Most of us have to "talk across the aisle" once or twice a year, but millions of self-identified liberals live in places where they are regularly outnumbered and outvoted by conservatives. In this uplifting book, Justin Krebs speaks with and tells the stories of atheists, vegetarians, environmentalists, pacifists, and old-fashioned liberals. Krebs weaves these stories together to create a provocative and rollicking taxonomy of strategies for living in a diverse society, with lessons for every participant in our great democratic experiment.

Learn how the history of American voting rights has shaped the way we vote today. Coinciding with the 2020 United States presidential election, Drawing the Vote, an original graphic novel, looks at the history of voting rights in the U.S. and how it impacts the way we vote today.

So the 2016 presidential election happened. You cried, you ranted, you marched. But how do you stay engaged for the long term? How do you keep fighting while also continuing your real life? How do you stay vigilant without being furious? Needing to take action after the election, Emma Gray, executive women's editor at HuffPost, put on her journalist hat and set out to speak with some of the most prominent thought leaders and activists of our time. In all of her conversations, one theme came up again and again: young women are essential to the resistance.

The 40-year history of how Democrats chose political convenience over addressing inequality—and how the poor have paid the price. For decades, the Republican party has been known as the party of the rich: arguing for "business-friendly" policies like deregulation and tax cuts. But as our national and global economy confronts a crisis of inequality, the truth is that Democrats have been unwilling to take risks that would help eliminate poverty. 

Chronicles United States history from a grassroots perspective and provides an analysis of important events from 1492 through the current war on terrorism.

For decades, Lisa Fithian's work as an advocate for civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action has put her on the frontlines of change. For anyone who wants to become more active in resistance or is just feeling overwhelmed or hopeless, her book shows how movements that embrace direct action have always been—and continue to be—the most radical and rapid means for transforming the ills of our society. While recognizing that electoral politics, legislation, and policy are all important pathways to change, Shut It Down argues that civil disobedience is not just the only action that remains when all else fails, but a spiritual pursuit that protects our deepest selves and allows us to reclaim our humanity.

In the wake of Trump's presidency, Republican-led states have joined in an alarming assault on our democratic system. But the drift toward authoritarianism in red states has far deeper roots. We now have a country where tens of millions of people live under regimes that have spent years starving education and healthcare, empowering polluters, engaging in voter suppression, and neglecting their citizens' well-being in the interest of cutting taxes for the wealthy. In States of Neglect, journalist William Kleinknecht surveys the landscape of neglect in states including Texas, Florida, and Arizona through the experiences of a rich cast of characters.

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it's too late. America is undergoing a massive experiment: it's moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system. Why is democracy under assault here, and not in other wealthy, diversifying nations? And what can we do to save it? 

We the People offers powerful portraits of communities across the United States that have faced threats from environmentally destructive corporate projects and responded by successfully banning those projects at a local level. Their method is an answer for the frustrations of untold numbers of activists who have been defeated time and again by corporate political power and legal entitlement. This book can teach us to create from the ground up what we want, basing our vision in local control and law. This work is about giving up the illusion of democracy, forging a system of true self-governance, and recognizing in law, that nature possesses legally enforceable rights of its own.