America's largest grassroots, cross-partisan org. promoting courageous citizenship – renewing civic culture through skill building & action across differences.
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Showing Congress how it’s done. 😉
Everyday Americans are doing their homework, finding common ground, and bringing their solutions to Capitol Hill.
@CSA_NICD (Common Sense American) members have helped move legislation on all four issues they’ve taken on. Now, they’re bringing that same energy to immigration.
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A professor told her students this semester she isn’t trying to change their opinions. She wants them able to stay in uncomfortable situations long enough to understand the other person.
That’s a skill too many are never taught.
🎧 Full Derate the Hate episode 339 in 🧵
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Tonight: @ColumbiaIGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow Alice Albright (MIA ’85) is joining @braverangels for their upcoming debate, “Resolved: America Should Stop Nation Building”
Watch on October 29 at 7 pm ET, featuring @MaxPrimorac, Emily Brearley and Rachel Peniston.
Register here: eventbrite.com/e/panel-debat…
Should America stop nation building—or reinvest in foreign assistance?
What if the best way to explore that question isn't to argue louder, but to listen better?
Join @BraverAngels and our expert panelists for a FREE national debate on international aid, Oct. 29.
Link to register here: linktr.ee/BraverAngels
The future of our country rests on all of our shoulders.
Responsibility isn’t only about what we do for ourselves. It’s also about how we show up for our fellow Americans - with generosity for those in need, kindness toward our neighbors - even those we don’t agree with, and a willingness to contribute what we can.
A UNITED America is a shared responsibility.
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JWF is pleased to invite you to join @braverangels on October 29, as prominent development experts will convene to explore the future of American international aid and the difficult questions it raises about humanitarian responsibility, national interests, public resources, and America's role in the world. Reasonable people can reach very different conclusions. But how often do we actually hear the strongest arguments from perspectives different from our own?
🎤 Featuring voices from across the policy spectrum, including Alice Albright, former CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and Max Primorac of the Heritage Foundation, this conversation offers something increasingly rare: an opportunity to engage serious disagreement without reducing one another to caricatures.
📅 Thursday, October 29 | 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT
💻 Virtual | FREE registration
👉 Register today and be part of a different kind of national conversation: eventbrite.com/e/coliseum-de…
October 28, 1886 — Statue of Liberty dedicated.
When money for the pedestal ran short, Joseph Pulitzer appealed to the public. More than 120,000 people contributed, most giving about $1 or less. A national symbol made possible by ordinary people showing up.
Shared ideals need everyone’s contribution.
Your next political conversation could use a little practice.
Choose your sparring partner. Encounter a different political perspective. Get coaching as you go.
Welcome to the Braver Angels Depolarization Dojo - where you practice staying curious when someone sees things very differently.
Build the skills. Bring them to your next real conversation. ❤️💙
Ask strangers from opposite parties about the Second Amendment and you get talking points. Ask them for a song from a hard season of life and you get a story.
Join @shakamitchell , Braver Angels & @DerateTheHate Monday, 10/26.
Details + registration: braverangels.substack.com/p/…
“I knew that I was home.”
For Braver Angels’ new COO, that moment came when a debate participant offered an unexpected reflection:
Americans of different backgrounds and beliefs, coming together to speak freely and hear one another respectfully—this was the American dream.
They came to debate it. They found themselves living it.
Courageous Citizenship begins with us. ❤️💙
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This seems especially fitting today.
The people you spend time with and the stuff you scroll through don’t just shape your mood.
👉🏻 They shape how you see your neighbors, and what you end up putting back into the world. 💡
John C. Adams and I on @DerateTheHate ep. 338.
Should America help fund development abroad—or focus its resources at home?
What if the best way to explore that question isn't to argue louder, but to listen better?
Join @BraverAngels for a FREE national debate on international aid, Oct. 29.
eventbrite.com/e/coliseum-de…
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The hardest conversations can be the ones we most need to have.
Dialogue asks us to speak honestly, listen carefully, and stay curious about people whose convictions differ from our own. We can stand firm in our beliefs while remaining open to understanding theirs.
Courageous Citizenship keeps the conversation open.
Will America make it another 250 years? The third annual DeLTA Conference brings together the people working on how. Oct 30 at GW and online. Free.
bit.ly/deltaconf26
Oct 16-28, 1962. Thirteen days.
The world stood on the brink of nuclear war.
President Kennedy resisted pressure to launch military strikes, keeping communication open and pursuing a diplomatic way out. His restraint and resolve helped pull the world back from the brink.
Sometimes, the greatest courage is choosing dialogue in the present.
So we can have a future.
They fought their entire careers
To ensure Mutually Assured Political destruction
Then one said, "Let's have coffee!"
Find out what happened.
She is a naturalized immigrant; a BLUE. He is a life-long Border Security Officer; a RED.
They should have nothing in common. Or do they?
Maybe the divide isn’t as wide as we think.
Find out!
The mayors of Columbia, SC and Columbia, MO don’t share politics or a football team. They do share a starting point: listen before you decide someone’s wrong. Good video from Disagree Better.
Is patriotism about defending our country - or demanding better of it?
Loving our country means neither overlooking its faults nor losing sight of what makes it worth loving. It asks us to hold our ideals close, face our shortcomings honestly, and keep working toward the country we believe we can be.
A more perfect union is never a finished achievement. It is a responsibility we share.
