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Catch up on our past books.

Run for Something by Amanda Litman
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The must-have guide for young progressives looking to run for local office, complete with contributions from elected officials and political operatives.

Week 1: Amanda Litman
Week 2: Brenden Johnson
Week 3: Matielyn Jones
Week 4: Kimberly Mason
Don't think of an elephant
by George lakoff
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This bestselling book on political debate and messaging will change the way you think and frame your ideas to truly communicate them to all audiences.

Week 1: Qasim Rashid
Week 2: AMMAR CAMPA-NAJJAR
Week 3: Megan hunt
Don't Think of an Elephant, George Lakoff
UnTrumping America, Dan Pfeiffer
Politics is for Power, Eitan Hersh
Trust, Pete Buttigieg
Run for Something, Amanda Litman
UnTrumping of America by Dan Pfeiffer
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From the cohost of Pod Save America, this is a sharp political playbook for how Democrats can take on the right-wing circus.

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Q&A with Dan Pfeiffer
Politics is for Power by eitan hersh
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A brilliant condemnation of political hobbyism--treating politics like entertainment--and a call to arms for well-meaning, well-informed citizens who consume political news, but do not take political action.

Trust: America's best chance
by pete buttigieg
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A study in the threefold crisis of trust: in our institutions, in each other, and in the American project itself. Trust inspires Americans to build a powerful movement that will define all of us in the years to come.

Week 1: christine hunschofsky
Week 2: raven hollins
Week 3: Swati Mylavarapu
Message from pete buttigieg
Our Time is now
by stacey abrams

A blueprint to end voter suppression, empower our citizens, and take back our country.

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Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Amorae Times
Week 3: Desmond Meade
Our Time is Now, Stacey Abrams
Kill Switch, Adam Jentleson
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In Kill Switch, Senate insider Adam Jentleson gives a history of the filibuster and contends that the Senate has been transformed over the decades by a tenacious minority of white conservatives.

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Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5 with Adam Jentleson
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The Democratic Party has lost an entire generation of rural voters. Jane Kleeb, chair of Nebraska’s Democratic Party and founder of Bold Nebraska, builds a grassroots movement to flex the power of a voting bloc that has long been ignored and forgotten.

Week 1: Hasan Martini
Week 2: J.D. Scholten
Week 3: JANE KLEEB
Week 4: Nevada Littlewolf
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By merging the fights for racial justice and for shared economic prosperity, they were able to build greater enthusiasm for both goals—and for the cross-racial solidarity needed to win elections.

Harvest the Vote, Jane Kleeb
Merge Left, Ian Janey López
The Sum of Us, Heather McGhee
The Purpose of Power- Alicia Garza
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Racism is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?

With Special Guest
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With Special Guest
Lucy McCauley
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An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country's leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter

How We Win the Civil War, Steve Phillips
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"If we first recognize that we are in a war, and then learn the lessons and follow the lead of those who have shown they know how to prevail, we can definitely win the Civil War, secure a multiracial democracy, and end white supremacy for good."

This spectacular collection of twenty-five tales blends the dark and the light, the dystopian and the utopian. These tales are vivid with struggle and hardship—whether it’s the othered and the terrorized, or dragonriders and covert commandos—but these characters don’t flee, they fight.

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A People's Future of the United States
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