Civic Re-Formation isn’t another newsletter about what’s wrong with American politics. It’s about the people who stopped waiting for politics to fix democracy, and started building instead. It’s about the ideas behind their work, and the patterns history reveals.

Some issues profile builders and stewards doing work worth knowing about. Some apply the re-formation framework to what is actually happening in civic life right now. Some draw on history to illuminate the present. What they share is a common question: what does civic re-formation actually require, and who is doing it?

It is a living record of the argument in practice, honest about difficulty and attentive to what is actually working, written twice a month for those drawn to this work.

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