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Election celebration outside White House, November 7, 2020

After Trump, before Biden: What’s next for the American left?

by Joe Guinan

Trumpism—whether or not it morphs into a new form, with a new leadership or strategy—is something we still don’t understand properly. The outcome of this election shows we have a lot more work to do to ensure the Trumpers don’t have a continuing path forward. read more
Movement Strategy & History Democracy & Governance
YouGov/Democracy Collaborative 2020 poll

The popular mandate for a democratic economy in 2020

by Isaiah J. Poole

The 2020 poll by YouGov for The Democracy Collaborative shows broad support for innovative policies that lead to a reparative and sustainable economy in which wealth and power are shared broadly. read more
Democracy & Governance Democratic Ownership Movement Strategy & History

Understanding and seizing the momentum for public ownership

by Isaiah J. Poole

The Democracy Collaborative moderated a panel at Netroots Nation 2020 featuring three leaders of grassroots campaigns designed to advance public ownership in banking, energy and housing. read more
Democratic Ownership Democracy & Governance
Defund militarized police

Defund the militarization of local police and fund community needs instead

by Peter Gowan

One way to defund and demilitarize police departments is to end the federal law known as Section 1033, which enables the transfer of military equipment—weapons of war—to local police departments that have used them against Black Lives Matter protesters. read more
Democracy & Governance Race & Ethnicity
Hundred dollar bills in the shadows

A reading list for taking on financialization

by Sean Estelle

One of the most important parts of a program for building power to take on the financial industry must be one of political education. read more
Money & Banking Democracy & Governance
VA for all

Create a “VA for all” 

by Dana Brown, Katie Parker

In our lifetime, it has perhaps never been clearer that we need a single, coordinated public healthcare system with equal access for all—a read more
Health & Wellbeing Democracy & Governance
Postal banking

Use the post office as a banking lifeline

by Will Flagle

A postal banking system in which everyone can have an account could provide quick access to emergency support for the millions of people without bank accounts forced to wait months for a stimulus check from the government.   read more
Money & Banking Democracy & Governance
The Future is Public

The Future is Public: Towards democratic ownership of public services

by Thomas Hanna

The COVID-19 crisis has shown that public services and the people who operate them are the foundation of healthy and resilient societies. A growing international movement is choosing remunicipalization as a key tool for redefining public ownership for the 21st century. read more
Democracy & Governance Democratic Ownership

To recover from COVID-19, America needs a vaccine. To get it, we can’t rely on corporations

by Dana Brown

The number of vaccine producers has been dwindling for years, because vaccines do not offer the kinds of profits that pharmaceutical companies think they deserve. There is, then, but one viable solution: We should nationalize what remains of the American vaccine industry now. read more
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