All actions to change policy at national levels have to start somewhere in the grassroots of communities. This page gathers my blog posts related to topics that might be called civics lessons you missed in high school. Civics Sundays posts publish on the third Sunday of the month. Projected topics range from gerrymandering to motor-voter laws and ranked-choice voting, to policy areas around gun ownership and responsibility, food deserts and women’s health. Have an idea for a topic? Post it in the comments or email me, and I’ll queue it up.
I address topics from a Lean Blue perspective. Posts include links out to groups working in the policy area discussed in each post. Do you know about a local group or current action in your community? Comment on the post or send me links to the group, activity or news coverage. Where the Republican party makes some sort of case against the policy area, I’ll set out its position. I will not link to any website that posts false or misleading information.
List of Civics Sundays blogposts
- South Sound PSA: Do the DELI
- Civics Sunday #7: Gerrymandering 101
- Civics Sunday #6: Happy Juneteenth. Unless you want to vote.
- Civics Sunday #5: Memorializing freedom
- Civics Sunday #4: Are we all voting yet?
- Powerless
- Civics Sunday #3 call to action: For the People Act
- The “some people say” defense
- Civics Sunday #2: The Voting Rights Act
- Civics Sundays #1 — Engage with governing
- A choice at the top of a staircase
- Gasoline versus information
- Equivalent authority
- I won a pony!
- A short meditation on loyalty
- Toying with democracy
- Huzzah for Pennsylvania!
- Loyalty to democracy
- Election Day is November 3: Make a plan!
- Voting PSA: 10/26-11/2 (Lunch Box edition)
- My next vote…
- Voting PSA: 10/19-11/2 deadlines (Pay Attention edition)
- Voting PSA: 10/12-26 deadlines (Character Matters edition)
- “Suffragettes” march on the ballot box
- Voting PSA: 10/5-19 (Disenfranchisement edition)
- Voting PSA: 9/28-10/12 deadlines (Count All Votes edition)
- Voting PSA 9/21-10/4 (Staggering Hypocrisy edition)
- Vote early (if not often)
- What democracy looks like
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