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Networks, Organizations, & Websites
Weave: The Social Fabric Project — Help reweave our social fabric by rebuilding social trust.
Citizens Connect — Connect with 600+ organizations – right, left and center – working to strengthen our democracy
Starts With Us: Learn how to overcome toxic polarization and extreme division through daily exercises and other activities
Not In Our Town: Help build communities across the nation that are stronger than hate
Third Act: Find out how Americans over sixty are safeguarding our climate and our democracy
Braver Angels: Learn how to bridge partisan divides and overcome toxic politics
Protect Democracy: Stay aware of authoritarian threats to democratic freedoms
Listen First Project — 500 organizations combating toxic division by bringing Americans together. Join the movement!
New Pluralists — Find funders, practitioners, storytellers, researchers, and innovators coming together to strengthen a culture of pluralism in America.
Solutions Journalism Network: Shift journalism by supporting those who report on how communities are solving problems and learning from each other
Country First: Join those mobilizing the “reasonable majority” to defend our democracy
Urban Rural Action: Join those turning geographic, racial, political, and generational differences into strengths
One Small Step: Get to know someone from a different background over a half-hour conversation
Books
Power of the Powerless
Václav Havel
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
Eli Saslow
Ask: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You
Jeff Wetzler
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jon Meacham
Why We’re Polarized
Ezra Klein
High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
Amanda Ripley
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder
On Freedom
Timothy Snyder
Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship
Jon Nixon
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
Mónica Guzmán
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
The Sum of Us: How Racism Hurts Everyone
Heather McGhee
Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education
Danielle S. Allen
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
Peter T. Coleman
Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
Debby Irving
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland
Jonathan M. Metzl
Breaking Bias: Where Stereotypes and Prejudices Come From — and the Science-Backed Method to Unravel Them
Anu Gupta
Documentaries, Movies, & TV
The Basement Talks
I Am Not Your Negro
A Hate Crime Detective's Message to High School Students
James Talarico Delivers Sermon Against Christian Nationalism
America at a Crossroads
The Hate U Give
Inside the Mind of a Dog
PBS News Hour
Tennesseans from across the political spectrum unite to address gun violence
Star Wars: Yoda’s Wisest Words
Repairing The World: Stories From The Tree Of Life
Not In Our Town
Undivide Us
Heineken - Worlds Apart, #OpenYourWorld
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