As the anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

Titled “A Bigger We,” FTF’s report argues that today’s democracy crisis is rooted in a crisis of agency, in that most Americans rarely, if ever, experience themselves as having the collective ability to change the world they live in. Or, to put it in a simpler vernacular: people don’t give a shit because they don’t think they matter. And too often,... See more

A thousand little sparks are harder to stamp out than one big fire. That’s why dictators always dream of one big centralized movement—they can shut it down in a single blow. But when resistance lives in tiny networks, scattered everywhere, nobody can kill it. It spreads like a wave, quick and quiet until it crashes into the shore.

So don’t waste... See more