Unrigged
How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy
Published on 17. March 2020
320 pages
978-1-63149-576-2 (ISBN)
Description
The "wildly undersold story” (Lawrence Lessig) of the next American revolution, and the inspiring citizen activists fighting to save America's fragile democracy.
Our country is dominated by a political party that has no interest in governing, and that seeks to entrench its power by limiting democracy—going so far as to force people to the polls in the middle of a pandemic. Yet there is hope, as best-selling author David Daley argues in Unrigged, though it doesn't lie in Congress, gerrymandered statehouses, or even the courts. We must, instead, look to the grassroots. Introducing us to groups that have pioneered innovative organizing methods—often combining old-school activism with new digital tools—Daley uncovers the story behind voting-rights victories nationwide and the new organizations reinventing our politics. The result is a vivid portrait of a new civic awakening, and an essential toolkit for reviving our democracy in the Trump era and beyond.More details
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David Daley is the author of Ratf**ked. His journalism has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Slate, the Washington Post, and New York magazine. He is a senior fellow at FairVote, the former editor of Salon, and lives in Massachusetts.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Second Chances and Rights Restored
- Chapter 2 Aboard Idaho's Medicaid Express
- Chapter 3 The Defeat of the Voter Fraud Myth
- Chapter 4 Native Americans Battle Back
- Chapter 5 Michigan's Redistricting Revolution
- Chapter 6 Redistricting Goes National
- Chapter 7 Donald Duck and Goofy No More
- Chapter 8 Mathematicians Enlist for Duty
- Chapter 9 People Power
- Chapter 10 Punching Up Down-Ballot
- Chapter 11 Maine's Ranked Choice
- Chapter 12 Youth Saves the Day
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Also by David Daley
- Copyright
