Upcoming Events ^
New Voter Campfire Chat
with DFL-endorsed Trina Swanson
- When:
- Jul 8, 6:00pm
- Where:
- Hermantown, MN
It is our civic duty as American Citizens to vote in elections, and I am so excited to visit with new voters at our upcoming campfire chat! Email events@trinaforcongress.com to RSVP!
Trina is working hard all summer
Check an eye on her calendar to find an event near you.
Minnesota America 250
Sharing the Spirit of America: Nationwide Reading of the Declaration of Independence
- When:
- July 8, 5:00–6:30pm
- Where:
- MN State Capital Rotunda
St. Paul, MN
Join us in the Rotunda for a historic nationwide initiative as citizens across all 50 states, territories, and the District of Columbia unite to read the Declaration of Independence. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the first public reading on July 8, 1776, this reading celebrates our shared principles and reflects on the unalienable rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness which continue to define the American spirit today.
A People's Forum on the Hermantown Data Center
Duluth Indivisible Monthly Meeting
- When:
- July 9, 6:00–8:00pm
- Where:
- Grace Lutheran Church
5454 Miller Trunk Hwy
Duluth, MN
Come hear from experts, not people who expect or hope to gain financially or politically from the data center development. We've heard lots of promises; we've seen shifting sands, and we've witnessed NDA's and continued lack of transparency.
Burger Bash Fundraiser for Trina Swanson
Take a road trip north!
- When:
- July 16, 4:00–8:00pm
- Where:
- Jim's Sports Club
Chisholm, MN
Your minimum donation of $20 supprts Trina's campaign &
also includes a delicious burger basket.
Election Protection Tabletop Workshop
Duluth Indivisible hosts the Groundworks Institute
- When:
- July 25, 9:30am–12:30pm
- Where:
- Radisson Hotel Duluth — Harborview
Great Hall
505 West Superior Street
Duluth, MN
Come work through scenarios generated in conjunction with the offices of the Minnesota Secretary of State and Attorney General about possible disruptions in our upcoming elections, and what we as a community can do to be prepared. This workshop is meant to calm our minds by thinking through concrete examples together regarding our upcoming elections. If something untoward happens, we’re executing a plan, not trying to create and execute at the same time. It’s a long road from voter registration to election certification and for most of us it has operated in the background our whole voting lives. This year, 2026, is different.
Indivisible for Peggy Flanagan
Indivisible U.S. Senate Phone Bank Series
- When:
- Jul 27–Aug 10, 5:30–7:30 CT
- Where:
- Anywhere
We’ll be telling voters all about this exciting candidate and why they should be voting to send Peggy to represent them in DC. Help make calls to voters in Minnesota, and let’s send a real fighter for families and a defender of democracy to the Senate!
A short phonebanking training will be included at the beginning of each phonebank, so both first-time dialers and phonebank pros are welcome to join. Be sure to have both a computer and a phone so that you can make calls to voters.
MN Primary Election
- When:
- August 11
A primary election determines which candidates will be on the ballot in the November general election
Strategy & Action ^
Leaving MAGA and Connecting Across the Divide
A Conversation with Rich Logis & the Rural Urban Bridge Initiative
- When:
- July 8, 3:00 CT
- Where:
- Online
Join RUBI and Rich Logis, CEO & founder of Leaving MAGA, for a conversation about how we talk across the lines that divide independents, Democrats, and MAGA. Rich knows those lines from the inside. He spent years as a true-believing Trump supporter before leaving in 2022, and he started Leaving MAGA to help others who are rethinking where they stand. His focus now is on what it takes to reach people without writing them off — and how to keep the door open for folks who are ready to find their way out.
Dangers of Sulfide Mining
Tamarack Water Alliance Community Zoom Meeting
- When:
- July 8, 10:00am
- Where:
- Online
- Presenter:
- Tom Anderson, MSEE
Many metals of economic interest (such as nickel, copper, gold and cobalt) are found in high sulfide ores. The metals in these ores are bonded to sulfur, forming sulfide minerals. The amount of sulfur in these ores can be 5-10 times higher than any specific metal of interest. In the case of the proposed Tamarack/Talon/Rio Tinto underground mine in Minnesota, nickel comprises only 1.73% of the ore on average based on the latest Talon publications. Other high sulfide nickel and copper mine proposals in Minnesota claim mineral content even lower, often less than 1%. As such, high sulfide mining creates a very large amount of waste sulfur which is often discarded into the environment with many toxic effects.
Support Water Over Nickel Campaign
The Minnesota DNR is expected to open a 60-day public comment period on the Tamarack Mine from July 14 through September 12, 2026. This will be the first formal opportunity for Minnesotans to provide feedback on the project proposal during the environmental review process.
Election Protection Training
from States at the Core
- When:
- July 8, 6:00 CT
- Where:
- Online
July 8 is part one of a three part training to help you build a localized movement response to the authoritarian threat to our election.
How to Plan an Effective Economic Pressure Campaign
Stopping Corporate Enablers of Authoritarianism
- When:
- July 9, 6:00 CT
- Where:
- Online
Join us for a 2 hour virtual training on a key aspect of civil resistance: economic noncooperation. We will focus on how economic pressure works, steps to planning an action, and specific campaigns you can join/lead in your community. Examples include campaigns to stop data centers, close detention centers, and pressure FedEx to stop funding and oppose Jim Crow maps in Tennessee. Participants will leave with concrete steps for taking action in their communities.
Dismantling Detention — Close the Camps
Join the Immigrant Justice Summer training series from Indivisible
- When:
- July 9, 23, & August 6 (& more), 7:00 CT
- Where:
- Online
The Trump administration is buying up warehouses across the country to expand its detention and deportation regime while planning for more militarized surges in major US cities. The threat is escalating. This resource breaks down what we're demanding, how communities are fighting back, and how you can get trained to respond when ICE comes to your community.
ACLU People Power
Organize during August recess
- When:
- July 14, 7:00pm CT
- Where:
- Online
For months, members of Congress have been making decisions in Washington that affect our rights, our communities, and our futures. Now they're coming home. During August Recess, lawmakers return to their districts to meet with constituents, attend community events, and hear directly from the people they represent. Join ACLU People Power on 7/14 at 8 PM ET to learn how to engage your elected officials, hold them accountable, and advocate for the civil liberties and democratic values our communities deserve.
Neighbor2Neighbor
Indivisible
We're going all in to help Peggy Flanagan win her Senate primary, and last week we launched our Neighbor2Neighbor canvassing tool statewide in Minnesota.
Neighbor2Neighbor (N2N) is our revolutionary voter contact program that makes getting out the vote quick and easy. There's no app to download. No need for fancy tech. Just complete the signup form and we'll connect you with 10 likely progressive neighbors who may need a reminder to vote.
Then, you can knock on doors whenever is most convenient for you.
People who hear from a trusted neighbor are up to two times more likely to vote than those who don't. The key to turnout-and the success of our Neighbor2Neighbor program-is connecting on a personal level with those we live closest to.
Beyond the BWCA: Sulfide Mining Looming Threat to Minnesota
with Water Over Nickel, Friends of the Mississippi River, and Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA)
- When:
- July 28, 12:00pm
- Where:
- Online
"Talon Metals/Rio Tinto plans to mine a 'massive sulphide mineralization' with high levels of sulfide and toxic metals. Drilling in the huge 31,000 acre area where Talon controls private land and state leases (about 85% of the size of Minneapolis) controlled by Talon Metals in central Minnesota’s Aitkin County, Talon has already found sulfide ore both in the Sandy River and Tamarack River watershed, which flow through the Big Sandy Lake Flowage to the Mississippi River and along the West Branch Kettle River, which flows downstream to the St. Croix River."
Upcoming
- August 5: DNR Public Meeting McGregor High School
- August 12: DNR Public Meeting Blaine Sports Arena
Talon Mine Tours
Talon Mine Tours is an educational tour company led by local artists, organizers, and communitiy members who live in rural Aitkin County, Minnesota — where Rio Tinto and Talon Metals propose to build a 'nickel mining district' — purportedly for Tesla electric vehicle batteries.
We offer free pop-up mine tours as well as guided tours of nearby lakes, rivers, wild rice beds, and other places worth protecting. Private tours & other guided educational experiences are also available by request.
We serve our nearby neighbors as well as visiting school groups, environmental & community organizations, mission-aligned businesses, policymakers, and curious family or friend groups.
The Minnesota DNR’s public comment period for Rio Tinto and Talon Metal’s proposed Tamarack Project runs from July 14th – September 12, 2026.
This proposed mine is in nearly the same place as Line 3 oil pipeline, but much more destructive … this is such a water-rich place, and it’s some of the most abundant wild rice in the region, in the world really.
Public hearings are scheduled for August 5th in McGregor, and August 12th in Blaine.
Stay tuned for upcoming events
The River and the Springs
Freedom Trainers, popular education, and the relational work that turns mass training into lasting movement
"On a single evening last year, one hundred and thirty thousand people signed on to a Zoom and, for two hours, learned together about pillars of support, the strategic logic of noncooperation, and how civil resistance has been used to defeat authoritarian regimes around the world. It was the largest noncooperation training in American history. The network that led it - Freedom Trainers - has now trained something approaching half a million people in less than two years, with an explicit goal of One Million Rising.
"Freedom Trainers is doing something the American civil resistance ecology has never done at this scale before. It is taking the best available pro-democracy research - Erica Chenoweth’s comparative work on nonviolent movements, Gene Sharp’s pillars-of-support analysis, the hard-won lessons of Serbia, the Philippines, Chile, Tunisia, and dozens of other cases - and translating it into a curriculum an ordinary person can absorb on a Tuesday night and apply by Wednesday morning. It is doing this in the open, with free facilitation guides and slide decks any competent trainer can pick up and use. It is doing this through a distributed volunteer network rather than a single central institution. And it is doing it fast, because the authoritarian timeline demands it.
"...very durable movement in the history of organizing has had to answer: what happens on either side of the training? Who comes, how, from where, and, crucially, where do they go afterward?"
ICE wants to reopen the Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, MN
What happens next depends on us. We keep us safe.
ICE wants to reopen the Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, MN as a 1,600 capacity immigration detention center, run by private prison giant CoreCivic. If approved, it would become one of the largest ICE detention facilities in the US, ~60% larger than Delaney Hall.
They're betting this can happen quietly in a small town far from the headlines. Don't let it.
Call your elected officials and demand an end to for-profit detention. Organize locally. Talk to your neighbors. Learn from the protests and hunger strikes happening at detention facilities across the country.
A Shakopee lawmaker shut down a proposed ICE detention center—now he says it’s Appleton’s turn
A shuttered private prison in Appleton, Minnesota, may be the next ICE detention center in the Midwest, housing 1,600 detainees in a 1,400-person town–but it’s far from a done deal
"ICE wants to open the Appleton detention center in the shuttered Prairie Correction Facility, which closed in 2010. The detention center would house '1,600 males and females of all security levels,' which would make it one of the largest ICE detention centers in the country. ICE cites the need to 'increase bed capacity to meet the administration’s interior enforcement and border decompression goals' as the reason for the proposal.
"The facility is owned by Core Civic, the largest private prison and detention contractor in the US. The same company also runs the Dilley Processing Center in Texas, where five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family were sent during Operation Metro Surge."
Documentary "Bad River" Details the Fight Against the Line 5 Pipeline
The current battle is just the latest in a saga of Indigenous resistance
"One day in October 2018, a helicopter fell from the sky and landed on a remote section of the Bad River Reservation in northern Wisconsin, killing the only occupant, the pilot. The helicopter had been performing an inspection on a portion of Canadian oil company Enbridge’s Line 5 Pipeline, which moves some 23 million gallons of crude oil and other fossil fuels into the US every day. When staffers from the Natural Resources Department of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa went to inspect the crash site, they found that the soil around part of the pipeline had eroded away. About 40 feet of pipeline was exposed, leaving some of the steel conduit hanging in the air. If the exposed pipe had failed, oil would’ve spilled into the Bad River watershed and into Lake Superior."
Building Trust with Community Works
from the Rural Urban Bridge Initiative (RUBI)
- When:
- July 22, 5:30 CT
- Where:
- Online
Find out how to get involved in RUBI’s on-the-ground work to build trust, address concrete local needs, and increase collaboration across the ideological divide in rural and working class communities.
5calls
Pick an action & make a call
Write Postcards to Swing States
Progressive Turnout Project
Sign up for our Get Out the Vote postcards. We'll send you the postcards for free, along with voter lists and instructions with proven message options. You will need to provide the Postcard Stamps (currently $0.61). All the mailing dates for these postcards are in October.
Call for Writing
Activate your voice — storytellers, poets & independent journalists wanted
Panatrope wants you for the launch their new journal!
They are accepting written work of any genre: Poetry: up to 5 pages
Short Fiction or nonfiction: between 400-5000 words.
Call for Storytellers
New show planned to launch in July
"Humans evolved opposable thumbs to be able to hold on. We evolved Story to know what to hold on to."
What’s your story? We’re celebrating the art of oral storytelling —
the every day way we all communicate with each other.
For our new podcast, 'North Star Lane', we’re collecting personal stories about connections —
to place, to the past, to each other.
Stories should be 3–10 minutes in length, and can range in tone from funny incident to elegy and everything in between.
Michael Goldberg is collecting the stories.
Send audio to him — or a note to arrange a phone call or zoom —
at goldberg.actionmedia@gmail.com.
He is also looking for storytellers for a live storytelling show in Grand Rapids,Labor Day weekend, themed On the Job. Let him know if you’d like more information about that.
North Star Lane is produced by Michael Goldberg, who lives in the woods of northern Minnesota and collects stories from his friends and neighbors. They tell stories about their connections – to place, to the past, to each other – and about things that are important to them. We think a lot of the same things are important to us all.
Be a Walking Voter Registration Booth
Talk to neighbors, friends, family, co-workers — Make sure everyone has a plan to vote.
We have business-size cards you can print & distribute.
Download & print on your own, send a digital version to your contacts, or arrange for us to get you
already-printed cards.
Once you have a card in hand you can help people you encounter use a handy QR code to get straight
to an online voter registration portal.
Safety, Security, and Digital Preparedness
for a Second Trump Administration
This includes event planning and physical safety, digital security and online privacy,
& a rich set of links to other resources.
Recording and Documenting Police and Federal Agents
Take a moment to review this information from the ACLU
"The First Amendment protects your right to take photos and videos of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public. This applies to ICE agents, police, FBI, National Guard troops, and any other government officials. If you're not under arrest, a law enforcement officer needs a warrant to confiscate your device or to view its contents without your consent. If you are arrested, an officer may take your phone but still needs a warrant to search its contents. The government may never delete your photographs or videos under any circumstances.
"While the right to document and record law enforcement and federal agents is protected by the Constitution, we're all too aware that our constitutionally protected rights have been disregarded and violated in the past. Some officers retaliate by making threats, spraying chemical irritants, and arresting people recording them. This resource is intended to give you the tools to exercise your rights, but it's important to understand your risks."
72 Forms of Voter Suppression
from the Transformative Justice Coalition
Vote early
Hotline numbers on the day
- DFL Voter Protection Hotline: 1-833-335-8683 (1-833-DFL-VOTE)
- Minnesota Secretary of State's Office Helpline: 1-877-600-VOTE (8683)
Organizing to Protect Democracy
Recorded training from the ACLU
In a moment when our right to vote is facing relentless attacks, understanding how elections work has never been more important.
Now, we have the electoral knowledge and skills to be active in protecting our democracy.
Journalism Matters ^
Witness (& the revolutionary power of the hyperlink)
America 250: A Republic Built on Native Land
"The story of America cannot be told honestly without acknowledging the lands on which this country was built, the treaties that were broken, and the Native communities that continue to shape this nation today.
"That’s why Native News Online is launching 'America 250: A Republic Built on Native Land' — a special reporting and storytelling initiative that centers Native voices in one of the most significant national conversations of our time."
ICE Caused Humanitarian Crisis in Minnesota
A Human Rights Watch account details Operation Metro Surge’s reign of terror
"The global NGO Human Rights Watch released a report Thursday alleging widespread human rights violations by the federal government during 'Operation Metro Surge,' the massive ICE deployment in Minnesota this past winter in which ICE arbitrarily detained approximately 4,000 immigrants, the vast majority of whom had no domestic convictions, killing two US citizens and injuring, harassing, and surveilling others."
30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech
The harsh sentence for a defendant who wasn’t even at the Prairieland protest is likely only the start of the Trump administration’s efforts to outlaw free speech.
"Supporters of the Prairieland defendants display pamphlets and artwork after their sentencing outside a Fort Worth, Texas, courthouse on June 23, 2026. Photo: Matt Sledge/The Intercept
"Seth Stern is the director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation.
"Jeremy Busby is a writer and activist incarcerated in Texas.
"The Trump administration attacking the right to publish or report information is a given at this point. The president has threatened journalists for everything from questioning the wisdom of his failed war with Iran to touching the peeled lining of his renovated reflecting pool.
"Tantrums like those may now feel routine, but this week marked a new front in Trump’s war on information: Daniel 'Des' Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for transporting a box of zines he didn’t even write. He’s one of eight defendants sentenced on Tuesday to a combined 450 years — the first prison sentences against so-called 'antifa' handed down under the framework of NSPM-7, President Donald Trump’s sweeping 'counterterrorism' memorandum to clamp down on dissent from the left."
Anti-ICE organizers shift focus to defend democracy from Trump assault
Citizens in Minnesota using lessons learned from migrant crackdown to protect elections from president’s threats
"When thousands of immigration agents flooded Minnesota earlier this year, a loose network of neighbors sprang into action. They fed each other. They got kids to and from school safely. They tracked the surge that tore through their communities.
"After organizing, block by block, to monitor Donald Trump’s extraordinary crackdown on their state, the same neighbors are shifting their focus to a different threat. What if the US president tries to steal an election?
"Defending democracy can feel abstract – almost theoretical – until it is required. But a controversial, aggressive and deadly deployment of federal agents felt like a distant prospect on the streets of Minnesota, too, until the president ordered Operation Metro Surge."
The Supreme Court Decision That Will Tear a Hole in the Economy
With the Supreme Court allowing the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians, national and local economies could feel the sting.
"Removing TPS for approximately 330,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians is fundamentally a humanitarian issue, potentially forcing thousands to return to unsafe and even life-threatening circumstances in their home countries. But it will also have a dramatic economic effect within the United States, as the loss of workers and consumers will resonate in communities of all sizes throughout the country."
14 Minnesota anti-ICE protesters plead not guilty to federal charges
Prosecutor indicates additional protesters may be charged
Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship on constitutional grounds
"In a sharp rebuke to President Trump, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Constitution guarantees automatic birthright citizenship to virtually all children born in the United States."
Slaughter v. Trump
"With the Supreme Court’s decision, Trump now has 'unchecked power to remove any head of any independent agency. Get the agencies to bend to his will, to play by his rules.'
"As legal analyst Barb McQuade notes, Trump’s new powers will let him fire commissioners at agencies including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Consumer Product Safety Board, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Nuclear Safety Board. Federal employees have been free from political interference for 150 years, but now, she writes,'The spoils system is back, baby!'"
Inspiration ^
Emilia Gonzalez Avalos on Voting
transcript & watch link below
"Twenty-five years I lived in this country without papers. I never lived in it without purpose.
For almost two decades I've organized: helping build the largest Latino GOTV operation in the state, running trainings in church basements. I helped pass the Minnesota DREAM Act. I organized for DACA, for driver's licenses, for healthcare for all. I helped build the democratic infrastructure that immigrants can own, that we can run, and that answers to us and our families first.
And in all that time, in all those years, I have never once been able to cast a ballot myself.
Until today.
I have spent twenty years helping other people find their voice at the ballot box. Today, I finally find my own.
So believe me when I tell you: I know what a vote is. A vote is a prayer made public. And like every prayer, it means nothing without the works that follow.
When the Laken Riley Act came to the floor, a law that turns a shoplifting charge into a cage, a neighbor into a target, a mother into a number in a cell, one Minnesota Democrat voted yes. One. She told us it wasn't about deportation during the debate last week. She was right. It was about detention, indefinite, no bond, no hearing, no end date. So that corporations could line their pockets out of our generational pain. And she stood by that vote for over a year, while people slept under lights that never go off, waiting for a country to remember they were human. We remembered. Minnesota remembered.
Regret is not a time machine. It cannot un-detain a child. It cannot rebuild what was destroyed during Metro Surge. Cannot bring our dead and the thousands of detained immigrants back.
Allow me to define a word for the Lieutenant Governor's opponent. Courage, Congresswoman Craig, is not the apology you write after the damage. Courage is leading with your whole heart out loud: when your voice shakes, when standing for people's rights could cost you something. Losing a seat to protect the vulnerable, that is a legacy worth leaving. Reaching for a higher one while your vote helped fuel the crisis Minnesota rose up against, that is not a legacy. That is a betrayal of the Constitution itself, of the due process, the equal protection, the basic human dignity, the very rights this country swore to protect. I don't need a senator who finds her heart after the funerals. I need one who never had to look for it.
My father left everything he knew so his family could be free, that is courage. And nobody knows it better than immigrants, Indigenous people, and the working families who build Minnesota everyday. The families that chased the ICE. Craig helped to bring chaos to us, out of Minnesota. Peggy Flanagan has stood in that fight with us, out front and unafraid, modeling one thing: be louder about who we are and what we stand for.
So here is what today means to me. The first vote I will ever cast in my life, the very first, I am casting for Peggy Flanagan.
Minnesota, that is the difference between a cynical politician and a history-maker. Peggy Flanagan will be the first Native woman to ever sit in the United States Senate.
And to every first-time voter, to every daughter and son of immigrants holding a ballot for the very first time: hear me. Our ancestors crossed deserts and oceans and whole decades, carving a future in this unforgiving north, so that one day a child of theirs could stand exactly where you stand. That ancestor may never get a chance to vote. But that was never the dream. The dream was YOU… walking through doors that were locked to them, holding chances they were never offered, standing in rooms built to keep them out. Today, we cast our vote for them. Pick up the pen they were never handed. Sign your name in the place they were kept out of. And check the box for Peggy Flanagan. Because some debts are too sacred to repay with money. We repay them with audacity, the sheer nerve to believe that people like us were always meant to decide who governs.
And there is nothing more audacious than walking in to cast a vote some swore we would never hold. We are casting it for a woman whose ancestors this country also tried to bury, and could not.
My people have a saying: they tried to bury us, but they did not know we were seeds.
The first people of this land, sent to the United States Senate by its newest. The buried, blooming. The erased, choosing. The ones they wrote out of history, writing the next chapter together!
We have waited generations for this moment. We will not waste it, and we will not face it alone. Because standing beside us, the whole way, has been a fighter who never once made us wait at the door.
The next voice you'll hear is the one we've been waiting for. Please welcome the next United States Senator from the great state of Minnesota: Peggy Flanagan."
Quiltmakers, Keepers of American History
Combatting moves to erase history with stitching, batting, and squares of fabric
"This July 4, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of “The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.” During the past 18 months, the current administration has pressed the National Park Service to remove American stories from its visitor center walls and websites. Erasures within American history are not new, but the systematic approach of the current regime conveys its blatant disrespect and hostility for Americans, especially the Black, Brown, and LGBTQ Americans who have fought for civil rights. The grassroots will step up, using performance and visual arts to keep these stories visible. Women have a crafty tradition of encoding history in quilts that are both a vehicle of history and its witness.
"Genny Güracar is now in her 90s. Back in the mid-1970s, she was teaching for the YWCA of Palo Alto California adult education programs....
For Genny, the quilt is not a relic of the 1970s. It is a form of witness. Quilts have tracked the things going on in people’s lives for hundreds of years, she says, and this one is no different. As she wrote: 'This quilt is a continuation of a long tradition of women’s creativity in needlework. We join and carry on the work of our foremothers who in quilting reflected on and recorded the history of their times.' And in 2026, she notes: 'We are part of our history. Making our own history.' Genny points out that women were long excluded from the formal art world, and that quilts are now recognized as works of art — another kind of progress worth naming.
Writing Democracy Anthology
Read the winning pieces from the Writing Democracy Utopian & Dystopian Fiction Contest, hosted by Vote.org and Cosmic Writers in honor of the Semiquincentennial
As the United States approaches its 250th birthday, a powerful question sits at the center of our collective future: what comes next for democracy?
"That’s why Vote.org partnered with Cosmic Writers for the Writing Democracy: A Utopian & Dystopian Fiction Contest, a nationwide writing competition for students in grades 3-12.
"Students were asked to respond to a creative prompt centered on transformation and choice, and we are so proud of the entries running in every direction possible."
