Resources

Wisconsin Business Leaders Ensure Fair Elections

In 2020, a bipartisan group of Wisconsin business leaders, concerned over unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud during the 2020 election, formed an association to protect voting rights and democratic institutions....

Sensemaking with Horizons: What’s the Ask?

Chief Network Weaver, Julia Roig and Jarvis Williams, Director for Race & Democracy reflect on some of the natural tensions facing the work of organizers at the national and state...

Comparative Caselets: The Civil Service as a Pillar of Support

The civil service is simultaneously an incredibly powerful and limited pillar when it comes to movements targeting the government. As the actual implementers of government policy, they have the capacity...

Faith and the Authoritarian Playbook

*This article was written by Chief Organizer Maria J. Stephan and was first published on Sojourners, you can access the full article without a paywall here. How Christians can defend and nurture democracy...

Resources on Art, Cultural Work & Inclusive Democracy

Artistic and cultural processes are uniquely well-suited to address our current challenges of democratic decline and rising authoritarianism because they engage us cognitively, emotionally, sensorily, and, in some cases, spiritually....

Clowns, Reverse Boycotts, and Involuntary Walkathons: How Communiti...

*This article was written by Chief Organizer Maria J. Stephan and was first published on Just Security. The new dystopian Hollywood film, Civil War, has raised the specter of devastating violent conflict...

US Bishops and the January 6th Capitol Attack on Democracy: A Pilla...

After the January 6th Capitol attack, U.S. Catholic bishops responded in varied ways, reflecting the Church's complex political positioning. Some bishops condemned the attack as an assault on democracy, often...

Sensemaking with Horizons: Dr. Jeanine Abrams McLean, President of ...

As a part of Horizons’ Sensemaking Series on Race & Democracy, we invited the President of Fair Count, Dr. Jeanine Abrams McLean, to discuss their work as a non-partisan, non-profit...

How you can more effectively advance multi-racial democracy

On March 3, 2024, Maria J. Stephan, co-lead of the Horizons Project, discussed her work to strengthen multi-racial democracy in the US and globally to the Forum at All Souls...