarkable things to stand up for our democracy
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This episode features Larry Lessig, Harvard Law professor and founder of Equal Citizens, a nonprofit dedicated to democracy and campaign finance reform. Everyone blames Citizens United for Super PACs. Lessig says that’s wrong. In this episode, Nancy and Larry will unpack how a case in Maine has the potential to get rid of Super PACs […] The post The Maine Case That Could End Super PACs first…
This episode features Sarah Jakle, the founder of DemocraShe, a national leadership program for underserved high school girls, and for every public policy skill they teach, like public speaking or lobbying Congress, they pair it with a brain-science skill to keep girls from getting knocked off their path. The results: girls who can picture themselves […] The post Preparing High School Girls to…
Welcome back to the second part of of Nancy’s conversation with Dr. Matthew Taylor, a leading expert on Christian nationalism, religious extremism, and the role of religious pluralism in defending democracy. At the end of Part 1, Nancy and Matt had just finished speaking about the theology, symbols and culture of independent charismatic Christianity and […] The post The Christian Nationalist…
On this episode, Nancy speaks with Dr. Matthew Taylor, a visiting scholar at Georgetown’s Center on Faith and Justice and a leading expert on Christian nationalism, religious extremism, and the role of religious pluralism in defending democracy. In this two part series, Matt and Nancy do a deep dive on the new religious right, the […] The post The Christian Nationalist Threat to Democracy, Part 1…
This episode features a conversation with Jeff Clements, cofounder and CEO of American Promise. American Promise is a nonprofit dedicated to undoing the damage wrought by the Supreme Court in Citizens United and returning the power to regulate money in politics back to We The People. The way to do this is by a 28th […] The post The Constitutional Amendment That Will Fix Citizens United first…
This episode features Heather Cronk, founder of Project 21:12, a group that helps ex-evangelical Christians, or exvangelicals as they are known, find community with others like them, and take action to diminish the power of rising Christian Nationalism, fueled in part by evangelical leaders. Heather and Nancy speak about the power of community within the […] The post Exvangelicals Taking on the…
On this episode, Nancy is joined by guest co-host Betsy Morgan to speak with award-winning documentary filmmakers Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole about their recent documentary The Librarians. The film is a moving portrayal of the school librarians on the front line in the battle against book bans and censorship. In the film, Kim […] The post The Librarians first appeared on New Faces of Democracy…
On this episode, Nancy is speaking with former governor, former presidential candidate and former Democratic National Committee chair, Howard Dean. When Governor Dean served as the DNC chair, he implemented what he called the “fifty state strategy,” a radical idea at the time that supported Democrats in every state in the country, be it red, […] The post The 50 State Strategy first appeared on New…
On this episode, Nancy is joined once again by guest co-host Betsy Morgan for a conversation with Robert Hubbell of Today’s Edition newsletter, the ultimate resource for grassroots Democrats who can’t face the news. In Today’s Edition, Robert provides a digest of the day’s news, couched in hopeful realism. In other words, Robert spends his […] The post A Pep Talk from Robert Hubbell first appeared…
If you’re a regular listener of New Faces of Democracy, you’re probably no stranger to the postcard writing groups that have blossomed since the 2016 election. In fact, you may have written some of them yourself. But Nancy’s guest on this episode, Erin Miller, has come up with a different take on the postcard concept […] The post Cartoons for Democracy first appeared on New Faces of Democracy .