HeyJaredRachel Kleinfeld
Cutting through research, news, and panic to explain why democracies fracture and how to build them back, better.
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What States Lost - In Full Color with Stories (opens the original)
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Yesterday I got a briefing on a new resource I want to share. States United Democracy Center (where I sit on the board, full disclosure!) has created a tracker for what precisely ended when this administration cut $177 billion from state and local budgets. The tracker lets you look by state at what the largest federal reduction in history cost, in numbers and stories.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0usB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progress
How to Walk into a Room You Don’t Want to Enter (opens the original)
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A few years ago when I started investigating how those of us who supported democracy could work better with social media influencers, Carnegie helped me bring together a group of politically interested social media stars to share thoughts. As soon as I entered the zoom room, I saw my sartorial mistake: dressing like the middle-aged professional woman I am was definitely not the right call. Then I tried out my best ideas for how we could work together. They flopped. People I thought were draws we
Why Celebrations Matter (opens the original)
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I haven’t written for a shockingly long time, and part of the reason is that I spent part of the summer up in Alaska and then driving back to the lower 48, as we always called the contiguous U.S. I was there for a funeral for both my parents, who had died last year but had to wait for the ground to thaw to be buried. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Cuak!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazona
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